maroon

yea how did that happen...i think we were just expecting white house to take the W...what does Sycamore bring to the field maroon

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.

Tough draw for CPA in the first round after an undefeated regular season. I have CPA making it to Cookeville this year, but looks like they will be challenged right out of the gate. I will stick with CPA to win in a close one. This could be one of the very best first round games anywhere for a #1 or #2 seed. Good luck to both teams

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.

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.

We play 1 private school every year as of now (Goodpasture) and they dont bring enough fans to pay a light bill. Funny that many people in the sticks up here think they should drop private schools and one reason is bad gate money. They dont have a huge backing in most cases. Look at it with common sense, a school with say 335 kids doesnt have as many parents interested in their football program as a school with say 535. This equals a bad gate especially away games. Problem with private school folks like in your post maroon, is the folks that attend private schools thinks the world revolve around them. Most of us say good bye and take your gate money with you. We will make it. Maybe in the large inter city schools people feel different about the gate money because those type of parents dont have much support for their kids but out here in the country its not the same.

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?

I always wonder this also. I would think the public schools with closed zones would be in an uproar since schools like Alcoa get the same players as private schools but their parents don't have to shell out the 8-10K per year for their child to go there as the private schools do. I don't think anyone will be happy until the TSSAA makes the privates play privates & publics play publics.

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?

I'm by far not an expert so take this for what its worth, daddy went crying to TSSAA because johnny cant win championships anymore in 3A. daddy is a big time money man so johnny gets his way so he can win again by saying the 3 classes dont count when your applying the multiplier rule. It should really count in the 6 sub classes. So the TSSAA said your right daddy.

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?