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Dickson Co. coach Randy Murphee resigned today.

I don't follow HS football as much as most of you guys, I'm a baseball/softball guy, but I am shocked that Dickson County's head coach is not on this list. Dickson used to have some good teams back in the day. The current head coach's stats from the last 3 years: 5 wins, 26 losses/299 points for and 1075 points against. If that's not enough to get the school to realize it's time to make a change, I'm not sure what ever will???

Late to the game here. Don't get on this site much anymore and this incident just popped back up in my head so I thought I would check here. I see not much has changed. Several have posted that no one is condoning the coach's actions, but several have in a way. The "well, that umpire must have done something" post or the ones talking about the call not being made all year. While those are certainly reasons for a coach getting upset, absolutely nothing gives that coach the right to act the way he did. Nothing. Those statements, are in fact giving a reason for this coach's insane behavior. I have spoken with people that have first hand accounts form both sides of this story. The Haywood coach is 100% in the wrong. He needs to be removed from his position. Period. You cannot have a man that cannot control himself in a position to mold and mentor young men. That was pathetic and the school administration is just as pathetic. The rule should've been called all year, you say? Maybe it was, maybe just some, maybe it never was. But that doesn't really matter either. That coach knows the rule and if he is this great baseball mind that everyone claims, he should have spotted his own player breaking the rule and fixed it. "But officer I've ran that stop sign all summer and not got a ticket!" It don't work that way. That's on him, not that umpire. He is the only one to blame for this situation. He created the fire that led to his players actions. This is high school baseball, his actions have no place here and I do not see how he can be trusted going forward. That is some serious anger issues. I mean, you have to do something like beat my dog to elicit that kind of reaction from me(and most people I associate with). I do not know any umpires in his area, but wonder if they are considering refusing to do his games if the school doesn't take appropriate action. Just a thought. I would bet they are above that and would consider that a punishment to the kids, which are the reason most umpires I know do this crazy job. That's my two cents. I am also curious if there has been any new developments in this story? Latest news I can find is almost a month old.

I think the bracket breakdown threw him off, did me too for a moment. This has got to be the largest area covered for a district in the state. It's got to be a 2+ hour drive from Lewis to Stewart.

Thanks for the updates.

Mt. Juliet Middle School and High School rank the highest, as far as quality of EDUCATION.

Both pitchers come in pitching shut out ball, one small mistake may be the key in this game. I see it being another low scoring affair.

Creek Wood has shocked me making it to State. Happy for those girls, they've earned it. I had been told the Freshman was pitching the majority of the post season. Guess my info was incorrect. The Junior pitcher has really stepped up and showed out. They will have a tough test in the first game. I heard they were playing Chatt Central. They have an excellent pitcher as well. Hope their bats get hot and keep this run going.

Definitely looked like he touched 3rd in the video. He was at least close enough for the umpires to say, "sorry coach, ballgame." That's a crappy way to win and very crappy way to lose such a big game. 4 man crew, why appeal to the plate ump? 3rd base ump is right there, 5 feet away from the bag, that is his call.

Looks like Creek Wood's freshman has, for the most part, lived up to the hype. Waverly got to her in their last meeting. She gets a shot at redemption tomorrow at Waverly. I heard the senior pitcher quit during the season. I hate that. I have no idea what the circumstances were, just hate to see young folks lose their passion for the game and lose the fun and love.

Any of these games been played?

That is really awesome. Kudos to Ray and those boys.

I have not followed this district hardly at all this year, really out of the loop. East Hickman is in 1st place? Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Ray Ragan take that job after Parker left for greener pastures? Glad to see East finally be competitive after all these years.

Add Dickson County to the list. Coach Tipps left for the boys job at Loretto after two seasons. Cupboard in Dickson was looking a little bare and I believe his son will playing at Loretto next year.

I think that's it David. I was there a year ago, maybe it was two. Nice playing surface. I remember they had some nice stripping done. Dugouts looked more like rec. league dugouts than a high school facility, but overall a very nice field. Don't remember there being much other for facilities there though. Nice field, but far from being the best in TN. I've been to a lot of fields in Middle TN, some in West TN and very few in East TN.

Drawing that line just sets you up for conflict later on, and it's an incorrect interpretation. That's bush league to me. Any seasoned umpire knows not to create markings on the field that are not already there. That will always only make the job harder. It's never been in an umpires job description to mark the field. You definitely shouldn't invent field markings either. I umpired with a lot of guys, and a few gals, that played ball their whole life and "thought" they knew the rules. I was once one of those. Some take the time to open the rule book and discover a lot of things they've always "known" are not so. Some just keep on doing it wrong. Best thing to do is to notify the assigner and let him correct the umpire....hopefully.

If anybody gets games in today, I would like to hear how about the pitch count went down.

I was referring to the JR. She can dominate a lot of the teams in the district, but could see some struggles with the top teams, like a Waverly, or she might dominate them too. High school kids, you just never know. That freshman pitcher could develop into a shut down, other team feels hopeless, type pitcher. She has some attitude problems on the field. She can get frustrated easily and loses all her control. Hopefully she gains some maturity over the next 4 years. She can be a great one, like Brooklin Lee. Only time will tell.

Someone hack your profile?

Well, I guess Dickson County wasn't the worst team in the tourney and good thing they didn't go ahead and give Stewart's Creek the silver.

I was wondering what happened. My stream went dead with 9 seconds to go. Then it came back when they tipped off OT.

I agree about Creek Wood. I don't think that pitcher will be a shut down/dominate type. She will with some teams, but will struggle with the better hitting teams. I think they take the district, but they won't dominate.

You said in your first post that there was not a shortage in the U.S., now you say everyone knows there is a shortage. Maybe you did read those articles. Never let a player "chew" you out. Just no. I about said, in my earlier post, that the younger generation does not officiate because they cannot not handle someone being critical of them. Your comment on this is just plain dumb. You need someone, who has been there before, to tell you what's up. I had some great guys teach me. I helped several young guys the last several years I was umpiring. The last 3 or 4 years those young guys just didn't want to listen and apparently never picked up the book before either. Very few lasted past the first year, either by their own choice or because most guys didn't want to work with someone unwilling to learn.

You're clueless. In the decades I've been involved with officiating, not once I have heard an official or an assigner say anything remotely close to being racist or sexist. The people that do these jobs are doing them because they're the ones that volunteered. As few people there are now days willing to umpire, there's a much, much, much smaller portion willing to be an assigner. Go educate your self on this topic and volunteer, stop your b****ing, and get a taste. You look like a fool with the posts you've been making here. There are not people beating on the TSSAA door to sign up to be a virtually unpaid assigner that gets to deal with scheduling games, that constantly change, deal with hot headed coaches and clueless coaches, coordinate 30+ umpires schedules to get it all work out. You would lose your mind after day one. If you're half the man that my former assigner is, the world will owe you a huge debt of gratitude. Assigners are not the reason people don't umpire, it's the commitment, time and also having to deal with douchebags in the stands and sometimes in the dugout.