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47 minutes ago, west10EZ said:

Exactly.. it certainly sounds like a coup from the outside .. Probably the best hire in Mcewen school history  . He’s bounced around a lot since leaving Wayne County though  , but it’s got something to do with his disabled son and health insurance. 

Understanding that part, but I'm referring to the high school job.

Can't help but wonder why the job came open...

2 hours ago, Elias287 said:

https://www.knoxnews.com/videos/sports/high-school/2023/07/17/knoxville-area-football-coaches-discuss-transfer-landscape/12266207002/

 

I don't mind athletes transferring if they fit a certain academic requirements for them to transfer (something like 3.5 GPA or higher) just for upcoming seniors. Other than that, it needs to stay in place, but schools will continue to find loop holes, and the TSSAA doesn't seem to care, so why bother?

I will say there's one player that reportedly transferred up to those Knoxville schools. It'll be his 3rd time as a transfer and didn't play/couldn't play at the previous two schools. But hey, entitlement is a powerful word my friend.

3 hours ago, cbg said:

Officials are leaving not due to the fans but due to two factors:

1.  In past years had judges, physicians, businessmen, etc.  that officiated games because in their younger years they played the game at a high level and want to stay involved in the game.  For whatever reason those individuals rarely ever get into officiating and now we have people that didn’t play the game at a high level and are doing it as a major source of income.

2.  If the pay is increased you will see more qualified individuals get involved in the game.  Like Dorris Armstrong once told me “all of these people say they are officiating for the kids but if you ever stop paying them they will stop officiating”. Simply put most people want to be compensated fairly for their work. 

I officiated for over 25 years and I only ever remember having one (1) fan ejected.  If the official walks into the gym like a professional everyone will know that they are in charge and rarely will confront them or act like a fool.  As an official you stop the game and give a verbal warning to the disobedient fan and that normally eliminates all issues going forward.

This is spot on. I can tell which officials are officiating for money compared to officiating for the "love of the game" based on mechanics, shape, and effort.

Liberty is on a 28 game losing streak. That could end at week 1 as they play a team that playing 11-man football for the first time since 2015 in JCM. If you want to count the games that JCM played in 2015 (I don't), they'll enter on a 11 game losing streak.

Middleton is entering the 2023 season on a 40 game losing streak. They'll open the season at Vina (AL).

Houston County is currently on a 25 game losing streak.

Hillcrest is on a 14 game losing streak.

So, what if a fan gets ejected, and no one knows who he/she is? Which school is getting the fine?

TSSAA continues to create crazy ideas where there are more questions than answers.

I'll go ahead and call I prediction here. I do believe all these playoff teams in Region 7, will sweep the four playoff teams in region 8. However, none of these Region 7 teams (other than Haywood) scare me in any way.

Crockett County has everything set up for them to get a 2 seed. They have both Dyer County and Obion Central at home. However, Crockett's competitiveness against Lexington and Huntingdon will give me a measuring stick on if they can close the gap on Haywood or not. If they somehow not show up in any of those games, then this region could very well be a mess. Crockett's offensive did improve in terms of scoring in the 2022 season, but they're going to have some capability to score 35 on a good football team. They can't rely on slowing the game down in possessions and winning a 17-14 game like they did to Milan last year. To me, that formula isn't sustainable for success.

One thing about Dyer County is they have the ability to put points on the board. One thing I would like for them to do is to be more of a downhill threat offensively and not just short and shallow passes. They, too, have a good schedule with road games at Dyersburg and Union City, and they also have a home game against a team I expect to make huge improvement this year in Chester County. It won't shock me if they do get the 2 seed because they have the ability to score. If they do play a team like Crockett County, they need to set the tone and pace in that game. 

Don't assume Obion Central is going to be the 4th seed because they don't have the history in football compared to the other schools. They did roll into Alamo and won the game last year and got awarded with the 4th seed in a good competitive region. The Rebels did win a playoff game last year as well. I figured they will be hurting a smidge because they lost their running back from last year. I will admit, I don't know anything else regarding to the Rebels other than Palmer seems to have momentum heading to this year. If the Rebels finish as the 2 seed this year (to me that's possible), then we can make an argument regarding Palmer being coach of the year in West Tennessee.

For Haywood, keep being dominant as they have been in the past. The only thing I believe Haywood needs to improve on, is to catch the ball. I thought they dropped more passes than usual, some of them were headscratchers. I do believe they need to improve on that.

I'm not going to do a prediction on who finishes 2-4, because I do believe it's a wide open region. I'm leaning with Crockett County getting the two seed because they have the two home games with Dyer County and Obion Central. However, if they let the game become a shootout, that's where I can see them struggle. If a team holds Crockett County under 21 points, good chance they can win that game.

3 hours ago, Cavaliers9814 said:

North side, Haywood, Crockett county , obion county, dyer county, battle it this year for a region title kind of anxious to see how this goes I know Haywood has been the power house for awhile but I hear they are a lot younger now and with smith being gone now I just wonder how in line and disciplined Puckett can keep them, i figured north side soils struggle again, the other I don’t know much about this. Crockett wilL be returning a bunch of starters this and year we got will have a pretty good offense, hearing from the coaches they are going to look on defense also 

Attacking Haywood's "disciplined" and the players have yet to put on the shoulder pads is not surprising to me. However, it's sad. It's not fair for Haywood because the majority of those players are black. They are very good, they have talent with size and speed, and they have an excellent coaching staff that will put those players in great positions to succeed. Enough with this "disciplined" BS talk. They will still be Crockett by 30+.

Your racism is showing, @Cavaliers9814. BE BETTER!

12 minutes ago, JustinBuck said:

Because UT would not accept a commitment from Brown at this point.

If you want to feel like that's the case, then go head. The last thing I'm going to do is make assumptions. 

9 hours ago, team69 said:

Give us some examples of what Tenn. will as you say”do anything it takes”

I'm not going to spill any news to you, good try though. 

4 hours ago, DealLawyer said:

Seems like he has grade issues though. Don’t think much happening with him and tenn at the moment.  

grades? If Tennessee wants him, trust me, they're going to do whatever it takes to get him. 

Will Brown go to Tennessee? I doubt it.

4 hours ago, stangsby3 said:

I never said broadcasting was easy. I'm just trying to understand why a school doesn't have the students do that, provided they are given the right equipment and training. Now we have video stream of the games from a company, that the school did whatever they did to obtain the equipment, that has poor quality and works half the time for a fee. (some seem to have no issues, while others I've talked to do) My comment was not to make it look easy, it was more for clarification. 

Are you talking about students being the commentators or students holding the cameras? 

Because as weird as this sounds, in industries that demand perfection in a way, I have this weird and odd feeling that young people don't want to join those types of industries. Let's say if a student mispronounced a name/say the wrong number, everybody kind of knows it if they've been following along the game. Do you think they get embarrassed if they do mess up? That's why I always thought younger people aren't joining things like officiating. Because they don't understand how good 90% of getting the calls right are,  but the fans are expecting 100%. And when they do make a bad call, how can they handle the bad things from it..

Other than that, I agree. I always thought students should do things like be the PA announcer for basketball/baseball games if they want to. I just never understand why adults just have to do it.

I know it's not West Tennessee, and they may have to dump out more money than the usual school, but Brentwood Academy's coverage of their games are the best I've seen. Great cameras and able to use the ESPN graphics. When it comes to West Tennessee, I want to say Worthy Road Studios does a great job with the Jackson private schools. Good camera angles and good enough picture to put on YouTube to see after the game. I do hope there's a way a lot more schools can find a way to use the same equipment "Worthy Road Studio" can use for their sporting events. I think it's good enough.

Doesn't look good when you don't have the local paper like they do in Memphis, it doesn't look good when WBBJ is now basically hiring local reporters to do their job. In the past, they hired people outside of West Tennessee to do their job as reporters. So, the "media" has been thrown out, can't rely on them anymore. I haven't listened to the radio guys enough to know whether if they're doing a good job or not.

When the WBBJ/Jackson newspaper basically have abandoned the high school sports throughout West Tennessee, I don't know how you can improve it in any way. What is a bummer is West Tennessee is mainly made of small towns other than Jackson and Memphis. It's not Middle Tennessee where it's Nashville, Clarksville, Murfreesboro, and Cookeville. It's less urban where everybody just covers their own small town/school, and they seem to be proud of it. 

It's here to stay, and I like it. If you want to go to another city/vacation destination for July 4th, go ahead. If you want to plan a 10-12 day vacation with your family (my family did that not too long ago) then go ahead. Athletes can be "teenagers" for these two weeks and have fun with family and friends without having to worry about football. This is the last break for these players until November, and December for a handful for them. Not just the players, but also for the coaching staff as well.

I don't know if "one week off" in June and "one week off" in July is a good idea. It doesn't necessarily recharge the batteries for players/coaches, and it could bring in trouble regarding family vacation for PTO and stuff like that. 

If you're asking for one week off and not two, then all you're going to do is wear out your players in October. If you're a team that is going "all out/100 MPH" in June, then I hope y'all don't get a pointless speeding ticket. 

9 hours ago, WestTnBasketball1234 said:

I’m sure he is but I don’t know why people think he would be better than who they hired 

Because if they were high on this guy, they could've game Taylor the interim tag and watch Covington to see how he does. The new coach at South Side wasn't going to go anywhere until this job opened up. They can watch Taylor, along with other applicants... I don't think it was that hard of a decision to make.

8 hours ago, WestTNHoopsFan said:

I'm talking basketball. 

You said all sports....

Howard Bush named new head football coach for the Wildcats.

I just don't understand why JMCSS didn't give Taylor the interim tag, punt this year, and look at a lot more/better applicants in November. Now, they're going to have to settle for this guy and let him be the head coach for the next 2-3 years. I don't know what to expect of this guy other than "he came from Covington as a position coach." They also eliminated themselves from an opportunity to get the guy that I'm sure will receives a bunch of calls to be a head coach coming November (just think a little bit and you may know who I'm talking about). Everything just seemed rushed for no reason at all.

8 minutes ago, 731Ball said:

I’m sure he wanted a HC job instead of being an assistant for Coach Powell at NS. Now he wants to be the HC @ SS instead of Humboldt. Why? Because humboldt is the worst school system in the area with the worst football program in the area. A humboldt football game for the past 10 years has looked like 11 on 11 free for alls. Quit the silly talk, Humboldt is never getting to the semifinals again and neither is south side. That is not and should not be the goal for either program. Neither of these teams are winning 8 games, neither of these teams are winning 3 playoff games the next 3 years. Much less in The same season. The goal should be to build MEN and TEACH kids football because I can assure you not many at either JSSHS or HHS know the game. Luckily for you, the Humboldt job will come open and since you think they’re capable of such success in 1A, you’ll be able to apply and will probably be one of the very very few applicants.

Lol I'm not touching the Humboldt school system as long as Janice Epperson is their superintendent. I agree with what you're saying, Humboldt is not a good job when it comes to off the field situations. And I do agree with you, nobody enjoyed being an assistant at North Side under Powell. If Teddy wants out at Humboldt badly, then I would recommend him to bear down for another 6 months before another job (and more jobs) potentially comes open (hint, hint).

15 hours ago, 731Ball said:

So Teddy is applying and interviewing for a job he doesn’t want? I’d understand if he was at a place that understands leverage. However, humboldt’s NOT that place 

Then why did Teddy accept the Humboldt job in the first place if he's looking for a way out after year 2 of a massive rebuild just weeks away before year 3? Teddy knew what he was getting into before accepting that job. Everybody knew it was going to take some time and patience for him to turn that program around. What's Teddy's purpose in coaching? To win? To make the most money? To find a school where he's content and staying there for 10-15 years?

To me, I see at least 5 wins on the schedule for Humboldt this fall if everything goes well. They have the athletes to beat some of their opponents, with a chance to beat Scotts Hill, Dresden, and Lake County. Those are the games where Teddy can win and steal a game based on coaching. I would prefer for Teddy to stay there again and see what he can do. It doesn't look good for a coach to be entering this 5th year as a "head" coach, but will be entering his 3rd different school in that time span. If Teddy does well, and I hope he does, then he can cash his chips in and leave for a better job. Similar to what Derek Rang did with Dresden, as he left for Gatlinburg-Pittman.

If you're South Side, why should they hire Teddy? He hasn't accomplished anything that proved he can be a good coach other than has the "experience." They're going to punt this fall, and will likely do it next fall as well. They're more in a "rebuild" than what Humboldt is going through. What makes you believe Teddy can come in and beat Chester, Lexington, South Gibson, North Side, and Hardin County with an "ehh" resume?  And if he does make it to the playoffs as a 4 seed, then congratulations, Pearl-Cohn, Station Camp, Marshall County, and Creek Wood is waiting on the other side. South Side has to be honest with themselves and understand where they're at. As I, and what @ItsAlwaysSunnyInAtwood stated, when you look at like from a on-field perspective, Humboldt is an easier job to win at. Since the beginning of the 2019 season, South Side has a 13-29 record. I don't understand what makes you believe Teddy can head down there and turn that program around, and compete against better coaching. South Side is a tough tough job to win and be successful at on a consistent basis. 

On 6/14/2023 at 7:39 PM, ItsAlwaysSunnyInAtwood said:

Not questioning whether it's true or not but it makes no sense. If you can't win at Humboldt what makes anyone think he'll win at SS

Because JMCSS (and other school districts) would rather hire a below .500 head coach than to hire a young assistant that is a proud alum at his school to take over. To me, the most overrated thing is when someone has "experience" or "years under their belt" at certain situations. Doesn't mean their "experience" is always good. I don't know what happened first (Taylor leaving or Reeder resigning) but South Side's biggest mistake was to let Taylor walk out of the hallway.

13 minutes ago, 731Ball said:

If Teddy doesn’t want the job, why is he interviewing for it? For more $ from Humboldt? HA!

Because no one will take this job. Who wants this job now in June? People that put themselves in sticky situations because they were handed keys to a car that can be good, but ended up wrecking car and trying to find a way out. There was no improvement from year 1 to year 2 in the Teddy era at Humboldt. Similar to his situation at Milan, right?

5 minutes ago, 731Ball said:

Humboldt is one of the WORST jobs in West TN. Ask anyone who has been there the past decade. What a crazy statement 

Crazier than you saying he's going to take that job? Is Humboldt a better job than South Side? Yes... Is Humboldt a good job now? No. Can it be a good job? Yes. 

There's a reason why 4 coaches left South Side. They're going to be fortunate to win 3 games this year. 

1 hour ago, Deeper said:

I beg to differ.  Take a look at the facilities at Lake County.  State Champions about 3 years ago with a 15-0 finish.  It's never about the facilities.  It's always about the coaching.

Two different situations than what I'm referring to. Do I ultimately agree with you from that aspect, yes. However, this is why I'm going to disagree with you as well.

Lake County is in its own island. Last time I checked, hardly anybody is moving to Tiptonville. If I go to Lake County (which is rare) the only thing I look forward to is eating catfish at one of those restaurants, that's it. For Humboldt, it's a different story. There are more jobs in Humboldt, there's a school 10 minutes north of the town, and there are two schools about 10 minutes east of the town.

All three of their schools have done something recently when it comes to facility upgrades.

Peabody: 50 yard indoor facility

Milan: New stadium and I think they have a indoor facility as well.

South Gibson: they don't need anything new in football, but they made major upgrades in their minor sports recently.

For Humboldt, a school that doesn't have the test scores as to any other schools across Gibson County, have to find something that may be worth sending kids to their school. If they're struggling at that, then there's no value or reason (as tough as it sounds) to send a kid to Humboldt High over any other school across Gibson County. 

Humboldt should be a top 10 team in 1A and fight with Union City to win their district. That should be an expectation with their athletes in a classification that may struggle to find a good amount of athletes on a specific team. If they were to upgrade facilities and make it comparable to the other schools across the county, then that could get them a better chance of getting a good coach (not saying Teddy is bad). And when you look at the other schools across Gibson County, Humboldt actually may have the easiest chance to win a state title because the other schools' path to win, is difficult.

4 minutes ago, ItsAlwaysSunnyInAtwood said:

Most definitely. But what I'm wondering (if it happens) why South Side would want him or be even remotely excited about the hire. 

Don't overreact to a rumor... I do think Humboldt (as weird as this sounds) is a better job than South Side. The only thing holding Humboldt back is some type of donation for upgrades towards their field house/stadium.