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Huntland head football coach Bob Robertson confirmed Monday that he is stepping down after 26 years at the helm of the program.

Coach Chad Spencer is the new Moore County girl’s high school basketball coach. Coach Spencer has a long history of coaching in quality programs and putting a well developed and prepared team on the floor. He started his career under Rick Insell in Shelbyville and worked his way to coach the Cascade Lady Champions in 2007 where he won 114 games. Coach Spencer was given the opportunity to coach at Ole Miss in 2015 where he was privileged to work with some of the best women’s players and coaches. Coach Spencer married his wife Scarlet and returned to the grass roots of coaching in middle TN at Cascade. Coach Spencer states, “I could not think of a better place to start the next chapter of my career than Moore County. This community loves their athletes and their basketball, and has put out some of the best this state has seen on the floor. I have some great friends in the area, and I am very excited about meeting the young ladies and going to work very soon.”

Jeremy Pruitt fired as Tennessee football coach for cause after internal investigation. Phil Fulmer will retire.

This is how our Moore County football team responded when a Forrest player was injured and had to be carried off in the ambulance—kneeling together in prayer. Our prayers are with him, his team, and his family. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10220991167026421&set=a.10205387614427358

Gov. Lee: High school football will take the field this fall Posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at 10:00 am 2 By David Knox Gov. Bill Lee said Monday “there’s good news if you want to play football” and that it and girls soccer “are going to be part of the landscape this fall.” Gov. Bill Lee Lee said he and his office have been working with the TSSAA to make that happen this fall. He added that the extension of his executive order to Aug. 31 wouldn’t necessarily preclude football and girls soccer from talking the field. “It’s pretty clear that football and soccer are going to be part of the landscape this fall,” Lee said. “The executive order that I extended to the end of August was like many of the executive orders that extended the emergency declaration … to allow for certain regulations to be extended … but it doesn’t mean that everything that is included in the previous executive order is extended to Aug. 31, which in this case means football and soccer. “We fully expect football and soccer to be a part of the landscape. We are working with the TSSAA, and are working aggressively with them. We asked them to give us what they believe is the safe guidance to practice and to play football and soccer. We wanted to make certain that those recommendations by them fit within the broad guidelines that we have going forward. “I expect we’ll have those suggestions shortly from the TSSAA and they are working with our administration because we both would like to have football and soccer. We just want to make sure it’s very clear to all the schools out there and all the parents out there what it’s going to look like. But I think there’s good news if you want to play football.”

The new head football coach at Moore County is no stranger. Kris White, a former assistant at MCHS and an assistant at Knoxville Catholic, is returning as head football coach, replacing Jason Dobbs. White, 45, originally from Murfreesboro, has 17 years of coaching experience. He is married to Holly (a Moore County alumnus) and has two sons: Kaden (18 years old, upcoming senior) and Dawson (15 years old, incoming freshman). White graduated from Riverdale High School in 1993 while playing for Gary Rankin. He played college football at Middle Tennessee State University under Boots Donnelly from 1993 – 1998. He has coached at Riverdale High School (State Champions 2004), Moore County, Oakland High School (State Champions 2008), and Knoxville Catholic High School (State Champions 2015, 2017). He has been at the Knoxville school for the past five years, serving as a defensive assistant. This will be his first head coaching post.

I heard a rumor that Mac McCurry will be going to Huntland to teach. Has anyone else heard that?

After coaching his entire career in Alabama, Kevin Rose is ready to try his hand in coaching football in the Volunteer State. Rose who has led the Bob Jones (AL) program, the last 11 seasons has been hired as the new head coach at Lincoln County. He replaces Tim Johnson who resigned after two seasons at Lincoln County. “Coach Rose is a proven leader who brings high expectations to our program, the same high expectations he demands of himself and his staff. He comes highly recommended from everyone he has worked with and has coached throughout his career,” Lincoln County Superintdent of Schools Bill Heath said. Rose is a 27 year coaching veteran who has complied an overall coaching record of 133-71 in stops at Sheffield (AL) and Bob Jones (AL). Rose was the head coach at Bob Jones, the last 11 seasons (2009-19) and led the Patriots to a 90-36 overall record, with 10 playoff appearances and seven region titles to his resume. He came to Bob Jones as the offensive coordinator in 2008 before getting the head coaching job a year later. Before coming to Bob Jones, he was the offensive coordinator at Hoover (AL) in 2007 and served as the head coach at Sheffield for seven seasons (2000-06) as well. While at Sheffield, he posted a 43-35 record and led Sheffield to six Class 3A playoff appearances. Before coming to Sheffield, he served as the offensive coordinator at Deshler (AL) for six seasons (1994-99) with the last two seasons (1998 and 1999) being 4A state titles for the school. Rose started his coaching career at Handley (AL) in 1993 as an assistant coach.

Final: McEwen 49 Mt.Pleasant 21

Just what is a system-wide public school in the TSSAA definition of Territory? Would Fayetteville not be one? Territory – For a public school, the “territory” of the school is the geographic boundaries and bus routes of the area served by that school as established by the local board of education. For a system-wide public school, or a homeschool student attending the “territory” of the school is the geographic boundaries of the school system. For a non-public school, the “territory” of the school is the area within a twenty (20) mile radius from the school.

https://www.fcsboe.org/domain/2078 From the Fayetteville High School general information page. Fayetteville High School is a public high school in the Fayetteville City School District serving students in grades 9th through 12th grade. Admission is open to all Lincoln County residents. Transportation is provided within city limits for students. Tullahoma has pay to ride buses. Fayetteville may have this too. I lived in Fayetteville in 1979 when Lincoln County High School went into operation. At that time Fayetteville Central was a County High School along with Flintville, Blanche, Boonshill. They were all consolidated together to become Lincoln County.

Eligibility issue now in local court’s hands Oct 29, 2019 A temporary restraining order and injunction filed by Fayetteville High School in Lincoln County Chancery Court against the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA) was granted, resulting in the special called session of the association’s board of control this afternoon being cancelled. In essence, the actions will place the matter of whether a member of the FHS football team is eligible to play in the hands of the local court system. Circuit Court Judge M. Wyatt Burk wrote that the TSSAA's punishment of six game forfeitures and $600 fine be "restrained from enforcing the penalties and sanctions ..." A hearing is scheduled for 11 a.m. Nov. 13 to determine whether the order should be extended. Since that date is after the first round of the state playoffs, Fayetteville is now eligible for the postseason, but the date could be moved up. The playoffs start Nov. 8. Contending that the athlete’s address is not within Fayetteville’s city limits, thus outside the school’s territory, the TSSAA issued a release Friday, stating that FHS was deemed to have played an ineligible transfer in six of the school’s first seven games. That statement, though, contradicted the decision of TSSAA Executive Director Bernard Childress, who, on Sept. 6, had declared the transfer as eligible. This morning a temporary restraining order has been issued restraining the TSSAA from conducting the hearing scheduled for this afternoon regarding the ongoing issue surrounding their ruling delivered last week,” Dr. Janine Wilson, director of Fayetteville “City Schools, said earlier today. “As a result of this step, we will not be appearing for an appeal hearing with the TSSAA Board of Control .“But we will, however, present our case in front of a court of law to be conducted at a later date,” she added. “The decision to seek relief in court was not made in haste. We feel that this course of action is the most appropriate step to address the situation for the benefit of our players and coaches.” The FHS Tigers head into their game this week with a 9-0 record, 5-0 in Region 5-1A play, assured of a first-round appearance as the top seeded team in the state playoffs, but if the most recent TSSAA decision stands, that record would go to 3-6, 0-5 in the region, and strip the school of its Region 5-1A Championship. Friday night the Tigers face Sale Creek, an East Tennessee team, at Finley Stadium on the campus of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Game time is at 7 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Central. Due to the time change and heavy traffic, and the need for buses to be used for the game, city schools will close at 1 p.m.

Fayetteville to appeal Recent TSSAA Ruling We are certainly very disappointed to learn that TSSAA has ruled that we had played an ineligible player in some of our contests during the 2019 season. Fayetteville High School has always tried sincerely to comply with TSSAA policy. We will continue to operate our athletic programs in such a manner to be in compliance with TSSAA rules and guidelines. We currently do not believe we are in violation of the TSSAA policies regarding player eligibility of the student in question. To do what’s right for our students, we are exploring and investigating all options for appeal of this decision. An appeal hearing with TSSAA has been scheduled at the beginning of next week with the TSSAA Board of Control to review the case. These young men and coaches have worked very hard and diligently to achieve what they have at this point in the season, and we as a system and administration are going to do everything in our power to stand up for and represent this team.

Open County enrollment for schools like Fayetteville City & South Pittsburg is not considered illegal according to the TSSAA. But I would consider it to be a unfair advantage (parents want there kids to play on a winning team) To me the thing to do would be that schools with open enrollment would have to move up one class in sports like 1A to 2A.

Herb Horton is the new Moore County girls coach. He coached 4 years at Coffee County and 24 years as head coach at Gilmer High School in Ellijay, GA.