ROLLTIDEDevil

The majority of schools Greeneville competes against in 4A have larger enrollments. Greeneville might have a larger land area to access but the number of students that are going to come to Greeneville is limited. So for instance Maplewood with an enrollment of over 1000 might not have the larger zone but they do have the larger student body to pull from so any advantage that GHS would have is negated.

What advantage has Greeneville gained. The last time I checked the scoreboard starts with two zeros once the game starts. We are not gaming the system. If we were bringing in kids every year just to play sports you would have an argument. Our kids start in grade school and work their way through high school the same way that they do in other school systems.

Just because you say there is an advantage I am supposed to believe it. Quantify your argument. How much more of a chance does an ooz athlete have of starting. How many points are they more likely to score. Does being an ooz athlete automatically make your 40 time faster or add 50lbs to your bench press. GHS has the same amount of kids come out for football as any other school. The ones that play are the ones that earned their spot. If you are going to make an intelligent argument back it up with facts rather than peacocking about how many rings you have.

Thank you for remphasizing that you know nothing about the Greeneville City School System. Your administrators defitnitly need to look inward. Oh wait! The TSSAA already has. How did that turn out?

Where is the advantage? It is easy to sit out in cyberspace and criticize a school system that you know nothing about. 99% of the tuition paying students at GHS are students not participating in athletics. The ones that are athletes have been in the school system since grade school. Do we have some secret pyschic ability that allows us to look into the future and determine who is going to be a great athlete. No we do not. What we do have is a system of outstanding teachers and coaches that develops these kids into winners both on the field and in the class room. A loser finds excuses for their failures in what someone else is doing. A winner looks inward and changes what they are doing.

With kickers it is a matter of where their window falls. Schools usually only have 1 kicking scholarship. If that kid is a freshman then the window will not open for another 4 years. His best bet is to walk on somewhere. With shuffler it is size. Schools are gonna hold out for the bigger kids before taking a chance on a smaller player.

Would matters be simplified if the private schools were eliminated from the system. I am originally from Virginia and the private schools there do not compete as part of the VHSL system.

To end all of the bickering about what GHS has that the County schools dont have. I am going to send a letter to the Greene County Commission stating that the football fans of Greene County that reside outside the city limits of Greeneville are tired of the disparity between the schools, and in order to rectify this situation recomend that at the earliest possible moment property taxes double so that they can buy new facilities and whatever they need to be just like the evil city. But as my daddy once said "You can't polish a turd.". Until attitudes and work ethics change the winners are going to continue to be winners and the losers are going to continue to cry about what they dont have. As far as the County Championship goes let WG have it. It ought to look real good in their trophy case beside the bronze medals for rock throwing, tobacco spitting and leapfrog.