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What you are saying is true about high school athletics being a privilege and not a right, but NO ONE ever knows what will happen if a case goes before a jury. Again, I have been in a couple of jury rooms and it's always a little crazy. That is why my prediction is you will see a settlement before the case goes to trial.

It will be interesting to see if the Warren County School District allows this to go before a jury or they settle out of court before going to trial. My guess is that this case never goes to trial. If this goes before a jury, they could award even more than the $750K. I was on a jury where they were asking for 185K and were awarded 1.2 million. You never know what will happen in that jury room.

That is absolutely not the truth. Few if any college coaches or school administrators want to be in the middle of legal proceedings if there is any way possible to avoid being caught in the middle. With that being said I have two questions: 1. Why would a coach remove any player from the team for using the F WORD? Yes, I fully understand the player must be held accountable for her actions. Maybe extra running and even a one game suspension but if every kid or coach that used improper language was kicked off the team or fired, they would have no players or coaches available to play the games. 2. If there was truly another player or coach that witnessed this situation, and they agree with the player then by all means the coach should be held accountable for their actions.

The “portal stuff” is only going to get wilder. The rich programs that are flush with money will buy the best athletes, pay those athletes and provide them with great workout partners from the RTC

Many times, mat time, playing time are guaranteed if someone is brought into a program from the transfer portal. Believe me when I say that deals are being cut every day.

If Jarvis could get in the lineup early and have a good season he could enter the portal for a much more high-profile program. It's all about having great workout partners.

The real question may very well be what options if any will Isaiah Powe have if he enters the transfer portal.

I truly appreciate your honesty and evaluation of your son’s abilities. I have told so many people that if Tennessee had one division in wrestling , that we currently have kids winning state titles that would not even qualify for the state tournament.

Wrestling has grown in Tennessee and the top wrestlers are much better. However, I am not sure that anything other than population growth has attributed to wrestling being better. Take a close look at how many good wrestlers have moved to Tennessee due to their parents taking one of the many new jobs this state has to offer. My question is would the Tennessee wrestlers be more battle tested and therefore better if we did not currently have 3 divisions?

The facts are very simple; when The State of Tennessee had collegiate wrestling programs at University of Tennessee, Tennessee Tech, Middle Tennessee State University, Carson Newman, Sewanee and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga many Tennessee high school wrestlers filtered through those programs. Almost all of those coaches would go from town to town having clinics for the local kids. These clinics raised the technique level but it also allowed the coaches to recruit the kids at the clinics. The end result was that many of those college wrestlers became high school coaches and most of the officials also competed on those teams. I still say that both coaching and officiating was much better during the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s due to so many guys wrestling for the local Tennessee colleges.

What does Carter Starocci have to do with the Ryder Downey other than they both know how to ride.

The walk up crowd in Nashville would add between 25% and 50% to the attendance

For a much better walk up crowd the tournament should be moved to Lipscomb University or Belmont University. Personally I would look into moving the tournament to Municipal Auditorium in Nashville but you always get the “it’s too expensive to park” from some people. It’s interesting that those same people couldn’t care less about paying to park when they show up to party in downtown Nashville on the weekends.

The David Lipscomb "LIFERS" were put back in charge when Mrs. Candice McQueen was given the gavel by the folks at Hillsboro Church of Christ. The problem arose when some of the lifers' kids and grandchildren either didn't get to play in football or did not play the position that they wanted. What happened next is instead of handling everything internally like most other private institutions a few individuals began to talk in public. The end result is that those individuals basically dropped a nuclear bomb on the David Lipscomb High School athletic program. The sad part is that it punishes families and kids that actually had zero to do with breaking any rules.

IMO, Ryder Downey did absolutely nothing from the top position other than riding. Yes, I completely understand there is riding time but the top man must be working for a fall.