The Italian Stallion

Please allow me to say this about myself before I get called one by someone else: like paper, I too am a jack ###### (admitting it is the first step to recovery). Now that we have that out of the way, I can proceed with my sarcastic remarks. Last year's Mitchell team had 52 players on their play-off roster. That number is lower than that of Lewis Co., Loretto, Huntingdon, Peabody & Westview out of the west. Does TSSAA know about this? Apparently they missed that. Should we go back and have Mitchell forfeit? Oh well, if the TSSAA ruled one way then it must stand; they would never go back and change something after they ruled. I have to know: Why can't Sweetwater have 60 on their team? They have an enrollment of 489 and Lispcomb has an enrollment of 513, so what keeps their numbers so low (46 on last year's roster as compared to Lipscomb's 61)? As for the original message on this thread, there is no way OS can win it all - they had 46 on their roster last year, and there's no way they could have too many more this year. Sorry OS, no since showing up. Now I know you have an enrollment of 507, but that doesn't really matter. I know you have had a good season and have good players, and probably even have a good "team", but that doesn't matter. You may be well coached, well disciplined and well fed, but there's no way you're beating 1) a team with more players, 2) a city school, 3) a private school. Lipscomb and Goodpasture are 3 out of 3, Tyner is 2 out of 3. Maybe Westmoreland can beat Tyner and then you have a chance. Never mind, there's no way: Westmoreland is small in numbers, rural and public. Wow! I can't believe Coach Kelly at Westmoreland even fields a team. Anyway, better luck next year OS.

Yes, tackle, you are wrong. You left out the fact that one player off last year's team went through two-a-days with Tech. Another from a few years back is a walk-on at Harding University (a D2 powerhouse out of Seacry, AR, but I'm sure you've all heard of them). Those two raise them from average school to football factory. (Sarcasm.) Lipsomb does have a lot of kids on their team, but last time I checked, no other team in the state - public or private - is limited in terms of roster size. They average about 20 per class. There are about 125 per class at Lipscomb. That means there are around 65 boys per class total, and a little under one third of them are on the football team. Why don't other schools have the same? Oh yeah, it's because Lipscomb only accepts those with superior football prowess. (More sarcasm.) TankTalk, then call the recruiters b/c they are not over here looking at our kids.

Could easily be a 4 over 1 upset. Lipscomb is overrated, and Polk is underrated.

I wanted to comment sooner, but I've been too busy grading research papers! The best is Andrew Stewart at David Lipscomb.