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Liberty 34 Dyersburg 24 I don't see the rain being a factor. We are in a big drought and we are only suppose to get a quarter inch of rain for tomorrow, if that. Not much. Coaching won't be a deciding factor either. The only way it can be is if Stowe pulls out a few tricks that he has in store. Safe travels and Goodluck to both teams! Winner has my pick to Cookeville.

Might want to take North Side off the list. Other than Greg Emerson, we don't have much coming back. We are losing a ton of quality football players with a young and a little inexperienced coach that is about to go through his first offseason. There will be questions in 2017 for the Indians.

I was just wondering to see if you're okay, that's all. 🙃

What's wrong BigEd?

Ripley? Jackson Christian? Trinity Christian?

I have to agree with you DHS. I don't think any team win a state title anytime soon, possibly in any sport. I don't think the school board simply cares about athletes for their schools. I pour absolutely no money into them, everything that a school wants has to be by funding. North Side was suppose to get a new football stadium due to safety reasons, that money went to iPad's to the middle schoolers at the academy thing at Northeast Middle. I am totally for putting turf fields on all 3 public schools and here's why: 1. Family. I am assuming coaches, parents, and a few players are painting the field on Wednesday and Thursday nights, but that's time away from family. Also, when there is a middle school game on Thursday night, North Side coaches would have to wait until the game is over just to paint the field. Which would be about 8:00/8:30-11-midnight. 2. In the long run, it probably saves money. I hope a D-Burg supporter helps me out on this. I know turf fields are expensive, but with it lasts 8-10 years I believe it saves you a little bit of money, not having to buy all that paint. Just curious on how much the turf field cost Dyersburg 3. Too many non-Friday night games. Since North Side is land-locked, we have to let our soccer players play on the football field. And with girls soccer, freshman games, middle school games, JV games, and boys soccer in the spring. It has to kill the football field. I do think the academic standard is too low. I truly believe that if you don't put to your standards sky high, you're just setting yourself up for mediocrity. But the ACT prep teachers don't want to teach and the students always want to take classes with their favorite teachers. That's what gets me! Students just don't realized that a 21 ACT score gets them into every university except UT-Knox. So I don't think they get it, also don't want to learn either. Also, if a coach lets a player that has a D, that coach should be suspended (I don't think that happens, but it won't surprise me). Everything is Academic, academic, and it's not working out.

Thanks for the insight! Totally forgot about Collinwood but Middleton got robbed to the point where I feel bad for those guys and their fans. Congratulations on the win against Gordonsville! Heard things got a little spicy! Goodluck this week and congrats to Rice on breaking the record!

Feel bad for the Middleton Tigers. A team that's not a very good program, traveling at least an hour 30 to play Huntingdon and Bruceton, 2 hours to play McEwen I believe, maybe longer. An hour and 15-30 minutes to play Perry County and at least an hour drive to play Wayne County. I know they get unlucky geographically reasons, but they probably need to be in Region 8-1A. To make things worse, Middleton does not have a very good fan base, and probably lacks community support and funding for their football team. They got robbed a little bit. Would've been better off co-oping with Bolivar in football.

How's Jay Emmons?

brownie points for starting this thread as early as possible!

Seems pretty intense, just to clarify a few things, a player can be ejected from a game for throwing a punch (doesn't have to be connected or not, doesn't matter what happens before the punch was thrown either). Obviously, I didn't see what happened because I wasn't there nor I was able to watch the game via Internet. I hope both teams traveled well! Congrats WC on the win. Also for Gordonsville, the player that was ejected will miss the first game of next years game if he is not graduating in the spring. But I'm sure Gordonsville will send a tape to the TSSAA and try to appeal it, a lot of schools do that. 1A football is underrated!

So should Tennessee Lady Vols and Vanderbilt girls basketball teams play women's basketball when they know UCONN will win a national championship? Should the Memphis Grizzlies play NBA when everybody knows that the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavilers will play in the NBA Finals in June? I'm sure they are players that are on Milan and Liberty's football team know they have a shot to head to Cookeville, but they probably won't beat Alcoa. I'm sure whoever Alcoa plays tomorrow, there's players on that team know they won't beat Alcoa tomorrow. Milan fans know they probably don't have a shot to beat Alcoa, but that doesn't take away the fact that there season is a complete bust if they don't win the gold ball, especially losing to Alcoa.

I think he's talking about the Dysart kid that transferred from South Gibson to Chester County over the summer.

In all honestly, that end zone is no where near safe for the players. Having a 4 feet hill at the end zones is completely dangerous. I'm surprised that Haywood doesn't have a specific play for a fade route in the end zone and make a 6'3 type receiver go up and jump and catch the ball, basically a jump ball to get the football. Also, surprised that the TSSAA hasn't informed Haywood that they can no longer have that hill at the endzones. I'm sure they have the money to give to the TSSAA to remove that hill. Same goes for Ripley and their end zones as well. Meanwhile on the football game. Haywood squeaks by. Tomcats 28 East 20. But I honestly will not be shocked that East takes care of them.

Safe Travels!!! Hope all is well to the place where you are going.