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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.

You'd think DC's advertisers would have let them know already. These are Knoxville area businesses that advertise on there. Mark Packer/WVLT probably don't care because their ads are sold for TV and not shown on the internet stream.

Diamond Clear's stream hasn't worked all year, for all games. They should have thrown it on Youtube already.

Hopefully the Diamond Clear media stream works for this game. On paper this looks like it will be a classic.

The difference being Maryville was in a separate class back then.

Yes, what the County should do is build one or two more high schools right now, but they won't. There was a reason the county chose to consolidate them in the first place. Therefore, WB and HHS should just drop football. They have zero chance competing at 6A. If there were another school in the county, that would mean three schools of around 1000, or 4A. There will be tremendous amounts of growth in the eastern part of the county if/when they extend Pellissippi. They'll probably build one high school in either carpenters or montvale area, after WB and Heritage are bursting at the seems, resulting in three 6A teams.

Heritage and W.B. should attempt to merge into one team or both drop football.

You stole the words right out of my math. Tee's an elite recruiter, good, if not great WR coach, but not a very good OC. I could see some reputable power 5 football program eventually give Tee, simply because of his elite recruiting, a nominal co-OC title (like USC did), where he doesn't really control the offense. Games at Bill Meyer are some of my fondest childhood memories. I'll never forget seeing Michael Jordan and getting Andruw Jones' autograph as a youngster. Players had to walk through the concourse to get from the locker rooms to the dugouts, so there was a lot more fan interaction. Over by the left field bullpen you could hang out and chat with guys in the bullpen. It's not like that anymore. In the 90's if you showed up early to Braves games you could both watch batting practice and hope to catch a ball, and still have time to get autographs down by the dugouts. Now they charge extra, I believe, to get their early for BP and very very few players sign. This interaction between fans and players was a special, unique aspect of baseball that has been lost, as ratings and participation in the sport are dropping.

Cornersville got away with holding all game. Congrats to Whitwell. I'm so happy for that community. All three schools in that county now have state titles, wow! That's as, if not more, impressive than the dynasties at Alcoa College and Maryville U in my home county.

Excluding championship games and bowls, neutral site games are mostly horrible, soulless money grabs at any level of football. Even today's ones which will be well attended, like UT vs. WVU, Washington vs. Auburn, and Alabama vs. Louisville, are dumb. BA vs. MHS in Cookeville would be as senseless as today's Ole Miss vs. Texas Tech game in Houston.

Currently it's about a 3rd of the company, but by 2023 Berkshire will own 80%. I don't see Jimmy/the family selling the Browns anytime soon. Even though he's the worst sports owner/manager in the world, the team will most likely perpetually appreciate in value, as there are only 32 franchises and it is America's most popular sport.