the muffin man

Hows FACS non region games looking? I saw your region games today.

There playing a varisty scedule in 2005. Their freshman team or jv or whatever you want to call it, lost all their games they were 0-8 or someting to that extent. But dont take them lightly they most likely will be better this coming up year. I have friends that play for them and he said their biggest guy was about 6'0, 260, maybe a little less.

So what, Im ready for them. I aint scared.

I think theirs going to be a 6 team playoff next year. So that would include SBEC and St. Georges.

ok all the D-I champs were from the east/middle. All the D-II champs were from the west, more specifically memphis. So its a dead lock.

Same as last year huh? Now I can understand beating you so bad on your field without some of your starters, maybe if they were able to play then yea the score may have been closer. What about the playoff game, Ive never seen a team so dependent on 1 player as FACS. Without Booker, yall cant do anything. Now in the playoff game you cant say if you had Booker then you would have won, because he cant make up the 41 points that you lost by. Now saying your team wont be good next year is a mistake, yall should be good. Bishop Byrne, will they be good? Well I dont know, they should be, but their losing alot of good players. As for the new teams like Davidson, they should be good, from the way they sound. St. Georges wont be a great team, but should be decent, a very quick team. St. Andrews, I dont know, Kings, I dont know, and the rest I do not know. As for us, were losing our QB, but not only him losing alot of other good players. Our expectation is to be better than last year. Were getting 7 or 8 back on Defense, and were getting 4 or 5 back on offense. So our Defense should be stout, but our offensive backfield I dont know. We got a Quaterback that transfered from Bolton last year that should do pretty well in Drews place. Our Running back out to be good also, while being hurt this past year. Our offensive line will have bigger size, and should be very good. And we have 2 returning recievers, plus another one that played alot of reciever as a softmore, but is a senior this coming up year. Experince will be a great key on offense, our D should be set.

The best team ever in TSSAA, well I dont know about that one, but the best team in Tennessee would probably be that Shebyville Bedford County Training team(s) of the 1940s and early 50s. Had 7 straight undefeted seasons, went 82 games without being beaten, and had 52 consecutive shut out games. Even if they did play all cupcake teams(which they didnt) thats pretty good.

Yea thats good and all in the perfect world, but what about the students down in Memphis. You really think Im gonna to a inner city school, my friend on last friday got pepper sprayed by the police officer, when a gang fight broke out, and all he was doing was walking by. You really think im gonna stend anybody to a school system, where the kids are all in gangs and fights break out every otherday and where someone could get easily beaten to death. Example did any of you hear about the Westside kid that was beaten to death in the bathroom, this was gang related. Just that Im not gonna send nobody to a school were they have a chance to get hurt or worse.

If you out D1 privates into D2-AAA, they would be massacred.

He didnt mean this year, he meant in the years past, there have been better teams, which their has been, not this year. Their probably is no better team than Riverdale in football, with the exeption of MUS, respectively.

Great post, I totally aggree.

Thats sort of what Im saying, their are public schools that have high scores, Huston High School in Memphis gets about a 22-24 average, and thats pretty good for this area of town. I mean im sure JCM does as good as USJ, Im just saying is that their are public schools in areas that dont do good, because their is no education at those schools. But theres another factor I failed to mention, drugs, etc. are more avalible and more used in public schools than they are in private schools. Now private schools have this too even the small ones do, no schools is completely clean with it, im just saying its more abundent in public schools, and to some parents this scares them. But what could be another factor, just in the Memphis area(I think) is back in the 70s, the education board decided they were going to send all the inner-getto(mainly black) kids to the outter-memphis schools(which were mainly white), and send all the outter-memphis kids to the inner-getto schools, to somehow mix the two together to not promote segeragation. Which then alot of outter-memphis kids, started going to private schools because their parents didnt want them going to those kind of schools. And the parents of the kids now liked that kind of school, and now send their kids to private schools.

Thats an idiotic statement, you want to know why parents send their kids to privates over publics. First its got alot to do with religion, but what about the kids that arent religious. Well then you go to that its a better education, which it is. At privates they challenge you more what I would be learning in 10th grade at a private school is what someone would be learning in the 12 grade at a public school, in my area. I looked up some statistics last year, at Mitchell High School in Memphis, they averaged a 13.6 ACT score, while most of the private schools in the area were averaging a 25.3 ACT score. Now tell me why would I send my kid to a public school were they will end up not going to college even not having a scholorship, or sending the to a private school were they end up will be going to college on a scolorship.

A swat team, thats funny. Does Memphis even have a swat team? Cause if they do you would figure they be used alot. But you know the MPD really dosent do anything either. Im in Downtown and Mid-town alot, and they really never do anything.

The Fairgrounds are some what of a better place to play, not the best but its a little better.

After Byrne scored another touchdown to make it 24-14, we were on the way to scoring a touchdown which would had made it 24-21, and would have made it a whole another ball game. But when we were inside the Byrne 15 yard, we got a holding call, which killed us, and we never recovered, we ended up not scoring, and right their is were we started to down hill. When they made it 31-14, we some how found a little life, and on the way down to score Drew threw and interception, that killed us and demorilzed us, then on the next drive the 2nd or 3rd play, he threw another one that went back for a score. Drew played the best game that he could under those conditions, and he did pretty well dispite those interceptions. But yes, the game was alot closer than the score was, the score did no justice. The only good thing about the 4th quarter was that Chase(#24) got to play, his first game to play all year, he deserved it too. He caught 1 pass and dropped another, the one he caught was for about 10 yards, I would guess, the other one he dropped he burnt the guy that was on him, and maybe could have had a TD but he dropped it, but still it was great to see him play. Chase and a good LB(John Evan) were both hurt for most of the season if not all. Both could have helped us through the year eccpecially Chase. But also the guy that got hurt in the playoff game agianst yall couldnt play. But you know this is how it goes, they won and theirs nothing we can do about it now. It was a great game and I expect us to be there agian next year. Well you know we got the silver ball and 2nd place in our class, well thats better than taken home nothing. Good job to Byrne. Facs, just gotta wait to get beaten agian next year .

Uhhh..... Are you from Memphis? I dont know if you know this but Memphis aint the safest part of town, and when you get into, Orange Mound, Frayser, Raliegh, Mid- town its not the safest part to be in at night. No it aint hip to be seen at a Melrose game, its hip to be seen walking out of a Melrose game. Ive had friends been beaten at games like those at Melrose, etc. I dont know what your talking about, safe to go to a Melrose game. I got a friend who goes to Craigmont and he wont even go to their home games because hes scared that he will be hurt. And all yall about them smoking dope, drinking, and yelling profanity, this is Memphis, Id figure yall would be use to it, it happens and Memphis and nobody says or cares about it. If not then go work downtown, or go to a Grizz or Tiger game.(even though better then a Melrose,etc. game, still they shout and are drunk) My prediction, Melrose by 10.

Yes put D-1 privates and weaker public schools into a class, but the D2-AAA schools you would have to put with the best, because they are the best.

What Im saying is that its not possible for privates to have open zones, because the players on most of the teams look just about the same considering 90% of the players on private school teams come from the general area of the school. And the smaller rural private schools would cover many counties were their is only 1 private school for every couple of counties. School A \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Home A _______________________(zone line) \ \ School B Look at my wonderfully put diagram. Lets say school A is 3 counties away, and the zone line stops right after home A. School B is only 1 county away, you would be sending a kid that pays for the school, to go to one thats farther away because of zoning. This is also true with public schools, but their are about 3 times as more publics than their are privates, usually 1 or more publics in a county. You have to have open for privates theirs just no possible way you could zone them. If you let public schools openly zone then you would have one school with 2000 kids and the one next to it has only 200. If you did that then all the kids would go to the team that won the most, making it the bigger school were they would always get the atheltes and when all the championships, while the school next to it, never got any athletes, they had horrible teams, and always finished in last place. Also you have several private schools within a county, example Shelby county, you have 6-10 private schools within the county alone that play football, plus all the good public schools.

Ummm... No I dont. No I wouldnt want to go to Melrose, Id get shot at Melrose.

What happens if it lightnings, just play on wendsday?

Kids want to play for teams that win. And most private school teams are decent and win games.

Well publics have never really been all that nice to privates, so privates just show it back. After winning all the championships that the privates have won, you know publics get alot of fustration, and thats what caused a split in the first place.

since 1988, private schools have won 7 championships in 1a(88, 91, 95, 96, 00, 01, 02), so their really wasnt no domination by publics. Publics out number privates by so many so you expect them to get a good team everyonce in a while. Before the mid 80s alot of private schools played in their own makeshift league that they made up. But you still had private schools in the TSSAA(BA, MBA, CBHS, MUS, etc.). Just it was really all the big privates.

Just like a Ole' Miss fan always talkin about the past.