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Alliance is still stronger then TPV in the younger ages. I would put the Alliance 12's up against any TPV 13 team and half of the TPV 14's and the Alliance 12's would win. The Alliance 14's would handily beat any TPV 14 team. People tend to forget that the best age for TPV (13) is the same group that was easily the weakest age group for Alliance a couple years ago. As some of those parents found out this year, it wasn't Alliance, i was their daughters skill level. TPV will not get a quality Alliance player that is 14-18 to switch clubs. Those are prime recruiting ages and with TPV playing club and skipping national tournaments, the exposure is not there.

Congratulations to Coach Mitchell of BGA. After 20 years, 200+ wins, and 2 State Championships, he decided to retire from coaching. Rob Mitchell is a class act in everything he does.

I agree with everything you said with the small exception the 14's split. The 14 age group in Mid Tenn is weak but TPV's 14 are all Alliance 2-3 team players. TPV 14 do not have the high end talent that Alliance 14's.

In that same tournament it took the TPV "131" team 3 long sets to beat their "132" team. The same Alliance 13-1 team that took TPV 132 team to 3 sets lost to the Alliance 12-1 team yesterday in straight sets for their second win in 2 tries against them. Overall, the 13 age group is easily the weakest age group across Middle Tennessee. They have hard workers and good coaches, just not the talent.

Surprisingly a great tournament at AGame this weekend. All teams attending were Nationals bound in a couple weeks so this was a good tune-up. A5's top teams, Alliance, Circle City, Triangle....just to name a few. Two year age group so the younger ages in the pools had a tough time but faced amazing competition. Circle City 13 won the 12-13 age group A5 15-1 won 14-15 age group A5 16-1 won the 17-18 age group On another topic, I talked to TPV parents who were not happy with tournament results, competition, and how teams were created. Per these parents, TPV plans to have more training and less tournaments next year which sounds horrible to these parents. It'll be interesting to see what happens since TPV has the facility while Alliance has the talent.

And Alliance got out of that league for that precise reason......I'm pretty sure TPV was the ones organizing and promoting it.

She is enrolling early. Brentwood will still start 6 D1 future players, just not the top high school player in the country next year.

I talked to 3-4 parents that left Alliance for TPV and they are not happy with the program. With the exception of this tournament and Bluegrass, TPV plays the same teams over and over again in tournaments. TPV 13's (who are supposedly their strongest age group) took 3 long sets to beat a weak Alliance 13 team. Outside on the 13 age group, TPV had only 1 win in the Open division. The Alliance 18-1 went to USAV Junior National Championships in Anaheim this past weekend and won the Gold Championship. Overall, Alliance has the better talent and teams in mid-Tenn but as Camper said, they currently struggle in National tournaments with the exception on this 18's this past weekend.

Because of the talent difference between Alliance and TP, I doubt TP will play Alliance the next couple years if they can prevent it. i heard this week that several girls have already quit TP. Does anyone know if this is true?

Clifford - All due respect but you are wrong. One girl I know was the best player on her one team last year at Alliance (in a very weak age group) and she’s was placed on a two team this year at Performance (and yes, talking about Franklin). As for recruiting at 14-15, Shay Eggleston at Alliance (Logan’s little sister) was recruited a lot as a 14 last year and will get a lot of attention this season on the 15’s. Alliance also has a big hitting lefty on their 14’s. The reason I bring this up is you are 100% correct about recruiting at that age, it ramps up early for these young ladies.

I spoke to a couple of parents at Sports Performance and they are not happy With recent developments. From one parent “Seems SP is looking out for themselves and not players. They have placed legitimate “1” players of lower teams so the drop off is not so severe at those other levels.” They were also not happy with the tournament schedule.....it’s VERY weak. If SP does not up their competition level, their players will not be seen by recruiters.

When digging thru the google machine last night for a list of TPV coaches i came across this disturbing article. Creepy considering all of the sexual allegations across the country in the media currently. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.tennessean.com/amp/514751001 If TPV is banned from USA Volleyball and AAU, what kind of competition will the club play?

I have yet to see a complete list of coaches at TPV. From what i hear, please correct me if I’m wrong, TPV is still looking to fill coaching spots. They’ve had a lot of success out of their original site in Chicago but none of their regional teams have been very competitive. CW was hurt the most. Alliance essentially lost one age group but that was easily the weakest age group Alliance had last year. Not sure how/if this did anything to Ethos.

High school ball is over for now. Can we turn to club ball for a post? Does anyone have the backstory on the new club in Franklin, Sports Performance? I keep hearing bits and pieces about the director but not sure what to believe.

This kid will be a great fit for Ohio State. If anyone knows how to claim health conditions to quit a football team it’s Urban Myer.

Seriously doubt it. Webb has lost to Hardin Valley twice and Siegel once. Brentwood easily handled them in the state. All due respect, it's pretty easy to look good in the lower private division.

Tell that to my wife please

You're right Clifford. Morgan is one of the freshman I mentioned and she is the smoothest player you can watch.

Pretty much. What's scary is there are no seniors playing, the freshman class has two future all-state players, and the current 8th grade class has 2-3 players 6 feet tall who could be all-state in their time at Bwood. Not a stretch to think Bwood could win 9-10 state championships in a row once this run is over. Going for 5 in a row tomorrow. If Rwood can get to the finals they will give Bwood a tough match but I still believe Bwood will beat Rwood for the 6th time this year.

Ravenwood might be playing their beat ball right now and that will get then to the championship match but they still do not have the players to beat Brentwood. In certain rotations, Brentwood will have 6 future D1 college players on the court at the same time. Bwood 3-0 over Rwood in the finals.

Could not agree more with you. K2 has been proven to have no clue. K2's director has been on these boards calling K2ruth out on the lies (I'm not calling it mis-information, they were lies)

It's almost embarrassing how much talent was playing in the Williamson County tournament this week. My hats off to Page who was eliminated last night in a 5 set, winner take all, battle royale by a scrappy Ravenwood coach led by first year coach Abbey West. Page is 30 students over the limit for AA so they get move up to AAA and into the toughest district in the state. Page would hands down win AA this year if not moved. Ravenwood will make noise Brentwood is Brentwood and starting to really turn up the heat. Both these teams will easily advance next week. See you In the Boro soon.

Those numbers are pretty bad actually

You should see the thongs the vball mom's wear!

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