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tradertwo

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  1. Talent comes and goes at every school... for the last ten or so years 1A and 2A have been interchangeable. Look at the 1A/2A state champs in both divisions, compare head to head scores and common opponents, and any reasonable person will tell you that if the top 5 1A and top 5 2A played a round robin schedule that they'd have a pretty even split. If McKenzie can't compete in 2A for the next four years, they can't compete in 1A either.
  2. From the outside looking in, it's not debatable... McKenzie pays more, is getting new facilities, and is close enough that the Dresden kids could follow Hodge there. Getting bumped wouldn't really matter either...Huntingdon would be their biggest challenge in the west this upcoming season, and they've already proven that they can compete with the 'Stangs.
  3. There's an old saying... if you ain't with us, you're against us. There's no excuse for folks who should be invested in the school/program to not trust their own product. If it's not up to snuff, then fix it...if you don't then who is supposed to? Should be automatic for these actions to disqualify the person from working there or serving the public as their representative on the BOE.
  4. Not that you need my affirmation, but you have it 100%. I might have ranked 4 and 5a/5b a little differently, but definitely 1 at 1 and 2/3 at 2/3. Not that I would put them in this top 5, but out of curiosity did you see the Santa Fe team that Mercer/Maddux, and Howard beat earlier that year? They were huge and could ball!
  5. The defense will improve drastically. Offense will be the big question with the QB graduating and him generating most of the positive plays. If they can find 20+ points per game with what they have returning their win total will go up. I really doubt that anyone knows just what a hire they made... yet. Football is a great game that teaches life lessons, but actual life is sometimes too hard for these kids to bear on their own. They will now have the best of the best to mentor and care for them as human beings, and to teach them that they have value to the team, to each other, and to him personally. A lot of things have to come together to turn out wins on the field, but you can bet on RW to turn out winners in life.
  6. Welcome to the 'T 99... since you only have three posts, I'll help you out a little bit. The nutcase you replied to didn't intend to share his opinion, his intent is to incite an argument or disagreement. He/she does not engage in conversation, just ridiculous comments followed by his schtick "I guarantee it, do you want to bet me?". I've had the moron blocked for months now and can only see his post if someone replies to it. I won't suggest that you do the same because it's a free country, but I will tell you that I'm much better for having blocked three or four folks' content just because it's not genuine.
  7. I agree with you, and will add that there are just as many kids in DI right now as there was when I was able to watch Brian Lake, Olajuan Kemp, Willie Kemp, Wayne Chism, Thaddeus Young, Cannon Whitby, Tony Delk, Steve Hamer, Kirk Haston, Corrie Johnson, ect... For whatever reason, there aren't right now and haven't been for a few years any kids in rural West Tn. on that level...maybe not even close to that level. Without checking, there's a span of a few years that many of those I listed overlapped and you could drive less than an hour to see a true DI athlete. You just knew then that you were enjoying a level of basketball that wouldn't last, but when the run stopped, you wouldn't have thought that it was done for years without even a sniff of that kind of avalanche of talent. The "good 'ol days" really were the good 'ol days!
  8. My comment was made to illuminate the fact that Douglass is nowhere near the Upper Cumberland region, yet UCSportsFan picked them to win it all...glad that you had the spine to disagree with his prognosis before you knew the results, else you might have looked like a troll taking shots after the fact.
  9. Bradford 3-peated in the mid nineties with two Miss Basketball winers on the floor...announcer Bill Haney commented that they were the best team in the tournament, regardless of classification.
  10. If someone can earn make some cash from compiling a list of potential tiddlywink champions, they'll put one together and publish it.
  11. They're riding golf carts if it takes them four hours...I'm between 4 and 4-1/2 from Gatlinburg to the west, yet I'm 2+hours from Murfreesboro. Doesn't add up. Regardless...Murfreesboro is the geographical center of Tennessee, can't get more equal than that.
  12. Not trying to butt into the discussion between the two of you, but it seems that I recall one particular incident that was their downfall after allegations of wrongdoing were floated around for years... had to do with one athlete's "tuition" and housing being paid for by an outside entity. If memory serves me correctly, it was a basketball kid too.
  13. Sometimes Barn what we want and what God knows is best are two different things, and I pray that He gives you the strength and wisdom to endure His way and to understand that we're not meant to understand. I rarely participate in these "prayer" threads because I (not knocking anyone else at all) somehow feel that making it public isn't how I need to approach it, but I feel lead to say it this time. I realize that no words will lessen your loss and heartbreak, but if there were I'd love for you to hear them today. May God bless you and yours in your time of need.
  14. Barring some kind of collapse, you're exactly right. I love how everyone calls you a homer, then you put this out there! How it is is just how it is, no matter where you're from.
  15. Frank Hughes is a tiny school who once in every blue moon has a team who doesn't loose two for every win they notch, but this year's different...they're not big, not fast, not a great athlete in the bunch, but they are fundamentally sound, defensively good, and believe in their system. They've got a post who can score, they're gritty, and they have an old school defense that they can throw at you that not many coaches know how to attack. I doubt that they have the firepower to win it all, but they've got the fight in them to beat a good squad.
  16. Some red Tiger fans shaking in their boots?
  17. Just heard it not a half hour ago...great hire for the Dawgs!
  18. Much of what you post I know very little about, but you've drilled until you hit water with your Drew Martin comments. Drew is a fine young man, and a good (if young) coach. Adamsville's talent has been declining for a few years before Drew was hired, and I doubt that any coach in our region could win a handful of games with his talent. McClain came to us from there, and hired Drew as an assistant as soon as he could get him in because he knew the game...forward a few years and Drew proved that he could develop our freshmen into players and did well coaching on the occasions that McClain couldn't be there, even winning a game against a team that we hadn't beaten in a few years. Drew took a pay cut and inherited a team without much talent in order to "go home" and coach the team that he loves even after McClain told him that he wouldn't coach forever, and would help Drew to be promoted here... Adamsville is lucky to have him.
  19. I'm old and I admit it, but Cloudland has been a fixture in girls BB and football for many years. Never been there and from the other end of the state, but when you've been keeping up with HS sports for as long as I have there are names that you recognize and Cloudland is one of them.
  20. Don't you think that his head is big enough already!!!
  21. "Too competitive to call this far away" is a huge understatement. To address that and the comment about most not liking the draw, it looks like the draw was better than most would have seeded the teams. Pittman has an easy road was stated a bunch but didn't make it to Saturday, Gibson is legit, but got a bad draw and have to have a perfect game X-3 to win it, Loretto not good enough to hang with the top 4, ect.. Play the tournament 10 times and I'd bet that you'd get at least 4 different winners, and lots and lots of different combinations in the championship game. In reality, a pre-tournament poll of unbiased voters would probably have had the champion as the 3 or 4 seed and Loretto as the 6 or 7. Predicting one particular winner is interesting and makes for great conversation, but really it's a roll of the dice when the field is that even.
  22. I guess that "good fun" goes both ways, and you laid one in my lap that I can't pass up. One of my very best friends is a dog trainer here...he trained Mr. Bryan's new dog recently, and sort of implied that it might be for the best if lots of folks didn't know about their arrangement. When you run into Luke and Chop at the lake this fall, tell 'um Goober says hey!
  23. Congrats on the gold! They all look the same in the trophy case, but this one should shine a little more... this years field was hard loaded. Not dissing anyone, but I thought that four (or five) of the eight would be heavy favorites most years, and the rest were solid.
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