"No I'm pretty sure Brentwood Academy (10 state championships), Montgomery Bell Academy (8 state championships), Battle Ground Academy (6 state championships), Riverdale (4 state championships and almost all coming in the last decade), and probably more have greater football tradition in middle Tennessee than the Gallatin Green Wave who have 3 state championships. This is not taking anything away from them but these other schools have better and more prestigious football tradition in middle tennessee."
Your's is a very limited concept of "tradition". I've never been a Gallatin fan, but I remember the tremendous respect MBA's Tommy Owen had for the Green Wave program and the way the entire community supports them. Taking nothing away from the best out of seven to ten team state championships that the schools that give financial aid have been forced into or the single and double A championships, but Gallatin needs no asterisks next to their championships.