MBAalumnus

wow. just wow. Listened to the audio stream on 104.5. Tough day at the office. I'd say that's the best non-TN team faced by TN team other since... BA v. Cincinatti Moeller with Ken Griffey Jr. or BA vs. Pascagoula, MS w/ Terrell Buckley and Shane Matthews just didn't have the talent to slow these guys down. What a buzzsaw that was. may be a tough year for the Big Red. Still, props to Coach Rutlege for scheduling this game. You will never know if you don't try.

Big Red Dog- If you want to dig into your history book further, in 1990 defending KY state champions Warren Central rolled into town for the first of 3 meetings between the two schools...long story short, heavy underdog MBA, playing against several D1 signees while having none of our own, began the season with an OT win. To to echo your point, we have a solid history facing out of state teams at the beginning of the year...

this has to be, on paper, the most talented team MBA has played...maybe ever. Maybe the 1995-1996 BA teams would be up there, but honestly, I don't think Trinity and Bolles are in the same class with these guys. Win or lose, my hat is off to Coach Rutlege and the Byrnes folks for playing this game tonight. Let's get 'em!!! Roll Red!

umm...why would the football coach be telling my parents that my brother needed to repeat 8th grade? the admissions people, okay, I'll buy it. Not the football coach (how could he have seen a transcript? if you have a "transcript" in 8th grade). And don't kid yourself: if MBA didn't ask him to repeat 8th grade, he didn't need to go to 8th grade twice to make it at BA.

I was at BA football camp when CCF told point blank to the parents of some one that if they wanted to play at BA, they had to repeat 8th grade. This individual was in perfect academic standing (MBA didn't ask him to repeat 8th grade) but CCF said he couldn't come out for the team if he didn't repeat 8th grade....so he went to MBA instead...believe it, or not....how do I know? it was my brother...

have to agree with you...it has gone on for years over there. I saw it with my own eyes in the late '80's at BA's football camp. It's a shame because there is no doubt about what an exceptional coach he is, and "this" is going to be a big part of his legacy.

Are you kidding me? Doggone, can Rutlege coach or what?

some names in the mix... "Scooter" Edwards of DCA, 2-time Mr Football, '90-'91 (I think Flemming broke all his records) Joe Campbell, Stratford, late '80's...pretty good career at MTSU... Curtis Alexander...Memphis ? one of Bama's memphis signees Eric Locke, Riverdale...post-hs career clouds what a great hs player he was.

How you doing, Wes? Just realized when I got an email the other day that football season (at least scrimmage season) has arrived and I needed to check things out over here! Should be another fun year...

RRR, thanks for the updates...I'm officially "out of the loop" as my "source" graduated last year...just realized that I planned my family vacation the week of the Trinity game!! I live not far away but I thought it was the weekend before labor day and not 2 weeks before! ugggh! oh well, not reading too much into the score of a scrimmage...don't think it's a coincidence that these 2 coaches have lots of hardware and seek these types of scrimmages year after year...

good to be back here for ball season...all of a sudden it just snuck up on me...how are you, RRR? 35-7!??! yikes! heard about all the injuries in MBA camp...hard to believe how fast everything happens now! when I was playing we would just be starting 2-a-days around now.

again, if we have this advantage in the ability to draw students from outside the immediate vicinity of the school, we are disadvantaged in a way that public schools aren't because our academic requirements are so much harder. Maybe some of you will remember (BigRedBud knows who I am talking about, if he's out there) a very good athlete who game to MBA in the late '80s. He was (from what I hear) a great kid but simply couldn't handle the academics. So he leaves and goes to a local public school (where he has no problems staying eligible) and we end up having to play against him for 3 years.

you're not getting it. The people in your "Tiger Woods" world are sending their kids to private schools in Nashville because they want to play for the best coaches. Hillsboro has in the last few years become a football power, which they weren't for most of the '80s and '90s. Why would these Tiger Woods families (motivated as you claim by athletics alone) not send their kids to the best coach in Ruth County (Rankin)? if they're point of competition is education, then that changes everything; I'm all for it. But we football factories don't much care about readin' riting' and rithmatic.

I think you guys turned out pretty darn good, BigRedDog. You guys have the distinction of going furthest than any MBA team ever made it in the old format. And, with a banged up team, you gave BA a run for their money in the semis...

"Beat?" you are very generous, as there are a lot more colorful words to describe what NE did to MBA. That NE team did a number on MBA that night. I was there. It was Labor Day weekend and if I'm not mistaken, Travis Stephens ran for more than 300 yards. And that was a very good MBA team. NE was robbed in that game vs. BA. Even as a homer, I'll admit that BA and NE were the two best teams in the state that year...