MidTennFootball

There are some Middle TN programs that would be thrilled if 113 miles was the farthest they had to travel in a 2 year cycle

The timing of it makes me think they either hire internally or its Paul Derrick

Agreed, the best playing the best is great for everyone. Oakland is playing Pearl-Cohn.

Buy is probably too harsh, but I couldn't tell you the last time I remember CPA getting a high profile transfer. If your a 5A or 6A school that has legit aspirations of winning a title, you should be seeking out teams like Oakland, Alcoa, Maryville, Pearl-Cohn, Houston, Anderson County, Greeneville, Elizabethton, etc. The teams that consistently go 10-0 in the regular season only to get bumped in the playoffs early are usually the ones that could stand to upgrade their strength of schedule Not gonna sit here and pretend Oakland doesn't benefit from some of the transfers they have gotten, but their Freshmen & MS teams haven't lost a game in 3 years. Building your program from the bottom up is how you make it last, even after coaches leave

If your in a situation like Oakland or any public that has had alot of success, your just glad if you can find 10 games so if the private won't travel to your place, you find a way to make it work. Nashville has way more good private programs than Knox does, moving 30-40 miles isn't gonna stop a family from getting their kid transferred The bigger issue should be calling out the publics that duck competition so teams like Oakland have no choice but to go out of state or the private route. I got no problem playing CPA, they focus on developing the kids they got rather than buying everyone else's.

Just about every program in Middle Tennessee has the same access to talent that Oakland does. Knox County is practically the wild west when it comes to transfers Playing CPA for the 3rd time in 5 years this season, don't care what class they were in, they classify as big time. Oakland's success recruits itself. You got RuCo schools like Riverdale where nearly half their starting lineup transferred in Whether they are a private school or not should never deter you when it comes to scheduling. It shows up in the playoffs when teams schedule correctly

If you want to win championships, you play the best, public or private. Transfers are just as likely to happen from private to public now as they are public to private and if you got kids that transfer to private schools regularly that says more about your program than anything else Oakland scrimmages McCallie every year and will be playing CPA. There's no doubt that they benefit from playing these teams and to avoid them just because they "might" try to recruit a player of yours is a cowards mentality

Pretty much everybody is open zoned. If it was just about talent, Oakland wouldn't have made it past the Quarters last year and Brentwood Academy would have won D-II AAA the last few years. It matters how you build your program, if you build it from youth ball on up, it's gonna have staying power. It's not a fluke that Maryville has played at an elite level for 30 years Everybody loves to crap on Wing-T, Flexbone and Wishbone but all those fancy schemes you see at the college or pro level have roots in those offenses.

Good hire by Cleveland. Sometimes the most obvious choice is the best choice

Like I said, if Oakland has a skill player that is a 4 🌟 he's getting the ball, especially one that is 6'6

Oakland threw for 1900 yards last season. If they have a 4 🌟 skill guy, he's getting the ball

I agree. When he has the talent, his offenses are hard to stop but they put a tremendous amount of strain on his own defense. A 3 and out is basically a turnover I've said the exact same thing to other ppl in the last few days. He had the job that public coaches dream of

I bet that phone call Niceville makes to Cleveland will be interesting. A name I'll throw out there is Justin Cunningham (Boyd Buchanan). Did a really good job at Franklin County and would be a good fit IMO

Not current, he resigned in February

He was fired