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Welcome Old Fart. Thanks for the link and join the club. /cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="B)" border="0" alt="cool.gif" />

Just like you were...right bud? /roflol.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":roflol:" border="0" alt="roflol.gif" />

Been good `cephus. Gonna try my best to get up to Paris for the game this year. Hope you have some good eats. /hungry.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":hungry:" border="0" alt="hungry.gif" />

Drew knows better than to answer that one. /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

Galilee. It`s time we move on. Kids today don`t care what color their coach is. They just want someone that can coach. Let`s kill this notion that black kids need black role models so therefore we must hire black coaches and teachers. That just doesn`t hold water. What black kids need and what white kids need are "good role models" as well as good teachers/coaches. I saw what happened last Spring on the news at your former school and without a doubt there were NO good role models at your school that night. Whoever the adults were at that school function failed at being a role model that night. I have no doubt that there are very qualified black coaches out there that have a hard time getting that head coach position. But at the same time there are also very qualified white coaches that are in the same boat. As I read your post I wonder what your point is???? Do you think county schools should hire more blacks or do you think city schools should hire more whites? It seems that you think county schools should hire more blacks. Lets take a look at two of the most promising coaches from the city schools. Tim Thompson and Lynn Lang. Are these role models for your grandkids? Another case in point is JCM. Four years ago Jim Hardegree resigned a very goo program. The local NAACP said it`s time we hired a black coach in Jackson. Frankly I had no problem with that because I felt there were some good black coaches out there (Thompson and Lang aside). Here`s my point...their mission was to hire a black coach "just because". Instead of trying to hire "the best coach" they`re mission was to hire a black coach. And that they did. They hired a really good Christian man with values who was a bottom tier assistant coach from Dyersburg. JCM was so bent on their mission to hire a black coach "because Jackson needed a black coach" that they never even bothered to call Dyersburg to get a recommendation. The result 4 years later was JCM won 1 game last year and was "mercy ruled" half their games. Honestly...these kids don`t care what color their coach is. I wish more schools would take a look at black coaches, but at the same time at no point should a school purposely hire a teacher just because of color. Kids recognize leaders. They recognize non leaders. I know you weren`t there at the Mitchell school dance last Spring, but I`d love to hear your opinion on the leaders that were there. Do we want role models that give in to young kids or do we want role models that stand up and demand civility?

Coaching, Coaching. Just look what Gaddis has done at HC. Look how Munford has improved since Coach Randall got there. Hopefully better days are ahead for JCM.

Is that Griffin`s brother?

So should we just call him John Doe? /popcorneater.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":popcorneater:" border="0" alt="popcorneater.gif" />

Can someone tell me the name of this kid from Missouri /popcorneater.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":popcorneater:" border="0" alt="popcorneater.gif" /> ?

I wasn`t there today but I heard JCM had around 60 players dressed out and another 15 there who had not yet had a physical and could not participate.

Yes a lot of bureaucracy. The coach from Memphis was suppose to be receiving his certificate this spring and seemed very qualified. Coach Hampton had the benefit his first two years of kids that were coached by hardegree for two and three years. In Hampton`s second year when they won the region championship that group of seniors had a large group of kids that were undefeated during their years at Tigrett and then went on to be undefeated when they comprised the freshman team at JCM. The next year they only win half their games. The seniors from that class had 3 years under Hampton. Everyone should have seen what was coming last year. That team was comprised of a full team that had only one coach during their high school years and that was Coach Hampton. I certainly don`t hope you are blaming the poor play of the football team on Mrs. Crump. Coach Hardegree and Hampton were like night and day especially from an organizational standpoint.

I`ve been told I look good in shorts too. /blush.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blush:" border="0" alt="blush.gif" />

Thanks. I`m happy too. It`s sad to have to wait this long because of the bureaucracy. Hopefully Coach Glover can get JCM back to at least being competitive this year. Winning only one game at JCM should have never, never happened last year. And to top that off they were mercy ruled in about half those games. I have no idea what we can expect from this years team but hopefully we can begin to turn it back around. JCM will be a 2A or 3A school after next year. Our low enrollment figures have not helped much against true 4A schools, but that still is no reason for such a poor showing the last two years.

Here is the Jackson Sun article on JCM`s new coach and staff. Click this

It would have been great to have had a coach great months ago, but from what I hear about Glover he can get the rebuilding job done so I`m excited about that. It`s amazing (and sad) how fast the program fell in the last two years.

Seriously who cares??? If half of Memphis wanted to move to Munford`s zone what difference would it make? I have news for you...it`s a free country. What makes your post even more sillier is the fact that Memphis is a hotbed for kids changing zones. Kids from Memphis can pretty much pick the school they want to attend yet you for some reason want to imply Munford is cheating. Get real!

That`s nice to hear it has been confirmed by media. I guess the report that ReitzFan heard was wrong. And by the way...JCM could actually be a 2A team next year. 3A is a given, but if you look at last years numbers JCM was at the very bottom of current 3A schools in terms of numbers. Any slight dip in numbers this year could very easily put them in 2A for the next 4 years. I`m excited about having Glover on board. I don`t know how permanent it will be but I feel good that he will turn the ship back in the right direction. GO COUGARS!!!!!!!!

First of all..what a great topic this is. As to the original list all those schools have very good traditions and its hard to argue their place on the list. But it does seem like it is Middle and East Tennessee biased. Only 4 teams listed west of the TN River. I`d add Haywood High School and also Jackson Central-Merry (especially if you consider the old Jackson High Golden Bears teams before consolidation). The Cougars/Golden Bears have had great success and Brownsville has always been a hot bed of talent and was coached for years by nationally renowned Coach John Hooper.

What`s up my good friend `cephus? All is well here. I got my info from a good source, but the fact that I have not seen it announced in public yet worries me. ReitzFan may be right. I just can`t say for sure. I just post what I hear when I feel it comes from credible sources. It could be my source heard the job was going to be offered to Glover and assumed he would take if he had interviewed for it. I hope Hampton has better luck trying to coach middle school kids than he did with high school kids.

JCM also lost their athletic director for the past year. So that may have had some impact into the lateness. sounds like they have a good coach and that is the important issue for the team. ELA used to argue with me on the public/private board about whether it was good athletes or good coaching that was most important. The last coach at JCM proved my point. Unless you have a good coach it really doesn`t matter what kind of talent you have. I would have loved if they could have hired a new coach back last spring, but the important thing was to hire a good coach.

I`d have to think that Henry County is the pre-season #1 pick in the region. Honestly I`d like to see someone try and make a legitimate case for another team. Anything can happen though. No one is gonna hand over the region championship to Hen.C.

lol rrp. /roflol.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":roflol:" border="0" alt="roflol.gif" /> /rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />

Glover

Nope it`s definitely WEST TN. Last time I checked Paris was still on the left side of the river. /thumb[1].gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":thumb:" border="0" alt="thumb[1].gif" /> Don`t know how Paris will end up this year, but it`s definitely a year for Patriot fans to look forward to with both Teague and Allen. I can certainly see why you are excited and with good reason. However, it takes more than 2 players to win it all, but those are two pretty good ones to start off with.

Well we know HC will need all the conditioning they can get for JCM. /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />