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4 hours ago, thenomad said:

I know Culleoka returned most of their talent. They had several good young players. The big kid inside could be a big time player and he is surrounded by players who can make shots. I thought they would compete for first place. I haven't seen them either. Just going off of records, scores, and previous knowledge. 

Gotcha. 

On 1/17/2020 at 10:09 PM, thenomad said:

Mt. Pleasant and Richland both win big. More surprised by the Mt. Pleasant score. 

This is totally for discussion and I'm not trying to start anything... but I've been reading this thread since the beginning and I've got to ask... What do you see in this Culleoka team?  I will say first that I've not seen them play. I have seen Mt. Pleasant, Richland, and Santa Fe either in person or on hudl, but not Cully. So by just looking at their schedule/results on here I don't see what could be surprising in their outcome with Mt. Pleasant. 

On 1/1/2020 at 8:33 PM, thenomad said:

Wish this district had more competitive balance so they could be more competitive in region and substate. It's been a long time since a team from this district went to state. I believe it was Cornersville almost 10 years ago. 

Unfortunately... I don't think it will happen under the current TSSAA layout. Occasionally you will have a good team here and there, but besides maybe Richland & Mt. Pleasant you won't have a competitive balance that will compete year end and year out outside the district. The Maury County schools are to small to compete on a yearly basis. Especially when some of their talent transfers to Columbia Central, Columbia Academy, etc each year.

2018 TSSAA Enrollment Numbers (  ) : 

Region/Sub-state Schools:

Loretto (531), Summertown (486), Union City (454),  McKenzie (376), Houston Co. (417), East Robertson(404),

Other Competitive Middle TN Single A teams:

Eagleville (403),  Fayetteville(350)

District 10A Schools:

Richland (370), Mt. Pleasant (401), Culleoka (284), Santa Fe (192), & Hampshire (114)

Hard for teams with a 284 or less student pool to compete every year with schools pulling from 531-400. 

Numbers found here: https://tssaa.org/article/2018-mid-cycle-enrollments

there are a lot of depends with this... If the player started 9th grade at this school then they could be grand fathered in and could live anywhere they want. I've seen where kids have started high school at a certain school and then due to what ever reason the family had to move, but the kid stayed behind to finish school. And that's just possibility. 

3 minutes ago, Pirate2003 said:

It seems to me if Fayetteville board allows you to live anywhere in the county and attend their school it’s cut and dried. Bus routes shouldn’t matter. 

If that was Fayetteville City School Board's policy then I agree... but If the TSSAA rules against that policy and goes with bus routes only then there are going to be a few other public schools worrying. 

12 hours ago, GeneralAmerigha said:

Its amazing how CA had to start playing other schools that recruit private schools, and all of a sudden they are a .200 team  

First... congrats on the success during the regular season this year. I've been following and pulling for the Region 5AA teams. 

.200 ?  Overall 4-5 = .400 and in DII 4-3 = .571 

CA is 4-3 in DII with the three loses coming at the beginning of the season against the #1, #2, & #4 ranked teams in DII-A. Also their other two non-region games were against the 9th ranked teams in the State in both DI AAAAA and AAAA divisions .  Yes, CA lost a lot of talent from the 2018-2019 but I'd say the 4-5 record is from also playing up against tougher competition. I guess they could have easily scheduled some smaller schools for their non-region games and improve their regular season record to 6-3 instead but what does that win you? 

Again, congrats on the great regular season. 

15 minutes ago, orngnblk said:

I'm curious to which ones are all the same I've never heard of that.

Maury County are all under the same school board. Spring Hill HS, Culleoka, Santa Fe, Mt. Pleasant, Hampshire, Columbia Central, and the new Battle Creek that will be open in the future. Players can live in any of those school zones (and even out of county) and play at one of the other schools. I'm sure there are certain requirements but they aren't hard to do because it's done often in all sports.  

Williamson, Rutherford, WIlson, Giles, Marshall, Lawrenceburg, etc... are all the same way. Now in some of those counties WIlliamson and Rutherford the bigger cities like Franklin and Murfreesboro have their own school board for elementary grades but are all under one school board for High School. 

8 hours ago, croz6110 said:

However, if you have to live within the bus routes, there is a lot of players in open zoned counties that could be ineligible. 

This part definitely confuses me. There has to be another way for players to become eligible outside school's bus routes, because it's been done and is being done a lot in our local county school system.  

How many teams go to the playoffs?

https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/sports/20190817/ground-game-spurs-8216dogs-past-tigers

28-8 Columbia Academy win. 14-8 after 1st quarter. Mt. Pleasant only had one offense series where they moved the ball. That was due to a 75 yard TD hook up between QB Lovely and WR Hudson. 

2 hours ago, chill said:

Will the BCAT camp rotate locations? Only Sevier, Jellico, and Webb east of Murfreesboro. 

I read some where that it would each year between West, Middle and East

Summertown, Cascade and CA were definitely the Top teams this year... great battles to the end! 

8 hours ago, Jaychapman said:

Ain’t over till fat lady sings / take away ur senior no contest / but y’all got us tonight 

Totally agree with the “Ain’t over till fat lady sings” part. 

Cascade and Summertown are strong teams. 

On 5/22/2019 at 5:19 PM, Jaychapman said:

Another pretender 10-0 Summertown 

pretender of last years Championship team? 5-0 Columbia Academy 

Sorry. I just had too... after reading your last few post. 

Summertown is a strong team!

We understand tomorrow is a new day and we probably will see Summertown again... but not a bad win today by a team with a starting lineup that includes 3 -8th graders, 2 freshman, 2 sophomores, 1 junior, and 1 senior.  

On 5/17/2019 at 11:50 AM, warmachine7954 said:

Who is Memphis Houston? Houston High School is in Germantown. Not even the same school system as Memphis schools.

I was thinking the same. I got that from their twitter account.

As for summer ball and team camps... a number of big time teams are going to be at the BCAT Hoopfest Team Camp June 21st & 22nd. 

I know Columbia Academy, Memphis Houston, Memphis Central, etc... have been added to the early list that was posted here: http://bcathoops.com/bcat-hoopfest-team-camp/

Carson Cary (Columbia Academy) - Class A

Chandler Lawson (Wooddale) - Class AA

Ques Glover (Bearden) - Class AAA

49 minutes ago, karl98 said:

So the Giles County kid moved within feet of Columbia Academy's campus and is paying full tuition? Really? 

Surprised? Why?

14 minutes ago, pioneer42 said:

Who was the PG? Was he there last year when yow played Humboldt?  He as the guy that took the hard fall late. He was very talented.

Sky Polk has been at CA for years, since elementary age... great kid! He has worked his butt off to get to where he was this year. He didn’t make varsity his freshman and possibly his sophomore year, played limited action last year and stepped it up this year. 

2 hours ago, therickbol said:

It's not complicated. What CA does is not an even playing field with public schools. Bottom line. Really very simple. As you have acknowledged, there are multiple players who were huge pieces of your team that are not CA kids. You still have a good team without them but not a championship team. Public schools can't have a kid from Giles Co. come join the team without moving into their school zone. Facts. You have a bus that drives into other counties to pick up students. Nothing disrespectful to the players or coaches. They were there most complete single A team in the state. No doubt. Great team. Well coached. But the team was not constructed like every other team in the state. Don't try to argue around it. Just own it. Take your gold ball home. Then work hard to win another after this year while playing on an actual LEVEL PLAYING FIELD against D2 schools starting next season.

The "Giles Co" kid you are referring to did move into Columbia Academy's "school zone", he lives within feet of the CA Campus. I also could be wrong but i believe he lived outside of the State before going to Giles Co. last year.

Also saying "Public schools can't have a kid.." isn't true either. Public schools all over this State including Maury County public schools have kids that don't live in their "school zone" playing or transferring in for them. One of Mt. Pleasant's starters lives in Columbia (or did last year while playing for them), Hampshire has two starters that live OUTSIDE  Maury County and one living in Columbia starting for them, there is a Culleoka zone kid playing baseball for Central while his sister still attends and plays for Culleoka, Richland had a kid that lives in Columbia on it's roster this year, Eagleville brought in their coach and his son (their best player) from Chapel Hill this year, Fayetteville's best player transferred in from Moore County, etc, etc, etc...  ALL that being said... if it all follows TSSAA rules then it's perfectly fine for public and/or private schools to do it. 

"Then work hard to win another after this year while playing on an actual LEVEL PLAYING FIELD against D2 schools starting next season."

There will definitely be some growing pains from losing the best senior class to have ever come through CA, but they will.  

Two talented and well coached teams!!! Both fan bases should be very proud of their boys!!! Everyone else is wishing they were playing today but only two can! 

Did he play today or not?

23 hours ago, rufus said:

Did mt.p really chant F...  C.A.  with no consequences??

I stand corrected. They did with a minute left in the game...