Gerry Bertier

1st Round

Johnson Co.

Austin East

Kingston

Alcoa

Red Bank

Sequatchie Co.

York

Upperman

Pearl

Camden

East Nashville

Fairview

Covington

McNairy

Milan

Wooddale

2nd Round

Austin East

Alcoa

Red Bank

Upperman

Pearl 

Fairview

Covington

Milan

Quarterfinals

Alcoa

Red Bank

Pearl

Covington

Semi Finals

Alcoa

Covington

Finals

Alcoa 35

Covington 10

On 5/14/2018 at 3:56 PM, ksgovols said:

How in the heck do ya'll figure who's north and south, cuz it ain't by a map.

North 

Stewart Co. 

Creek Wood

Waverly

Camden

South

East Hickman

Hickman

Fairview

Lewis

last time I looked at a map this was correct.

Tournament hosted by each division winner

1 and 3 from North and 2 and 4 from South and vice versa

I heard through the grapevine the workhorse of a RB transferred and became a Spartan. Is this speculation or truth??

Can’t nobody hold MASE down oh no, MASE has got to keep on moving.

1 hour ago, tigerfanatic said:

Before anyone gets upset I am not writing this to say the refs cause the loss. MASE has a very good team and they deserved to win the game. My question is does anyone know if the substate refs are usually that lax in calling fouls. There seemed to be many times fouls should have been called on both teams that weren't. I realize that you don't want every little touch or push called but to be fair to shooters it seems a foul should be called if your arm or hand is hit when shooting.  Is this the norm at substste to just let everything go. Just wanted everyone's opinion.

My issue is all season the refs haven’t let them play yet in the most important game of the season they decide now is the time to let them play? Why not allow that all season. It needs to called the same throughout the season. Consistency is the most important part, also not calling a 5th foul on a player that was 6 feet away from the foul call with 8 seconds left on the clock and the game goes OT would be nice.

Tough loss for the Jackets last night. They had their chances to win in a hostile environment. It took them one quarter to adjust to Stratford’s style and the crowd trailing 20-5 after 1 but they continued to answer the bell throughout the game. This team will be back next year and more than likely will be better. Not bad for a program who two years ago only won 1 game and won 25 this year.

2 hours ago, LoveForTheGame said:

Awesome hire for the best program in WilCo

Best program?

That is debatable. A couple of quality programs in Williamson County that could stake claim to this.

Marshall let one slip away last night but Nolensville is the more complete team with a better coach staff. They went to a triangle and 2 to slow down Johnson and Marshall County couldn’t make them pay for the change. Nolensville is a scary good team when things are clicking. Are they moving up to AAA next year? I would think their enrollment will increase by more than 20%?

http://www.dnj.com/story/sports/high-school/2018/02/25/eagleville-contacts-tssaa-alleged-scoring-errors-boys-region-loss-lead-academy/371749002/

interesting situation here. Have a feeling the game will stand as it does right now. But if true, I hate it for the Eagleville players.

9 hours ago, philmeyer said:

All 11AA girls get swept & Fairview boys squeak by for the only boys win in region play. This has to be the worst season for boys & girls basketball in 11AA. This used to be a pretty good district, but has turned into one of the worst in the state the past few years. 

Didn’t help the perfect storm hit in the district quarterfinals with the 2,3, and 4 seed all losing in 11aa sending the 5,6 and 7th seeds to Regions.

Creek Wood, East Hickman, and Stewart Co. would have provided some better games in regions but they didn’t take care of business like they should have done.

if Fairview wins Tuesday this district will put a team in the sectionals for 3 out of last 4 years.

Quarterfinals at higher seed

12aa #1 Marshall County vs 11aa #4 Lewis County

11aa #2 Camden vs. 12aa #3 Nolensville

12aa #2 Murfreesboro Central Magnet vs. 11aa #3 Waverly

11aa #1 Fairview vs. 12aa Forrest

Semi Final games will be hosted by Nolensville. Should be 4 exciting games Saturday Night.

3 hours ago, PrimeXTime44 said:

are they not doing a boys consolation before the girls championship... Like, I see what you posted, but is it not usually girls consolation-boys consolation, girls champ, boys champ

Both girls game will be played back to back followed by district awards. Then both boys game will be played back to back.

Upset city in this district tonight as the 2,3, and 4 seeds all went down at home. Fairview was the only top seeded team to win.

Semi-Finals are set

Fairview vs Lewis at 5:30

Waverly vs. Camden at 8:30

A 6 or 7 seed is promised a home regional game.

3 hours ago, cobrakid8 said:

Well bigmouth where are those 500 kid schools you speak of, because not a ONE has won A/AA state title, so again lets go ahead and split it to give them a chance, soon enough for people like you we will have 5 divisions! And how many of those small schools took part in Father Ryan Tourney, McCallie tourney, the Cleveland duals? Get back with me and let me know, because you can have a good wrestling room all day, but if you wrestle crap all year long instead of wrestling in those best of the best tourney's you are not going to get better, as they say to be the man you have to beat the man! Again, I have no problem with the split for state duals, but there's sure are some A/AA placers that wouldn't win one round in AAA or even D2 and yet they get to take home a medal. So yes competition is watered down because you might be a state champ in TN, but got stuck all year by kids that didn't win a match in AAA and those that win the state title in GA. Again, the point of the split was to grow the sport and it sure as heck hasn't done that although population in TN has increased, so keep telling me how good it has worked! 

 

Dont worry bert if you want I will give you a trophy for your posting because you haven't earned it, but hey what's the difference you still deserve one! Maybe you should stick with football because you obviously don't have a clue about wrestling!

Your pompous, arrogant attitude continues to show. If you would do your own research you would find there were small schools at the Father Ryan tournament. It becomes difficult for up and coming small school programs to get invites to these tournaments because of attitudes like yours.

i have personally seen what it takes to revitalize a small school high school program and build into respectable program across the state. It starts in the wrestling room and with the youth and middle school program. You can’t go to the top tournaments until those things are taken care of.

Nowhere did I say a school with 500 can’t compete with a school of 750. The split has added competitiveness to the sport for the lower schools. You are right some teams can’t fill an entire team which means those wrestlers are not getting that iron sharpen iron mentality you are talking about in practice everyday. The wrestling room is where most champions are made. At smallest schools there may be only one in a weight class this that wrestling room training becomings more difficult compared to a school of 2000 who has 3 or 4 in each weight class.

i know plenty of top A/AA programs that are getting in the top tournaments in the state with the bigger schools. They are not shying away this why they are being successful on the state level. 

Must be a sad little life being so pompous and the leader of the your Anti-Everyone gets a trophy movement that you feel is happening in the state with the sport yet the majority of other states are doing the same. 

High school athletics are about experiences. If that means 8 additional teams during duals and 16 wrestlers per weight class at individuals get the opportunity to benefit from the positives that wrestling teaches you through success and failure then I think it is a positive move. At the end of the day that’s what it is about yet people like you continue with an elitists attitude that doesn’t further the sport it hinders it and you are so far in the forest you can’t see the trees.

Also research has shown school size does have correlation with success in individual state tournaments where there is a single class system, ie Indiana.

Right now Tennessee has it right with 3 classes. It should never go above that.

8 minutes ago, cobrakid8 said:

Maybe i would actually give you some credence but you couldn't even get it right, it is "do you want some cheese with that WHINE." I have said on these forums I don't mind the split for duals, however the split was done because of ego instead of what is best for the wrestlers. We have a few that have won A/AA small school and it happened because their coaches whined about them having no chance at a state title since they were a small school. And I have yet to see a 500 student school win that either, so maybe we should get a A school champion with 500 and under, a AA with 1000 and under maybe a AAA for teams 1000-1500 and AAAA for those Over it so that everyone has a chance to win duals. 

Just keep keep whining. What the TSSAA did makes total sense.

Most A-AA teams fall between the 500-1000 student range. There are a handful under 500. The dual champions for A/AA up until Gibbs this year were under 750 students the last couple of seasons. 

Before the split there was only one team in the last 8 years of the one division duals that made the day we that would be a A/AA team, Greeneville, and I actually think their enrollment was higher back then.

Like I said earlier if Iowa and Ohio are doing it then I feel ok about Tennessee following along. I think those states know a thing or two about wrestling.

9 minutes ago, inthagap said:

Individual State tournament should have nothing to do with school size. I don't even remember which school won the '78 tournament, but I remember most of the guys that placed. To me  It's about being the best individual , not school, at your weight at the end of the year.

What does Iowa or Ohio know about wrestling? I mean those guys have multiple divisions and I bet they have pretty dang good reasons for it.

The amount of teams in 1978 is nowhere near the amount of teams that have wrestling now. The aport has grown which is an amazing thing.

1 hour ago, cobrakid8 said:

TSSAA does nothing that good for the kids, it's always been a bottom line for them. Sadly some coaches from smaller schools complained that they weren't ever going to win a state duals title and that is what's brought all this about. Had nothing to do with the kids but more about their ego of winning a state title. I don't think I mind so much doing it with the duals, but once duals are done individuals should be back to two divisions! Sadly people want quantity instead of quality of wrestling here. I love getting new programs started and everything, but it shouldn't come with watering down the competition to get that. Small school kids can rise to the top also when the public schools were not divided. 

Wants some more cheese with that wine. 

You honestly think a school with 500 students should compete with a school with 2200 students?

1 minute ago, TheNewGuy12345 said:

Check the roster. Missing some key components. We had 2 of our best break their collar bones yesterday and had another one of our tops come in overweight. Not making excuses, but making you aware. Fairview came to wrestle, congrats to them! 

2 losses and two excuses made by you. Represent the program better than that. Everyone knows injuries are part of this sport. Hope those injured heal up. The Bobcats will be busy the next two weekends as they will have a handful of wrestlers make noise at individual regions and state.

Great job by Coach Derrick and the Yellow Jacket Wrestling team in their game 1st ever duals appearance. Future is bright for this team as they only lose 3 seniors and bringing in a solid group of 8th graders who will contribute next year as freshmen. 

My personal opinion is middle school. Kids can play flag up til then to help with agility and coordination. At that point you significantly lower chances of long term head injuries. 

1 hour ago, TheNewGuy12345 said:

No, props to your heavy on that one. I’m talking about various other matches thG the coach literally told the wrestlers to stall out 

I am not a Gibbs fan. I was their supporting another team and saw the match. Your complaining does nothing.

26 minutes ago, TheNewGuy12345 said:

Really Gibbs? This is a wrestling tournament, not a stalling contest. Take your loss and go with it. Stalling out like that is a cop out. Greenbrier just proved they’re hands down the best A/AA team in the state. Regardless of who gets the title from this point on. 

Had nothing to do with your top ranked HW losing did it?? Gibbs grinded put that win.

First Round Winners

Greeneville

Fairview

Gibbs

Greenbrier

Semi-Finals

Fairview

Gibbs

Finals

Gibbs

4 hours ago, BarneySox2007 said:

This is a sporting event where you take your family to see two schools play each other in a basketball game. The video I saw looked more like an episode from Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom and there was no one in a safe situation. This is two schools that know the rules and know better than this. The schools should pay dearly and maybe it will set an example for coaches, players and fans to used their heads and not wild animal instincts. The Death Penalty for both schools.

I respectfully disagree. Your comments are borderline asinine with the analogy of animals.

Gym video will tell the entire story and the TSSAA will deliver the appropriate punishment but if it is a total sports ban that punishes a majority of students who had nothing to do with the inexcusable behavior from last night.