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No team enjoys winning by 50 pts. And I'm sure that no one wants to lose by that either. It's just that this is high school ball. Not "rec" league. I have always said that if you beat me by 50, it's purely MY fault. It's my job as your opponent to stop you from scoring, and clearly I have not done my job if the gap in the score is that great. But that said, having seen some blow-out games in my days, I have NEVER seen a coach leave the first string in or press beyond the second half when the game is clearly already decided. Also, I have seen our girls team down by about 20 at half and fought to tie it up at the end, then dig deeper to win in OT. I also think that you'll see 35 as a target now. Where some coaches might have called the dogs off at 20, now they'll keep pressing with first string til they have reached the 35. Also, I can see coaches putting in the end of the bench at 30 pts to let the point gap drop, then throwing the starters back in. Kind of like a cat playing with a mouse. Keep it alive so they can play. And as a fan, THAT would be worse then the running clock "Mercy Rule".

It seems kind of "little league" to me.

http://www.crossville-chronicle.com/locals...=secondarystory 35 point lead in forth quarter and the clock don't stop. What's your thoughts on this?

Has any else seen this? Is this real? http://www.dnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?A...SPORTS/70611011

It's happened, but if your going to claim to be the Champs, then you have to beat the rest at some point. Might as well face them while your fresh.

It seems to me that the main issue is that the students be allowed to play in a “fair” playing field. The problem with this is that someone has to “define” fair. Is fair where every school, player, coach and team must abide by the same rules? Is fair where the teams, players, or coaches that excel year in and year out must play under a “handicap” so others will have a chance to keep the score close, if not win? Or is fair where there is a rule that every player on every team must have playing time in every game? All these are what I have heard parents say is “fair.” Or is it something else? I think that fair is one set of rules for all. Rules administered, enforced, followed, and penalized equally if broken. That is not what we have, but it’s not the public schools that are handicapped. It’s the private schools. The public high school coach is allowed to attend middle schools to speak with all the eighth grade students about playing for them, IF that high school is considered the natural progression for all students of that school. The unfair part is that TSSAA doesn’t consider private high schools to have a natural progression or feeder school that is public. So two schools (private and public) in the same area don’t have the same rules. Public can contact the students in middle school and give “recruitment” speeches, but privates cannot, unless it is their own middle school. Let me add that my kids go to public, and to my knowledge, no one in my family has ever been enrolled or employed in a private school. It just seems “fair” to me that the rules apply equally across the board.

There are no "zones" in Tennessee except for bussing zones. Any student can go to any public school in the state as long as there is room, they pay the "out of county tuition", they provide their own transportation, and if they do so from the start of their freshmen year, there is no "set out" time for them to play sports. Some counties never have room. Some set high out of county tuitions. Some have no tuition and take all comers. The only thing to stop a kid from going outside his bussing zone or even county to another public school and not lose playing time is if they have enrolled their first day as a freshmen in another school. They can even play summer camps with one school after graduating 8th grade, then play for another school, just so long as they have not enrolled.

How do you plan to rank the "merit" of each school, and each year? Our boys team lost their first district tournament game in basketball this past season in eight years. They made a state appearance and at least three sub-state games. But the coming years are not going to be that good. So, how do you know what each school is going to do? Meigs girls went on a run for about four years and won the state. They are several years from being close to that good again. There is NO WAY this will work. I don't see the big deal with public and private playing straight up by enrollment, just so long as there are no scholarships or tuitions being waved for students. If scholarships are given, you could have only five students in the whole school, but if they are the best five in the state in basketball, how would anyone compete? To be the best, you have to beat the best.

If Boyd Buchanan recruits, the girls basketball team recruiter needs to be fired. /laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":lol:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

There is one thing that no one has mentioned, and that is that high school coaches of public schools can and do visit middle schools to "recruit" players for their sport. But because these middle schools are considered "Feeder" schools for that particular high school, it is not "recruiting" but just talking to students that will "under normal progression" attend that high school. So, why would the letter and calls to students that had signed to attend Brentwood be "recruiting", when "under normal progression" they will attend the school where they had applied? Also, private schools do not draw students and therefore tuition from winning state championships. They are able to stay in business by succeeding in teaching students in the classroom, maintaining safe environments, and sustaining an environment conducive to learning.

I've been waiting for your top ten. Here's some reasons why they will be in the winning column more next year, and espesially years to come. 1. Having the first Football camp for youth that I have ever known about at Central. (Works for basketball) 2. Youth league to begin playing at Central, with youth coaches spending the summer to learn Central ball. 3. Players are hitting the weight room with the average player adding 15-20 lbs of musle. (Best Guess) 4. No drop off in talent from graduated Seniors. The younger ones are as good. 5. The players are one year older. Not heavy in Freshmen and Sophomores, Sophomores and Juniors this coming year. 6. Some good leaders in the Senior class. 7. Boys getting letters of interest from colleges. This helps the "Scholarship Conscience" think of football as an option. 8. School board starting to spend money for improvements on the east side of the creek. 9. After a good scrimmage with Alcoa and McMinn, the team's starting to understand, "THEY CAN PLAY." There's not ten reasons there, but those are the brightest spots that McMinn Central has seen in their football program in a LONG time. And you may want a spread O, a wishbone, or something specific O or D, but the fact is that the present coaches are the direct cause for the list above. I think they have a game plan that will win games, and build a team. Next year and the years to follow.

Coach Marshall is now the Freshmen/JV boys coach. He's going to make a very positive addition to that staff. I know this is girls post, but it fit the school. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />