TheEgoHasLanded

ECS star Matt Lea has decided to transfer to Houston High School. Matt is an excellent basketball player at 6'4 200, and only a junior, but he is an even better baseball player, who will probably play professionally. His dad, Charlie Lea, was one of the best baseball players to ever come out of this city! His brother plays college baseball, and Matt was playing for the Dulin's Dodgers 17's when he was merely 14!!! There is an article about it at gomemphis.com http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/prep_sports/a...2120554,00.html If this was reversed, public school supporters would cry foul...

I know Germantown, and Houston are closed, but for some reason I thought Cordova was a little different... You are correct, one or two open zoned schools in a closed system is definitely a problem...but today I happened to go watch White Station High School play. Perhaps you have heard of them? State Champions in 2000, 2002, 2003. They won by 35 in one game, and lost another one to...you guessed it, an open zoned school. That's a problem in my opinion, when you have a school that is winning at the highest classification possible and has an advantage over must other schools... Sounds a lot like a Brentwood Academy team in the mid 90's. I'd also love to talk to you about other sports, such as girls and guys soccer, where schools such as Ridgeway are doing very well, not to mention winning the class AAA title in football and coming up second this year in Class AA basketball prior to winning the whole thing the year before that.

I know that Briarcrest is playing at 9, I will definitely make it to that game and the tournament runs all day long...at least till 6 and probably later than that...every team plays atleast twice a day... I will try and make it and stay as long as I can (if my back lets me). Thaddeous Young for Mitchell put on a show against Hamilton...I think he had 7 or 8 dunks, and probably over 30 points...Shawne Williams was very impressive as well. White Station lost to Raleigh Egypt by 4. Fairley was beating Ridgeway when I left also.

all the D2 schools plus the Class A privates and then the Class AA privates will be rougly 10-15%, possibly more.

Hamilton isn't very good, they have a few great players, but anderson can't coach himself out of a wet paper bag. They lost earlier today to Raleigh Egypt. Ridgeway is also missing a lot, and remember they didn't have sophomore sensation 6'6 250, Nike Camp attendee, Pierre Niles, who will be playing this season. B.C. is a very good team, probably a top 5 AAA team in the state, and I don't want to act like they aren't very good, because they are, White Station won this morning by 35 by the way...they play Raleigh Egypt in about an hour and a half.

Yeah, I live in Shelby Co. and root for Mitchell but your argument is flawed because Memphis has more population...so yes they have more great players, but they also have more kids that aren't very good, more kids that don't play...more kids that aren't eligible, more kids that can lift 500 pounds, and more kids that can't lift 25 pounds. The reason those schools are located so closely, is because they have some many people that live in that area. Mitchell has great facilities and benefits from open enrollment, two things that many East TN schools...do not have.

I believe he took an elbow to the eye in a loss to Raleigh Egypt... R.E. beat them by 15 or so...and then White Station beat R.E. and B.C. I think Pickle will be fine.

Some of the teams and players that are currently playing this weekend at MUS are: Mitchell High School (Made it to state tournament in Class A)...Thaddeous Young 6'7 one of the top upcoming sophomores in the state Raleigh Egypt (One of the best AA teams in the state) 4 players on Gomab's list White Station (Two time defending state AAA champions) Too many players to name Ridgeway (State Runnerup in AA) Michael Rice, Jordan Mincy Fairley...has 6'10 top 20 player Rousean Cromwell, and a few other D1 prospects Sheffield...has 4 guys on Gomab's top 100 junior list Bishop Byrne...Charles Hampton D1 prospect Lausanne (State Runnerup)...Carlos Taylor D1 prospect Hamilton...Shawne Williams, #13 ranked player in the country, #1 SF in the country Bolivar...great sophomore point guard in Willie Kemp, another future D1 prospect Other schools in attendance: Briarcrest, Lighthouse Christian, CBHS, Harding, Central, Kingsbury, and many others.

I'm just telling you what the website has, I have only been inside MBA a few times, really have no idea.

only about 2300 attend Germantown, and that is co-ed... http://www.tssaa.org/schdir/Schdir_Detail.cfm?ID=166 I'm talking about MUS, I certainly believe that CBHS has that many boys which if co-ed would be around 1720? Which I believe makes one atleast 4A and possibly 5A? The TSSAA website has MUS as having 784 boys. The TSSAA website has MBA as having 870 boys. http://www.tssaa.org/schdir/Schdir_Detail.cfm?ID=343 I am good friends with Coach Nix, formerly of CBHS, who was one of the best coaches in the entire state and the all time winningest in Shelby County for awhile. Father Ryan's enrollment might be the second highest, but I bet they don't have as many boys as MBA, CBHS, MUS etc. I believe they have right at 1000 students, CO-ED which means they have roughly 500 boys, which is around 350-360 less than MBA or 90 boys less per grade. http://www.tssaa.org/schdir/Schdir_Detail.cfm?ID=138

I agree to that pujo, I just think everyone is opening themselves up to a new can of worms, because the privates will ask why they were thrown out... And when they ask that, and the TSSAA says open zones, they can merely look at thousands of kids in Shelby county that go to open zones, yet stay unpunished. Some private schools are good, some are bad. Some open zoned schools are good: such as BTW, MITCHELL, WHITE STATION, CORDOVA, and a few others and some are bad: (don't need to name any).

I'm ready for it to happen to muffin...Off the record, I think it is better for football for the privates to stop playing the publics... I could say things right now like: The publics are no competetion, we are tired of beating the publics, we love to destroy the publics and run up the score, but there is no point in that. I don't speak for all private school supporters, and I don't want to. Muffin: what are you going to do when the private schools leave, take 15% of the revenue, and then form their own association with their own recruiting rules...lol taking all your big time athletes and giving them scholarships?

They could get good...real fast. Best of luck to them, the D2 schools want the best competetion available.

No, I believe that MUS has around 600-700 boys actually... the Mus website says they have around 600 boys. I think all the numbers are in line with each other. Because if you don't then you are saying that CBHS has double the amount of boys as opposed to everyone else and they don't. My school has about 230 boys and MUS has much more than 150 boys.. The numbers are correct, it is just CBHS that is inaccurate, and the reasoning is because they have 3 sister schools. It also says, on the CBHS website, that they take the first 230 enrollment packets for 8th graders, and that is that...so 230 times 4 should give us a rough estimate of their enrollment. www.cbhs.org/

rollred, CBHS does not have an enrollment in the 1000's. It's more like 650-700. The TSSAA site is just wrong...I think they are including like St. Agnes, IC, etc. The CBHS sister schools into the equation. I live about three blocks from CBHS, and have many friends that went there...including my cousin (who could reverse dunk and he was only 5'10!!!) and they have all said that they only had about 700 or so.

Muffin, No one pays attention to your posts, because they are so negative and contain no logic or information in them...if you want to communicate in a reasonable manner, then I would be glad to acknowledge you. My opinion differs from that of pujo, ELA, Indian, and many others, but I respect their opinion, as I hope they respect mine...I do not respect you, and I hope that your posts don't stay so negative. Indian, I completely agree with your posts, but I do not think that is a reason to seperate schools. You could make a point that religious schools should have a multiplier of .80 because the kids are busy on Sundays and Wednesday at church instead of practicing. It sounds crazy yes but it also might be true...yet we aren't going to divide over that are we? But we will divide over the occassional super human athlete that chooses not to play at a public school?

good explanation rollred, who else, besides MUS did not play at the highest classification possible, but could have? McCallie? CBHS? Perhaps MUS did not put an extreme on athletics? There football team is always very good, but they haven't won many state titles...and I don't think they have won any basketball titles, yet they have one of the best coaches in the state (over 700 wins, coached when my dad was playing at Memphis Overton and at Memphis State). MUS makes athletics a big deal, but I would be willing to bet that academics are still number one over there. I have a friend who says he does 3 hours of homework, and doesn't have time for sports anymore. The same can be said for MBA, I know a few MBA guys, and they are quality men. My school plays against MBA, MUS, CBHS, and many others, and you all have three times the enrollment we do, yes that is correct, three times the amount of boys...I could care less, I never thought about it until after I had graduated and was done shooting baskets into iron hoops...every sport except for Football, we play the D2-AAA schools, and in every sport, we (the remaining D2 schools) are very competetive...

I completely agree Indian. I don't think that public school kids are any dumber, any slower, any faster, stronger, etc. I don't think the public school coaches are horrible, great, bad, etc. I think, that privates have more kids that participate in sports, and therefore, they do better. Cloudland is proof of this in football. Cosby is proof of this in basketball. In football, cosby is horrible...they also have about 25 guys on the team...the whole town loves basketball though, and they have a good team every year (even beat MBA won year in basketball when Ingle was there!)

The private school advantages are really noticeable in Ward's stats. Thank goodness that was a private school he went against, if it had been a public...ayeee carumba! lol

MUS' record against the top notch public schools...all schools are either 3A, 4A, or 5A and pretty good. Bartlett 14-6 Bolton 2-1 Collierville 18-4-1 Memphis East 11-1 Germantown 25-14 http://www.musowls.org/sports/sports_footb...THE%20YEARS.htm MBA fans...let's not get too excited about playing up in classification, ya'll were all boys, so a school with 300 boys, might be placed into class A, but you are really the equivalent of a 600 student co-ed school...it's not like you guys were really at a huge disadvantage. Brentwood Academy was co-ed, and had about the same number of girls and boys, has you all had in terms of boys...am I correct in this assumption? If not, I apologize.

Who do you think they were without? Their best player, Ball, was there...and they had the big 6'8 kid from California Taylor Schall. I know they had J.P. playing, a 6'5 point guard (Yes, I stated that correctly). I know they had Collin Cunningham, a 6'7 deadly three point shooter coming off the bench, which makes me think they weren't missing anyone. White Station is taller this year than last...and they aren't missing too many beats.

One of them got hurt, and one of them was at either the Nike camp or the ABCD camp. Winning the tournament on Sunday is a big honor, and White Station won 5 games that day to win it (maybe 4 if they got a bye, which I think they did)...that doesn't necessarily mean they are the best, just the deepest. (Although they are the best too). Bradley Central loved to tell everyone that they didn't have all their players, before the game, during the game, after the game...Good luck to all the teams, there was a lot of talent at the camp.

I think WSHS whips you again...my brother was in that tournament, you barely won a few games...yall are very good but White Station is on another level, and they proved it once again. He probably meant it killed yall to lose again, since they have beaten you like 3 out of the last 4 years.

I thought Bradley Central was number 1 in the final AP state polls. I know that Red Bank is very good too correct?

I have heard that football coaches could take a team out of state whenever they wanted to and have them practice, and there is nothing the TSSAA can do. ELA knows more about this than me.