RebRaider85

Tri Cities Christian is the only one that has a football program that plays public schools. I heard over on the 1A board that they might be combining with another school to field a team this year. They have never had many kids on the team. There is another team called the Tennessee Silverbacks which plays in the Pioneer Football League which is mainly made up of teams from North and South Carolina. That bunch has some long travel times for sure. The Silverbacks are homeschoolers and from places like University High and Providence Academy that do not have football.

I hope you are right but talk about a traffic jam if that happened. Not too bad with Rock Springs starting much later than the high school now but move that to a 10 minute differential starting time and it will get ugly fast.Last time when they were talking about combining Sullivan North and Sullivan South they said the new school (wherever it may be) would be changed to Sullivan West since that would be the effective area of the combined school.

I'm an outsider in regards to Blount County but I would think that playing a well coached WB team's 6A schedule every year would be better material for attracting college scouts than playing a similarly well coached Alcoa's team 2A/3A schedule.

I may be having a senior moment but I can't place the "JHS" location of the jamboree.Greeneville may run the table this year but it will be a lot more interesting for you than playing in the BRAC.

Death Valley is the name of Sullivan South's stadium.

Three thoughts on the situation:...If they go to 3 high schools I'd bet that they will change the name/mascot of the school located at the current South building. ...If they elect to go to only 2 new bigger high schools then South would close as well. It is hard to get alumni to contribute to building programs when every time the early graduates of a school get to the points in their careers (later earning years) where they have the means to contribute but the school gets closed. ...The North community seems to be up in arms about not sending their kids to South. That sort of attitude was there when I was a student there. Now that I have ties to both schools I just don't understand it. The only thing they have to complain about is that their neighborhood school is closing and they are having to send their kids "across town". You know I bet I might have had a longer more twisted commute to North from the Carter's Valley area back then (in-zone) than Bloomingdale might have in the future to Moreland Drive.

Probably won't have to worry about SN too much longer. Every scenario the SCBOE has on hand in the study they are running right now closes that as a high school. Might have 2 or 3 more years.

Has your athletic director ever stated what he was thinking about when he decided to play in that division? All the other sports would have stayed the same if he had elected to play up in football wouldn't they?

I think they put JROTC or another group like that up there to guard the upper deck entrances. That was probably a good little fundraiser for them.

Just make sure you have a full roll of dollar bills when you sign up for that upper deck tour. Last year you couldn't step foot on it without the proper ticket and I believe the cheap seats were about $20 each. I had season tix so I don't have firsthand knowledge of that but that is what I heard people grumbling about. Cheap seats on the bottom always sold out early and people were leaving rather than paying out the nose to sit in empty seats up high.

The comments in the article were all very complementary about Coach Wise. Evidently there must not be much respect for the person who was the head coach at that school because many people who commented basically were saying that they should have given the head coaching position to offensive coordinator Wise there instead to prevent him from leaving. Good luck to Signal Mountain. Sounds like you snagged a good one.

"A few" years might be all we have left depending upon how the school consolidation effort goes!

I'd say it is a winnable game for Union but DC will have a senior QB who I think has started since he was a freshman. Best player on the team will probably be a Junior running back who looked good as a Soph. We are are talking about a school of 1400+ who haven't been competitive against their peers but they have started scheduling games against schools half their size to try to win a few games.I'm on the SWVA board occasionally under the same name.

DC has only been competitive when playing other bottom of conference teams or much smaller schools. Now that they are moving to a different conference they might be able to win a few more games. I will comment that the last few years with their new coach they have been forming a bit of a thug mentality. They are currently in the middle of a multi-year suspension for such behavior. Several others on here will probably chime in and mention things like that.By the way, are you on the swvasports board? I follow both states pretty closely and it is a different type of game. I'll use North as an example. Last year they were very bad but were competitive VS both Union and Lee.

I hope Malik gets a chance but I read an article the other day listing five probable names at running back next year for UT and there was not a Foreman in there

What do you think D-B has to do with North's student population (at least since Kingsport annexed half of SN's area in the early 90's)? There are probably a couple hundred city kids going to North and South in addition to the county kids actually zoned for those two schools.

When I started working back in the 80's the oldest few of those who moved to OR in the 40's but returned to finish their careers at Eastman were retiring and I heard several stories about OR in the early days.

No wonder that the early OR teams had that Dobyns-Bennett look. Tennessee Eastman (today's Eastman Chemical Company) was hired by the Army Corps of Engineers to manage and run the Y12 facility during the Manhattan Project when Oak Ridge was being built. I think they ran Y12 from '43 to '47. Lots of Kingsport people relocated to Oak Ridge during those years to help the war effort.

Sullivan South Jacob Strickler - United States Naval Academy Dylan Weiger - ETSU

Signing on 2-4??? I have not been able to find any confirmation of this on EKU's or the Ohio Valley Conference web sites. I think that the 2018 game with UT will help ETSU's recruiting over the next few years.

It will definitely be a different look for the Rebels but I think you are way off in saying "not this year" (that they won't be represented in the playoffs). I am confident that they will finish somewhere from in the #2 to #4 in the new conference and make the playoffs. I thought the Freshman QB that they brought up to varsity late in the year got some good game experience and will be another good one for the Rebels. There are several good linemen coming up and I thought the young RB's and LB's that saw a fair amount of playing time in the 2nd half of most games showed much promise for the future.

There are many CITY schools that cross county lines. You simply cannot use county lines to make rules like that.

What's the story (for those outside of Carter County)? I had not heard of any changes.

Any D-B players in the Ky-Tn border bowl this weekend? Thinking about going to see Dylan Weiger and Ethan Thomas. Not sure who else is on the team.

So where does Hawkins County fit into this conversation? Glad to see Crockett doing well this year. Who knows, if kids like playing for Pappa Good maybe that pipeline won't dry up?