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And in Nashville, most of the Catholics do not reside on the JPII side of town. JPII is less than 50% Catholic whereas Father Ryan is probably greater than 90%.

Patriot Pat = best mascot in NFL...with old Redskins a close 2nd.

My understanding is that JPII wants to hire the AD prior to football coach. Current AD is interim.

JP2 had a game scheduled with HHS a few years ago. It was agreed upon the coaches but either HHS or Sumner Co admin shut it down.

Obviously, Chattanooga does not count as East TN, correct? Knoxville has never had any history in DII-AAA until recently. While Knox Catholic competed well in 5A, they have gotten their teeth kicked-in since moving to DI-AAA and playing big boy football. With Lipscomb and now CPA moving to DII-AAA, it is the only private school region that really matters. So, IMO it is more of what the private schools are NOT in Knoxville vs what the public schools are, if that makes sense.

Instead of punishing success, the TSSAA should relegate teams, similar to the English Premier League, for not being competitive.

I think it is less about physical injury to players and more about injury to the coach's or school's pride - and/or that their players and parents might see what really good football looks like. When my kids were at JPII and still playing in D2-AAA, we all knew when the other team stepped off the bus who was going to win the game - and it was NOT JPII. Coach Geis taught our kids to compete. Yes there is winning on the scoreboard, there is also winning in just competing. To echo Derek, no the TSSAA should not be forcing non-region schedules nor should they create a rule specific to one school (CPA).

Now this is laugh out loud funny. Should be nominated for post of the year.

Not what I said. I did say that CPA has faired well against the D2-AAA schools they have played since 2020.

CPA has faired well against D2-AAA in past 4 or 5 years, going 7-2 against BA, MBA and Ensworth. I think CPA will be fine with the tests being Baylor & McCallie, which no-one else from D2-AAA has proven they can beat as of late.

And heard Rector is going to Independence.

Agree on Coach Geis. He made JPII a respectable program, which was not easy. He will continue to fly under the radar until FRA can beat CPA.

Good question. Who knows if anyone locally would have been interested. Our new Headmaster is from MI so I was hoping they would have done a national search and lured someone looking to move to Nashville.

Pretty much. I think the fanbase and alumni lost interest in the program when Coach Geis left and the headmaster did not do a search on any level outside of the hallways for a new head coach. He hit the "easy" button and promotoed one of the assistants. Coupled with having a good coach that made the program respectable, the school moved down classes, from D2-AAA to AA, so outside of FRHS all of the games with known schools were lost. Many of us went to Pope games to see all of the talent from BA, Ensworth, MBA, Baylor, etc, which was pretty special. My $0.02

Coach Corn has been at Walters State the past 2 seasons as an assistant. I did not see him being an assistant for very long.