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I haven't seen them play this year, but I understand they have a good quarterback and good recievers who can catch well. The defense is adequate, looks like they held the Whicker fellow in check from Whitehouse.

Football Dad, I thought I saw CAK as a 3 seed in quad 2? How did this happen?

Sycamore beat a good Whitehouse team last week and could carry that over this week. I would not be surprised if they pull out the win.

Covington always has good players, coaching and fan support. I believe this is their year to win it all.

I believe CC will be in Cookeville this year. The type of offense they run (veer) with 3 backs at or over 1000 yards is hard to stop. The only team in the 3rd or 4th quad that has a defense which could stop them would be CPA. I have not seen South Gibson, but I understand they are a very athletic team which could get to cookeville if they play assignment defense against a team like CC.

whatever happened to Tank Black?

I would have to go with Betsy until someone knocks them off.

Good points. I would tend to agree that the public schools located in smaller communities have the support of the community on Friday nights. It is a shame that the public schools in larger metro areas such as Nashville and Memphis don't have the same support. I get tired of hearing about how other states such as Mississippi and Alabama have more football tallent. Tennessee should have more than these states due to a larger population. I feel that the rural areas do a good job of maximizing talent, if somehow the metro areas had the same result I believe Tennessee could produce 30-40 D1 players every year. In Nashville alone there is most likely 20 D1 players who are not currently playing walking the halls of McGavock, Hunters Lane, and other metro schools. It seems like the only metro schools with backing are Pearl Cohn, Hillsboro, Maplewood recently. I don't know about Memphis, but assume it is the same or worse there.

My guess is that if public and private schools were split, then the tssaa would go back to the 3 divisions for public football championships. I glanced at the tssaa website for enrollment and my guess is that A would be schools less than 550, AA would be 550 to 1000 and AAA would be over 1000. If this were to happen then who could disagree that the football state champions would look like the following most of the time (based upon recent past): A: Alcoa, no one else close, ever AA: Greenville or Signal Mtn, four out of every five years. AAA: Maryville three out of four years, one out of every four a Rutherford Cty school. The one common thread is that most of the schools mentioned have open enrollment. How will this be debated?

If privates and public schools were split, then this would at least stop some of the complaints about privates having an unfair advantage since they don't have clozed zones. A few other issues would pop up however: 1) The publics with open zones would dominate the public division in foottball causing the same rift that now is present with public vs private. Would the tssaa then create 3 divisions? 2) Public schools who depend on the typical large gates from playing privates would suffer as most likely privates would cease or greatly decrease the games with public schools, especially in urban areas. This could result in schools which have severe budget issues to have less $ to fund fooball which is without a doubt the most expensive sport to fund. 3) What would keep the privates from pulling out of the tssaa all together and forming their own association? What impact would this have, if any?

As far as 3a, it doesn't appear that anyone has won in football other than Alcoa, with the exception of CAK last year. It looks like Alcoa is the team to beat again. It would appear that "daddy" would have had this changed several years ago. I believe that any school, private or public, which can get students outside their zone, for ANY reason should be subject to a multiplier of some sort. In regards to Goodpasture, what is their district record since joining 3a when the tssaa reclassified 4 years ago? If I am not mistaken they played for the 3a championship 2 or 3 years ago.

I recall seeing DCA in the playoffs every year and winning several championships. I would think that the reason for any short term decline would be lack of talent, not so much coaching since they have had the same coach for several years if I am correct. I am not that close to the situation, have they had a reduction in student numbers or is it just bad luck with the current talent? It must not be too bad if they are going to make the playoffs.

Still early, but here is what I see so far: 3A has 53 teams total. 32 will qualify for the playoffs. No certain order or quad, but the following are in (21): Sullivan North, Elizabethton, Gatlinburg Pitt, Cumberland Gap, CAK, Alcoa, Kingston, Polk, Sweetwater, Tyner, Smith Cty, York, Westmoreland, CPA, Camden, Cheat. Cty, Lewis Cty, Hickman, Milam, South Gibson, Manassas. Borderline(14): Unicoi, Johnson Cty, Chucky Doak, Sequatchie, Grundy, Upperman, Goodpasture, Pearl Cohn, Harpeth, Waverly, Fairview, East Hickman, Westview, Jackson CM The other 18 not listed will not qualify. I don't know who will make each quad, I am just trying to guess the top 32.

They lost thier best player and all the offense with the QB. I believe they also lost the best RB (fullback). I don't know if they have talent/speed in the skill positions. Could be a tough year. I see CPA, Pearl Cohn, Fairview, Smith Cty, Cheat. Cty as best in 3a midstate.

1. (tie) CPA/ CAK 2. Alcoa 3. Milan 4. Smith Cty 5. Fairview 6. Elizabethton 7. Pearl Cohn 8. Cheat. Cty 9. A-E

Who plays week 2?