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Can't speak to that, but I can almost guarantee there are kids served by FCHS buses playing for Huntland. And that's often been the case for decades, I'm sure. Now and then a kid on Huntland's bus route plays athletics at FCHS. I will say, it wouldn't be all that unusual for a kid in Elora to prefer the five mile drive to Huntland over the 20-30 minute drive to FHS or LCHS. This is a really big can of worms that they're opening, imo.

Varo can respond for sure, but this is exactly how I understand it. Any kid in LC is welcome at Fayetteville HS and always has been. Ruling says that since this kid is outside of the city and not served by a bus route (in-city routes only), that he's ineligible. 100% guaranteed Lincoln County has kids in the opposite situation. Live in the city (no county buses pick up in town), play at LCHS. Only difference is, no playoffs for LCHS. As I've noted, definitely kids playing at Huntland who aren't served by a Huntland bus route (open zoning in FC, but bus routes are specific to schools).

Might turn out to be a mistake. There's no question at all that Huntland has kids who went to North or South Middle Schools on their roster, and those kids would normally attend FCHS. I'd say there's a 99+% chance they are playing kids who are not served by a bus route.

Best approach might be for Fayetteville to file about two dozen protests of playoff schools, right before the appeal is heard.

It's mentioned in the rules, but I cannot believe this decision is in agreement with the spirit of the rule. If applied this way, there could likely be dozens or of schools in TN with ineligible kids, all over the state. For example, there are no Lincoln County buses that pick up inside the city of Fayetteville to my knowledge, but kids from Fayetteville do now and always have attended LCHS - should every LCHS win in history be forfeited? Many kids who are technically 'zoned' to attend Franklin County HS attend Huntland instead, you just have to provide your own transportation (Though bus routes are separate, you've generally been welcome to attend whichever high school you like in FC, provided you can get there). Good chance every team at Huntland has an ineligible kid now and probably always has had, if bus routes alone govern. There would be a few at FCHS where the opposite is true - Huntland bus runs by their house instead. There's a family with a son in Huntland in athletics and a daughter at FCHS in athletics. I can't believe that Lincoln County and Franklin County are the only two who would have dozens or hundreds of historical teams who would have to forfeit all games if the bus route rule governs. I'll bet there are dozens and dozens of schools that would be affected. How about Marion Co and SPitt - what are the boundaries and bus routes over there? I have no idea. I think this has a world more tentacles than anyone at TSSAA realizes at the moment. There might be a big number of playoff teams with ineligible players if this is applied across the board. Tullahoma has no buses, but allows kids from inside Franklin County and outside of Tullahoma to attend. Do they have to abandon athletics?

I don't think he got five carries, even. Hard to explain. LCHS has limited numbers (only around 30-32 players older than Fr) and is small in size, generally. Imagine they had several playing both ways. Even at the end of the game in 2018, LCHS didn't appear too interested in tackling 240 lb Wagner late in the game. I'm not sure they have a defender over 210-220 and don't think they would have held up if #24 had carried the ball a lot. I wonder if getting behind early just changed Mac's entire game plan. Looked like they tried to run a mashup of the Varsity and Fr offense and sort of made the offensive gameplan up on the fly. I don't think they ran the offense they'd practiced all week. I think the game that FCHS played was possibly the only one that LCHS could've beaten them at. I just don't think LCHS could've held up all night with Wagner running at them.

Congratulations to Don Thomas, new HC at LCHS. Now, will be interesting to see how many folks in the City are lining up to pay for a new High School. My bet is not nearly enough. Not sure if a referendum would be required to raise prop taxes/fund it or not - if so, I can't imagine that passing. I've yet to hear a compelling reason to support the idea.

Good questions - I can take a stab at a few. If the city HS happens, it'll be 1A acc'd to Mark Clark (second-hand info to me). Would be at the old fay city jr high location. Jr high would be next-door at current intermediate school. Ralph Askins expanded to k-5 from k-3 current. I'd assume they would be the tigers, but a guess. Heard the rumor of Don as HC, but no true info. Seems odd that they'd hire one at this point to me, or even discuss it - they're only planning to add a single grade per year. Doubt that they'll have any serious football players in 10th grade and up for a while, regardless. True dat on the wheel tax - errybody there's still payin it, regardless of the promises at the time. Increased taxes would mostly be born by the city people thru property tax increases, I'd guess. Maybe shared thru increased sales taxes in Fayetteville, I suppose.

Ship has sailed for sure, Punk's staying at Giles County. Good for him and Giles, bad for LC. I'm hearing rumors that the city high school may not be a serious thing - may have been just a ruse to torpedo the hire over old frictions, etc. Apparently wasn't even scheduled for a vote until the last minute - at a time when O'Connor still had time to reconsider. We'll see - hope that isn't true. Still, I can't imagine who is gonna be willing to line up an pay for a new high school two miles from the current one - hard to feature where the funding and/or referendum votes will come from. Anxious to find out the truth - if this was just a power play/ego thing, it should not go unanswered at the ballot box in Fayetteville.