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I agree with you RedTwin, in the sense that the intensity will be off the charts...but playing this late in the season (for the first time right? don't we normally play them earlier in Oct?), with a likely rematch in a few short weeks, I wouldn't be surprised if BOTH coaches left some playbook in the locker room... that said, this is a "hide the women and children" type game in terms of intenisty and hitting...

this is a "hide the women and children" type game...

there really isn't a game I would rather see: two great coached, well-disciplined teams that exhibit all is right in HS football...Rutlege vs. Flatt....you think Flatt isn't bitter about last year? man, buckle 'em up boys...

all I gotta say is...let's get it on!!!! BA-MBA!!! this is what it's all about...

man, it's gonna be ugly next weekend....check your manhood kinda game...this one is low scoring, 13-7 type game, either way...just comes down to who is more physical...

the thing is (about the split) IMO, BA should have moved up long before 1995 to a higher level of classification than 2A...Of course Rankin was livid that BA won 2 5A titles (and beat him both times, right?). But he never could have managed something like that on his own. When he started drumming up support for the split, he had a captive audience in all of BA's victims from over the years in 2A (given the old play-off format, it was the same teams they beat every year en route to the Clinic Bowl). That's why the split was able to get enough support to carry...All the metro Nashville schools voted against it (i.e., MBA's competition)... the bottom line though is that Flatt was a successful coach and didn't need to recruit as his program recruited for itself...it's just a shame that we have this crappy system now...

this is another topic for another day, but the split came because certain coaches needed a convenient excuse for losing to the same program(s) every year...god help the world if either Bowers, Flatt, or Rutlege had coached those Stratford teams... I'll admit though that times have changed and private schools do in fact have lots of advantages over public schools.

I remeber that now...Coleman was an Alabama signee who waffled between MLB and football, ultimately choosing MLB. Could have been a great college football player... Seriously, those guys ran the "stack I" as in three rb's stacked behind one another, hands on thigh-pads. They ran so much misdirection it I can't tell you how many times we tackled the wrong guy. A funny game was in 1992 when they played McGavock. McGavock (with Johnathan Quinn--that was a good year for NAshville football) tried to put basically 10 guys in the box to stop the run...of course, there was no one after the LOS, so Stratford's rb's finished with td runs of something like 87, 90, 74, 45, and 50 yards...the stats after that game defied imagination...I remember because we watched that film in order to strike fear in our db's....

ahh big poppa, good observation...those Stratford teams, with any semblance of coaching, would have been among the top teams in the nation...I was on the MBA team that Stratford beat in '92...admittedly, we were not very good that year (by MBA standards) and were really outclassed talent-wise, but managed to hang in there with them...they had 4 (4!!!) 1000 yard rushers on that team!!! MAybe the Gallatin folks can enlighten us because I think it was Gallatin who knocked them out in each of those years...I think in '92 Stratford jumped to a huge lead and Gallatin came back and won in a driving rainstorm... best team I ever saw: MBA 1999. I don't care what anyone says, that team was just sick. Their 2nd team would have been in the top 5. Second best, Lincoln County 1990 with Kelly Holcomb...they were basically dominant from day 1 and finished undefeated without ever really being challenged...

man, that story is hysterical! (i.e., the actions of the Milan coach). I've heard that one many times from BA grads...didn't he come into the locker room with coke or something poured all over him saying, "this school wants us to go home because...............(derrogatory racial epithets follow)" Of course, the entire thing was made up just to fire up his players...I guess that's one way to do it. isn't there a story of BA hosting a play-off game in the '80's in which some team wanted to hold a pep rally at BA and asked Carlton, no kidding, if they could burn a cross as part of their pep rally? A BA friend of mine told me that one...

my votes: 1. 1991 Central-Oak Ridge. Two best teams in state...at Neyland stadium right? 2. 1989: Whites Creek d. Dickson Co. Shleton Quarrels and co knock off defending state champs 3. MBA-BA 1996, 5A quaterfinals, at MBA...MBA scores at the end of the 4th to send it to OT. Still think Ricky should have gone for 2 and the win right there...BA won in 2OT's. Those were the two best teams in the state, hands down 4. BA-NE 1995. Agree there. PI call was really bad. I saw the film. 5. 1988 Clinic Bowl. Dickson Co. d. Jefferson Co. in the only ever Clinic Bowl sell out. Personal favorite, the following week, 5A semifinals...MBA-BA, thanksgiving Friday...first ever meeting between MBA and BA...Ricky vs. Carlton...amazing atmosphere. Can only compare it to an SEC game...Unfortunately, BA had too much depth and ran away with it in the 4th...still the best game I've ever been too...(and I'm comparing that to Titans Super Bowl, UT Fiesta Bowl, etc...it was that electric).

there were several LAssiters who played in the early '90s, right? I guess Lauren and others were sons, nephews, etc.

could someone tell me which Lassiter is the coach of Gallatin?

I doubt you were there...GHS was given a td on an obvious trap ball by Calvin Hall right before halftime(he and Short admitted as much after the game)...then there was a matter of the ref not knowing the definition of "roughing the kicker" (your punter dropped the ball, started running, then got off a kick...we hit him afterwards and were flagged for roughing the kicker...that's not a bad call; it's not knowing the rules) all in all it was an even game with Gallatin getting the edge...anyways, we beat you at Gallatin in 1990 so it's all good...like I said, the best two high school football experiences of my career...I don't think Gallatin, to my knowledge, has been back to that level of play since the clinic bowl year of '92...

I do too, RRR...the two games in '90 and '91 between MBA and Gallatin are as good as high school football gets, IMO...some creative officiating cost us the '91 game, if you recall...

...I'll use more precise measurements like "spittin' distance," or "a three iron" next time as a substitute for "they're real close"...but thanks for clearing that up for us all...

Ronnie Carter is the head of the TSSAA and needs to have enough common sense to determine that this clearly isn't the spirit of any rule and to ruin the season of a lot of kids over THEIR mistake is simply the wrong thing to do....unless this kid and his family were dishonest (doubtful), they should recognize that they ruled while GHS was trying to obey the rules...that's their problem, not GHS's... but, nothing that comes from that organization will shock me...but this is moronic even by TSSAA standards... good luck Gallatin...

someone needs to go kick Ronnie Carter in the shins... are you kidding me? Does common sense just not apply when it comes to the TSSAA? And MAD props to McGavock...really classy...

my take is that MBA shouldn't have open dates and shouldn't be playing teams in KY and MS when we have all these great opportunities within our own borders (not to mention Hillwood and Hillsboro, which are within walking distance of MBA)...I can understand that public and private schools now have separate post-seasons. But it makes NO SENSE that we can't come up with these match-ups in the regular season (and as non-region games have virtually no impact on the post-season)... does anyone have any insight into why these games don't happen in the regular season? MBA split a home and home with D-B over the previous two seasons...why not MBA-Riverdale, or MBA-Lincoln Co. in the regular season?

that would explain it...thanks RRR...

anyone have a score on this one?

WR TE T G C G T TE QB WR rb Did it look like this? key being that WR should have been off LOS? I guess that makes sense as only the furthest guy out on the LOS is eligible right? But I still say the call should be "illegal touch." Seems like "pass interference" is disrupting a defender's right to the ball... heck, I'm not arguing with the coach though... beat MUS....

MBA (coach Pack's alma mater) had to accept a forfeit from Jacksonville-Bolles in 2000 after they used some ineligible players and won the game...I thought it was a bit cheesy that after that, we remained in the USA Today rankings....we lost the game, forfeit or not, and I can't imagine that the players (who I think were from the Bahamas or something???) really affected the outcome of the game...do any of you UT fans "relish" the win (according to the books) over Bama in '93? I like Coach Pack a lot too though I will never forgive him for negating a fumble I recovered and ran in for a td when he was ref'ing my 6th-grade football game shortly after he had grad'd from Sewanee...the ball carrier's knee CLEARLY had not touched the ground, ball popped loose, I scooped it up, and scampered in for the td...only to find that David Pack had ruled him down...it was an outrage and possibly the WORST CALL I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (that was a joke...true story, but I'm really not bitter about it...sniff, sniff...I swear I'm not...)

rollredroll, not quite that old...class of '93... seems like the call should have been illegal touch. Usually, that's what the call is when a qb is trying to set up a screen and dumps it into one of the linemen's backs...sounds like a strange game...maybe round 2 will come in the post-season...

darn....what a ballgame...thanks again, RRR, for the updates/recap....and keeping the Michigan crowd up to date too edit: happy b-day, RRR.