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Mike Rhodes scored 48 without a 3 point line being available

I truly believe that there is absolutely nothing wrong with women's wrestling. It will take women's wrestling some time to grow to the point where it competes with men's wrestling for fan support in the United States. IMO, the women should not try to piggyback on men's wrestling but should host an event and keep the revenues for women's wrestling.

If someone is a high school football coach and educator in Metro Nashville Public Schools, why would someone not leave for a good coaching position in Williamson County? The retirement benefits would remain the same and the pay should be better along with better working conditions.

Would Chris Dieben be a good hire? Yes, I know that he didn’t attend BC but he has great college wrestling experience and he now has a little different perspective after being at Baylor.

I don't apply for jobs that are not open nor do I accept jobs that are not open! It's not how people should do business.! With that being said I feel confident that I am overqualified for the position of Executive Director of the TSSAA but if offered the position I would consider the opportunity. As an entrepreneur I could always continue to operate my various businesses and take on the task of running the TSSAA. You can rest assured that when my CFO and I walked through the front door of the TSSAA office on Lebanon Pike in Hermitage, Tennessee everyone would know who was in charge and when we exited the back door very few if any employees would still be employed. The first order of business would be for us to do a complete audit of the organization and take up all credit cards and company cars if any are floating around.

How did Smith leave the program in a bad spot? Did he not wrestle the best kids in the room.

Who would ever hire someone to operate a multimillion-dollar business when they have zero business experience? That my friend is your answer. The TSSAA is clueless and as time goes on, they are exposed more and more every day.

Pete Miller has done a great job at Summitt, but I ask the question of why would he leave a great situation at Summitt where he is THE MAN? If he were at Bradley Central, he would always be 2nd to Cleveland until AJ decides to stop giving big money to the Raiders.

Yes, the TSSAA did win in the BA case, but they were very close to becoming insolvent. Lipscomb has enough attorneys that a few may just take the case Pro Bono (For the Public Good) to try and force the TSSAA into insolvency. If they became insolvent, they would be forced to reorganize the entire organization. Sometimes you have to break someone financially to get their attention and force them to change the way that they do business.

Lipscomb now has a difficult decision to make: 1. They can play nice, take the punishment and do nothing. 2. They can fight the TSSAA and do their very best to string this out in a legal battle much like BA did and force the TSSAA into insolvency. IMO, the TSSAA and its Board of Control is nothing more than an inept group of educational bureaucrats that have only one goal and that is to protect their little communities. I have said it in the past and I will continue to say that the TSSAA and the Board of Control do not have enough business experience to manage a church bake sale. Who is their right mind would ever place someone in control of a multimillion-dollar business with absolutely zero business experience other than a government agency. If I were in Lipscomb's position, I would file suit against the TSSAA Board of Control and the employees of the TSSAA. Yes, I know that they would eventually hide behind the attorneys of the TSSAA, but I would do everything possible to force them into spending some of their personal monies. When you force people to defend themself legally their attitudes change very quickly.

Most people are not worried about retirement and pensions until they are ready to retire. By that time it's too late!

He may very well receive a pay increase. However the benefits package from the State of Tennessee along with a defined pension plan is unmatched.

There are several things than can be attributed to having so many head football coaching openings. 1. Many times the expectations at the school are totally unrealistic. 2. Coaches are expected to do much more than just be a coach and in other states if they are good they are allowed to just coach. 3. Most of the time the school district will not allow the head coach to hire a completely new staff. This is like hiring a great chef but telling them they must use poor ingredients. It never works! Like Bill Parcels once said, if he is going to cook the meal he wants to do the grocery shopping. 4. Most of the times those doing the hiring don’t have a clue as to how you should hire a coach and their egos are so large they refuse they to ask those individuals that know what it takes to win for help. In there eyes if you ask for assistance it is a sign of weakness so they just screw up the hiring process. When I told a school board member how many hours a coaching staff and players must put in during the offseason just to have an opportunity to win a state championship she informed me that no one should be required to work that hard. Plan and simple, she didn’t hate to lose more than she liked to win.

The difference is that student athletes that have already established an athletic record are allowed to transfer to a boarding school and be eligible immediately without sitting out one full season. The member schools of the TSSAA voted to close this loophole by a margin of over 85% and the TSSAA Board of Control voted it down. Do the members of the Board of Control not understand that they work for the member schools?

Look at what Baylor and McCallie are doing in football and Baylor is doing in wrestling. In wrestling it was reported that Baylor only had one starter out of 14 weight classifications from Tennessee and that was a boarding student from upper east Tennessee. The TSSAA has got to get control of the boarding schools and how kids are eligible that transfer into them with an athletic record. This very topic was brought up to the TSSAA Board of Control and they voted down changing the rules. As it stands now the boarding schools are doing nothing illegal according to the TSSAA rule book.

We shall all see just how far Lipscomb wants to push the issue and fight the TSSAA. Let's all remember that the last time the TSSAA was in a legal battle with a school (Brentwood Academy) it all but placed a stranglehold on the TSSAA's finances due to the legal fees and came very close to making them insolvent. My recommendation is that all of the D2 schools need to leave the TSSAA and form their own association.

I fully understand what you are saying but I am going to strongly disagree. My thoughts have been and will continue to be the following: 1. There is absolutely no reason that individual sports (wrestling, tennis, track and field, bowling, swimming and diving, etc...) should ever crown more than one champion. Just because someone wrestles for a school with a small enrollment does not mean that they cannot or should not win a state championship. 2. It doesn't matter if high school athletes attend small rural schools, private schools, large public schools, inner city schools, etc... they will all be thrown into a pool and forced to compete for jobs and college admissions with the rest of the world when they graduate. Why not learn to compete while they are in high school? This idea that everything must be exactly fair is BS as life has never been fair. I know of very few parents that threat their children exactly the same as all kids are different! The facts are that people learn much more from their failures than they ever do from their successes. What wrestling truly teaches kids is that you should try your best to outwork your competition so that you have an opportunity to win a championship, but if you do not succeed you have established a great work ethic that will carry you throughout your life and you know how to pick yourself up and continue to move forward.

Does anyone know what the weight classifications will be for the 2023-24 season in Tennessee

Let’s understand that Casen Roark has freakish strength and if healthy he would be difficult to handle. Just a guess but Casen probably didn’t cut more than four or five pounds to make 132. If he lived in Ohio or Pennsylvania, he would be down to 120.

If anyone has attended the NCAA tournament the past several years they know that there will be very few matches end 1-0. You will see several matches that are one point victories but very few 1-0. Unless there are some major changes you will see the officials swallow their whistle in the last 30 seconds when it comes to calling stalling.

Not trying to make any point other than crunching numbers and making an observation. My question is still why so many of the private school wrestlers go out of state and the public school wrestlers appear to stay in state? I know that if I were the coach at UTC I would be asking myself that question.

Tony and Zeke do a great job with all the kids in that club. I have been very impressed with how well they game plan for the kids.

26 Tennessee kids are currently wrestling in college but Cooper Flynn did not compete in Tennessee during his high school career so for numbers sake let’s say there are 25. Of those 25 wrestling D1, 15 of those attended private schools in Tennessee and 10 attended public schools. I probably failed to make my question clear so I will try again; why did only one of the 15 private school kids make the decision to attend college at UTC and the rest are wrestling outside the state of Tennessee? Does UTC not like the D2 kids because by looking at the list that your provided D1 wrestling programs in other states must like them. You will also notice that of the 10 public school wrestlers on the list 50% made the decision to continue their career at UTC which seems to be a high number. I would be remiss if I didn’t say that Brayden Palmer began his career out of state and transferred to UTC.

Middle school athletics and winning are about which teams have the most athletes that have the most hair on their body

Pat Simpson (Father Ryan) was recognized as the national prep coach of the year for 2023.