HFSteeler

District 9 A-AA will be a great district again. CPA and MLK made the state tourney in A-AA and basically return their entire team, each losing one key player. Hume-Fogg pretty much was all underclassmen. Not sure about Lipscomb. Should be a heck of a battle to see which 2 of the 4 makes it out to regions. We are actually considering making the District semi-final a home and home aggregate. In District 10, which has more teams than I can count I think that White House will be strong. They were a young team and played a very challenging schedule in 2010. As to the dozen or so other teams I relly don't know. In Region 6- I also am aware that Columbia Academy is returning most of their best guys. Fairview who won region 6 is graduating a ton of good players, not sure about Page but any school located in Williamson County is going to be strong. In The Metro AAA league (as usual) it will be balanced and competitive and you never know who will win it. Overton was the strongest but Hunters Lane, Glencliff and Antioch have lots of good young players. Not sure if any of those teams can get by the AAA teams in nashville's suburbs but there should be some exciting games in that district. SHOULD BE FUN IN MIDDLE TENN.

MLK beat Fairview 5-1. Hurrah for District 9 and my alma-mater.

I am biased because I know Coach Lamberth and Stutzman. But I will take both White House teams.

Severino (HF) actually has 17 goals, Vogel who is Sophmore has 11. Thus, their list is not most accurate. That being said. Lots of times people do not call in their results. I can think of the specific game where I know the other coach did not call in the score.

My guess is that MLK has several other very good offensive players that they needed to bolster their back line. Either way he is a top notch Junior.

I would not want to see either White House team in this tournmanent even though they did not finish 1st place. Should be a great tournament. I hope we can face someone from District 10 in Regions

Wow that sounded like a rough game. In 2007 we played a Region semi-match at Cheatham. My assistant coach who is a policeman in Nashville helped the official get to his car and threatened to arrest some parents who were harassing him. No problem from the coach or Cheatham players though. I don't know how anyone could be angry at Creek Wood with such a fantastic field. On a serious note I don't think it would be fair to kill the whole program for the actions of a few people.

I will give you 2 from teams in my district 1- Simon Johnson (MLK) plays sweeper but is an exceptional forward 2- David Taffe (CPA) plays attacking mid. We have several good Juniors but I don't like to be a braggar.

Fairview is a very strong team. They have a great group of Seniors who have been starting for some time. Their keeper made a fantastic save on a Pk with about 5 min. left to preserve the win for them. They should be able to make a nice run in the playoffs but I am sure Spring Hill and Columbia A. will give them a challenge. I still think the top teams right now are out east and should remain so in the next poll.

Yes, Franklin and Hillwood tied 3-3. Hillwood is a good team. They had 3 or 4 very excellent Junior forwards last year. They and Overton appear to be tied for first in the Metro AAA district.

Thank you fevercoach for defending Hume-Fogg. I do disagree with the comment about our White House loss being suspect. White House made the final 16 last year and it was our 2nd game of the season. I think they will probably win their district. I will gladly give you a report on Fairview after the game. you can email me at david.allen@mnps.org Good luck to all teams this year. I am actually overjoyed to see so much discussion on A-AA.

Ranking thoughts. Thank you Coniglio and fevercoach for recognizing Hume-Fogg. We haven't played as difficult a schedule as teams such as Alcoa but that is mainly due to the fact that we have 3 new programs added to our district that we need to play. We hope to get another chance to take on Alcoa in the state tournament but first things first. While I have thought that the West has in the past had too many highly ranked teams I think that as they make up 1/4 of the regions they should have a couple of teams in the poll. Kingsbury is great but USJ and Westview were pretty good in the past as well. Some great debates and soccer talk.

They clearly did consider "the strength of schedule" by appointing a team that is 3-1-1 as number 1. Also, CPA does not have many wins but have played a very tough schedule and is justly rated very high. CPA was rated higher than Fairview and Hume-Fogg who have more wins. Not sure what your specific complaint is. I think the ratings are pretty fair.

I agree with you regarding Haywood. They are a first class team and will be a tough team once the playoffs come and into the future.

I like the rankings with one major exception. Until they get beat in the state tourney CAK should nevery be rated lower than 2 or 3 in A-AA. Otherwise pretty fair.