motormouth

SB?

Walked sidelines before

Has the jewelry

Current head coach

Known & Admired Pelham???

Someone explain to me why a public/private split would affect a private school's mission. Roller (I think) from lipscomb and someone frm MTCS basically said that they would have to re-evaluate there mission with a split. Why?

All private schools are not created equal. Most will not be able to just become recruiting machines. I do not see Ezell Harding, Boyd, TCA, and FRA(for example) out recruiting all the best athletes. Many small privates are struggling with decreasing enrollment. They can't afford to get into arms races with each other. Most privates do it want the split because they do not want ton compete with only other private schools.

That being said I still favor a merit based system. You win consistantly you move up. Winning a championship in the highest division that way would really mean something!

Using the same criteria as above---

How would East Tennessee be divided?

1. Maryville
2. Fulton
3. Knox West
4. Alcoa
5. Science Hill
6. Greeneville
7. Knox Catholic
8. South Doyle
9. Sevier Co.
10. Oak Ridge
11. Sullivan South
12. Webb
13. Loudon
14. Hardin Valley
15. D-B
16. Farragut
17. Tennessee High
18. Elizabethton
19. Mo. East
20. Anderson Co.
21. Mo. West
22. CAK
23. Campbell Co
24. Clinton
25. Livingston Acad. (would they go East?)

I am not as familiar with that area and who is closest to who.

Just as a "what if"...

If you favor a past performance way of classification---

and you used Sonny Moore's end of the year 2015 rankings---

and you proposed 4 classifications with 84 teams in each classification---

and you wanted to keep district size to 7 or 8  teams---

middle Tennessee would have 28 teams

District A

MBA

CPA

Hillsboro

Rossview

Beech

Lipscomb

Nashville Christian

District B

Hendersonville

Pearl-Cohn

Ravenwood

McGavock

Mt. Juliet

BGA

Westmoreland

District C

Oakland

Blackman

Riverdale

Lavergne

Smyrna

Siegel

Marshall Co

District D

Ensworth

Brentwood Academy

Centennial

Franklin

Father Ryan

Independence

Overton

I know the geography is not perfect so please feel free to explain other possible scenarios.

Two very good and well coached teams. An absolute pleasure of a game to watch. Both teams should be very proud.

Congrats to CPA!

Always a lot of accusations but no proof.

I could see Covington and Obion being a threat in the post season.

Any news on the Independence job. I would think that would be a good place. They were dominant when I saw them a couple of years ago.

I would expect these young ladies to have a very good post season.

I would be interested in knowing pitcher scholarship money compared to position player scholarship money.

Yeah but they were their the year before, and 2 years before that. For the last few years i've heard a lot of talk out of Lake County, but haven't seen them playing for a championship yet...Would love to see them on television so I could actually see how good they really are

They have had some serious talent on their team.

Great job ladies! A lot of great athletes and girls on this list. Getting to play at the next level is something that very few people accomplish.

In looking at our options for our college expenses we are curious as to how much a typical scholarship is worth ($1000 per year, $2000 per year, etc). If anyone would be willing to share that information it would be greatly appreciated. Also just include the actual athletic scholarship money and not other financial aid or grants. Your help is appreciated.

People might have written the Beech Ladies off earlier but they are looking strong now.

Very good tourney.

Is West Tn stronger this year? Middle Tn seems to be really good again.

Jones and Kirby are both great players and very deserving.

200 ft (and some parks are 10-20 feet short of that) is not very far given the strength training, hitting lessons and advanced bats these girls are using/getting these days...

Agreed with the above. Still great pitching out there but not nearly as much as there used to be. It has to be a contributing factor.

I think that there is less activity but it seems that many people have been a lot classier with comments this year.

Congrats to Beech for overcoming a tough week with a lot of distractions and winning a very good tournament.

No, the poster meant Jeff Brothers if he was thinking of someone at Pope John Paul. Rutledge was never there.

I thought that Rutledge took the football job at JPII this year.

I have heard that the athletics are a real mess at JPII so he might indeed want out. I do not know if he would be interested in taking a step down to go to CPA. I do not see them being able to ante up the money to get him. He would be a big name coach for them.

Brothers at NCS is a possibility but in terms of competitiveness it seems like NCS is at a better place right now than CPA. CPA's district is much tougher. Good luck to whomever takes the job. I heard that the last coach was treated unfairly (just what I heard). Good luck to everyone involved.

Hubbs and Nichols are both the real deal.

Congrats to the lady pioneers! Great game vs. Bradford lady devils in the gibson co. Christmas tournament. Another tournament championship for GC!!! Again congrats ladies!

A very solid program.

What coach is credited with originally putting Maryville football on the map? I heard whoever he is he may be a strong possibility at Centennial.

Heard same.