All right boys and girls time to listen to Mama...
Contrary to popular belief the county schools DID attempt to drop Maryville from their schedule, however the POWERS THAT BE, knowing the future refused to let that happen because they knew that both the County schools and Maryville would be placed in the same district. Some would call the County schools cowards. The County felt that Maryville and Alcoa should have the opportunity to play other "Nike Elite" schools and prove their medal to America rather than beat up on two weakling schools like WB and Heritage. Furthermore, aren't 5, 6, and 7 Championship Rings bragging rights enough to you than just a win over these two mediocre county schools? We are merely looking out for your National Ranking so that your pretigious "Nike Elite" ego can carry you further.
Nevermind the fact that Alcoa is currently a 2A team and both WB and Heritage are 5A. Next year Alcoa will REMAIN a 2A team and WB and Heritage will be 6A teams in a 9 team district. Maryville is currently a 4A team who will be 6A as well.
Under the new "BCSZ Plan" a win against Alcoa does nothing for either of these schools while a loss could end all hopes of a playoff birth. But I suppose you would be okay with that as long as your Alcoa boys got their chance to "fellowship" with our boys, huh???? Perhaps everyone should just bow down to Alcoa city and do as they want because they are after all "Big Bad Alcoa." /rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />
I suggest this rivalry be renewed when the state of Tennessee ends the whole city/county school systems and goes back to requiring ONE school system per county. I always enjoy someone talking about how broke their program is when they have a $5000 blowup to run through and they are working on a new stadium and new field turf in the near future. Take it for what it's worth. Alcoa you are simply the best. You can have all the bragging rights over the two county schools, wear your rings and pat yourselves on the backs.
*That's Mama's Daily Scoop...
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