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Does track practice not begin on Feb. 15?????????

Spring practice in early January makes alot of sense. The only athletes that you are not going to have are wrestlers & basketball players. Most wrestlers play on the defensive side of the ball and they are tough kids (state place winners are probably the most hard noised kids in the school) or they wouldn't be wrestling. You tell them what you want them to do and get out of their way. Basketball players tend to play the receiver positions or maybe a DB and they already have good hands and probably don't need Spring practice especially if your team does alot of passing league work in the Summer. QB's & RB's tend to play baseball and run track so you would have them during the Spring.

Tullahoma could have the same type of program that Maryville has if the community made the decision that winning state championships was a priority. I am not sure what the problem is with Lawrence County but they have had good teams in the past. It would take alot of work but they could be very strong. What is the deal with Columbia Central? They have a great feeder program but few if any of those kids do anything in high school.

Stan, If the TSSAA wins the court battle I will agree that all private schools will be forced into one division and will probably form their own organization. However, if BA wins this ongoing legal battle what do you feel will happen? How will the legal bills be paid and do you feel that some type of compromise will take place between the TSSAA and BA? Is there any way that the TSSAA can pay their own legal fees as they must be well over a million dollars by now and most general liability insurance will not cover legal fees that excesive?

Just because a coach is not truthful has nothing to do with me or my family not being truthful. You or no one else can justify not being truthful, no matter how hard you try. Do you really want one of your kids playing for a coach that was not a standup type of man like the coach that you spoke about? We have all made mistakes over the course of our life but you can bet your sweet cheeks that if I tell you something you can take it to the bank and it will not bounce.

Why would a players parents allow their child to decommit to any school. I told my kids if you give the coach your word and commit you must follow through and attend that school. I even took it one step forward and told them if they quit playing football or decided to transfer the school tuition would have to be paid for by them. Just because you have not signed the NLI does not mean that your word should not be binding.

Hey Parent, You are the one that needs to let it go! It's not choking if the official does not call it. Look @ what Dave Schultz did on the international stage with his front headlock and what Simmons from Michigan State is doing now. It sounds like good coaching to me.

No way & that isn't even a good joke. While coach Probst is a good coach and has a great staff we all know that the bright lights of TWO A DAYS would be on Coach Probst and not the G-Man.

soms, The state tournament is a joke the way that it is now. The state of Tennessee has very few schools wrestling, two divisions (D1 & D2), place the top 6 per weight division, the brackets in D1 are larger than 16 men per weight classification, it takes three days to wrestle the tournament now and you are asking for double elimination? I have an idea for the individual tournament: 1. Put D1 & D2 together 2. Keep no team score 3. Double elimination 4. Have 6 regions in Tennessee & you must place in the top 4 of your region to advance to the State Wrestling Tournament 5. Seed the top 8 wrestler in each weight classification & use a formula like the NCAA does. The tournament will be seeded on Sunday before the tournament begins on Thursday. 6. Place the top 8 wrestler per weight classification 7. Finals are Sat.@7:00pm 8. When doing the parade of champions have one of the finalist at the front of the line and the other finalist at the back of the line. There will be a fight one day and then Uncle Ronnie and the T$$AA will have to make a decision as to whom they are going to keep from wrestling the championship finals match. Let's be smart and be proactive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Would it have been a bad idea to have the first two day of the tournament (Thur. & Friday) @ the Roundhouse and move the last day of the tournament to old McCellan Gym? You could have had the consolation finals (3rd & 4th, 5th & 6th) @ 2:00pm, parade of champions @ 6:15pm and the championship finals @ 7:00pm.

The players were given a 2 week break at the end of the season. They were given off Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve. & Christmas Day but they did workout @ 8:30am-10:00am on New Years Day. When they started back they were on the following schedule: Two sport athletes (basketball & wrestling) lift @ 6:30am-7:30am on Monday & Wed. and @ 10:00am on Sat morning Football players that do not play a Winter sport lift on Mon., Tue, Thur. & Fri. from 3:30pm-5:00pm Spring Practice will start on February 26, 2007 After Spring Practice the football players that do not participate in baseball will have the following schedule: Monday, Wed. & Friday 3:30-4:30 Weight workout Monday, Wed. & Friday 4:45-5:45 Track & Field (mandatory for football players) Tue. & Thur 3:30-5:15 Track & Field Summer Schedule: 8:00am-9:00am Wed. (flexibility, speed training & plyometrics) 9:00am-9:30am Wed. (snack break) 9:30am-10:30am Wed. (skill players passing league practice) (lineman work on technique) 8:00am-9:30am Monday, Tue, Thur, & Friday (Weights) 9:30am-10:00am Monday, Tue, Thur & Friday (Snack Break) 10:00am-10:45 Monday, Tue., Thur. & Friday (flexibility, speed training & plyometrics) 10:45am-11:00am Mon., Tue, Thur & Friday (hydration break) 11:00am-12:00 noon Monday, Tue, Thur., & Friday (skill players passing league practice) (lineman work on technique)

Your soph. 103# got stuck by an 8th grader and your senior 125# wrestler got decked by the Simpson kid. Hey you may not be good but the cardnial sin in wrestling is to give up a fall. There were a couple of other times during the match that officials that call quick falls would have sent the Ryan wrestlers to the locker room early. Ryan did wrestle hard and they won every close match.

It was reported on the board by someone that Michael Goodrum wrestles for MBA but when I watched the match on www. schoolsportsradio.com I figured out that Michael is the 160# wrestler for Father Ryan.

I just watched the Father Ryan vs MBA match on www.schoolsportsradio.com and it was a great match. That is probably the most professionaly done internet broadcast that I have every seen. The filming was very good and you could tell that the broadcasters knew something about most of the wrestlers.

When did a Goodrum decide to attend Montgomery Bell Academy (Michael 160#) and wrestle? If I know Mrs. Goodrum she is going to require quadruple bypass because this is going to leave her with a broken heart. Is it true that of the MBA starters they have 10 athletes that are Catholic?

Batts, How is Carlos doing? Are you keeping him busy?

What were the results?

Just because most of the committe is made up of well respected people does not mean that they are not "YES MEN" when the G-Man is sitting on the other side of the desk. Not to burst your bubble but the people on the committe could not leave MBA for another job in education and make the type of money that MBA is paying them. These people have been stunk in and have to do everything in their power to keep their job or they will loose their buying power.

bighurt, I don't know where he got the 25% number but it sounds very low. Could he be trying to say that only 25% would qualify under the NCAA without being a prop. 48?

antwan, As a former college coach (D1) I can tell you from experience that parents need to stay out of the process other than helping their kids complete the requested forms. If a parent contacts the college coach the staff will not give them the time of day unless they have already heard of the kid and know that they can play. If the high school coach makes the phone call the college coach will lisiten and try to evaluate the player. I will tell you that some coaches have the reputation of "over promoting" their players while other high school coaches do little or nothing unless the college coach contacts them for their opinion.

103 mba 4 112 mba 3 119 fr 3 125 mba 3 130 fr 4 135 mba 3 140 mba 6 145 mba 3 152 mba 3 160 fr 3 171 fr 6 189 fr 3 215 mba 3 hw fr 6 mba 28 fr 25 It could get ugly if the Ryan team continues to roll across their back like they have been known to do. You can only go to your back so many times before you get decked. Great dual meet teams don't allow the other team to get bonus points.

I understand what you are trying to say but the problem may be two fold. JMO, but the public schools have better athletes as a whole than do the privates. If the public schools do have most of the good athletes then it only makes sense that those are the athletes that sign to play in college. The second part has to do with the private schools & their parents attitudes about academics. Often times those athletes are not recruited by the JUCO, NAIA & small D2 schools because they know that the kids will not sign with them. I have had college coaches tell me that they are not going to even talk to kids from school X or Z because they have a zero chance to sign them. The college coaches know that the athlete does not have the talent to play D1 but he could play on the D1AA or at a small school but because he has great academics he will choose to attend Vanderbilt, Duke, Wake, etc... and be a regular student. The college placement offices of schools like MBA, McCallie, Harpeth Hall, GPS, etc... will push for the student/athlete to attend Rhodes, Emory, Sewanee, etc... and particpate in athletics at that level instead of attending a much larger D1AA school that does not have the same academic reputation.

John, Thanks for doing such a great job with the camp. You truly have what most would consider the top youth wrestling camp in the United States. I have one small piece of advice if you would like the fill the basketball arena at Austin Peay and make a little $: Have the "OCTAGON" erected @ center court and have a winner take all UFC Fight with Cale Sanderson, John Smith, and Tom Brands. The official for the fight should be Kessell & we all know that he can be bought because no one in their right mind could call a NCAA Finals match as badly as he did if they were not on the take. IMO, you would clear 2-3 million after the TV rights are sold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just finished watching the video from the National High School Coaches Association final 4 and the officials were great. They took control of the match and made quick stalling, stalemate, and pin calls.

It may be Paul's son.