PreceptorD

This has been my feeling as well. It seems far more frustrating to have a team purposefully not score goals with ease than to have them score, give you the ball back, and let you come at them. However, I think it's classy to keep the scoreboard to something respectable, as well as possibly not reporting the scores as anything above the scoreboard (e.g. if you beat a team 10+ to 0, report the final score as 7/8-0 - what's the difference, really?)

The point originated from jptech7's comment that private schools are allowed to recruit, while public schools are stuck with whatever they get (in the midst of the private school bashing). I will fully agree, at least from what I know, that private schools make up a minority of A/AA schools. I will also admit that the private schools generally put out stronger teams. However, This is not done by recruiting players - private schools in Div. 1, A/AA have to work with what they get in any given year, as well. They simply benefit in the same way that many of the top-notch AAA teams do (that was the point of the post).

I don't really understand the whole idea of wanting to segregate private schools from public schools in A/AA. If it were as easy as, "hey, let's recruit some good soccer players so that we can go for state every year," I would understand. However, this is not the case - in fact, it's not allowed under TSSAA rules/regs. Unfortunately, soccer is an expensive sport in this country. To play for an upper-level club team, a family must have the resources available for travel, training, and many other expenses. Now, look at your typical (and I stress typical) state hopeful soccer program, whether A/AA or AAA, public or private. A lot of your stronger soccer schools and players come from more affluent areas of the state: West Knoxville (Farragut, Bearden, CAK, Webb, etc.), Franklin, Brentwood, and so on. These are club level soccer players who come together for a few months and play high school.

Agreed. White House played a great game and came to the semi-finals with a lot of passion. It seemed like the coach was upset after the game; but I trust that he will look back and realize how much he accomplished.

Gibbs 5 Loudon 2 CAK will be @ Gibbs on Wednesday (I believe).

It seems to be some type of upset prevention system.