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I'd agree, but the only reference we have between them and the 3 others is that Halls run ruled UC a couple weeks ago.

Because Siegel is a AAAA facility. A good AAAA facility. Eagleville is a 1A facility. Albeit a nice one, but still, it's a 1A facility. There's no way around that fact. When I was in school, we played our 1A state tournament games at AutoZone Park, USA Stadium, Christian Brothers University, FedEx Park, and then even still Riverdale, which was one of the best AAA facilities in the state (I enjoyed playing at The Reservation, although the sunsets were brutal.) Now, kids have to travel 4 hours to play on a 1A field nearly 20 miles out of Murfreesboro. A field that, quite frankly, isn't even as nice as where a lot of teams play their district tournaments.

UH is definitely sitting pretty in their bracket, but Eagleville is almost certainly going to make it to the final having to have only pitch 16 innings in 3 games.

Ok, I thought it was just me being technology inept. Yeah, that's absolute bull.

Eagleville is good, no doubt. But they obviously got the 3 weakest teams down there in their bracket, just like two years ago.

I think that pretty much sums it up, really. To be perfectly honest, I'm far less sour about Eagleville getting to host themselves in the state tournament every year than I am the fact that we find ourselves in a position that we have to play STATE TOURNAMENT games at a blamed Single A facility.

Same with Eisfelder from Providence not even getting a look in DII 1A. But to me the biggest head scratcher is Collins from Lookout Valley. He wasn't even voted the best pitcher or player on his own team, a team that lost like 20 baseball games. Mind blowing.

The amount of people pooing on UH is crazy. They're a noticably better team than last year when they made state and were competitive , AND they run ruled Eagleville a few weeks ago. Now I understand Eagleville was missing a few guys, but they still. They. Run. Ruled. Eagleville. 1st single A team to run rule Eagleville since when? Pre 2017??

Coalfield didn't even make it out of their region.

I wasn't super impressed with Coalfield this past weekend. Still a solid team for A ball, but I'd say UH has the best team in the East. They run ruled Eagleville a few weeks ago down at Clinton.

Extreme edge of the state?? Have you ever even seen a map of Tennessee?? It might be 300 miles from Memphis to Chattanooga, but it's still 225 miles from Chattanooga to Bristol.

I think every person in the state of Tennessee aside from Chat Prep family members are gonna be Frank Hughes fans tomorrow. Go Lions!

Well I've been seeing you rant on here about Tennessee Temple Academy a while now, and I've contemplated correcting you, but haven't really had the inclination until now, when it's clear you haven't one iota of a clue what you're really talking about... Tennessee Temple never "forfeited" any football championships because they never won any. Heck they only ever made they playoffs twice, made it to the quarterfinals once, in '06 I believe. Their championship winning basketball teams ('02, '03, '07?) were never found guilty of any wrongdoing either. What got them seriously looked at was they DID get into some rather shady recruiting type territory after the Skogen family had all went through. But by that time, the writing was on the wall. See, by the end of the 2000s, they had to shutter their athletic program due to a declining attendance, and the school was closed by Tennessee Temple University in 2011 I believe. You keep talking like Temple Academy was some pop up outta nowhere fake school, when in reality they were a school set up and run by the university, and they'd had a high school since the early 70's. Their rise to prominence occured when the Skogen kids (one every two years, like clockwork) started reaching high school age, along with the Wadleys, who's dad was the coach. Yes, the Skogens were from North GA, but they'd been in the school for a while because of the family ties to the Highland Park Church, which kinda partnered up with the University. In the mid 80's they had over 1K kids enrolled in the school. By the late 2000's they'd lost over 85% of their enrollment, and were shut down. Their decline went hand in hand with the University, which by the early 2010's saw a decline in enrollment of over 90% from the early 80's enrollment of 4k+, and they went belly up in like 2014. I've heard it had to do with some sort of theological disagreement with the direction the new folks running it were taking, but who knows. You saying the school shutting down because of "cheating" in football is just incorrect. They were going to shut down anyway, because the school was failing. Just as the university was failing. Moral of the story, you calling Chat Prep "tHe NeW tEmPlE" is just bogus. Chat Prep is obviously just a handpicked travel team that they set up a charter school for so they could win some hardware. Tennessee Temple Academy was a legitimate secondary school operated by a legitimate university, for decades. Yes, I'm sure they recruited some kids along they way, but ALL private schools recruited. That's just the way it was, that's just the way it is. We had a good friendly rivalry with them, and we were only best them once, in the game that mattered the most. But when they were winning championships, there was nothing going on there that was any more nefarious than what was going on at Chatt Christian, or CPA, or DCA, or Friendship Christian, or Nashville Christian, or Clarksville Academy, or USJ, or any other private school powers from that time. They just happened to have a family of extremely talented basketball players, that were associated with the school anyway, hit high school at just the right time. The comparison between them and Chat Prep is unfounded.

I've seen muffin here and there, but I haven't noticed Jimbo44 in quite a while, now that you mention it. 2003, btw.

Meh, seeding in high school sports has and always will be quite arbitrary. TBH, if they were using SOS as a yardstick, Cloudland would be a low seed anyway. I look at it this way, if Cloudland wants to win it all, they're gonna have to beat Pickett and Wayne County at some point along the way to do it.