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6 hours ago, STARSNBARS said:

Barn eye weal haiv two say thait eye've hurd tha werk inviromint att 825 iz purty pore...Inn othur werds moore thain a teechur ere three, haiv tolt me hits purty hosstile.....

I stopped at a yard sale two weeks ago in town and I ran up on a couple of ladies that were talking and no doubt one of them was a teacher at MHS and the conversation was pretty much what your saying. I listened to much as I could because the teacher was talking loud. I acted like their conversation was just flying over my head so they wouldn't stop talking. The lady was bold enough to come out and say someone wasn't happy just being what they are now but just playing their time until the big job opens. She told the other ladies people in town better wake up fast and get to asking questions on what was going on up there.

4 hours ago, HTV said:

As I said somewhere earlier in the thread, the original plans had no outdoor athletic facilities being part of the campus.  The original plan was for HVA to use facilities at nearby schools.  Very late in the process they came up with a plan and found budget to have minimal facilities and crammed them in to space that never was intended for athletic facilities.  

Sounds like the same group that designed West, South, East and Fulton. They all used the old Knoxville High Field along with Rule. Talk about a field that got over used.

If someone needed their grades pumped up surley it would have to be for someone needing it to get to another level. If your intending on going to work right after high school it wouldn't matter. Why would someone in their right mind think if they screwed it up in high school that their ready for college. It has to be for an athlete to get them over the fence to get in and from that point the school their going to will cheat them through the rest of the way for their athletic skills just like the rest.

1 hour ago, RichyRich said:

Yeah it will take the county kids in that area that were going to lenior city. They will move down to 4a I think 

The new school will be on that road behind Home Depot next to a church. I'm wondering if this could take from Greenback or could it be the end of Greenback, they only have 200 students.

The New Word of the Day at Maryville High is Tuition.

 Everytime the superintendent hears about the yellow paint on the football field he gets Tuition he could stick that can of paint up someone's behind.

8 hours ago, HTV said:

Unfortunately the Sweetwater thing spooked some principals and ADs looking for head coaches in this cycle, even though Caleb wasn't at fault in any way. He had multiple OC opportunities. Personally, I'm glad he chose Karns, given that my oldest grandson plays in their middle school program. 

Caleb is a good coach and a class act. It's a win for Karns to get him. 

It most certainley is and who knows how long the head coach will stay also. 

The season ticket had a $5.75 service fee on it. What kind of service will I be getting for that ?

10 hours ago, JSamson7 said:

Been in the planning stages for awhile, but I'll believe it when I see it...

Be nice if it happens, Just need to keep the yellow paint out of someone's hands if it does.

On 4/2/2024 at 8:34 AM, SheriffofRedRock said:

keep us updated on where he ends up

Not sure where he will land but I've been told lots of issues follow and not exactly with the kid himself which is unfortunate but I hope for only the best for this young man and will be a big supporter where ever he lands.

Talked to a man today that told me he had saw preliminary drawings of a new athletic indoor field house to be built on the present practice field at the high school for football and other sports use. Curious if anyone else has heard about this because I sure hadn't until this morning.

Got three more days to renew your Season Football Tickets. 

10 hours ago, BroadwayBarberShop said:

Mairvul loses to the Admirals in lacrosse by a few touchdowns today. 

That's called Karma for letting that Lucifer get away with painting the football field with yellow paint.

1 hour ago, Dawgz4life said:

I mean, I guess I’ve never been and actually just looked at it. I just find the seats and sit, don’t really have any complaints. Whether that be the visitor side or the home side, I just sit wherever I find the most space, which at Hardin Valley is almost always the home section, but I don’t know, maybe it’s really that bad and I’ve really never paid enough attention to it. The away section is crammed, but it’s crammed up for pretty much every high school that has an away section.

That's the actual measurements from Google Earth. I have nothing against HVA and hope them well but not a great place to watch a football game at. I am glad they have a decent field to play on now versus the grass field that looked like cattle had ate it up.

46 minutes ago, SheriffofRedRock said:

HVA is a dumpster fire. They will never be good. Too big of a school to move down in classification. It will be a lacrosse & baseball as soon as lacrosse is TSSAA sanctioned

When they built this place they didn't take enough land for growth and now have painted themselves into a corner. My guess is most of their potential football prospects are attending some of the nearby private schools just as Karns leaving them with only the scraps. My nephew played for GCA 8 years ago and they lived in Karns and most of the kids that played for GCA did also. This is a mess and the only thing I know any worse is the problem running Maryville High.

Glad he is somewhere now and out of Sweetwater. I personally thought he could of landed a better job than that but maybe it will all work out. 

38 minutes ago, Dawgz4life said:

Look, the Oldfield was awful. But you really hating on it a lot more than it needs to be hated. It’s really not that bad of a stadium. Yes, they could’ve done a lot more, and the old field was awful, pilot definitely saved them there, but the bleachers aren’t even that bad. The parking is awful. And they are fixing that because it’s no longer a problem just for football, basketball, or baseball games, it’s now a problem for students whom actually go there because they don’t have enough parking spots for most of their senior and junior classes, especially no spots for sophomores or freshman who get their license early. The football team has two great facilities. great weight room, and a pretty good film room, both very big. The weight room is its own building, and the baseball team also has great facilities, a great field, and a pretty darn good setting. I’m not sure anymore, but before COVID, there was a plan to make a soccer stadium on the right side, right next to the high school. They cleared the trees that were there, but I’m pretty sure it was canceled because of COVID. I’m sure they’re going to do it eventually. But for a four-school campus, preschool, elementary school, middle school, and high school, They did a pretty darn good job with what they had, and I don’t know about traffic. I mean, I’ve been to baseball, football, soccer, and numerous basketball games before, and traffic is just like any other high school after a game, but maybe I’ve gotten lucky. I don’t know. 

Hear me out on this one. If your setting on the visitor side at a football game at HVA and your on the first row you are exactly 84 feet to the sideline not to mention your setting down low which the football team blocks your view unless you can get higher seats that only takes you farther away. If your on the home side you are exactly 109 feet from the first row to the sideline but the only positive is the bleachers are on higher ground but the sun will blind you until it goes down. I don't care about their weight room because I'm there to watch a football game that is a nightmare to see and also getting out of there after the game. I guess I'm spoiled because Maryville's field is 27 feet from first in the visitors side to the sidelines and it is built up where the players don't block your view. The home side is 30 feet from the side line to the first row and your setting up high also to prevent the players from blocking your view. HVA's design on the fields is an all time blunder considering it was a school built since 2000. If there is a place I dread going to HVA tops the list.

Been to a lot of places but never been to a dump like this,

5 hours ago, strongx said:

Does the AD not have a role in what the athletic programs do at 825? ADs are in the administration for a reason after all.

I'm not sure what his job details are but you can bet your life their very limited with that witch in charge. I personally like the guy but I've been told his leash is so short he has no choice but to go along or face the firing squad Coach West did. 

19 hours ago, Booger said:

somebody please indulge ole Booger on how this threadin business a paint stripe in maryville is gettin 6 plus pages.....

...and they is 2 more maryville threads gettin same attention

Booger just sayin 

Because it should have never happened without the highest in command giving their approval which they didn't because they would have never allowed it.  When you go do something like that with out your boss man's approval this is what you look like.

10 hours ago, SheriffofRedRock said:

Who got kicked off and where will he end up?

I don't want to mention names but he wore a lineman's number last year. Hope one of the other schools gives him a chance to show his abilities.

16 minutes ago, Cactus Jack said:

I wonder if any of the $$$ are going into the athletic facilities??

 

They would still have their cow pasture football field had Pilot not donated the money for what they have now. The whole place is a nightmare to get into and out of during football games. The visitor side is the worst I have ever seen in my life. 

1 hour ago, strongx said:

Back to grass! All for it!

BTW - I saw a nice looking new field out near walland gap yesterday. It looks great. I hear the one in LA also looks good. 

How long before the "new" thing is having a real grass field? 

The over use of the field in general was how we got to this point of synthetic turf.  With all the practices, band, Junior high games, youth leauge games B games the field would look like a garden again by November. 

2 hours ago, STARSNBARS said:

Barn how minny hunnurds ov thowsunds ov dollurs did we pay fer terf and thay lett this happun.....???..

Eye voat letts go baick two grass.....Att leest we cain mow tha yeller oft tha feeled beefour footbawl seesun....

The only thing I have to go off of is Alcoa is putting in a new field for $750,000 which they have all the drainage and infrastructure in place just as we do. The only thing we have that they don't is a Dumb Azz that would allow someone to paint the field yellow.

16 hours ago, ItsAlwaysSunnyInAtwood said:

LMBO. I must've misread. I thought you meant a practice field. That was done on turf? Yeesh 

I can asure you I don';t make this stuff up. The whole City of Maryville is being taken over like a swarm of locus by out of towners that have brought their destructive ways and stupidity along with them. Heads would have rolled had this happened at another school system but not here.