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I picked Scotts Hill based off the past. Does SH have one of the best coaches staffs in 2017? Doubt it. But Stroup's turnaround in just 2-3 years is the reason why I mentioned Scotts Hill. The same goes for Fayette-Ware. I understand that their region may not be as strong as other regions, but they won 7 games and guaranteed to make the playoffs for at least the next two seasons. Only difference between SH and FW is that FW doesn't have the playoff win yet. Lexington, I completely agree with. Their results haven't matched up to the talent and expectation. I would also include Bolivar and Liberty as well.

1. Peabody 2. Adamsville 3. Haywood. I don't know much about Union City. Others I would consider are Scotts Hill, Milan, and Fayette Ware.

Dream on

Might want to check with your sources. Jacobs is only in his mid/upper 30's. I don't think he would give up coaching for an administration role. I could be wrong though, I've been wrong before. Just odd to me.

Do they have CoachF in Florida? I'm assuming you're from Florida because "Florida1" is your username.

First of all, thanks for scheduling us, it's good for West Tennessee football. But as I previously stated, we are a year away. Our schedule is significantly stronger. We added Germantown and Briarcrest along with Dyersburg. We also kept Haywood. Our players are young and good, but the most important position is the one position we will probably dread, and that's the QB position. I'll find out more in July in 7 on 7's. We still have like 100 days until 8/18. New coaching staff as well. McCauley is back as OC, we have a new DC as well.

No, Hector has it right. There is no "R" right beside North Side. It's a mistake, it happens

We're not in the same region as Dyersburg. Our region has Lexington, Liberty, Chester, South Side, and Hardin County. Could very well go 2-8/3-7 in 2017, make the playoffs, travel to Nashville and call it a season. I believe the Indians are one year away. I like Dyersburg in every game except Haywood and Crockett, Brighton is a toss up.

That's the problem with this new pitch rule. If you have 1-2 really good districts, you can escape districts and make it to state, but those two pitchers will not let you win state. The production of the game can be ruined by that. Again, the TSSAA can careless about this rule, they just have to place this rule just so the TSSAA won't be sued by the NFHS. I honestly don't believe this rule actually limit arm injuries. Guess what? arm injuries are still going to happen regardless of how many pitches/days rest you want to have. I'm curious to hear coaches opinions about this.

Crickets no more BigEd! This hire is as odd and strange as it gets. Not saying anything negative about USJ or Coach Stroup, but it's odd. First off all, throw the 24-22 record away. Something that will be on Stroup's resume but shouldn't. I'm looking at their 2013 season and it just looks bad. 2-8 with the wins coming against Middleton and Gibson County. But they had a stretch where they lost to Jackson Christian (42-0), Bruceton (48-8), TCA (55-7), and Riverside (39-0), just horrible football back then. Now, looking at their 2016 schedule is so much better, Adamsville win in the playoffs, played Wayne County close, lost to Waverly by 6 in the playoffs, very impressive. I hate to use this word because high school athletes only have 4 years to play, they are not professional athletes that signs these 7 years/$200 Million dollar contracts. Stroup's "rebuilding" is what got him at USJ, made the community of Scotts Hill proud, and made Lexington not as dominate. I mentioned Lexington because in 2010-2013 years, Lexington was in the argument as a top 3 team in West Tennessee, 10-2, 11-1, and I believe they went undefeated in one of those years. Now, the Tigers are a 7-3ish regular season team. I don't know if Scott's Hill recent success has a part of that, but not going to leave it out. USJ did not hire the 'sexy' guy, but that doesn't they hired the 'right' guy. I think USJ had a reality check, realized that they probably weren't going to win a state championship in the immediate future. I'm assuming that USJ realize that he could be the guy that will get us to the top, even though the results won't come right away. Going to be odd for Stroup to be surrounded by houses at pratice and not corn fields that are miles and miles away. Not a bad hire at all!

It has to start at the middle school level, which I'm 100% positive that middle school coaches in Madison County are coaching just to get a nice little paycheck, nothing more than that. Here's what I've noticed. I firmly believe that the High School females athletes will struggle at the High School level if they don't play as a child growing up.I assuming NS girls didn't play basketball (AAU/MAYB, stuff like that) as a child and it is showing pretty bad, it's becoming with females that if you want to be successful athlete at the HS level, have to start early. I just believe NS girls has that problem. With South Side, Brent McNeal has done a superb job getting that program from the bottom to the top. South Side alum that takes PRIDE in coaching football and girls basketball. Since Coach McNeal is still at a young age (mid 30's I believe), the players respect him, the players relate to them, more importantly, they get it and there's a chemistry between the South Side players and McNeal, that's why they're succeeding. Yes, they have two athletes, speed and a post presence, decent 3 point shooting, that's all you need. The problem with North Side is that they hired multiple coaches in the program since Faris Lowery days who has left the program in worse shape than entering the program. They had talent when Jada Perkins was there, they were a substate team, just couldn't get over the hump. Now, it's a disaster. There's no PRIDE in the North Side girls basketball program as well. Coach Jeffries is a old coach in terms of age, no chemistry and more importantly, no purpose. It will be a total rebuild starting with the upcoming Freshmen that will be entering the program. Step by step. I didn't know for sure that Jeffries will announce retirement, I will say that AD Leonard Robinson will retire at the end of the school year.

In West Tennessee it should be Haywood's to lose. Crockett County will be my sleeper team. I do like Liberty, but I don't expect them to be as big of a threat as they were last year. Hardin County has the potential to win that district. North Side lost 20+ seniors so they will have question marks for them, also changing pretty much they whole new coaching staff. Lexington, not expecting much from them unless they change their offensive scheme.

You're 100% right, they are terrible. They're losing games by 30+ points, sometimes by 40, maybe 50. They only averaged about 25-28 points offensively in a game, if they'll go crazy if they surpassed the 32 point mark. However, defensively, they give up 70+ points a night. There's no little emphasis to girls basketball, which is solely more team ball. I don't think they have the talent as well compared to the other schools that will be in their district next year. I would think they will turn the page and decide to start next school year with a new coach. Again, they only have 1 win in the last two seasons (win came against Millington in February who won two games this season, one of them coming against North Side). Crazy to think that 10 years ago, this team was in Murfreesboro year in and year out.

Has anybody heard about Jackson North Side? Team has won a grand total of 1 game in the last seasons, their record is like 1-43 I believe. Moving into a new district that I believe there will be more team ball. Chester County, McNairy Central, and Lexington (and more) will be the new district. Just curious on what the future is at North Side.

I was told he had trouble selling his house in Knoxville. But if coaches know that this will be USJ's third head coach in 3 years, that's not the best thing going on at USJ right now. Curious to see how many coaches will do their 'research' before having interest at USJ. However, it is April 21st, so there's not a whole heck of a lot of time left. There's 118 days until August 18th. Take away 21 days due to the two scrimmages and the Jamboree, which is becoming pointless.

I think the move had little to do with basketball. Independence is a better job than Haywood if you compare the two schools. In my opinion, this had more to do with home and location, than basketball itself.

That will be a no. USJ ended Marley's tenure because they wanted to win a gold ball, which is something they didn't do during Marley's tenure. They had the guy to take them to the promise land in Bradley, but Bradley couldn't sell his house in Knoxville and there was an open door for him to come back home, which he did. The only reason they would go back to Marley is if USJ realizes that the grass isn't always greener on the other side (it's greener where you water it!!!!). USJ is still an attractive job, but coaches are starting to realize that they can win a state championship that the school they're at now just as easy as winning one at USJ. USJ will go through that complete search, watch them hire a guy from like...I don't know....North Dakota, because that's something USJ would do.

Agree 100%. Coach Bunch and whoever that guy that helps out rarely gets credit because Humboldt is not a really good baseball team. All their home games are district opponents, a few Jackson schools, and probably South Gibson. By far the best field I've seen, and I've been to a lot.

It's really pointless and really.....just pointless. And here's why. FROM A PLAYER'S PERSPECTIVE!!! Schools usually play their district ball games around 6/6:30 local. Seven-inning game, it probably will be done about 8:15-8:30 local time. The road team will probably go find a place to go eat after, the home team (players) will probably get something to-go and take it home, eat at home, or just grab something from the concession stand (it just depends). If the road team gets something to eat, then they're leaving that town when the home team players are probably at home. An hour plus drive puts the road team at a serious disadvantage, especially if their school starts at an earlier time than the opposing team. Example: Hardin County is playing at Munford tonight. The difference between Hardin County High School and Munford High School is a 2 hour and 12 minute drive. 6:30 start time, 7 innings, game finished about 8:15-8:30 or even later. It'll probably be near 9:15 PM when Hardin County leaves Munford. 2 hour+ drive, it won't be until midnight when Hardin County players get some sleep, but the Munford players (if they're smart) should be in bed by 10:45 the latest. And we all know that an hour plus of sleep is important. Both teams play at Hardin County on Tuesday the 4th. It won't effect Munford as much because they probably won't have a game on Wednesday. I'm making an excuse but it is something that we should considered. How can you manage your time and understand that rest is important, especially with High School athletes. Besides, it's baseball! You're going to lose to teams that you shouldn't lose to and you will win against teams that you probably shouldn't beat. That's why I laugh at these rankings, especially for baseball.

Who's your 5th team?

No I don't think USJ will win a gold ball in the immediate future. They lost T. Smith, Peel (half of their D-Line), and Wells Smith (probably their best receiver statistically) and a nice supporting cast. They have some talent. Buie and Ryan Miller (WR I believe) are good football players, might want to add Laird in there at the safety position. Can't forget about Campbell, their kicker. Other than that, not much. I mentioned a few days ago that their middle school program is down compared to what it was a few years ago. They don't have that "athlete" that other middle school programs have, they had a hard time stopping the run, and they were out sized and beat physically, couldn't keep up. I looked at their schedule for the next two seasons and I've noticed D-1 teams are on it. It'll give us a identity where USJ will currently stand. Schedule wise: They'll probably beat Chester County They'll probably lose to Crockett County (I'm expecting Jordan Branch to have a huge senior season for CC, throw the 2016 Crockett County Cavs away, unfair game since the first week). They'll lose to Haywood and St. George's (Haywood is the best team in West TN right now). Everything else are wins/toss ups. Also, I have been slacking and not looking at their classification throughout the whole state since the new alignment. They can't compete with CPA if CPA is in their new class, which there's a good chance that USJ will play CPA in November. If USJ plays Milan on August 18th, 2017 (I think 8/18 is the opening night) Milan would probably win by 17-21. I don't think what they have coming back can replace what they lost. I don't think the USJ administration feels like going through a huge search to bring a guy in, but who knows. They have the facilities and money to do it, we all know that.

I will say this about USJ. The night before the Milan game, I thought the Bulldogs would've won that game 35-21 (14 points), I thought the Bulldogs would have total control throughout the whole game and score a touchdown at the end of the game to seal the deal. I will admit, I thought Milan would physically wear them down with speed and size in the game. I was wrong. Yes, USJ scored a touchdown in the later part of the game and recovered an onside kick to give them a chance to kick a game-winning field goal, which was a disaster from the word go. I left Milan talking about how good USJ is, not Milan. It's not about who you come to see, it's who you leave talking about. USJ impressed me that night and I knew Rusty was in a great situation. They also followed that 2 point loss to Milan with a big win at Briarcrest the week after. I don't know why he is leaving, I don't believe it has anything that relates to God even though he said that in the article in the Jackson Sun. He also said something about God on the reason he came to USJ, so I'm not buying that God is the reason why he is leaving. I call myself a christian, but it would be wrong for me to say "God called me here" when I accepted a new job in Miami that comes with a 6-figure pay raise.

I believe Liberty already has their opponent

They probably did Marley wrong, but Marley had his chance and didn't take advantage. Great talent, D-2, less talent in that classification. He had the easier route compared to D-1 coaches across our state. He did have an amazing record at USJ but it was ruined when you go into details. Some people did believe USJ did Marley wrong, but that's our opinions.

Peabody with Gibson County probably taking 2nd. UC in there as well