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0-0 at halftime. Probably double the number of sacks than 1st downs so far.

I completely agree! I had to leave at halftime, plus I didn't have a dog in the hunt, and that one half of watching CPA play was the best "soccer" that I've seen this season and probably in a while. I wish I was good enough of a coach to get my boys to play like that. But as we have seen at all levels, if you have good defenders and one stud forward, anti-football can get you rings.

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2016 Wilhoit College Showcase Kicking Coach James Wilhoit is holding a combine for 2017, 2018 , 2019 & 2020 kicking prospects at Franklin Road Academy on June 13th from 1-6 PM. This camp will have COLLEGE Coaches in attendance and will be designed for long snappers, kickers, and punters. Schools confirmed to attend U. of Tennessee UT Martin North Alabama Carson Newman Cumberland Bethel Many more schools have expressed serious interest in attending and are waiting to discuss with head coach. Cost: $150 until June 1st & $175 after June 1st Sign Up at www.jameswilhoitkickingcoach.com Email James at jameswilhoit@gmail.com with any questions

2016 Wilhoit College Showcase Kicking Coach James Wilhoit is holding a combine for 2017, 2018 , 2019 & 2020 kicking prospects at Franklin Road Academy on June 13th from 1-6 PM. This camp will have COLLEGE Coaches in attendance and will be designed for long snappers, kickers, and punters. Schools confirmed to attend U. of Tennessee UT Martin North Alabama Carson Newman Cumberland Bethel Many more schools have expressed serious interest in attending and are waiting to discuss with head coach. Cost: $150 until June 1st & $175 after June 1st Sign Up at www.jameswilhoitkickingcoach.com Email James at jameswilhoit@gmail.com with any questions

2016 Wilhoit College Showcase Kicking Coach James Wilhoit is holding a combine for 2017, 2018 , 2019 & 2020 kicking prospects at Franklin Road Academy on June 13th from 1-6 PM. This camp will have COLLEGE Coaches in attendance and will be designed for long snappers, kickers, and punters. Schools confirmed to attend U. of Tennessee UT Martin North Alabama Carson Newman Cumberland Bethel Many more schools have expressed serious interest in attending and are waiting to discuss with head coach. Cost: $150 until June 1st & $175 after June 1st Sign Up at www.jameswilhoitkickingcoach.com Email James at jameswilhoit@gmail.com with any questions

OK. I have another question that shows my ignorance. I keep hearing from different people that soccer as well as all high school athletics will soon be changing...do you know anything about that or is it some kind of wishful thinking?

I don't see how this affects a "huge percentage of kids from playing travel sports". To me, this looks like it only affects the elite few...I may be wrong, and if I am that is fine, Can you explain that part, please?

After reading that same email, and the posts on this thread...I am starting to agree with you. This whole thing smells like a plan to help the elite travel teams and the very, very few high school teams (mostly private schools) that this affects. And quite honestly, I am sick and tired of these travel coaches thinking that they are superior to high school coaches! "Wow! You have a 'D' license...that must have been a hard weekend for you!" They practice two or three times a week, play their games on a Saturday, coach against teams that are the same age and level of skill as their players...how hard is that? My biggest victory as a coach was back in 2007 when I took my team that had all of 1 guy playing travel, and we beat a vastly more talented team, on the road, that made the state tournament that year...travel coaches will never have that feeling.

I would ask, just how many kids are we talking about? How many teams are in that premier league of travel or whatever it is called? Or is it one of those deals where a few kids from an area with a lot of money and influence are being affected and they are trying to get the rules changed for them?

In boys soccer in the spring, college coaches absolutely recruit the kids. In my 10 years coaching here in the midstate at 3 different schools, I have had numerous college coaches coming to see my kids, and almost all of them made their decision on offering a scholarship based on what they saw. I don't know about girls soccer and I especially don't know about travel (if I was interested in cutthroat politics, I would run for office, but I'm not, so I coach at the high school level instead of travel).

District 9AAA Hendersonville - Russ Plummer Gallatin - Greg Harper Station Camp - Tom Morand Wilson Central - Jeff Loucks Lebanon - Zack Batty

If it was moving boys to the fall, I would be for it (I hate coaching in the cold of the early spring), but I'm against moving the girls to the spring, if for no other reason, the amazing damage that would do to our soccer fields. Plus, think about all the people who play on football fields...those football coaches would have a fit if there were two games played on a wet day on their precious field.

BigG, is there a timeframe for when this might happen?

I forgot to add that the reasoning behind this possibly happening is because most, if not all, of the states in our region (southeast), play both in the spring. The way we do it, messes up girls travel soccer. North of us, almost everyone plays both in the fall, which would be ok field wise, because the grass is stronger and it doesn't rain as much.

I was at a game the other day talking to a coach that is "in the know", and he was saying that in the next few years that Tennessee will be going to girls soccer playing in the spring with boys soccer. I am the boys coach at my school. If it happens, we will all adjust, of course, but I do have a few concerns: 1. My biggest concern-the state of the fields. Soccer in the spring in Tennessee is often wet and muddy, if you double the amount of games and practices on those fields, it could ruin some fields. 2. Coaches. There are a lot of schools that only have one soccer coach for boys and girls... 3. Facilities. Every school that I know only has one locker room for soccer, the girls use it in the summer and fall, the boys use it in the winter and spring. How will that work? 4. JV. When will our JV games be played? The other stuff is just logistics (practice times, transportation, etc.), but those are some fairly legitimate concerns.

With our district no longer having ties in the regular season, the head-to-head matchup is the tie-breaker.

How is he supposed to get coordinator experience? Does every black coach that wants to be a head coach in the midstate have to go to Metro (or play for the Titans) to get experience? Besides there are really good head coaches out there who did not have experience as coordinators, John Harbaugh at Baltimore and our own Mike Munchak come to mind (Munchak was 9-7 last year). Would you rather have someone with coordinator experience that was an abject failure when he was a coordinator? If so there are several out there that may want this job. People need to be realistic about this position. Yes, there is definitely a possibility for a turnaround with LHS. The facilities are brand new, there are athletes in the system and there is size in the system as well. The community cares, the alumni definitely cares. But, they are playing in a tough district, they are the fifth best program in their own county (MJ, FCS, WC, Watertown), FCS will be giving out full athletic scholarships next year. How much does the administration want to have a successful program? Point blank, the next LHS head coach is going to have to sell his program and his vision to the administration, community, alumni, and most importantly, to the kids, to keep from falling further behind. And some of you may not believe this, but I believe that the presentation of the program and vision is almost as important as X's and O's. And that is why I believe that Maurice Grooms is the best candidate for the job. He has the X's and O's down, but his contacts in the community, alumni, and the kids will move this program forward.

Maurice Grooms. A star athlete at LHS, starter at DT at Western Kentucky, high school coach here in the mid-state for many years. They could bring in "one of their own" to rejuvenate the community and alumni base. And with Friendship going div 2 and being able to give out scholarships, the next coach at Lebanon better be able to keep the best athletes from going down the road. The only missing part of his resume is that he has not been a coordinator or head coach, but name every black head coach/coordinator in mid-state history, not in Metro...you won't make it to two hands. Brent Alexander was a 12 year player in the NFL and couldn't get a job at his alma mater, Gallatin, and how is that working out for them? I will freely admit that I am biased, Coach Grooms and I have been friends for many years, and I have heard him speak hundreds of times with immeasurable passion about the city of Lebanon and his beloved Blue Devils, and I believe that is time for LHS to call him home. Lebanon people always say, "Once a Blue Devil, always a Blue Devil", well here's their chance to prove it.

I would like to pose the question, "How useful is spring practice?" Practicing in pads for two weeks in early May and then no padded practice until the last week in July...around 70+ days. Is it a program killer, or not that big a deal? I no longer coach football, but I always thought that spring practice is very over-rated, but that is just my opinion, I could very easily be wrong.

Gallatin won 20-14. WC completely dominated the game but had 3 turnovers and had 2 punts blocked deep in their territory. Gallatin's last TD came on 4th down when the RB fumbled and the QB had his knee on the ground and picked it up and ran it in. But when you play Gallatin you should expect those kind of calls from the refs.

1. Gallatin - Freakin' loaded. 2. MJ - Chowbay will be District MVP. 3. Hendersonville - like always, they will reload. 4. SC - Last two freshman classes were undefeated, the O and D lines are deep and talented. 5. WC - I know I am biased, but the Wildcats have a lot of speed in the junior and sophomore classes, enough to compete for a playoff spot. 6. Beech - Last two freshman classes were subpar, great coaching, but will fall hard because of the last two graduating classes. 7. Lebanon - Maynard is a stud. Other than that they are a wildcard. 8. Portland - As a native Portlandian, I wish them well. I am pretty solid on positions 1 and 2, 3-4 and 5-7 are interchangeable.

First off, I am not going to be involved in a lengthy, war of words on coacht. All I am going to say is that I was commenting on a scrimmage between Macon County and WC. Portland and Beech were not involved. So if you want to start a "Bashing Traye Aric" thread, then go ahead, but leave this one to people who want to discuss football. I don't have a clue who you are, nor do I ever want to meet you, but Traye Aric has been gone from Beech since 2004, so your irrational and, at this point, pathetic hatred of him, truly shows that you are a small, small man.

I don't know where you get your info, but with the 1's and 2's in it was 4-1 WC. It could have been worse but WC threw two interceptions in the red zone. WC completely dominated the line of scrimmage with long drives and several 20yd+ plays. WC is much improved with a lot of speed that we haven't had the last couple of years. Macon County's 3's were better than WC's 3's. I'm not trying to anger the Macon County crowd, but they didn't seem to be as talented as they were last year.