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As hard as it was to witness everything that happened after the game Friday night, I take comfort in knowing that Upperman’s biggest fan went from witnessing the greatest win in school history to witnessing the face of his savior. There is never a good time to lose someone we love but for Mr butler, what a wonderful thing to witness as the last image he ever saw. From one of his greatest nights to his greatest eternal reward. I could care less about all this other junk you all are taking about. In the game of life, none of it matters. Go win the gold ball for him Bees!

Not a single person that watched that kid stagger around thought that kid was fine. Sad to watch someone put a high school football game over that kid’s well being.

I have nothing but respect for the Marshall County coaches, players, and fans. They were a class act and was greeted friendly by every Tiger I met.

It's a little unfair to say DB got beat by one guy. Huge plays by Hite, Gillespie-Taylor, Youngblood and Crawford on D. Cade is a special player but he only plays on one side of the ball.

I hate to say it but the more talented team did not win tonight. 3 turnovers and 5 personal foul penalties. DB was as undisciplined of a team as I've seen. This falls on the coaches not the players. As previously stated, a ton of talent going to waste.

I was actually much more impressed with #1 for Midway than I was #3. I think she tried to do too much on her own last night. Has talent but she will have to learn to involve her teammates at the next level. #1 looked like an underclassman. I bet we wil hear more from her in the future for Midway.

I had never heard the guy that was with Pat Friday.

I think he had some stints put in before the MoWest game. The guy doing the game Friday said he was doing better and had worked all day Friday. He is missed.

Does anyone know if Ron Metcalfe will be back on the radio this week?

I saw Julius Montgomery play for the first time last night. He may mean more to his team than any other player in Greeneville/Greene County. He is the star on offense, defense, and special teams. I am not saying he is the best player but means the most to his team. I think Greeneville wins handily but I truly believe Chuckey Doak will provide the best inconference challenge of the season.

If my sources are correct, they have hired from within and tabbed Lesley Murray the new head coach.

That is incorrect. The site is maintained by Ron Metcalfe. He is the play by play announcer of Greeneville football on WGRV.

I would like to see James Buchanon stay at North Greene. I think he is the best person in a coaching position in Greene County. I think Renee Skeen is the logical choice for Greeneville. Interesting thought, if Buchanon did come to Greeneville would Skeen be interested in coaching her alma mater (North Greene).

Somebody please tell the joker doing play by play on TV that the GHS quarterback is not Mayfield. He is WILLIE CARMICHAEL. You would think a paid professional would know Mr. Football's name

I noticed on the schedule yesterday that it is listed that Greeneville and West Greene are playing their game in Charleston, SC. Is that right? Seems like a huge waste of money for two schools to travel 300 miles to play a game when they are 15 miles apart. I hope it is a misprint on the schedule because it makes no sense at all.

There is nothing antique or boring about scoring 40.6 points per game, which is what CN averaged last year on offense. If you think there offense is boring or antique then you have never witnessed it in person.

Tusculum has a mayor, aldermen, police department and a college. What it doesn't have is a post office.(Baileyton is the same). Perhaps you should use one of the many other reasons to call Doug Fritz and his cohorts at the JCP a moron and not let that one bother you any more. I got this straight from the Tusculum College website. "Located in Greeneville, Tennessee, Tusculum College lies in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. The city of Greeneville and Greene County have a combined population of over 65,000." It must not be a very smart school because according to you they don't even know where the heck they are located.

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No Sugar the college is in Greeneville, TN. Tusculum College 60 Shiloh Road Greeneville, TN 37745-0596 That is why every paper in the region (Greeneville Sun, KNS, Citizen Tribune....) puts the dateline as GREENEVILLE. Has nothing to do with this topic. it is just a huge pet peave of mine and another example of the JC Press' ignorance.

1) For those of you bashing the Johnson City Press, you obviously have higher expectations for that paper than I do. The paper overall is ok but the sports section is a joke. Seriously I get a laugh when I see articles from Tusculum College and I see the dateline is TUSCULUM. Newsflash, the college is Tusculum the town is in fact located in GREENEVILLE. Morons 2) Steve McCurry was at Mooresville, NC this season. They went winless and has already resigned after one year. 3) If you want to win and have a great (and i mean great) man as your head coach, then the choice is Mike Turner. He is a true Christian man in every aspect of the word and the most successful Science Hill run in recent memory was under his guidance. He is one of, if not the reason why Carson Newman football is where they are today (the semifinals of the national playoffs).

I base my assessment that Bill Duncan is not well respected outside the doors of Greeneville High School on 2 things. Neither reason has anything to do with recruiting. 1) The coaches I have talked to in the IMAC do not speak very highly of him. Greeneville High School is not his first coaching stop in East Tennessee. 2) Greeneville High School played all 4 of the county teams during the regular season before Bill Duncan's arrival. Now all 4 county teams refuse to play Greeneville and by all accounts that I have heard it all revolves around Bill Duncan. Now, Greeneville travels to Knoxville and beyond to fill those games slots. Kinda takes a chunk out of the athletic budget to travel to Knoxville rather than Chuckey Doak or South Greene. Plus, the county games were good rivalry games.

I am the type of message board visitor that reads the posts for the most part and only post when something catches my eye. I have been reading the last several posts about Greeneville and Bill Duncan and can't keep myself from sharing my thoughts. 1) Barb has been giving grammar and spelling lessons so I will give one. It is my personal opinion that using the word "respected" and "Bill Duncan" in the same sentence is bad sentence structure. Anyone who thinks that Bill Duncan is "widely respected" has not talked to anyone outside the doors of Greeneville High School. The week after Greeneville hired Duncan, I was playing golf with a long term, well known, IMAC head boys basketball coach who asked me "what are they thinking up in Greeneville. They must be willing to hire anybody to win." Duncan's reputation preceded him. While he is a known and proven winner, to say that he is well respected is an extreme stretch. The hire was made because Greeneville had the best collection of basketball talent they had ever had going into the 2000-2001 season, they had stripped all that talent away from Herbe Hawkes (in a classless move), and was willing to do anything to win a state title. Greeneville High School has only ever won one team state title, which was in Boy's Golf (ironically coached by Herbe Hawkes). The administration saw an opportunity to win another state championship and sold their soul to try to win another one. It is my understanding that he wasn't going to hang around this long. Maybe he likes it and decided to stay. While he still hasn't won a state title, he has dominated the district and has competed in the region. 2) I do not understand the recruiting allegations. Other than Antione Wiggins and Jordon Short, who has come to Greeneville that wasn't supposed to? Greeneville gets its third Division I basketball player in school history and all of a sudden Greeneville is recruiting. To quote a previous post "Sometimes families move." When teams have success, other team's fans have to come up with other excuses for the success other than good ole fashioned hard work. It is fairly commonly known that an extremely talented Tri Cities basketball player wanted to transfer to Greeneville for his senior year and had to be encouraged to stay where he was. That sounds like the opposite of recruiting to me. While I am obviously not a huge fan of Bill Duncan's, I do realize that when it comes to coaching he gets the most out of his players. Since Bill Duncan has been at Greeneville all but 3 of his players (to my knowledge) came to Greeneville as freshman. There are many reasons for Greeneville's success in Boy's Basketball over the past several years but recruiting is not one of those reasons.

From what I have read in the paper, the Dobner kid looks to be pretty good but I am surprised no one has talked about Ottinger. It looks as though Chuckey Doak would have been a contender with Ottinger. Add Dobner and they have a solid chance of going to State I am a 2000 GHS graduate, my mom is a North Greene Graduate, I grew up in the Chuckey Doak school district, and I graduated from Tusculum College. Does that make me a snob-hick-redneck?

Aggies Hire Joe Lee Dunn as Defensive Coordinator Las Cruces, N.M. -- New Mexico State head football coach Hal Mumme announced Monday that NMSU has hired veteran defensive master mind Joe Lee Dunn as the Aggies' new Defensive Coordinator effective December 15th 2007. In addition to Dunn's hiring, NMSU Athletics Director Dr. McKinley Boston also announced that Mumme will receive a one-year contract extension through 2010. "I am pleased to announce the President Martin has accepted my recommendation to provide a one-year extension to Hal Mumme's contract," NMSU Athletics Director Dr. McKinley Boston said. "The contract will be forwarded to the Board of Regents for action at their March 2008 board meeting. I have also accepted coach Mumme's recommendation to hire Joe Lee Dunn as the new defensive coordinator and believe he will be a valuable addition to the program." "I'm exciting and thrilled to work with Hal Mumme and be a part of New Mexico State football as the defensive coordinator," Dunn said. "I feel we have a great chance at being a very good football team and to make a bowl game. I'm extremely excited to be back in college football and I'm ready to hit the ground running." "I'm excited about having Joe Lee Dunn as our new defensive coordinator," Mumme said. "I wanted to stay with an odd defense and because of our personnel I thought the 3-5 would be a good fit and who better to put that in but the guy (Joe Lee Dunn) who invented it. I also want to thank our administration for giving me the one-year contract extension and having the confidence in me to continue to turn this program in the right direction. I enjoy being the coach of the Aggies and I look forward to continuing to build the program into a consistent bowl team." With over 30 years of coaching experience Dunn brings a high pressured defense to the Aggies that will give opposing teams fits. Dunn has spent the last year as the head coach at Ridgeway High School in Memphis, Tennessee. In 2007, Dunn guided Ridgeway to a 5-5 overall record and a spot in the first round of the Tennessee High School playoffs. Dunn, who served as defensive coordinator for the University of Memphis football team from 1989-91, returned to the Tigers in the same capacity in the spring of 2003. He was hired by Tommy West to take over and reconstruct the Tiger defense, and lived up to the task, moving the Memphis defense from near the bottom of the NCAA rankings to a top 10 finish in 2003. Memphis, which was ranked 101st in the nation in rushing defense and 57th overall in 2002, climbed to 18th in rushing defense, 19th in pass defense and ninth in total defense in 2003 under Dunn's guidance. Memphis also ranked second in Conference USA in scoring defense, second in rush defense, third in pass defense and first in total defense, allowing just 295.8 yards per game. Five members of Dunn's defensive unit received All-Conference USA honors in 2003, including free safety Wesley Smith who was named to the first team. In 2004, the Tiger defensive unit ranked fourth in Conference USA in rushing defense and seventh in total defense. Several individuals ranked in the top 10 in the league, including Dustin Lopez who ranked third in interceptions and third in passes defended; Tim Goodwell who was eighth in tackles and led the league in fumbles recovered; and Quinton McCrary and Marcus West who were ninth and 10th in sacks, respectively. Four members of the Tiger defense received All-Conference USA honors in 2004, as Wesley Smith was a first-team pick, and Marcus West and Albert Means were selected to the second team. Linebacker Greg Hinds was named to the C-USA All-Freshman squad. The 2005 squad suffered through a myriad of injuries, but still managed to lead C-USA and ranked 27th nationally in rushing defense, and was 36th in the country in scoring defense. Safety Wesley Smith was named a first-team pick on the All-C-USA team for the third-straight season and defensive lineman Marcus West also landed on the first team. Dunn came to Memphis after having served as the defensive coordinator at Mississippi State University from 1996 through 2002. For seven seasons, Dunn directed a Bulldog defense that was consistently ranked among the nation's elite. During the 2001 season, the Bulldog defense held three opponents to 21 points or less, and his 2000 MSU defense was ranked second in the SEC and 13th nationally in rushing defense and scored an amazing eight touchdowns. The 1999 Bulldog defense led the nation in both rushing and total defense and was fourth in pass efficiency defense. Mississippi State finished sixth in scoring defense and allowed just 222.5 yards per game in total defense. Dunn was a finalist for the Broyles Award, which is presented annually to the nation's top assistant coach. When Dunn arrived at Mississippi State, the defense ranked near the bottom of the SEC in nearly every defensive category, but his units showed improvements with each passing season. In 1998, State's defensive unit featured the SEC regular-season sack leader in end Edward Smith, who registered 12 quarterback sacks. MSU was the last Division 1-A defense in the nation to allow a touchdown through the air in 1998 and scored five defensive touchdowns throughout the campaign. The defense helped MSU win the Western Division title and gain a berth in the SEC Championship Game. In 1996, Dunn's defense broke the school record for quarterback sacks in a single season with 39. Prior to his arrival at Mississippi State, Dunn served one year as defensive coordinator at Arkansas, where his Razorback unit finished first in the SEC and fifth nationally against the run. He helped lead Arkansas to the 1995 SEC Western Division title. Dunn went to Arkansas following three seasons at Ole Miss, the first two as defensive coordinator and the final as interim head coach. While at Ole Miss, he lifted the Rebels' defense among the nation's best. Ole Miss finished sixth, first and 17th nationally in total defense during Dunn's stay. A native of Columbus, Ga., Dunn arrived at Ole Miss after spending three years retooling the Memphis defense. From 1989 through 1991, Dunn served as a graduate assistant coach for one year and as defensive coordinator for his final two campaigns. Under Dunn's direction, the Tiger defense put together some pretty impressive statistics in the early 1990s. The 1990 unit, which was competing against teams like Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Florida State and Southern Miss, was ranked amongst the nation's top 50 in rush defense (31st), pass defense (41st), scoring defense (39th) and total defense (45th). While taking on such noted opponents as Southern Cal, Ole Miss, Missouri, Mississippi State, Alabama and Tennessee in 1991, the Tigers were ranked 54th in rush defense, 57th in total defense and 49th in scoring defense. In 1987 and 1988, Dunn served as defensive coordinator at the University of South Carolina. In 1987, the Gamecocks were one of just three teams to finish among the nation's top five in all major defensive categories. Immediately prior to entering the SEC, Dunn spent seven years at the University of New Mexico, the last four as the school's head coach. He began his collegiate coaching career with a nine-year stint at his alma mater UT-Chattanooga, an institution which later inducted him into its Athletic Hall of Fame in 1992. Dunn, 61, graduated from UT-Chattanooga in 1968 with a degree in Education and Mathematics. He and his wife, Susie, have three children: daughters, Kacey and Ashley, and a son, Joseph Levi Jr.

Why doesn't Bobby Raider do the post game scoreboard show anymore?