1925Kee

Unbelievable!

Small school soccer seems to be in trouble in Tennessee. Just this season (boys), I know of three East TN teams that have been forced to shut down due to lack of numbers. Similar problems seem to be plaguing other schools that are still managing to field teams. I have not seen it this bad for five years. Perhaps this is not wide spread, but I'm curious to know if others are seeing the same thing.

I rechecked my email. No attempt to reach me.

Prayers from Greenback. Hard to believe.

If I had a to guess, that's due in large part to poor communication. I have paid twice to be a "member" of this organization and have never received any acknowledgement, never mind any requests for participation. The second time I attempted to be a member, I followed up with a complaint that I was not listed as a member despite my paying to do so. I never received a response from that either. The only reason I knew about this most recent nomination process was due to your post in this thread.

Seems to be a problem in Knoxville Region. Anyone know what's going on? Is it an issue outside of Knoxville area?

Not sure I understand what is being proposed. Today we have: Division I Class A Class AA Class AAA Division II Class A Class AA What is the proposed change? if the existing structure is defined as "5 classifications," and we now drop to 4 classifications, where is that done? The devil is in the detail.

S Pitt had a great punt last night. Don't know if he's always that good, but that was a quality punt.

Currently, it might be faster to go to LC by way of Bucksnort. LOL

I think he was talking about LC. There's only one answer to that, but I don't want to spread it around. Heck, LC might try to widen the road and take 5 years to do it.

All hanging in there, OnB! Hope all is well with you and yours. Will see you at Midway game if not before.

Don't say Panthers Just say Wampler's They're the best team In the land

Nice ego.

Completely agree with this. Tough to collect funds, plan fundraisers, and figure out who's on the roster all within 30 days. Add to that the difficulty of boys in basketball and wrestling who cannot attend soccer early in the year and you have problems to overcome, right out of the gate.

According to TSSAA, you can't start practice before some time in, I think, July. I don't know if they consider "workouts" different from practice, and I don't know if they enforce their own rule consistently. I did see one team fined last year for practicing before July--forget who it was. I would guess that if workouts are limited to training, fitness, weights, cardio, etc, that it is not considered practice and could then start earlier. Don't know if that's a fact or not.