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Great for the Cherokees! I hope that they have a great season. I do however think that Bearden is a much different team than two years ago and even much different than last year. I hope to see them play sometime this year. Do they play in Chattanooga any time this year?

I was at the game and was a little surprised at how little offense McCallie was able to generate. I think that the main problem that they had was that they tried to play too direct for the first at least half of the game. I think that they came into the game confident that they could win and could put a couple on the board with some one on one matchups but couldn't get it together. I don't think that they played enough with their backs to the goal and didn't play the ball into space but instead played it to feet. It was good to see a couple of scores but it could easily been a 0-0 game. I didn't think that McCallie played the ball to the wing nearly enough to spread the defense and get the keeper out of position. When they do that they look really dangerous. They won't beat teams handily unless they play offense as a team as they don't have a "power forward". I do like that they have 5 goals so far and 4 different scorers.

I agree with stayNskool except for 4 and 5. Baylor already whooped up on Bearden in a scrimmage and so I would say that Balyor is better than Bearden. At the end of the season it may be different but I'd say that if something big doesn't happen at Bearden that they are in for a long season.

What ws your take on the game? McCallie lucky in win?

I don't think that Coulter even started the game but I may be wrong. The player in the goal was much smaller than him. Soddy is a good team but I really think that the overall endurance and another good coaching job at the half made a big difference. The first half was not played as well by McCallie as it could have been but short passes and team play rather than individual play made the difference in the second half. It was great to see that McCallie's bench is so deep as Chris C. was out and Chris P. went out in the first few minutes with a hamstring problem. Thank you jumping drills! Hopefully McCallie will use the few weak teams that they play against to really work from the first half on with one and two touch attack rather than attacking one on one.

Go for it McMinn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

Thanks Jump. I was just wondering what your team looked like this year. I figured that it would be really good and possibly better than even last year. I'd love to see you guys get back to the state and do well. I didn't mean to insult you MP but I didn't know how many CCS players were in the discussions. Where are you and Pep playing on the field this year? Where is the Sauce playing and Gabe. Who's in goal. You should recruit Jon Cook to play he use to be great in there.

Give us the scoop.

I would say that the writer of the article didn't know that Bayor had beaten Bearden 3-0 in a scrimmage already this year and that they always have a better than average chance to get to the state tournament because of their coach. Notre Dame shouldn't be a pushover either, they have some really tough players and a goalie that won't be easy to beat. The article really didn't say anything about rankings but just about teams and individuals to watch. In fact in the text it only talked about one player on one team. Sounds like some of the posts I read a few days ago on this site.

The public schools start with a disadvantage because most good players are recruited to the private schools. I hope public schools beat private schools ever time they play. Sorry to get so far off the subject. chip, I'm sorry that you feel so strongly against the private schools. I would really doubt that any of the boys on the private school's soccer team that my son plays for were recruited to play soccer there. In fact there is a lot of thinking at the school that there is little if any interest by the administration as to how good the soccer team is. The kids enter as sixth gaders and if they play soccer throughout high school it is not all that common. So much happens in those 7 years that there is no way that a coach will know if a kid will pick soccer, baseball, tennis or any other spring sport. My children are at a private school because their mother and father think that it is the best school from an educational standpoint that is available in the area and have been blessed finacially enough to be able to afford it. The chance to use the physical tallent given to my kids at the same school is just icing on the cake. My family cheers for both public and private schools because we enjoy watching kids having fun and trying to do the best they can with what they have been given.

It's hard for me to believe that Bearden can be all that awesome this year as they lost a scrimmage to Baylor already and lost it big- 3-0. Baylor has already lost a scrimmage to McMinn Co. I know that scrimmage results can be decieving but I doubt that Bearden threw the game just to see what it's bench could do.

Does anyone know what the outcome and what the play was like in the MUS/CBHS Scrimmage?

That's a tough question. A few years back I would have said that Memphis and all of the clubs in that neck of the woods had a really good feeder program. I don't know what happened to them in the past few years but at least in the U-18 age group East TN has reigned. The Diadora system has dominated that age group but I don't know much about other age groups in the state. The two programs that survived until recently in the Chattanooga area in that age group had a lot of success, Redoubt and PSA. It's too bad that there is so much politics involved in the feeder systems because it seems that most of the programs last for a few years, change their name, change the leadership and the kids are the ones that loose out. The Chattanooga area has had a lot of success with the very limited area to draw from as compared to venues in Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville in my opinion.

What they may lack in year round experience they will make up for with coaching. It's going to be hard to compete against them with both Blair and Winchester at the helm. I think that if the coaching situation stays the same and Winchester and Blair are compatible that this year they will be good at the end of the year, but give them a couple of years and get more of the players playing year round and they will be killers. Watch for the defense to do well early and for the offense to pick it up at the end or by next year. Harder to coach offense.

What they may lack in year round experience they will make up for with coaching. It's going to be hard to compete against them with both Blair and Winchester at the helm. I think that if the coaching situation stays the same and Winchester and Blair are compatible that this year they will be good at the end of the year, but give them a couple of years and get more of the players playing year round and they will be killers. Watch for the defense to do well early and for the offense to pick it up at the end or by next year. Harder to coach offense.

I haven't seen all of the goalies in the state but last year's MUS goalie has been well coached and he reads PKs better than any goalie that I have seen in HS soccer. He is very quick and commands the box well. Grace's goalie Carlos ... is one of the best in Tenn. but there are advantages to being large in the box and he is not. He makes up for it by playing very smart and reacting very quickly. Great hands too. Trey Myer is also one of the best, big, quick, great hands, commands respect from both sides in the box. Glu is great too, fast, great hands and cat quick.

Irish17 I do believe that the second goal came soon after the half not in the first. Nice cross and clean up. Was that the Farragut starter in goal?