EHSfan04

We were blessed with high school football in TN for some great teams around the mid 90's. We had consecutive years of '92 Marion County, '93 Cleveland, '94 Riverdale and Cleveland, '95 & '96 BA.

I would put that 93 team as the 4th best. They were ridiculous that year, and really good all surrounding years. They were huge and very fast. East TN guys let me know if these names ring any bells: Dante Hickey, The Cobb Twins, Corey Prigmore, all of those huge linemen, and whoever that massive fullback was!

Im not upset. It pains me to speak well of BA, I just have never seen anything like it. I don't need to watch the video, I was there if it was the one in clarksville. After watching the games this weekend, I can easily say there were no better players than Will Bartholomew and Travis Stephens on any of those teams. If i recall, Bartholomew was not close to being the biggest guy on his team and he isn't small. Don't think i would ever call Travis Stephens or Tim Terry slow either. Generalizations are too vague. It wouldn't be accurate for me to assume every kid is soft now, just because the game itself is softer now. A lot of the kids i saw this weekend would get hurt playing some of these "small, slow" guys.

If you know that Richard Land was his name, that means you must have seen that team play. If you saw them live, there is no way that you really think this Lipscomb team would beat them. Also that Clarksville NE team was undefeated and 14th in the country at that time. Don't think we want to start debating weak schedules. BA only finished 3rd in the country that year, so probably not very good. I believe this Lipscomb team is the best since the MBA teams of early 2000's. Why not enjoy a really impressive season without beating your chest, and trying to bash entire decades? Loads of talent doesn't necessarily make you the best. The 2012 BA team had 5 NFL guys on the team(3 starters, including Jalen Ramsey), and still got beat.

Ive stated this before when every team that wins state claims to be the best ever. By the way that BA team had a 6'7 365lb left tackle(Texas). Their defensive line was as follows: 6'4 255, 6'7 285, 6'2 245, 6'6 260. Not to mention 6'3 and 6'2 receivers. This is the tiny team from the 95 BA squad! I was more of an MBA fan then, but that BA team was the best I have seen in the 46 years I have followed TN high school football(even better than the 72 TN High team). With the big uproar now over financial aid, let's remember then you could only have 3 football players on financial aid actually play. They had the best coaches and unbelievable talent! That BA team had the most dominating defense this state has seen. The starting defense was loaded with college players. Here is their lineup and college they played at: DE Air Force DT MTSU NG nowhere DT Memphis DE Tennessee LB Nebraska LB Georgia Military ( Tito Lee. The best player on the team, but didn't qualify) CB Virginia Tech CB Tennessee SS Vanderbilt FS Tennessee Most of these guys played on offense too. An offense that had receivers that went to Ole Miss and Army, and a tackle that went to Texas.

Whitehaven represented well for 6A. I don't think I've seen that many great athletes on 1 team before. You give them BA's coaches, they may be one of the best teams in the country!

So sorry to hear that!

BA's JV team may actually pull this out! I hope their QB and amazing RB are ok!!

This is promising! The rest of us in the league may have a chance this year This is a bad BA team relative to what they have been.

I'm sure BA did this to make sure that Whitehaven would say yes. They, and many of us in DII, have been turned down for games with different excuses. Ensworth has paid before just to travel for one year. I bet the 8 or 10 thousand is nothing to BA. BA usually plays a fairly new program from out of state each year. They pay them a ton of money to come play, to help out their programs. Two years ago, they had a team from Florida come up. They paid for travel, hotel, and got all of them tickets to the Vanderbilt game the next day. This year, they let a team take old equipment and jerseys back with them.

I have spoken with the person that actually schedules the games. It is a home and home, and BA will go to Whitehaven in 2020 while still paying them. They don't mind traveling anywhere. BA will go to GA, Al, and Memphis next year. They have gone to LA(to play a Texas team), KY, Memphis, and MS in the last few years. Be careful what you wish for! I wish Ensworth would schedule some out of state teams for us to play!

We have had 114 since 2006 and we are 3rd in that category in DII. BA had 16 alone last year.

This is a false statement.

Maryville - Oakland was the state championship for sure. This is a huge mismatch! Is Whitehaven down this year?

How did they make it?

Don't forget that one of the worst DII teams (Briarcrest) beat Germantown by 13, while Whitehaven only beat them by 7.

BA did beat St. X, but I know you want to irritate zoneread.

6A? The same one that Ravenwood won last year?

How about a 40 point win?

Are you talking about 2015 when they beat us by 4? The same year a lot of people kicked our teeth in, including BA beating us by 42. Or are you talking about this year when we beat them by 40. You all take the same route that you attack others for taking. We could easily mention the 7 point win at home against Germantown. Only one way to prove it, if nothing else you get $8,000 out of the deal.

I do respect your opinion, because the series are usually home/home. I can tell you, as the one that made the call, the money was significant and involved us coming to Memphis the first year. It also involved us trying to find 2 other teams to play back to back games at either The Liberty Bowl or Vanderbilt. If we could not make it work with two other teams, we would return to Whitehaven for the second year as well. I'm not on here to debate who is better than who, just simply using every avenue to get games since all local teams flee.

I'm not sure it's ducking, because there are some logistics to work out. But we were able to find dates and were willing to travel, but they have to think about whether a loss would be worth it.

Talk to your coach. Two of us DII schools(Ensworth and BA, that i know of) have offered "Da Haven" thousands of dollars to play. Let's find out!!

nah

They beat a Riverdale team loaded with talent in 95. Biggers was great and single handily beat my MBA team in 96, but he was not their best player. That team had 10 out of 11 defensive players play major D1 sports(9 football, 1 baseball). That BA team had the most dominating defense this state has seen. The starting defense was loaded with college players. Here is their lineup and college they played at: DE Air Force DT MTSU NG nowhere DT Memphis DE Tennessee LB Nebraska LB Georgia Military ( Tito Lee. The best player on the team, but didn't qualify) CB Virginia Tech CB Tennessee SS Vanderbilt FS Tennessee Most of these guys played on offense too. An offense that had another receiver that went to Ole Miss and a tackle that went to Texas. That offense also averaged 44.3 points/game