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I am sure that the D2AAA schools would welcome any of the D1 teams into D2AAA if they wish to take a leap of faith. It's seems odd that everyone wants to talk smack about D2AAA but few D1 teams wish to play them in a regular season game.

While it's very early to be ranking teams I have to beleive that MBA should be around #3 or #4 in the rankings. Franklin & Goodpasture would be lucky to win 5 games playing the brutal schedule of D2AAA.

LL get's noticed because they have the most money, have been very well organized over the years and play thier World Series on national television. However playing on 60ft bases, 200ft fences, & pitching from 46ft is a joke with the size of 12 year olds today, not to mention how dangerous it is. Put the kids on a field with 220 down the line, 250 in center, 70ft bases, and 50ft pitching distance and you will have both a better and safer game. In LL all you need is a 150# fat kid that can hit the ball out of the park in the outfield because he does not have to run and is going to play with his backside against the fence. Some people talk about kids playing both travel ball and LL but the LL programs that I know have told the kids they will not be eligible for LL All-Star play if they participate with travel teams? Is this a national LL rule? Just looking at the Middle Tennessee area I only know of 2 rec league parks (Rotary & Madison) that still play LL baseball as most have become Cal Ripken or travel leagues.

When was the last time the 5A champion defeated one of the Top 4 in D2AAA?

63 Sophmores, Juniors & Seniors 51 Freshmen

The hard cold facts are that Georgia places more emphasis on football than we do in Tennessee. The large high schools in Georgia run their football teams like small college programs. In Tennessee most head coaches try to do everything where in Georgia the head coach is more like a CEO and watches over his staff.

This game should be nothing more than a tune-up for MBA's regular season. Let's keep in mind that Dunbar is nothing like Trinity or Saint X.

Do the Tennessee high schools have to allow men to participate on the girls team in vollyball due to the fact that the TSSAA does not offer a mens program? If they don't would that not be reverse discrimination because the mens football and wrestling programs have to allow women the opportunity to participate?

The wrestling staff @ the United States Military Academy does a great job with the camp and Harding Acadmey has wonderful facilities. This should be a camp that everyone wants to attend.

As I see things the problem with both JP2 & Father Ryan is that both schools play in D2 but play by a self imposed different set of rules than the other schools in D2AAA. When it opened JP2 offered financial aid to non catholic students but I don't see that happening in the future. For the last several years Father Ryan has not offered financial aid to non catholic students. With the talent pool of catholic students being split between the two schools I feel that it is going to be difficult for the two schools to finish near the top of D2AAA unless they change their philosophy and seek out non catholic students and offer them all of the financial aid that they have been approved to accept.

When you consider the fact that Brentwood High School is one of the top academic public schools in the United States (US News & World Report) I feel confident that Crawford wanted to stay at Brentwood due to his classroom situation.

Mr. Jackie Fargo would have killed Flair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MBA did a good job of spreading the field and Howe got the ball to the open receiver. There is just a big difference between the way most D2AAA teams use the passing attack and the way most D1 teams play. Goodpasture will probably not play any team that throws the ball 40%-50% of the time and honestly knows how to throw the ball.

Little League Baseball is very weak not only in Tennessee but in the United States. The travel teams have taken 99% of the best talent and would run rule the Little League teams. If you want to see some good 12U teams go and watch the National American Tournament of Champions in Cooperstown, NY.

Any association, school, business, etc... will only be as good as the people in charge. IMO, if your organization has been having trouble you need to take a long and hard look at who is running the organization.

Until they win D2AAA they will not be the best. Did they not loose to Brentwood Academy?

If student/athletes and their families select to transfer from public schools to a private school the public schools need to ask one question and that is why. Why are students leaving our school and going to the private schools? The private schools may or may not be better but the students and their families must feel like they will be in a better place. IMO, the inner city public schools are fine for the top 5% of the students and the lower 10% (special ed. and learning disabled) but they do not help the so called "middle of the road" student and often times keep those students from reaching their potential.

No Pedialyte and Gatorlyte are different products. Gatorlyte is great but it is very difficult to find. I have been told that you must purchase a minium of $1500.00 of the product. Does anyone sell it without having to go direct?

Drink 32oz of a sports drink before practice and 32oz of a sports drink after practice. You need to continue to drink during practice and it's a good idea to soak the players head with cold water during the breaks to keep their core body temperature from getting too hot. If a player get's dehydrated it takes about 72 hours for them to become hydrated again unless you give them iv's. This is why you see the college programs and elite high school programs giving the players iv's during halftime.

Life is not fair!!!!!!! You do the best you can with what you have.

This is very simple: Ravenwood broke a rule and they have now been punished for breaking the rule. IMO they received no advantage and they will be just fine during the season.

Whites Creek & Pearl Cohn

Would the correct language not be financial aid and not scholarships?

I cannot remember the new head coaches name but Metro broke from their old tradition and went to California to hire the gentlemen.

Why do you have to use the merit system for all sports? Could we not give it a try with football first and see how everyone likes it before we go overboard. I know that some people don't want to give the merit system a try because the just don't like change or they would have to play a more difficult schedule.