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  1. The city is working at being young. I can see that when I drive through town a couple of times per week. You’re right about the other things, though. Oak Ridge was good at sports when other schools hadn’t quite caught up to it. Now the good large schools in the area has caught up or passed OR.
  2. Are you sure? TSSAA lists the school at about 1400 students. That’s an average of 350 kids per grade. I can’t remember OR ever being bigger than that.
  3. That sounds like overall school culture. If you can’t get excited for your team what can you get excited about.
  4. Tradition doesn’t seem to be getting kids to play sports at OR.
  5. I got busy this week and never got back here. I talked about “tradition” because someone mentioned it earlier. Might of been Willie. My point is that OR is now relying on trophies they got years ago and wins that happened years ago, not on anything going on now. Eventually that’s going to rot because kids require some now winning to know what it feels like and to crave it. That goes for all sports.
  6. Sniffed means that the teams at least played for a championship. Girls basketball was runner up in 2016 but last won in 1997, according to TSSAA. Boys were runner up in 2014 but last won in 1963. Boys cross country were runner up in 2015 but last won in 2007. Girls cross country last won in 2010. In fact, that was the last state title in any sport from OR, according to TSSAA. Football was last runner up in 2005 and last won in 1991. No other sports have anything recently. Zero wins in the last nine years. That looks like a tradition that relies on long ago excellence not on today. To me that’s not a tradition any more and some other schools in the area have caught up and passed OR.
  7. OR hasn’t even sniffed a second place trophy in any sport in a while, let alone win one, so I don’t know what “tradition” means there any more. Years ago it was a different story.
  8. I've never seen Malone play football, but he progressed remarkably last spring as a track and field athlete, improving so much in the triple jump that he went to State and made the All-PrepXtra team in the jumps. He improved his 400 down to the 52-53 range, which is getting there. With long legs, long speed, jumping ability, and the coordination to triple jump, he may surprise a few people on the football field. I watched the triple jump at the Sectional meet and thought he had potential.
  9. For that matter, does OR even have soccer, baseball, softball, tennis, or track teams? Do spring sports and spring football even happen at Oak Ridge?
  10. Practice fields and track are garbage.
  11. I was looking for the last OR championship at TSSAA and happened upon that page. I'd never seen it before.
  12. Here is that information. Over the course of many decades, it is impressive.
  13. Set the bar where you want to, but if you’re actually talking “winning” then it has to be state championships. The last one for Oak Ridge was about ten years ago.
  14. Oak Ridge used to be the dominant sports program in the area and one of the pre-eminent programs in the state, but not any more. It’s been a while since OR won anything.
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