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Cookeville. They did not lose a game. They beat Segal in the last game

Lets hear from some of you Cookeville fans. I heard they did great!!!!

Have to agree about Cookeville's coach. He seems to want to win. I understand he works his girls hard and does not take any back talk or whinning from the girls and their parents. I wish all of them, players and coaches, the very best of luck. It is time Cookeville got back on the winning track.

Watched Cookeville beat Blackman Saturday. It went 9 innings and Cookeville won 1-0. It was a really good game.

Went and watched some of the games at Cookeville Sat. They did not look to shabby. They have 3 good pitchers and 2 good catchers. As for the coach, he is doing good, or so I am told. He is doing the discipline thing for everyone, not just 2 or 3. The parents are being supportive and that is a plus. The team acted like a different bunch of girls. They were laughing and talking and doing cheers in the dugout. Seems like everyone is getting along. I hope this works out for all of them.

What about the Cookeville Girls? You made no comment about them. Has anyone seen them practice

As anyone heard how the new coach at Cookeville is doing? I think they have had tryouts and wondering how things went. I hope that everything has turned out well for them.

Last night's Cookeville newspaper was very interesting. Excoach Jones must have written both articles. Hope that Roane benefites as much as they said they hoped to. What the new coach said was short and sweet. Nice!! Not a whole lot of bull.

Well said Midtennsoftball. Has anyone heard when tryouts are for Cookeville Softball?

You would have to ask the parents of these girls, Mr. Shanks, Mr Goolsby these questions. Safe to say you would get a straight answer from the parents. From the other two, probably a lot of political giberish. Usually when public officials keep secerts, there are real problems they do not want the voting public to know about. But most of the time, the truth comes out in the end.

Wonder why this was not advertised? What is the gentleman's name? Hope he can make decisions on his own without some parents getting to him and telling tales and rumors on others. Hope the school officials watch things more closely than they did with the other coach. All the girls that want to play ball will act like players and the others that cause trouble and drama are your troublemakers that need to sit in the bleachers. If they have hired someone, I wish him all the luck in the world as he will really need it with the girls he has now and with some of the parents. I really hope he has a strong back bone.

Well, maybe Cookeville can get a coach now that will be the coach and the boss of his team, not the players. If they can get someone that picks the girls at tryout on their ability and not for who they know, they are capable of having a very good team. All a new coach need to do is get rid of the drama and be the coach.

Lets hear it for all the grandparents and parents that support their girls. Without these very special people, this game would be in real trouble.

Well, you get to thinking, what if that was my daughter. How would I feel? Better yet, how would Mr and Ms Jones feel if that was their daughter being treated as these 4 girls have been? This comes in as the golden rule, you treat others as you want to be treated!!

Hopefully Mr. Jones will see these messages and get a clue to how people think of him. Maybe he could turn around and be a man, find out all the problems he has, whether it was with the girls that are gone or the ones still playing, and solve the problems. It is a shame the 4 girls missed a year of school ball because of him. Maybe he could talk to these girls, iron out the things that are wrong, get them back to playing ball and help his other girls have a winning team. He has and has had real talent on his team, but threw it all away. The ones still playing deserve the best coach they can get because some of them have really tried, while his favorites have just coasted along.

From the people I talked to, Jones did help run these players off. These were players that never missed a practice or a game. They practice on their on time and had been doing this since they were little girls. But the catcher and pitcher missed one practice in Dec. to go to pitching and hitting lessons with Jones blessing. On Mon. he told them the would have to run 5 miles for missing. They ran part of it on Mon and on Tues he told them he had no one to watch them. The next day or two he let the catcher go and the next day the pitcher got so harressed by a couple of girls that she left the locker room with her dad and her mom called the coach. He never call the little girl back or even tried to talk to her. He had coached this player when she was younger and he knows how dedicated she had always been. The outfielder that had to quit was a friend of these two, so the other girls and the coach made it so hard on her she quit. From what was told to me, Mr Jones has no control over his girls at all. He let a little click run the team and look how it ended up. I understand that these girls that quit have been harressed outside of school also. It is also my understanding that these girls are working out every day and still taking pitching and hitting lessons. Does this sound like someone that wanted SUPERSTAR treatment? Sounds like they just want to play ball. Sounds more like some was jealous of these girls and the jealous ones was good friends of the Jones. I also was told that there have been many lies told about these girls and the things that really happen. I can't understand why the school system has not stepped in and took care of this coach. Now you see why my child will not attend Cookeville High School. Some good players that are coming out of middle school is going to some of the other high schools in Putnam Co. because of this coach. With so many good players in Putnam Co. they should have a killer high school team.

I hope everyone looks at this. It is just awesome!!!

I am so sorry that Coach Duff is unable to coach any more. He was a great coach and is a great man. You have talked about all the good coaches, lets talk about one that is not so good. I attended senior night at Cookeville High this past week and was not at all impressed with Coach Joey Jones. He has some very talented girls on this team and he seems not to know what to do with them. We live about 100 miles from Cookeville and were planning on moving there. I guess now I will drive 100 miles to work every day and let my family live where we are at. I have a daughter that will be in high school this fall and she wants to go to a school that the softball program will help her learn and advance. She is a good ball player and she wants to get better. I do not think she could do this under Coach Jones. Does any of the school personal ever go to these games and watch Coach Jones? Probably not as he is still prentending to coach.

If you can't stand the heat from parents, get out of the kitchen. Wonder how much money some of them have spent for equipment, lessons, gas to practice and games, giving money to other kids that did not have any, keeping them at our home so they could get to games, and on top of that, paying taxes to pay your salary. I know that coaches make near to nothing, but you chose to do this profession, so do your job or stay at home.

Cookeville could have been one of the top teams if they had not lost an all district jr. hinecatcher, an honorable mention soph. pitcher, a jr. right fielder, and an up and coming freshman. Too bad their coach could not instill team playing in his older players. Too bad he lets other adults and some of his players tell him what to do.