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I believe you said that teaching is not "real work". I do not disagree with you about the jobs you listed being real work. I do not disagree that those jobs may be more physically exhausting then teaching. I was not talking down on any of the jobs, I was simply using your examples about what you believe "real work" is. I totally agree that we need workers in all different fields to make our communities and our country function. And for your 50-50 comment, much like in any profession there are employees that do exceptional jobs and those that should look for other employment. Most teachers that are not producing are not in the profession very long anymore. I guess my previous posts on this topic were not as clear as what I intended them to be. If HS coaches only job is to coach a sport, then I agree they should be held accountable for the product on the field/court or other area of competition. College and professional coaches are out if they do not produce, the majority of them are not teaching college courses and lesson planning throughout the week like HS coaches are doing for their students. And yes, I am a teacher. I do not coach any sport, but I do have friends that are coaches and I see the sacrifices they make as well as sacrifices their families make. Most of them are coaching because they enjoy helping young people strive to be better. If they are coaching for a reason other then that, they will weed theirself out.

You sure don't act like it's a game with your comments on here. And I'm sorry that you feel teachers are not doing "real work". We should probably all quit educating students so their parents can decide what is important enough for them to learn. Hey...then maybe when these kids got older they could get a real job working in horrible outdoor conditions so they can dig ditches and have blisters on their hands. My whole point to this topic is people need to stop comparing apples to oranges with the band to the football team. And you're right, these coaches knew what they signed up for and the money is not why they do it. Like I said it's not like there are a lot of people beating down the door to work from 7:30am to 10:30pm from August to November.

Everyone understands that the coaches are teachers first...right? It's not like college, or professional sports where all parts of the coaches job is related to their sport. These guys get to school no later than 7:30am for most of them and teach classes until 2:55 or 3:15pm. Then during their lunch break they watch film, game plan, plan for practice. Now, take the head coach out of this conversation, but if you count the number of hours these coaches put into film, weight room, game planning, practice, games, summer camps and divide that by the stipend they receive to actually coach you might come out to about $0.50 an hour. It's not like people are beating down the door to coach high school athletics, and usually the people that do want to either are not qualified to teach-much less qualified to be around young people to help mentor. Yes, I'm disappointed that DB had a bad season, but Good Grief-put some things in perspective. So much talk about the great band that DB has. Yes they are good, do you know what the band director does all day? Yep, that's right he teaches his band students. His job is revolved around the band. The same cannot be said of all the high school coaches, they don't get to teach and coach their players all day long. I'm not saying that some coaches might not be cut out to do the job, but think about everything they sacrifice To Do this job. Everything the athletic coaches do is all after school and is monitored by the TSSAA. To my knowledge the band does not have any organization that monitors their practice time, or amount of contact that the band director has with them during the "off season".

The rout is on! Roll Tribe!

I totally disagree. Especially with everyone in 6A making playoffs, in fact I think the opposite. If you drill a teams eyes shut-then the next time you play the players and coaching staff remember that. Blazer- I bet you were a Spurrier fan when he was at Florida too.

I haven't watched your youtube link, but my guess is that this is of the Sevier County game a couple years back. As we have heard, DB is young and with a young team you put in as many young guys as possible in a game. So I think if DB has a chance to put in some of their young talent in the 2nd half that they will, as long as the game is still under control.

My only reason for the shootout scoring prediction was because I thought you all would take advantage of some of the personnel mis-matches, In only had us winning by 3 points, I just thought we would have to score a lot to stay in the game with you.

Thanks ORCat. I know you all said it early on, but your defense is impressive. Is #9 being recruited as a TE/WR or DE? Good luck the rest of the way.

Early prediction DB- 34 WB- 21 DB will be up big at the half and let off the gas to rest from the week before

Since you guys are hosting shouldn't the thread read, "Dobyns-Bennett vs. William Blount". Forgive me, but I'm old school when it comes to that.

Wow, Big Man kicking people while they're down. I've only read congratulatory remarks. I'll be the first to say that refs don't lose a game for a team, but they sure can cause the other team to win. Ha! That being said, your Defensive stand at the end was what won the game. No officiating caused the int, just a HS kid making a play when it was needed. Like I said, good luck the rest of the way. Roll Tribe!

Seriously, someone from OR tell me why the heck do you just not throw the ball as high and as far as your QB can (whichever one is in) up in the air and just let 9 and 5 go get it. There hire me to come and coach the offense.

Good game Ridgers! You can leave with your tails held high and purring loud. Good luck rest of the season. No excuses, you all were the better team tonight. I definitely see you conundrum with the offensive coaching. To not take advantage of the weapons and height advantage on the outside is down right criminal.

Safe to say my scoring prediction is way off. Let's go Indians! OR- y'all do have a good looking D btw and #9 looks like a grown a_ _ man out there. Every bit of 6'5" 245.

This is off topic, but how about Maryville's DC resigning today. Pretty good timing.