GregC

The average private school has twice as many kids on their team as the average public school, at least at the 1A level, which is only one of many advantages they have. I did say AVERAGE, so please no examples of exceptions to this rule, there are exceptions to every rule. We all know this, we don't need it pointed out by some know-it-all. Of which there are a multitude lurking about on this site.

Isn't that usually the trouble at the colleges? Some booster slips a little payola or gets some kid a 'job'? The hubbub over Tee Martin and some booster comes to mind.

Open enrollment is the key to every arguement that has gone on in this forum. But the T$$AA will do nothing about it in any case, with the exception of helping out the 5A's when they took out the financial aid schools so the big boys would no longer be embarassed by losing to BA and their ilk. This Thursday will be nothing but a continuation of the status quo, with the 'smoke and mirror show' of the Virginia Plan forced down our throats as a false solution to try and make it look like they did something.

So by this I take it you think the privates are better?

Us bald guys gotta stick together.

I like Baldy.

It does, however, give them a better chance of being good than a closed zone.

Well, VG, Perry County can only get kids from Perry County, but USJ(the most glaring example) draws from all over Madison and surrounding counties( I've seen their program book they sell at the games there and it lists where each player is from). State of the art facilities vs. the baseball outfield and a field house that the booster club worked like dogs for 5 or 6 years to get built(and did a lot of it with their own hands). 30 kids vs a whole sideline full. Reserved parking spots for their $1000 booster club members. We have never even been in a ballgame with them, it is a 40 to 50 point margin of victory for them every year. What good does it do either program to have to play each other? I could say just about the same things about Fayette Academy or JCS, and Trinity has gotten stronger every year we have played them and will have the same stranglehold on us as the other three before very much longer. I believe we could have been in the hunt for the playoffs if we were in Region 8, a group of small rural public schools similar to us. We beat Greenfield and Gleason and played West Carroll a fairly close game this past season, and 2 of them made the playoffs.

You're wrong! We are accused of getting on here and crying because we didn't get our way. You 'no split' supporters on here gloating and pointing out what idiots the split supporters are is getting very tiresome. I only want what is best for my son. A chance to play the sport he loves and a reasonable chance for his team to be competative. I am not asking for anything to be given to us, only for a fair chance. Playing in a region where 2/3 of the teams should be competing at a higher level does not cut it. If we wanted to play AA ball, we would asked to be moved up.

I don't know, he brought it up.

No one is forcing you not to take advantage of this 'free' education.

Oh, they don't need no stinkin facts. They all obviously know what is best for everyone without bringing 'facts' into the equation. Funny how 'what's best' for everyone happens to benefit them and not the rural public schools. But , as I was told on here just the other day, we are small, & therefore unimportant. Perry County has, let's see...Men's and Women's Basketball, Football, Volleyball, Baseball, Softball, Golf(men's and women's). Where would that put us, Laz?

Our vote counts the same as anybody elses.

WE PAY THE SAME DUES TO BE A MEMBER OF THIS ORGANIZATION AS ANY OTHER SCHOOL IN THIS STATE! WE SHOULD BE TREATED AS EQUAL MEMBERS JUST LIKE THE RIVERDALES AND BA'S. WE ARE TIRED OF BEING TREATED AS THE RED-HEADED STEPCHILDREN OF TENNESSEE HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS!

1. We have played both of them in the past here in Perry Co, our first couple of years in football before we were placed in a region. You're right, they are unusual cases. 2. So, I'm wrong about Friendship being in a rural area. I used to go through there when I went to college in Cookeville, and didn't really seem as close (to me) to Nashville as Columbia did. Maybe I had been to Columbia so much it was just my impression? If you're from Hohenwald or Linden, Columbia seems like a big place. Even more so now(20 years later) after Saturn caused Columbia and Spring Hill to grow so much. In fact they seem to have bumped into each other The city limits have reached out and touched each other. 3. The more this debate goes on, the more I feel that this may be the route for the small rural publics to follow. Get out of the T$$AA all together and form our own group, similar to the Tri-State Christian group.