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What's the "excuse" this time? 2-0 Goodpasture with the Win! Anyway,Good luck in the sectional and hope to see y'all in the State Tournament!

A Rising New travel ball 9U team is having tryouts on September 16th at 5:30pm. Tryouts will be held at Goodpasture Christian School softball field. We will be based out of the Goodlettsville/Hendersonville area with our practices being held at various locations in the area. Our plan is to play in the Spring of 2016, but depending on how quickly we fill out our roster we could play this Fall in several tournaments. We currently have several Gold Level Players on our team and are looking for kids who are wanting to have fun and get prepared for Middle School baseball to fill out our roster. Come check us out! BPA age eligibility is April 30 of the current year. The BPA age eligibility (cut-off date) is defined as the age participant is (will be) on April 30, 2016. Please contact Mark at: 615-513-7161, if you have any questions or if you can’t make the tryouts and want to schedule another time. Thanks!

This is the part I dislike about sports. Parents making excuses for little Johnny and why their team didn't win. I grew up playing baseball in East Tn at a small rural high school. We had to play Webb (in our district) with several D-1 prospects on their team. We never once complained about it being unfair or they were cheaters, etc... We always tried our best and relished playing such a good team. Fast forward to present time and my kids have the privilege to go to a private school in Nashville. Now do private schools actively recruit? Answer: Not any more than public schools. My whole problem with the whining is this. You are teaching your kids to make excuses on why they "cant" win or why they aren't any good. To me you should be teaching them how to play your hardest and leave it all on the field. To be a good lose and winner. Not to whine! If little Johnny gets a job interview and is going against someone from a private school for that same job and loses it are you going to complain that it's unfair? To me sports are about as fair as they are going to be. A fair share of public schools win championships and so do private schools. Everyone needs to quit complaining and making excuses. Life doesn't care about your excuses. Be strong congratulate your competition and grow from it! (Let the bashing begin in, 3,2,1...)

If memory serves me Trousdale Co. and RBS both forfeited their games with Goodpasture. Thus, Goodpasture starts the season 4-0 and will not have played a game. The only 2 teams to play Goodpasture in the district are Watertown and Gordonsville I do believe.

That's all well and good but from what was posted earlier and a couple people saying "I saw the video and it's them" in NO way proves anything or shows anything credible! I would gladly recant if proven otherwise!

I'm not denying that they haven't been successful. Just staying what I understand of why they chose to go down in classification.

From what I understand is that Goodpasture played up the last several years in AA and the higher ups wanted to be more competitive in the big sports. Even with the multiplier they were still slated for A but could have stayed up in AA and chose not to. The last 2 years they have been awsome, but before they were 9-18 and 9-17 in AA ball. Its like most teams, you have your up and down years! Several down years and now several up years. Most programs go through this but there are some that have consistently been good. Football they haven't been the greatest while in AA and even A, I think Trousedale Co. beat them handily both times! Only sports they have been consistently good at are Baseball and Softball and that will continue for the forseeable future! Anyway, fact of all of this is they will be in single A for several more years so get use to it! Besides what happened to wanting to play the best to see just how good you are! It brings out the best and worst in people! I for one miss the competition of playing against teams that everyone say were GREAT, so I could see just how good I really was! Ahhh.....the good ol days!

I was impressed with the catcher, RF and SS all seemed legit ball players. I didn't get to see much of both games as I was trying to keep up with the kids! I saw one play from the RF that was quite impressive but it seemed they weren't going 100% on both sides.

Ohh really? So they weren't at full strength either? I would love to see them both at full strength and see how they did against each other! Both games were exciting!

Oakland got swept by Goodpasture in both scrimmages and they were without 2 starters.

I agree with what you say, for the most part. Yes I do thing no private school should be classified less than 'AA". But I don't agree with you on the last part. A school private school like Goodpasture can pull students from where ever they want, AS long as that family has the money to pay the tuition! So, that makes the pond a little bit smaller than you might think. Looking at their tuition rates I'm not sure how many people have $8,000 a year laying around! Now a school like Brentwood Academy or PJP II they can offer a "scholorship" to a student to play ball or academically. That's why they are in the Private D-I or D-II area. And yes they do have a distinct advantage! But that's just my opinion! How do you know they are a bunch of "butt hole"? I've seen them play and they seemed fine to me. A well coached team and they can shoot the ball!!

Thanks for the feedback guys! I appreciate it. Now going on what happened last year how good will some of these teams be and who/what are they bringing back this year: AAA - Collierville, Dyer Co, Tullahoma, Riverdale and Dobyns Bennett AA - Pigeon Forge, Dyersburg, Spring Hill, Crockett Co, Upperman and Elizabethton A - Goodpasture (went down from AA and came up just short of Championship), Silverdale, Friendship Christian, Knox Grace, Summertown and Rockwood I know most of these were powerhouses last year and are normally good every year. So, it should be fun to watch. So, what do ya'll think? Already mentioned in AA that Catholic should be a team to watch and in AAA - Hardin Valley will be a team to watch. Any comments on any of these?

So who are the teams to beat in A, AA, AAA this year?