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Yet you were critical of Coach O at Heritage when he cursed in the locker room.

This is not correct. Every CIF Section champion qualifies for one of 15 state championship bowl games. There's even an open division that pairs the top two teams regardless of division.

People now consider 14-18 year olds "young kids". LOL. Yeah, that was the first time those "young kids" heard such language. I'm sure the vast majority (if not all) of high school students have smartphones. They hear and see far worse on the media they consume on their devices. But if some of y'all want to play semantics and act like it's so different, well go ahead. If hearing a coach curse turns your child into a sailor-mouth, that's bad parenting. They're transferring in droves from Heritage!!!

Seymour's head coach Scott Branton is a Heritage grad. I believe he was the quarterback when the Mountaineers pulled the upset at Maryville in '99.

"Swept under the rug"? LOL. The video is online for billions of people to see. Only the terminally offended care about this. Sorry your outrage has no legs. Go ahead and focus on to the next thing to pretend to be offended over.

Also: Go Maryville.

TSSAA and/or MyTv should consider entering the 21st century and allow the Clinic Bowl games to be broadcast on YoutubeTV. Hopefully someone on "regular" Youtube streams this and the other games. I'm very disappointed in the powers that be.

Tennessee beat Memphis last year in their house (fists balled ROFL) and will be beating them again this year in the Tommy Bowl, with or without Wiseman.

Incorrect, TSSAA does not have conferences, as I described them. They have regions, based on enrollment and geographic location. Yes, binary thinking, winning a state championship is the goal, but in reality, life isn't so black-and-white.

Heritage's biggest problem is how TSSAA groups teams. Like Ohio and other states, in football Tennessee should have conferences rather than regions, where schools can group themselves together with other schools that share their goals and give their football opportunities to compete. Hypothetically, you'd have Knoxville area conference featuring Maryville, Alcoa, Catholic, Oak Ridge, Farragut, Bearden, and one or two others. The playoffs would still be grouped by class/enrollment, with the understanding that all or most of the teams playing in the "superconferences" across the state qualify for the playoffs in their respective classes. All the private schools would still earn automatic bids, as they now do. The Heritages of the state would hypothetically play smaller schools in conference, giving them a better opportunity to compete on the field (history proves this; they were much more competitive in 5A), but would be completing to qualify at-large for a 6A playoff spot.

Glencliff should adopt 8-man football.

Jancek is a good athlete with size. I could see him walking on somewhere at WR. He certainly has the connections.

A few years ago, before Heritage's best coach left for Maryville, before their best player "moved" to Alcoa before his senior year, Heritage was actually competitive in 5A. That coach leaving, coupled with it being open season for transfers in TSSAA, effectively killed Heritage's football team, and the transfer rule has or will destroyed others across the state. If you're going to allow open transfers then accept there are haves and have-nots and make a super division. But that wouldn't work because it would certainly include smaller schools like Alcoa and if they didn't win there'd be complains so nothing will change and we're stuck with kind of joke football in the state of Tennessee.

Knox County should consider high schools in between these overcrowded zones, like Cedar Bluff, with no sports (or maybe just basketball). I think a good number of kids would enjoy the vibe of an academic school. If a student wanted to, say, play football they could go to Farragut or Bearden, like at magnet schools. Maybe even have a no sports school in the Hardin Valley area to ease overcrowding.

Govs by 49.