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Dang it!!! ALUMNI Sorry for the misspelling

Trousdale will play an alumni football game at Macon Co. on Saturday night May 18th. 7:00pm kickoff, I mean 1st and 10 since there will not be any kickoffs or punts. Full padded, four quarter game. Trousdale last played an alumni game in 1993. All four previous alumni games were also against Macon County. This is year one of a two year deal with the 2014 game to be played on the Creekbank in Hartsville. The game is a fundraiser for each school's football program. Contact Kevin Creasy at Trousdale County High School or Nathan Wilson at Macon County High School for more information. Hopefully, we can get the rosters posted on here as the game gets closer.

HAHA Real World Scouting says................................you better enjoy now, because you won't say that same line next year. Good Luck to all the 8A teams this year. Gonna miss a few things 1. Making FCS coaching staff scratch their heads and wonder what I was gonna do next. Hey, don't make me break phantom ball out of retirement. Will never forget Coach Mac helping me out with scouting reports for the Chattanooga teams and having both of us in Memphis representing District 8A. I am so glad Coach Lowe "attacked" me with his cast in '05. He bought into my jedi motivation trick to fire up my club, get tossed, have my dad pay $250 fine, mow my field while we played Westmoreland for a regional birth, and enjoying one of the best wins of my tenure while never seeing a pitch. That ejection jumped us to our school's first state tournament. It also got Coach Rick Miller a chewing from me.....more of a rant. 2. Getting everyone in a Watertown crowd fired up and hollering over "The Bat Rule Strikes Back" Had some classic, nerve-pinching good ones with the Tony The Tiger Club. Sent Coach Lutrell into administration. I loved playing him. A dang good coach but a better guy. Rowdy fan base. I loved the drama. 3. Gordonsville Gordonsville Gordonsville!!! My favorite team to play. Why? I felt we shared so much in common. Be greatful that you have Coach Petty. The guy works hard. Studies the game, and when my teams would pull one out in a loser-go-home district game, he and Coach Bennett always.....always congradulated me with class. One of the moments I remember from the state tournament in 2006 was looking into the crowd and noticing Coach Petty sitting on our side. Awesome! 4. The old Westmoreland days. Pure battle. Coach Woodard took me out to the woodshed numerous times. Yes, we pulled off a couple big ones against them, but they were the team I pulled more mental magic, more made up bulletin board material. I called them The Tater Haters. I basically made them out to be the Germans of 1944. I'll miss it. Yeah, FCS is the class but they ought to be, and I mean that with no disrespect. I watched District 8A grow and become more competitive over the past 11 years. I was so blessed and pretty darn lucky to make 8 straight regionals and two state championship tournament appearances. But, I can honestly say the best part was becoming lifelong friends and supporters of coaches, players, and even parents throughout the district. When you walk to a bus after the final game of the district tournament and a grandparent and parent of an opposing team hollers at you to stop, walks up, extends their hand, and tells you that they think you do a ton with just a little and that their children would play for you any day, and that they love your energy a love for a game, you have been crowned a champion. Nothing like gameday of a District 8A game. ......except when Sweeney and Chunk are in the other lineup :0 Best of luck to you all. May you all pursue your dreams. darn it, I did! I will leave you with this quote I came up with during the final week of the 2006 regular season when I thought my club was quitting on me when I knew we were a state tournament type team. "You can't stop the sand from running out no matter what, but you CAN control what you do with each grain."

CROZ, BE SURE TO CALL INTO THE MidTN Kickoff Show Friday!! Gotta hear the Tiger buzz. Anyone from SP wanting to call in should do so too. 615-374-9865 4:30-6:00

Station Camp coach Shawn Hollingsworth Donovan Stewart of Examiner.com Playoff Talk 93.5FM, 1090AM, or wtnk.com 4:30-6:00 Tune In! Call in and talk playoffs 615-374-9865

Station Camp coach Shawn Hollingsworth Donovan Stewart of Examiner.com Playoff Talk 93.5FM, 1090AM, or wtnk.com 4:30-6:00 Tune In! Call in and talk playoffs 615-374-9865

Station Camp coach Shawn Hollingsworth Donovan Stewart of Examiner.com Playoff Talk 93.5FM, 1090AM, or wtnk.com 4:30-6:00 Tune In! Call in and talk playoffs 615-374-9865

Station Camp coach Shawn Hollingsworth Donovan Stewart of Examiner.com Playoff Talk 93.5FM, 1090AM, or wtnk.com 4:30-6:00 Tune In! Call in and talk playoffs 615-374-9865

All coaches that have received a MidTN Preview Survey, please email them to davycothron@tcschools.org ASAP. If you have not received a survey or you don't know if you should or should not be getting a survey, send an email to davycothron@tcschools.org

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4:30-6:00 Forgot that. No upset alert this week. Playoff talk.

Show is on location from the beach in Destin, FL Tune in to 93.5FM, 1090AM, or wtnk.com On the show: Livingston Academy head coach Bruce Lamb, Chris Eakes of PrepWeekly.com, and Tom Kreager of The Daily News Journal Playoff Talk Will also replay my interview with Johnny Majors as many has asked to do so. It's the premier kickoff show in middle Tennesse

Show is on location from the beach in Destin, FL Tune in to 93.5FM, 1090AM, or wtnk.com On the show: Livingston Academy head coach Bruce Lamb, Chris Eakes of PrepWeekly.com, and Tom Kreager of The Daily News Journal Playoff Talk Will also replay my interview with Johnny Majors as many has asked to do so. It's the premier kickoff show in middle Tennesse

Show is on location from the beach in Destin, FL Tune in to 93.5FM, 1090AM, or wtnk.com On the show: Livingston Academy head coach Bruce Lamb, Chris Eakes of PrepWeekly.com, and Tom Kreager of The Daily News Journal Playoff Talk Will also replay my interview with Johnny Majors as many has asked to do so. It's the premier kickoff show in middle Tennesse

Show is on location from the beach in Destin, FL Tune in to 93.5FM, 1090AM, or wtnk.com On the show: Livingston Academy head coach Bruce Lamb, Chris Eakes of PrepWeekly.com, and Tom Kreager of The Daily News Journal Playoff Talk Will also replay my interview with Johnny Majors as many has asked to do so. It's the premier kickoff show in middle Tennesse

On the show this week Friendship head coach and AD John McNeal to talk about their move to DII Donovan Stewart of Examiner.com to talk about happenings and the 4 best middle Tennessee programs of all time. Mt. Juliet head coach Roger Perry WKRN News2 sports anchor and host of Prep Blitz, Dawn Davenport 93.5FM, 1090AM, or wtnk.com Studio Line: 615-374-9865

On the show this week Friendship head coach and AD John McNeal to talk about their move to DII Donovan Stewart of Examiner.com to talk about happenings and the 4 best middle Tennessee programs of all time. Mt. Juliet head coach Roger Perry WKRN News2 sports anchor and host of Prep Blitz, Dawn Davenport 93.5FM, 1090AM, or wtnk.com Studio Line: 615-374-9865

On the show this week Friendship head coach and AD John McNeal to talk about their move to DII Donovan Stewart of Examiner.com to talk about happenings and the 4 best middle Tennessee programs of all time. Mt. Juliet head coach Roger Perry WKRN News2 sports anchor and host of Prep Blitz, Dawn Davenport 93.5FM, 1090AM, or wtnk.com Studio Line: 615-374-98965

On the show this week Friendship head coach and AD John McNeal to talk about their move to DII Donovan Stewart of Examiner.com to talk about happenings and the 4 best middle Tennessee programs of all time. Mt. Juliet head coach Roger Perry WKRN News2 sports anchor and host of Prep Blitz, Dawn Davenport 93.5FM, 1090AM, or wtnk.com Studio Line: 615-374-98965

never said Westy over Gville - I don't pick winners. Just put teams on upset alert, Slim. I'll develop a segment called "Slash and Burn with Slim Shady" and you can tell us what causes teams to lose.

On the show this week: Watertown head coach Gavin Webster, Independence head coach Kevin Dyson, Donovan Stewart of Examiner.com where we will play 4 Downs with Donovan and count down the four midstate coaches in their first year with their team that's made the biggest impact, and Tennessean prep writer Chip Cirillo. 93.5FM, 1090AM, or wtnk.com

On the show this week: Watertown head coach Gavin Webster, Independence head coach Kevin Dyson, Donovan Stewart of Examiner.com where we will play 4 Downs with Donovan and count down the four midstate coaches in their first year with their team that's made the biggest impact, and Tennessean prep writer Chip Cirillo. 93.5FM, 1090AM, or wtnk.com

On the show this week: Watertown head coach Gavin Webster, Independence head coach Kevin Dyson, Donovan Stewart of Examiner.com where we will play 4 Downs with Donovan and count down the four midstate coaches in their first year with their team that's made the biggest impact, and Tennessean prep writer Chip Cirillo. 93.5FM, 1090AM, or wtnk.com