westtennfan

I was highly impressed with Carter last year in the State Tournament. Is he a Junior this year? The scary thing about him, is that he could grow some more. Most tall kids like that have no coordination but he does. and great hands. Plus he has a range of 18+ shooting. I am on the western side of the state but I will def keep my eye on him. Any info on what schools are keying on him?

Well, I know that it will probably be Josh Parrott (Sun Preps Editor) that will be doing the selecting. He does a show on 96.5 now on Thurs. Not sure when that started but I caught some of it last week. That might be a good time to plead some guys cases. You can definetely see who he is high on this year.

But, for Hungtingdon, it may be to their advantage to not schedule up. With the new playoff implications and only three teams getting in from each region. Not to mention that the other five teams will be determined by a wild card scenerio. 8. Approved the Membership Request for East Hickman High School. The addition of three Class 2A schools for the 2007-2008 school year creates a very unique situation for TSSAA football alignments for the last two years of the current classification cycle, which ends at the conclusion of the 2008-2009 school year. This is the result of Jackson Christian, which moves up from 1A due to a 20% enrollment change and the creation of two Class 2A schools because of the new East Hickman High School. This new school will be in 2A in football and, also, causes Hickman County High School to drop from 4A to 2A. The problem that is created is that these three new schools are geographically situated in the three largest 2A regions in the state. Region 5 (8 teams), Region 6 (9 teams), and Region 7 (8 teams) are the geographic regions for the placement of these schools. If the schools are placed geographically in the regions, there will be a result of Region 5 having nine teams, Region 6 having 10, and Region 7 having 9. As a result, the Board of Control, at its November 13 meeting, has created nine regions for Class 2A for the last two years of this classification period. There are no changes in Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 8. The 28 schools that would be in Regions 5, 6, and 7 have now been placed in four regions. The new region alignments are as follows: Region 1: Chuckey-Doak, Cumberland Gap, Gatlinburg-Pittman, Happy Valley, North Greene, South Greene, West Greene Region 2: Alcoa, CAK, Loudon, Oliver Springs, Rockwood, Sweetwater, Wartburg Central Region 3: Bledsoe County, Boyd-Buchanan, Marion County, Sequatchie County, Tyner Region 4: Cannon County, Jackson County, Smith County, Upperman, Westmoreland, York Institute Region 5: CPA, DCA, East Robertson, Ezell-Harding, Franklin Road Academy, Goodpasture Region 6: East Hickman, Fairview, Harpeth, Hickman County, Lewis County, Loretto, Richland Region 7: Adamsville, Camden, Houston County, Huntingdon, Riverside, Stewart County, Waverly Region 8: Dresden, Gibson County, Humboldt, JCS, Milan, Peabody, USJ, Westview Region 9: Booker T. Washington, George Carver, Memphis South Side, Oakhaven, Treadwell, Westside, Westwood Football Playoffs The proposal for selection of the 32 teams qualifying for the football playoffs and the setting of the bracket will deviate from standard procedures that are currently in use, but the selection and seeding of teams will continue to follow the underlying selection philosophy described in the TSSAA football regulations. The following will show (1) selection of the teams for the playoffs, (2) placement of the teams in the brackets, and (3) seeding the teams in the brackets. (1) Selection of teams for the playoffs: Obviously, nine regions destroy the symmetry as there is no basic logic for placing nine regions in a 32-team bracket. The plan is to select the top three teams from each region, based on current playoff procedures set forth in the football regulations. This will set 27 of the 32 teams in the playoff series. The remaining five slots will be filled by a wild card selection. These five teams will be selected by the guidelines that are in the football regulations. The process will be to take all the 2A schools that did not qualify for the playoffs as one of the top three teams from their region, and sort them by overall won-loss records. The top five teams in overall won-loss records will make the playoffs as wild cards. In the event of a tie in overall records for the 32nd position, then factors such as head-to-head (if applicable), opponents with victories over teams winning 50% of their games or more, etc., would determine these five playoff teams. (2) Placement of teams in the brackets: Here we will deviate from the traditional bracket. Once the 32 teams have been selected for the playoffs the schools will be grouped into four 8-team quadrants. This grouping will be done without regard to region alignments. The grouping will take into account factors such as even distribution of the #3’s and wild cards in the four quadrants, geography, etc. (3) Seeding the teams in the brackets: Once the four quad brackets are created, the eight teams within each bracket will be seeded from 1 – 8. All #1 region finishers in the bracket will be listed in the bracket using standard TSSAA football regulations, i.e., head-to-head (if applicable), overall records, etc. Once the #1 seeds are placed in the bracket, the same procedures will be used for the #2 teams, then the #3 teams, and then the wild card teams. You will also place the teams so that #1’s and #2’s from the same region would not meet until the quarterfinal round of the playoffs. Once the teams are seeded in the bracket, the home team will always be the higher seeded team. Major Differences in the Playoff Bracket Schools will not know until the bracket is released where they will fall or what line they will be placed on. It is possible that a team could play a team from their region in the first round (example: #1 is in first seeded position and #4 is a wild card team placed in the #8 seeded position). Teams in the same region may not be in the same quadrant, depending on wild cards and geographic location of all 32 schools. Also, teams in the same region (probably Region 5) could go to the opposite bracket (upper and lower), depending on wild cards and geographic location of all 32 schools. Final details of the playoff brackets in Class 2A will be determined by the Board of Control at a later Board of Control meeting prior to the beginning of the 2007 season.

But is Lexington winning actually an upset? That makes no sense to me.

Who would have thought this game at the start of the year would have garnered any talk at all. Bolivar has been the most surprising team this year. I think they are a playoff team and the week 10 game against Liberty will be interesting. Overton has had a great year. I think the future is bright for the Green Tigers in football. They have a good nucleus together. I don't think they can knock off South Side though even if it is in Hardeman Co. SS's bad game may have been in Paris and they managed to come out on top. SS 35 Bol 13

No one is doubting the coaching of Tim Thompson. Whether or not you have 4 NFL players or not it is a great feat as a Coach to win two State Championships. I mean Joe Torre has had the best talent by a long shot the last several years in baseball and has no title to show for it. I also know, that even though he has done a tremendous job, there is still a long way to go at FW to turn them into a championship type team. Even a region championship type team. FW and Coach Thompson are getting there but they still have a ways to go. Just not near as far as a few years ago. But, they do have lots of talent.

I think both of these teams have come along way since week 1. I like both of these teams and usually pull for them each week. Bruceton has been through so much in the past year. Chad Jordan is the real deal and has potential to be the best 1A back in the state next year. He may be close this year. I'll go with Bruceton, they are playing well right now. 34-21 Bruceton

Lexington is a very well coached team. That will give them an advantage. You have to wonder if Coach Thompson has lost control of this team a little. Matchup Breakedown: Passing: Fayette Ware Rushing: Lexington Recieving: Fayette Ware Defense: Toss Up Special Teams: Lexington Coaching: Lexington

He was a great RB for Milan HS and is a DB/S for the Tigers. As a Tiger fan and a Rod Smith fan, it has been fun watching him play. Prayers going his way. Get better soon! Those that are close to him. keep us posted!!

I'm not sure what is going on at FW, but it seems they have not been playing as well the last couple of weeks. Granted Bolivar is an improved team, it is still a bad loss. This will be a very good game and it really will be a matter of which Ware team shows up and which Lexington team shows. 28-27 FW. But if Lex wins, I will not be surprised.