TrophyHunter

Maryville has been the best team in the state for the past two years. Even though they are 4A, I would like to see a 5A team say that they could beat them.

suuuuuun, the skipper is a coaching legend He is a heck of a coach and will always be remembered in the Lanier and William Blount communities. Im glad somebody gave skip some credit on here.

1. Sweetwater 2. Tyner 3. Gatlinburg 4. Alcoa 5. Goodpasture

Trae Helton from the NATION, Greenback, one of the best football PLAYERS in east tennessee, he's playing receiver this year

Greenback only beat Oneida 25-7 in the playoffs. The time you speak of was in the regular season when it was 45-0. It was early in the fourth quarter, and the CB was playing close to the line. The quarterback checked off to the fade, and threw it for a touchdown. He was just doing what he was coached to do, but it was an inappropriate time. Greenback was very appoligetic to Oneida, and I'm sure there were no hard feelings because of it. It was a simple miscommunication. I know that everyone at some point has been on the other side of the field in those situation, and it is embarrassing for both teams.

97 Pearl with Santonio Beard and John Henderson

They did run an I formation last year. They liked to pass to the tight end and run to the strong side. They were just your standard I team with a couple of pass plays, basic iso, and counter.

Scooter's brother wrestles 125 at Carson Newman. I'm sure they are interested in him in both sports.

How about some inferential and regressional statistics? The success that the private schools are having simply does not fit into normal curve for schools their size. You can take 1A as an example since it is still primarily integrated. You could do a hypothesis test between public and private on winning percentage and you will find that the p-values would be extremely low in favor of the private schools giving you statistical power to reject the status quo or Ho that all the schools were equal. If you did a regressional analysis, you would find that the data would give the qualitative variable of school type (public or private) as the best predictor of winning percentage in 1A with an R-Squared of over 50%, which would account for that much of the variation within the group. Forget all this operational mathematics that you have been talking about and look at math that really counts, no pun intended. Research statistics does not lie. Take this from someone with serious math credentials. I did like the initial post. It was very funny, very satirical and sarcastic. I think this is a fun debate as long as it is appreciated as such and not taken harshly by those involved.

Coalfield did place second last year. Here is how it should play out this year. 1) Greenback- Solid team from top to bottom, lots of athletes 2) CAK- Catching up and playing as a private school should in 1A 3) Oneida- Well coached, should be as good as they were last year 4) Coalfield- Has some good rising players, good returning players 5) Midway- When the big guy went down last year so did the wave 6) Sunbright- Need some athletes and some luck 7) Oakdale- Hopefully they will have more players this year

Jason "the badger" Patty Greenback Last year over 100 tackles, 20 sacks, 2 defensive touchdowns, his only flaw is that he weighs 165.

What about Austin James from the Greenback Nation?

Private BOYD BUCHANAN 20 Private CPA 26 Private EZELL-HARDING 63 Public CLOUDLAND 26 Private CHRIST PRES. ACADEMY 49 Private UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF JACKSON 27 Over the last three years 83% of the State Finalists were private schools. However, private schools only make up 26% of the population of 1A schools. It can be statistically proven that these schools do have an advantage. When you are given a specific geographic zone to get your students from, what is the likelyhood that you randomly get the athletes that CPA had? How can rural schools be expected to compete with these types of odds against them? In a school of 300 students, chances are you are not going to have that much talent, naturally. It takes a little work to get the kids with talent into such a small school.

Best 1A Regions 1-4 2) Cloudland will have no competition in region one, 2nd is a toss up probably North Greene since PV is gone but whoever it is will probably lose its first playoff game. 1) Greenback will dominate region 2 again, 6) CAK will be most improved of the bunch in second 3) South Pitt might regain the region 3 title from 4) Boyd, it will be one to watch 5) Gordonsville and 7) Friendship will duke it out for Region 4 honors These are just guesses.

If you divide into 3 and 3 classes with a total split, you're looking at 12 and 14 teams in some regions because of the increased numbers. This makes it very difficult to even decide who makes it to the playoffs. This is going to cost the TSSAA alot of money and confusion. I think 5 classes is the way to go. It keeps the number of participants up per state championship. You will have evenly distributed classes. However, there will be fewer playoff games. This will mean less money for the TSSAA or will it? Instead of a first round matchup of 4-6 and 10-0 teams, you have 8-2 and 9-1 or 7-3 and 10-0. This will lead to more higher profile teams playing each other, therefore bigger gates. Although 1-9 McMinn Central vs. Trousdale County was an interesting playoff matchup. The point is 5 classifications makes for good sized regions at about 7 or 8, gives the small rural schools a chance to compete, and makes a state championship have more meaning since there are only five.