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Oh Glock, you have rattled their cages! Exactly right big, bad fish in a tiny, tiny pond, playing on a Thursday night, when no one is watching but the mommy and daddy fish. Omg, they are going to reject TSSAA and play other junior, junior colleges that will give them the respect they deserve. Leave the TSSAA, and become even less relevant than you all ready are! All of Tennessee will be anxiously awaiting the results of an eleven team play-off. Is it Ensworth or MBA or Brentwood Academy, or (getting sleepy).

Drake's improvement is great news. We will continue to remember in in our prayers. Please keep us informed.

Again I must ask, what are you so afraid of, Owl? Don't answer please. I don't think you will have time anyway. You are about to have your hands full with Alcoa. Now that's a football team or are you going to argue that point as well? Bye now.

I don't know. It seemed as if you were defending JJ's silly comment a few times. I will leave you alone now. You are about to have your hands full with Aloca. Good luck.

The debate was over whether the comments from john jacob were offensive or not and if they were in any way racially motivated. You engaged and lost the debate when you fell back on the old argument that the boards are not the place for this kind of discussion after you had carpal tunnel from typing lengthy rebuttals to the argument. Don't be so afraid of honest discourse, anywhere,or aren't you a first amendment kind of guy> At this point, OJ represented himself much better in the debate than you did, but please keep trying and perhaps you would like to attend a lecture or go to the library for some research on diversity and freedom of speech. OJ's comments were interesting, insightful, and intelligent. What are you so afraid of owl and forgive the alliteration, please?

OJ, You won the debate with intelligent argument and you got the last word which is something when you are going up against owl and k. K is much more skilled at debate. When he is losing an argument owl usually says that football boards aren't the place for this type of discussion. This is always after he has gone on and on about the subject at hand. The guy who made the tacky, unkind personal comments about Ensworth's players and their talented coach was just mad about being beat. I really enjoyed reading your posts and when I get back to the library I will look for the book you recommended.

Please allow me to translate the truth that may really be painful. "How dare Coach Bowers beat BA with a school that is stealing some of the best players that might have previously attended BA and (gasp), he is doing it with a school that was started very recently." Coach Bowers, you must quit winning if you want the "right sort" of people to like you.

Football players, even the girls, should not wear "war earrings". It sets the wrong tone for what is essentially a game. Peace earrings or perhaps a small post type earring with a tasteful monogram in the schools initals (ES or BA) would be more appropriate.

Dear Posters on this Thread, (owl,k,rolly,the guy that said spot on and oj, to name a few) Thank you so much for the posting and responses about earrings and hair length. I have just spent 15 minutes or so reading the most amusing posts. I will admit to ya'll that I have no business on the private school boards (we don't even have a private school in our county ), as several of you have pointed out in the past. However, with fall break coming up next week, I had a little extra time on my hands and I didn't make it to the library today. I was reading about our game last night and just thought I would take a little peek at what was going on in DII. It was particularly interesting to read about Bayor beating BA and it sounded like a great game. The "Does Ensworth Recruit" had a few comments that were thought provoking, but I resisted the slight temptation I felt to post. Much to my surprise, one of the posters did beg pardon for critizing the grammar and spelling of another poster and the critized poster accepted the apology. "Spot on", if i may borrow a phrase from one of the posters on this thread. I promise that I will never, ever borrow that phrase again. Thank you all again for the posts about earrings and hair. It seems as if the private schools are indeed turning out their fair share of posters with a flair for comedy. I would especially like to commend the BA and MBA graduates who posted here and will be looking for further example of your humor on the Blue Collar Comedy channel. Sincerely, ahapplet PS Ensworth, I know MBA beat you this year, but they are still upset at you for having the gall to start up your own school.

You have gotten way off track. Listen-I think its great you live in a nice little Tennessee town where the high school there just won the state championship. Knowing your family still occupies land from the 17th century is great. But that has no bearing on rotating the championship games next year. I was born and raised in a farming community just outside of Nashville in the 60's. In the early 70's the Davidson County school district began to bus. So kids in my little Tennessee town had to get on a yellow school bus and travel 30 to 45 minutes into the city of Nashville for Jr. high school and high school. Our high school was turned into a middle school for inner city kids to attend. Our little community was no more. Count your lucky stars that the little town you live in has not seen the high school turned into a middle school. And your kids don't travel miles from your community to attend a comprehensive high school. By the way, during this time is when middle Tennessee private schools other than MBA, Father Ryan, Harpeth Hall began to flourish. I guess we did make it out of our little town due to circumstances beyond our control. The TSSAA needs to be fair when scheduling championship games. It doesn't matter what side of the tracks you come from. Fat, you got more off track. I was replying to the type of poster that makes Division II posters look like snobs, implying that public school parents, students, and small town Tennesseans are not as capable of making money or as well educated as Division II supporters. TSSAA is not going to put you on Saturday night until you have more teams in your Division. Twelve (? )teams equals no power and I would really like to see the match-ups I listed above. Alcoa vs. MUS or MBA or Ensworth....what a game. Why not come back to Division I? Oh and by the way, most of the Division II posters including you and Woodruff seem like nice guys and it is fun talking to you.

You seem to enjoy our complaints and find humor in our responses. You also indicate that your town is enjoying a state championship today. Imagine you have the good fortune to pick up another one next year...and two more in the next three years. You have a good football program, you follow the rules, and all is well with the world. And then the TSSAA by majority vote consigns your school and a handful of others, spread throughout the state, into a separate division. Your travel costs go up, your scheduling alternatives dwindle, and your state championship pool consists of almost enough teams to have made up two districts in the '70's. Would you maybe find yourself just ever so slightly resentful? That's what happened to us. We did nothing wrong; we violated no rules. If you want to count BA's issue, a tempest in a teapot over which numerous courts were unable to agree, fine. Punish them. But Ensworth and JP II were stuck here before they ever fielded a varsity football team, much less had an opportunity to commit a transgression of any sort. MBA played football for eight decades without any allegation of impropriety, Ryan for at least six. I know of no complaints against Baylor, McCallie, CBHS or MUS. Likewise, these schools had no monopoly on state football championships in the period of state playoffs from '69 until the split. (Odd how nobody complained about recruting or the allegedly wide pool from which we had to choose then. In Nashville, AAA coaches relished playing MBA and Ryan. That was in the age of spines; sadly, that day has passed.) Your amusement at our temerity in complaining about a fundamentally unjust act says a great deal about you. Sadly, none of it is very flattering. I am amused by your complaints. The students who attend the schools you mentioned are very fortunate and the parents who can afford to send them to these schools obviously care very much for their children. Life isn't fair and many of the kids on our team can't afford the championship sweatshirts, much less the tuition fee your schools would charge. Many kids on our team, and their parents would have a lot more to complain and worry about than the TSSAA doing them wrong. Thank you for your insightful comments. You are an excellent writer and I enjoy your posts.

If the money and power in the independent schools had any influence with the TSSAA, there wouldn't be a Division II. And if you don't want to read our complaints about the shafting we get from the TSSAA, there's no requirement that you read our boards. I enjoy reading your boards and the complaints especially. Replying to the posts my comments generate is the most fun of all. At least I've got you thinking. Division II is a new and sometimes strange world to me, because we have no private schools in our entire county. I am learning about a very different sociological group from my own and it is a fascinating study. I would like to see the above mentioned match-ups, however.