saywhat?

This whole category for best place for a track meet will need to be re-evaluated next year when BA reconstructs their track. It'll be fabulous

From the people who brought you CC champ Ryne Sexton come the next two thumbs up feature. Presented in really fast format is Tony Riggs. From Station Camp coming to a track near you, this little 'squeak can do a full fledged mile in 5:18 and he's not even a freshman yet.

So now that we have established the problem, how can we get the T$$AA to focus on athletics?

ooooh. I am rubber and you are glue. What bounces off of me sticks to you. oooooh. [/sarcasm] the THIRD word is most important: jon michael MOLLISH. he will OWN the THIRD

That would be amazing.

Isnt there a TSSAA rule that says you can't work, goto school, and hold a job all at the same time?

Hungry to go to state? Hmmm. Want some?

Good Morning. Good Morning. Mwah Mwah Mwah. Let me echo the words of Mr. Coasterboarder: close Natchez Trace and put the bleachers there.

Dyersburg is a city north of memphis, in west TN. it sits right next to the MS river, directly across from Missorah

After weeks of deliberation I have found the best raquet stringer: Michael Winslow You should see the way he strings that raquet in Naked Gun and then proceeds to play it like a musical intrument at the party around the fire. Amazing!

It would be a challenge, but it could be overcome. The useless concrete thing running parallel to the home stretch could hold quite a few temporary bleacehers. Entrance to these bleachers would be through the back of them, meaning that spectators would enter from around that building back there. Natchez Trace could be closed off to house more bleachers.

Hmmm.... I'm a little skeptical. I think we should rely on words of wisdom from the ineffably wise coldcheese3: The THIRD might be back, but he'll need to make more than one stop in the pro shop to stand a chance.

Amen coasterboarder

Seriously, there is so much the TSSAA could do to make the Track State Meet so much better. Why have it in the least central location when a better track is available in the most central location? well sir, i am all for getting it in Nashville, but then FRA and Lipscomb might have a little "homefield" advantage. just a thought?? Yea, I guess we should have the meet somewhere where there are no highschools within a 50 mile radius, thus eliminating "home-field advantage", lets say.....North Dakota....? It seems like the TSSAA beat you to the idea of moving TN championships to other states. But that was only with softball. We're talking about track here. He||, why don't we move the track championships to the spot where the spoet originated: Athens, Greece. Then we'd be real true to the roots of the sport.

Say what? By having students who need to work you limit the number of potential athletes. The idea of divisions is to group schools by the number of potentail athletes they have. This is where A, AA, AAA, AAAA, and AAAAA come in. Currently, size divisions do not exclude the number of students who can't play becase of other obligations like work. To be fair, the size divisions should take this into consideration, but because the number of these students varies from year to year and there is no set method of determining what this number would be in any given year, it is impossible to do this in a fair way. This is one of many examples where divisions are unfair.

Is it the idea of losing to the stereotypical preppy private school kid that the Dividers don't like?

That'd be great, but it sure is a hassle to move to another state to avoid the veritable monopoly that the TSSAA has over Tennessee athletics. It wouldnt be reasonable. Can we say 'Sherman AntiTrust Laws' ?

Ya, Trent Noelshteiinerskrizzledizzle (the THIRD) will be a force to be reckoned with again next year. He is currently in the hopital rehabilitating from the incident that removed him from the state play, but he'll be back.

It appears that Lord Kelvin will be quite a force in the coming years. He'll be so good that the plum pudding model will be descriptive of the way his competitors guts go to mush as he passes them by.

Yes, this year there was an overabundance of officials. At the girls' meet, i counted no fewer than six judges for each exchange zone-- that makes twenty four officials right there. Add in another 6 for the check in area (two would have sufficed) and you've got 30. About another 6 by the starting area and thats 36. About four more patrolling the infield and another four watching the exchanges at the finish line and thats 44 just in the immediate track area. I'm not even counting those who watch the meet from outside the track fence at briarcrest nor am I counting the scoring officials nor the plethora of parking workers nor the "security" officials who made sure nobody walked in front of the FAT. So lets see here, if we assume $15 per TSSAA shirt and $5 for lunch, another $5 for dinner, $50 for each double occupancy hotel room (for the 44 officials there would be a total of 22) the total comes to $2200 per day. There are two meets (one for guys, one for girls) so the total cost for the infield officials at the track meet is $4400. The underestimating here is generous; when was the last time you bought dinner for $5? Besides, what kind of daily wages would the said officials receive? The admission was $6 (not 7 this year), so it takes 367 spectators just to pay for the infield officials. Think about it this way: successful meets have been run with about half that many officials. If TSSAA did this at state, they could cut admission in half and receive the same return. Besides, this year the TSSAA shirts this year were different from those used last year. These expenses are recurring for no reason.

If the TSSAA really and truly cared about track, several things would be done differently. 1) State meet would be held at Vanderbilt on the Mondo track, the only mondo track in the state of TN. 2) The meet would have qualifying and finals, thereby circumventing this process at sectionals. This would ensure that the best truly are the best. Teams would no longer be penalized for existing in stacked sections 3) Throwers, field event people, and 3200 runners would get a spot in prime time. Right now, there is a blatant disrespect for these athletes, as their events are shifted to midday, the hottest time of day, consequently the time when the fewest people are there to watch. 4) There would be fewer than the 150 paid officials in the infield. To successfully run a track meat, no more than 30 are needed. Timers, starter, check-in guy, hurdle crew, that's it. With fewer officials, the meet would run much faster. 5) Frugality would be an increased concern. TSSAA would not spend all their money on buying those shirts and straw hats for officials. 6) Admission and parking prices would be lowered to encourage more people to come. $7 for admission and another $5 for parking is rediculous. There are better ways to make money like having a good concession stand. 7) The track meet would be held in Nashville, Chattanooga, or Knoxville. Memphis only has one interstate going into the city that people from the rest of the state use to get there. This is I-40. Nashville, Chatanooga, and Knoxville have multiple interstates running into the city that Tennesseans would use (Nashville I-24, I-40; Chattanooga I-24, I-75; Knoxville I-40, I-75). The 12-hour drive from the Tri-Cities area is intolerable because it can be avoided by moving the meet to a different site.

Theres no way to fairly create divisions. Food for thought: schools that have somewhat affluent students will always be able to field better teams Example: Page How: Page is a large school with several students. Unfortunately for their athletic program, these students hold jobs and are unable to devote the necessary time for athletics. What this means is that wealthier students already have the necessary money to live, trick out their rides, or do whatever, which eliminates the necessity for them to work to support either themselves or their family. If you have a school with 5,000 students and 4,800 regularly work jobs you only have 200 students to create your athletic programs but are still stuck in AAAAA. If you have a public school of 200 rich kids from brentwood or belle meade, you're on the same playing field as a private school with 100. Is it fair to have a school scarecly large enough to field a full football team up against a school twice its size?

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What's the deal with the state tournament being held in Mississippi anyway? It's the TN tournament; it should be held here.

That's a mighty suspect place to be running. Don't you know the mounties will chase you?