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This region is crazy!  MC  beats CW, and Greenbrier beats WHH.  What?

This region is wide open this year. I think Springfield is down a little this year, and several teams look to be improved.  I can guarantee WHH isn't last!

Just heard they are moving game to Jackson Christian.  Anyone confirm?

13 minutes ago, BIGPURPLEMACHINE said:

Sorry for the grandstanding. I am a long time educator and school administrator. I have had to know and deal with policy for a long time. But I’ll drop it. Don’t have a dawg in this fight anyway. Got a lot of respect for both teams. Best of luck this week. 

I am a teacher as well, I guess I am as well.  Thanks for your support of education!

8 minutes ago, BIGPURPLEMACHINE said:

Yes you are correct the students in the district have to go where they are zoned that is the only difference. You guys can take students from out of county and even out of state according to your policy. Your students have to have an administrator sign off, they have to pay tuition and they have to provide their own transportation. Same as every other open zone school system in TN. The policies may differ slightly in certain ways but at the end of the day if you allow students in from outside the zone or district you are open zone. 

The "only difference" ??? That's huge...that's why Alcoa, and Maryville can win state championships every freaking year!  They never have rebuilding years.

Can you imagine if all the best talent in Nashville could choose where they want to go play? Heck even in Robertson County we've had 3 different teams make the championship game in 3 classes in the last 10-15 years.  I guess every school is open zoned  by your definition, if you don't see a difference I can't help you.

I'm done back to the game at hand.

2 hours ago, BIGPURPLEMACHINE said:

I don’t doubt that at all. However the policy that I quoted is the current policy. It details how studentsnoutside if the zone can currently attend Springfield high school. Even mentions the tuition the have to pay. You guys are open zone just like Alcoa, Maryville and most of the public schools in the state. 

Not the same at all.  Nearly all school systems will allow out of county students for a fee, including Metro Nashville.  The policy you quoted says students can apply to attend Robertson County schools not Springfield specifically, there are 5 high schools in the county. Students who live in Robertson county have to go where they are zoned, so not open zoned.

Blount County school policy, for example, says students can attend the school of their choosing provided administrators sign off, and they provide their own transportation. Robertson, Sumner, Davidson and most other school systems in the area do not allow this.

As was stated earlier it takes an act of God for anyone to be granted an out of zone request inside the county.  

I am happy with the state of Springfield football. Even if they only had 20 kids come out for football, you can bet they would be well coached and play hard.  But what the the open zoned schools have is definitely an advantage.

5 minutes ago, FootballPops said:

Truth be told.  You can do that in more rural areas.  If you did that in the Metro/Nashville you'd have a mass exodous, and have 4 or 5 stacked teams with crazy numbers on the sideline(Greeneville)  Meanwhile other teams wouldn't be able to field one. Understand now?  It's not cheating. Just not fair across the board

Definitely not cheating, just a big time advantage.  

8 minutes ago, BVDevil said:

a little more indepth explaination please. Forgive my ignorance 

The 3 "dynasty" teams I mentioned, among others, are open zones.  Anybody who is willing to make the drive can play.  The out of zone "tuition" is minuscule when compared to the private school's 10-20k tuition.

In other words you don't have to live there to play there. They can draw on the best players in the area. 

Not sure about Haywood, but Springfield, and lots of public schools don't have this luxury.

I will be that guy...

Schools that have open zoning like Alcoa, Maryville, and Greeneville have a much bigger advantage than any private school that was playing D1 the last 15 years.  $500 bucks to go play at Alcoa, sign me up!

Yes these programs have built the tradition and are great schools, but that's an advantage that lots of schools don't get.  Yes... their fans can be cocky, because the team can back it up.  But let's not act like the playing field is even across the board.

Kind of gone quiet on here.  I thinks both fanbases are a little nervous about this game.

We should just send Greeneville the trophy anyway right? Nah...

8 minutes ago, Throwdeslant said:

Oh no! That’s probably gonna get blamed on Alcoa in some fashion. Oh well, gotta take the good with the bad. 

No, we're 4A and still alive. Not worried about Alcoa.  Though my brother played at Goodpasture so I've seen Alcoa up close and personal a couple of times.

Say you guys should play up for a challenge.  Alcoa/Greenville might be a good match up

Springfield is the opposite of open zone.  They are sending students that live in Springfield out to the county schools.  That's another story, and another can of worms.

What was the deal on the final kickoff after the Jackets scored? Radio guy made it sound like NS didn't try to recover it.  Did they think it wasn't going 10 yards?

The Jackets will have to play much better on offense to win Friday.  I don't see a blowout either way

This is dumb

On another note this has to be the longest thread for a Springfield game this year! There's 7-8 Springfield posters and we have had nobody to talk to most of the year.

32 minutes ago, Tenn2000ap said:

can you disagree?

You act like Springfield was lucky to win.  Sure MC played them tough, but I'm not sure the the Jackets ever trailed, and definitely not in the second half.

Tough non-region schedule pays off in this one.  Jackets played 5A/6A non-region games, while SS played 1A/2A/3A.  SS may be good on defense, but The Jackets have seen better in Clarksville, and Beech.  But...anything can happen.

6 hours ago, Tez2319 said:

We are bringing half of Jackson with us! The other half will handle business against MC! Should be two great games! 

Come early enough to eat.  Springfield has some great non-chain restaurants.  The Depot, Public house are upscale.  Torino's for good Italian, and the Catfish House for well...catfish.

4 minutes ago, putboobieincoach said:

23-18 after 3 quarters. Final score doesn't really represent how close the game was. Having said that, Springfield is easily the best team Creek Wood has played this year. 

True.  CW was a scrappy team.  They held the Jackets several times when they were driving deep in CW territory.  Hopefully they pull one off in round 1.

Suprising there is not more chatter considering a region championship is on the line. CW must not have any fans on the T.  So those who have watched film or seen them play.  What can we expect to see from Creekwood Friday night?

38-16 last I heard.  Not there though

17 minutes ago, TheCommissioner said:

MC is a tough team.  Their RB's and linemen are quick and fast.  It was an entertaining game though.  Portland supposedly similar in size and style to Central this maybe chapter 2 for us

Yes MC was a physical team, but I think the misdirection hurt the Jackets as much as the sheer physicality.

Great game!  Kudos to MC!  This has to be the best team they have ever had right? 

Everytime I thought the Jackets were gonna pull away, MC answered.  Hayes was injured on the last play of the game, hope he's okay.

Good game going on.  23-14. The MC running attack giving the Jackets some issues.  Turnovers the difference.