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1 minute ago, GeneralForrest said:

Who is the play by play clown

On the radio, it’s Dan Hughes and Terry Clement.  

Just the way I feel about it. I have never liked them even when my kids played. Cheer as loud as you want but I’ll never like the artificial noise makers. 

Whoever has the noisemaker should be expelled from the stadium. It takes a low class person to use them and try to have a negative impact on HS kids. Not to mention how annoying it is for the other fans there or listening to the broadcast. 

3 hours ago, ItsAlwaysSunnyInAtwood said:

I've seen many reasons cited for the lack of... production?... Of the 3-4A teams out this way. Money, population, talent, etc. But why don't these issues impact 1 and 2A? It's basically to the point where I'm more surprised if west TN doesn't bring back gold in both classes. I think many factors are at work here but the main one imo is it seems to just mean more to the smaller schools in the area. 

Smaller school are likely one of multiple schools in a single county. Peabody is a good example. There are 6 schools in Gibson county. This means that the program with best coaches and community support can attract best players to play for the best program. All schools are essentially driving distance regardless of where the parents live. 
Also it is easier to win in smaller class schools who by and large are not dominated by D1 talent. Scheme and coaching can win easier when numbers are smaller. 

Of course there can always be variables and unicorns pop up. How does the population of Blount county support two multiple championship football teams? Is that just from the county population? It’s doubtful. 

2 minutes ago, reddyrebel6 said:

 

Guess you thought I was speaking specifically about Haywood coaching only. I was not. Rural west tn is a big area. 

On 11/9/2022 at 6:03 AM, Tomcatfan2011 said:

It’s better resources and more money… literally.

You are 100% correct. Money or lack thereof impacts everything. 
My list in order of importance:

1. Money

2. Population (see 1)

3. Talent (see 1 & 2) 

4. Coaching (see 1) 

5. Facilities (see 1) 

To dig a little deeper into the why this is an issue between west tn and the rest of state. The state mostly handles all manufacturing startups looking to locate in the state. Where do the majority of those jobs go? Middle and east tn.  Why? Couple of different reasons but the obvious ones are more people equal a better chance at hiring more qualified workers. That is the explanation given anyway.  The dirty, not so secret reason, is that is where most political donations come from, because once again that is the area of the state with the most money. 
 

It always circles back to money. West tn gets the scraps while middle and east get the gravy when it comes to jobs and wages in an overall sense. Hopefully the Blue Oval complex in Haywood will change things some for rural west tn. If it does what I think it will as described above Haywood may win multiple championships in a row cause they have the talent. With money available to hire better coaches and more staff, plus facility improvements and off season training geared toward skills enhancement……..look out. 

I remember when Marshall County came to Lexington and the Hightower kid was a freshman. You could tell he had potential. 
 

I also have found memories of Marshall County youth baseball. When my son was 13 our babe Ruth team came to Marshall County for a state tourney. One of our players was diagnosed with cancer prior to that and the Marshall County group donated at least a portion of the proceeds to his family. That was a quality thing to do and I’ll never forget it. That was a class bunch of people.  Great tournament. 

18 hours ago, Solomon said:

Except me and my family. Dad didn't want to fight it. I listened on radio. 55-28 IIRC.

I was at that game. BA and Lex had a history before that. Lex went to their place and won one year, although I forget which one. 

I usually have very little to say negative about refs. most are trying tehir best even if they aren't very good. I have seen two specifically in my area that need to be fired. One guy is like me, too fat and out of shape to get up and down the floor. This has to put an unfair burden on the other two calling with him as they wind up doing most of the end to end work while he just works the middle of the court.

The other is a woman who IMHO had a ax to grind or something. The girls game that night she was about even for both teams as far as fouls,walks called. The boys game was an all together different story. first half wasn' too awfully bad but the second half was pitiful. I have watched a lot of BB over the years and I would have to say this was the blantant example of ref bias I have ever seen. I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt some and finally it was just too obvious. She tried to take over the game completely. Just for an example: Boy is driving towards the goal and two or three players converge on him, one steps in front and the other(s) from the side. She calls a charge, Ok it was close, ref from out front comes in at the same time and calls a reach in foul now pay close attention, this had to have happened before the charge because he lost the ball at contact, she walks him out to midcourt and talks him out of his call and keeps her call for the charge. That is when I knew for sure the little B had it out for us and she (according to some other refs I know) is supposed to be one of the best around?

That is the kind of stuff that give refs a bad name and why we have threads like this on internet meassage boards.