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  1. I come back to my question posted early in this thread. I personally know of tWo very questionable situations where public schools were accused of recruiting; Eric Locke moving from Cookeville to Riverdale and Abbi Ramsey moving from Grundy Co. to Shelbyville. I also personally know the circumstances of those situations and can accuse Riverdale and Shelbyville of recruiting. (They may not have broken any TSSAA rules but if it LOOKS, walks and talks like a duck....). With all the accusations against private schools, CAN ONE PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPPORTER NAME ONE SIMILIAR SITUATION WHERE PRIVATE SCHOOLS APPEARED TO HAVE RECRUITED? We are just looking for one specific example here folks. Does it not seem strange that the TSSAA has built its entire set of rules and structure around the principle of preventing private schools from recruiting and no one can name one single example? We are about to split the entire h/s football program, preventing Boyd from competing with S. Pitt and CPA from competing with Collinwood "because privates recruit", and yet no one can come up with ONE SINLGE EXAMPLE"! COME ON PUBLICS. MAKE YOUR CASE HERE! LET'S HAVE AT LEAST ONE EXAMPLE! :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
  2. Pujo, I know it is hard to prove and I also doubt it happens in 1A very often. But surely, with all the public people accusing the privates of recruiting, at least one name could be forth coming. CALLING ALL PUBLICS-Just one name of a prominent athlete who transferred from a public school to a private school under questionable circumstances! :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
  3. Did you guys see the Nashville City Paper article on Abbi Ramsey hitting 5 of 6 3-pointers for Vanderbilt. She is an incredible talent-that was recruited by Shelbyville from Grundy Co. Abbi was MVP of the State Championship Grundy Co. team as a freshman. Sophmore season, she and her family show up in Shelbyville. She's doing great for the Dores' so it looks like Shelbyville has good talent scouts. Pujo, I will repeat what I have posted on this board several times with no response from public school supporters. I know of two iron clad cases of highschool recruiting- Eric Locke fromm Cookeville to Riverdale and Abbi Ramsey from Grundy Co. to Shelbyville. Name ONE instance from a private school? People accuse the privates of recruiting without being able to name names. I've nameed two publics-name at least one private!
  4. Robjim, Your humor (along with Online"s and Bighurt"s) is one of the great additions to this board.
  5. I was told recently, by an professional college educator, that the Air force Academy is the most difficult school in the nation from which to obtain admission. Way to go Will.
  6. Pujo, Glad to see Cloudland get the extra game but I wish it had been in Middle TN. Would love to have a chance to see Cloudland before the playoffs each year plus I think it would help more fans come to appreciate what you guys do each year. It would be great if you could expose Middle and West TN fans to Mark Byrd & Company.
  7. Four schools closed to form McGavock? Let's see. Donelson and Two Rivers became middle schools. Does that count? Also, I think Pearl and Cohn merged. How am I doing?
  8. scout

    AP All-State

    I don't know alot about these teams but my sense is that they did not have a lot of individual stars. All three teams struggled at some point during the season. That may be why they were overlooked for All State Honors. But I agree that the flip side of that is that the coaches who won state championships without a single all-state player deserve coach of the year. Not familiar with the Lipscomb coach but I definitely believe Rutledge and Pack (from MBA and CPA) deserve coach of the year.
  9. Dupont was one of the schools that burned.
  10. Pioneer 8991, I will have to take issue with your comment about Shelbyville's good athletes being the basis for their success. Shelbyville recruits! Want me to name names? Abi Ramsey. Played at Grundy Co. her freshman year where she was the MVP of Grundy's state championship team. Recruited to Shelbyville her sophmore year, she now plays for the Lady 'Dores. On this board, public school supporters over and over acuse privates of recruiting, but no names are ever mentioned and no specifics are ever given. Here is a specific public school recruiting act pure and simple. It's time for someone to point out at least one private school violation. If the privates recruit, let's have some names.
  11. I agree we cannot pick which rules we obey. We should teach that and I'm confident ELA does teach just that. But while obeying, we should challenge things that can be improved. I would like to see the video camera rule changed, but I will not take one to the game until the rule is changed.
  12. The parents at the game cannot record their own copy but anyone with a VCR can record from the broadcast. Say what? If they are going to broadcast these games to 4,000,000 Tennesseans, why does it matter that the parents have a few hundred camcorders on hand? :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
  13. Paul Wade-formerly of DCA. Currently line coach at CPA. The man behind the eight play championship goal line stand against Boyd. Look at CPA's record since Paul joined them four years ago. CPA has had the best line in 1a during Paul's tenure. He's top notch.
  14. Coach763, I could not agree more. Just reading this post saddens me. Irrepreparable damage was done to all communities, black and white. The ol' NIL was filled with great traditions that provided a foundation of stability for the communities. I can remember watching the great rivalries of the early sixties. Dupont, Donelson, Two Rivers, Litton; It gave me a goal, a dream if you will, to follow in the footsteps of those young athletes. They were in our neighborhoods, at the swimming pool, at the drive thru at Shoney's; wearing their letter jackets like polished suits of armor. I longed to be part of that tradition. But when it came my turn, the tradition had been destroyed. Destroyed by those so arrogant they made life changing decisions about our community from 1000 miles away without even bothering to come visit first. The kind of arrogance bred by unchecked power; the power to rule from the bench with no accountability to the voting populace. The Founding Fathers would not have stood for such and would have been dismayed at the thought of Americans being subjected to such abuse by their government. It was the kind of decision one would have expected from Louis XIV of France or Nicholas I of Russia. And, as with Louis and Nicholas voiceless subjects, we paid and continue to pay the price.
  15. I thought Austin Denny lead the Donelson Dons in 1965.
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