DavidSchwetty

Wow...12 pages now of Dads embarrassing their sons

McCallie's five previous opponents have a combined 5 wins. . .reality sets in this week as EHS will win by 10+ . . .the Tornado will be fortunate to win 1 out of its next 5 games.

Unless you're a private school. Then success is based solely on recruiting right?

So if you pay high tuition it's buying a gold ball but if you pay low tuition aka "taxes" that's perfectly legit. I guess folks in the cities of Nashville or Memphis don't pay any city taxes. Davidson and Shelby county probably don't tax them either.

All I want to know is why open zoned publics are considered different when it comes to classification than Ensworth, MUS, MBA, FRA, CPA, Lipscomb, etc? They seem to have all of the same advantages as those privates but with lower tuition and arguably lower academic standards.

That seems to be even more advantageous for the open zone schools. Open enrollment with no tuition required vs. a private school that has to charge thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in tuition for a student to attend? I get that only a percentage of an open zoned schools students are from out of zone so applying the 1.8x multiplier would probably be extreme, but if the goal is make a level playing field, shouldn't they be subject to a lesser multiplier of some sort? Maybe equivalent to the percentage of out of zone schools times 1.8x?

You're making an irrelevant argument. There are hundreds of private schools that are terrible at football as well but for some reason they have been separated from their public counterparts or forced to play in a higher classification because they will take any student who can qualify academically and pay the tuition. If open zone schools, Maryville, Alcoa, and the hundreds of others in TN included, allow students from outside their zone if to attend if they pay tuition, how is that any different than one of the hundreds of private schools that are forced to either play in a different division or in a higher classification?

How is this situation any different than a private school? Metro Nashville parents seek out private schools for better academics (in several cases extremely demanding academics), usually well before it would be known if the student is a great high school athlete. They pay tuition which is much higher than what is paid for an out of zone student to go to Maryville or Alcoa. There are very few if any recruited athletes. What's the difference between these two schools and DII-AA?

So are you implying that EHS football players have taken classes at Nashville State and received academic credit at EHS?

I'm curious as to where that $71.2 million figure came from. I didn't see it on their website and it's about 30% higher than I had heard. Either way, it's a pretty impressive number for a school with less than a decade of history. Of course, it's almost all thanks to HCA's most recent IPO and subsequent dividend recaps, but what over there hasn't been handed down from Tommy Frist? Regardless of who's endowment is bigger, EHS' has nothing to do with "more and more wealthy alumni from MBA and Harpeth Hall sending their children to EHS." That's why the football field is littered with the sons of former MBA greats, right? Wait, TIny Richardson's dad isn't an MBA alum? I guess it doesn't matter because he left EHS so he could qualify for college. But surely Corey Batey, Tavarres, Orleans, Corn, Rico, Ferby, Sam Cooper, Michael Sawyer, Jacob Carter, Heinz, Fentress, Sheffield and the McDermotts, surely their Dads are MBA alums? Not one? That's wierd because I thougth all the MBA alums were sending their kids to EHS. Isn't the EHS Board of Trust full of MBA alums? Nope.

Green Bay Packers cut Graham Harrell and Vince Young in order to keep former McCallie QB as a backup to Aaron Rogers

Strong performance by EHS, but depth could be an issue as the season goes on. A couple of bumps and bruises could put them in a tight spot. By my count that makes Trinity 4-4 against the Division II schools (2-0 vs BA, 2-3 vs MBA, 0-1 vs EHS). The way some of the Trinity fans talk, you would think that they're 10-0. They've hardly been dominant against the best of DII

Are there really only 40 players on the EHS roster? It's going to be tough for them to keep up with the pace at which Trinity runs its offense. I'd be a little bit worried about fatigue in general given that Trinity platoons personnel on each side of the ball.

Losing 4 games to 3 schools that have more or less sold their souls to make football the number one priority hardly makes this season a forgettable year. That being said nothing exceptional about this season either.

The percentage is significantly higher than 12.5% in the high school. I'll just leave it at that.