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  1. BGA spent the money and hired a real football coach with a proven record.
  2. cbg

    MBA football

    When you can pay the amount of money for a head coach and staff like MBA is able to do, you should be able to have the best high school football team in the country.
  3. It's not an advantage it's just another excuse used by schools that fail to field a full team. When schools with enrollments over 1000 kids can't field a full team there is a major problem.
  4. Both the staff of the TSSAA and the Board of Control are idiots. They all need to step aside and hire a true entrepreneur to run the association.
  5. On a side note, I was having lunch with a friend the other day and we said that the two of us could take over the TSSAA and make them 35% more in revenues the first year. The major issues outside of the Board of Control being total fools is that the staff of the TSSAA has zero business experience. Everyone knows that placing an entrepreneur in charge of the TSSAA will never happen as it would scare the bureaucrats to death.
  6. To pack the stadiums and have a great atmosphere the games should be moved back to high school stadiums. Yes, all nine (9) state championship games would be played at different sites.
  7. Catholics reside all over Middle Tennessee. What you currently have in the areas surrounding JP2 are a high percentage non-practicing Catholics. Meaning they were baptized Catholic but do not regularly attend mass at a parish. To be honest, the tuition at both JP2 and Father Ryan is so expensive that most truly lower- and middle-income families do not feel as if there is any way they can afford the tuition. I have had numerous alumni of Father Ryan tell me that they moved out of Davidson County for a better public school system because they knew that there was absolutely no way they could afford to send their children to Catholic schools. It's completely different than it was in the 60's, 70's and 80's where if a Catholic family wanted their children to attend Catholic schools the church and priest made it happen regardless of one's ability to pay the tuition. Let's understand that this is only in Tennessee as in many of the other states they operate much like the Catholic schools did 40+ years ago.
  8. So true! You must also remember that there is a reason that so many high school's football teams in Texas play in stadiums that seat 20K plus fans. Without The Baylor School and The McCallie School the total fan attendance would have been horrible. You would be fortunate if the total fan attendance for the other seven (7) state championship football games reached 20K paid attendance. That would be an average paid attendance of 2857 per game for seven games. The best thing that the TSSAA to increase fan attendance would be to move the games back to Vanderbilt.
  9. According to the latest census numbers Tennessee has roughly 7.3 million people. The latest numbers reflect that 9.5% of Tennessee residents identify as Catholic. Those numbers are significantly higher in the major metropolitan areas! The number of Catholics in the United States is 21% and rising.
  10. cbg

    MBA football

    Many of the D2 schools will recruit and go after kids for things other than athletics. Music, art, voice, academics, etc. are all recruited. If you have a special talent the top tier schools are interested.
  11. Let me make myself perfectly clear, before JP2 even begins the process of hiring a new head football coach they must do some serious internal reflection. Do they want to win and even more important are they (administration, board of trustees, faculty, student body, alumni and parents) willing to make the necessary sacrifices to do what it requires to win at the highest level. If the answer to any of these questions is no or were not sure they should just hire a current member of the faculty and continue doing what they have been doing. To not only win but to compete for championships in D2AA it will require bringing in 12-15 football players every year and providing them with 100% of the financial aid that they qualify for. Anything less is merely lip service by the administration. Unlike the Catholic high school football teams in California, Pennsylvania, Ohio and most other states, the Tennessee Catholic high schools have never displayed a desire to be super successful in football.
  12. It appears as if Aidan Brenot (North Dakota State University) is in the lineup most of the time this season.
  13. The Titans are a business and the last time that I checked they are not in business to lose money. Now if there is a legal way to write off the loss of hosting a state championship series then I could see the Titans being a host. Otherwise, I would say absolutely no way and to be honest there is no reason to host less than 5000 people in a stadium designed for close to 75K.
  14. With no more attendance than shows up at the state championship games they should be played at high school stadiums. If the attendance numbers begin to grow again, then you can explore venues with more seating capacity. As it is now no games will have attendance numbers of 5000 paid attendance.
  15. The question is not should Coach Maddox return to CPA to be the head basketball coach, but rather would he even consider returning to CPA to be the head basketball coach? Each and every time a private school has a change in the headmaster/principal position you incur a philosophical change as to how things will be done at the school going forward. What I have a witnessed from a vast majority (85+%) of the new headmasters is that deep down in their soul they do not feel as if a school can have both great academics and great athletics.
  16. Gary Rankin started this craziness of finding difficult schedules when he was at Riverdale. Within a few weeks of losing to Brentwood Academy the Riverdale administration began to push for a split between the public schools and private schools. It’s been difficult for the really good private schools to fill their schedule with local school ever since the split. You reap what you sow.
  17. I agree that he will win whichever weight he goes in D1AAA. Will Mason and Carson have the opportunity to go against each other in a dual? That would be a great match that should push both kids.
  18. I have news for the folks in D2AA, if Bobby Bentley stays at BGA everyone had best get ready for a changing of the guard. I have watched a lot of high school football across the USA and other than Bob Ladouceur, Bentley may be the best high school coach that I have ever seen. Give him time to recruit and you can turn out the lights as the party will be over until tomorrow when we do it all over again.
  19. Just a hunch that there is at least one kid at 126lb that would not run from the challenge of Mason going up to compete against him.
  20. I am hearing that Chittum will definitely redshirt this season. They want to make sure they don’t have any concussion related issues.
  21. Does McCallie and Cleveland wrestle in a dual this season?
  22. I totally understand your frustration. However, as an entrepreneur with more than a few employees I have a simple philosophy that has served me well for decades. It’s ok to disagree with me, but if you do I want you to offer not only your opinion but also your help to make the situation better. I feel confident that Hamm would appreciate you volunteering to assist him with this time consuming endeavor. It’s quite apparent that you really know the kids and you would not be biased.
  23. Yes, I had a friend text me this morning and said that Father Ryan head football coach Brian Rector had officially resigned. Unless the Board of Trust, administration and faculty are all on board with having a great athletic program it will continue to be a difficult place to be successful. Now if those in charge have had a change of heart and want to win it could be a great opportunity.
  24. I don’t care if it’s the elderly, older folks, middle age parents, students, etc… all of them want to be associated with a winner. For lack of a better term most people today are “FRONT RUNNERS” With that being said, if Oak Ridge would hire a great head coach and allow him to hire a great staff (not just a few good coaches) you would see immediate changes. Now if the school board, administration and faculty would get behind the program you would once again begin to play for state championships. What I have discovered from both public and private school administrators and faculty members is that they only want to give lip service to having great athletic programs. Most of them feel that great athletic programs overshadow academics and there is absolutely no room for the two to coexist.
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