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I am trusting SI on this one over Dwight. He's a lot closer to those who directly in the loop.

I wasn't there, but a buddy whose son plays for Alcoa told me that ones vs. ones Powell scored three times and Alcoa once last night at Alcoa. Said both teams looked solid for the most part, and both made some spring mistakes. He said that Powell's senior QB looked really good, which doesn't surprise me at all. He's a stud. Can't take a lot away from a spring scrimmage but encouraging none the less from both sides.

Hard to get a head count at this point. Let's just call it a considerable portion of their significant contributors roster numbers. Once the school year ends and those who are are transferring/moving to another zone do so, then perhaps the picture will be more clear.

I believe Powell is scrimmaging at Alcoa tomorrow (Tuesday). Should be interesting.

No, no other staff members have been named as a target in this investigation. That's just a flat out lie, Dwight.

Yeah, the original poster has a bit of an axe to grind with the West coaching staff, so his pointing that finger isn't surprising. Yep. One guy. Nobody else is being investigated. That's just a lie.

Awful situation. And this is one guy, and not an indictment of the staff as a whole at West. https://www.wvlt.tv/2025/05/12/knox-county-teacher-coach-facing-multiple-statutory-rape-charges/

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Which West? There are several in East Tennessee and state wide. Don't see anything in the media about it.

Saying "the coaches" aren't telling kids they can't go anywhere else is a CYA move and pretty much laughable. The kids who are being denied have by and large already left and their eligibility is being held up by Bearden administration.

Love Jones, but he had a pretty solid QB throwing to him already, one that has been offered by and committed to Kentucky, which the last I heard was still an SEC school.

I have met Josh Jones one time in my life, probably talked to him about 2 minutes. I'm on the side of youngsters and their families having a choice of where and who they attend schools under. Knox County would not tell a student who transferred from one school to another that they couldn't participate in band competitions or other extracurricular activities if they transferred because of a band teacher or other faculty member going from one school to another. Sports are supposed to be extracurricular activities. The hypocrisy is glaring. The same administration that is at Bearden now hired Jones and he did exactly what they asked him to do and what they knew he was going to do. Not allowing those kids to move on without strings they are pulling is pure hypocrisy.

You contradict yourself every other sentence. If the administrators were concerned that "deserving" students can't come to Bearden because of no room for transfers, wouldn't the answer actually be be to let those who don't want to be there go to make room? Your manifesto makes zero sense.

No. He has a legit hardship situation that the Bearden Administration is contesting. But it's all about the kids, you know.

Bearden Administration.