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Congrats. I'm an Oakdale fan and you guys executed your game plan to perfection in my opinion. Oakdale has been able to get teams into a track meet all year and you guys refused to run with them. Also Oakdale has been undersized in the post all season and no one in Class A really took advantage, but you guys were patient and kept pounding it in to 42. That patience also made Oakdale work a lot harder than they were used to all season on defense. It was a great game to watch and I sure hate it that my team lost, but you guys played well and with a lot of class.

not in Baxter Booger just sayin

I know that they do it in the NCAA. I know they do it in professional tennis. In tennis they have a ranking system that is a year round evaluation of tournaments played, year after year after year. It still has its flaws. The NCAA uses rating index numbers such as RPI and other indicators, along with polls, and then there is a committee that is put together from non partisan participants that select the teams and the seeding. That is still scrutinized and argued. I said that to say this, there is no way for the TSSAA to put together that type of data base, program, and personnell to do something like this. Where do they find non partisan people to select the teams and seeds? Personally, I don't want any part of that. Let them continue to select them how they do, and let the chips fall where they may. I will take that any day of the week over a selection committee deciding who desereves to be the 1 seed, 2 seed and etcetera. Too much room for bias to creep in. I don't trust folk to do it fairly. I'd much rather it turn out like it did then to have some yahoo say that team 1 is more deserving over team 2 any day of the week. I don't trust folks enough. Remove any chance of bias to creep in. That's what the current system has in place. That is why they use it. I don't care if two undefeated teams play against each other in the first round. I don't care one bit. I do care if some team may apear to get prefferential treatment. With selection committees, there is a possiblility that bias plays a part of seeding and what not. NOPE. Keep it as it is!

William Blount Football reminds me of watching "Finding Big Foot". Other than hearing a knock on a tree or some off in the distance howl they never find the thing and their off to another town the next week to do the same thing over and over except WB can't find a winning season. You get all pumped up this is going to be the year and dang something stupid happens. Gov is right about the McMinn County game. I watched it live on my computer and I fully believe in my heart they could have won that game had they not taken that week off. I can't decide if that was one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of or the year before when the players were told if they didn't want to go to Oakland in the playoff game they didn't have to. Nothing would be held against them if they were returning the next year so 30 players decided not to go in order to get out of practice that week since they wouldn't be playing anyways. Most schools would have made changes had all this stuff happened on a coaches watch but not in Blount County and that my friends is why some families defect and send their kids to other programs.

I had the privilege of coaching many of those Shelbyville and Oak Ridge girls along with the best players from other schools in the state. We were able to compete with teams from all over the country and were very successful. I know for a long stretch, every Lady Vol from the state of Tennessee played in our combined program at the Nationals. We sent players to about every SEC school and many ACC schools. You know Tennessee basketball is strong when Pat and Geno were stopping by to congratulate your team. I would probably give the overall nod to the Shelbyville team but I've seen Oak Ridge, South Greene, Livingston Academy, and Meigs teams that would beat them at their peak.

There has been nor will there be any evaluations by the coaches. The TSSAA nor the supervisors want the involvement of the coaches or schools. It has been proposed several times and is always shot down for whatever reason. Tennessee is one of the only states that has NO evaluations of officials by coaches or schools. What happened at the end of the Upperman/Macon game was awful, the call was bad but the no call that should have been multiple technicals on the Upperman coach was even worse. There will never be consistency because the TSSAA doesn't want there to be any collaboration between the officials and coaches to make the game better for all involved.

Right, so how many wins did CA's Jr high team win this year? 1 or 2? Must not have put in the work, right? Bad coaching? AD not supportive of Jr high team? I predict CA is going to get their clock cleaned once their in Division II. Have fun going to Nashville and Hendersonville for district competition! I'm sure parents are going to sign their kids up quickly for that! At least y'all have plenty of buses! Passed one today going to Pulaski!