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It’s not just the talent Alcoa has that makes me discount other teams going into this year… It’s Alcoa’s track record of success at the state level for the last 25 years

Just read the Tyler Palmateer article about TSSAA's new transfer policy and seeing new transfers every day on social media. It looks like a disaster coming if the article is accurate. If the sending school doesn't sign off on this, are we going to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of TSSAA athletes in new schools ruled ineligible? Situation has been handled poorly. Schools have been hurt by players leaving and players may be hurt if they got bad (or deceptive) advice. TSSAA put out press releases about the new one-time transfer rule but if you read through it, it didn't change much and they have provided no clarity on what a significant academic, social, mental, etc reason is. To make it worse TSSAA won't even look at the transfers until late July or after school starts. A kid has to enroll and practice with a new team and then find out if he/she is eligible. Would it have been better to have the sending school commit to a response before student enrolls in another school? TSSAA generally rules on 500 transfers a year and now it could be ten times that (in their own words). Lack of clarity has the potential to be a hot mess cluster. They are about to be flooded with possibly over a thousand transfers in a few weeks and are just now working on their system to figure it all out. There could be a lot of (talented) players trying to get eligible somewhere in August and September.

We put most teams at a disadvantage is alcoa kids have been playing with each other for years and they might be sprinkling in a new kid here and there.

Melrose beat Pearl Cohn. Not Marshall Co but that’s neither here nor there. All I was saying was that just because you got some kids committed to go play somewhere, doesn’t always mean your team will be fantastic. That was my point. I’d much rather have both of those Border kids on my team that the A&M kid from Melrose

What amount of deception takes 6 months to figure out and penalize? How could TSSAA not look into this in say November. They have 5 rounds of playoffs with fewer and fewer teams each week. I'm sure the 4 teams who had their season ended by a team with an ineligible player would appreciate more prompt action by the governing body. How good was the kid?

Y’all couldn’t even beat some white boys from Lafayette.. what makes you think you can take down Alcoa? Lol

Not a chance

Our friend, Springfield supporter, and long time Coach T poster @TheCommissioner is going through some health issues right now. I’m sure he won’t like that I am doing this, but if you could throw up a prayer for him I, for one, would greatly appreciate it and I know he would too. There is not a finer man around.

Sadly, The Commissioner passed away this morning after a brief battle with cancer. His real name was Steve Haley, and I did not know a better man than him. I was proud, and very lucky, to call him my friend for almost 40 years. RIP my friend.