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Jnutz, you need to find a way to express how you feel. It's not healthy to keep things bottled up inside and never speak of them. BTW Go Army, Beat Navy

That is unique. Everybody in our county, Coach or not, is on a year to year basis.

Smith County @ Smith County

23-22 Cats 0:44 4th QTR

22-16 Devils 4th QTR 8:08 left to play

16-14 Cats seconds left in the 3rd

14-10 Devils 3rd QTR 4:38

10-7 Cats halftime

This game in now moved to Thursday night.

A Field Goal attempt is a scrimmage kick and is processed in the same manner as a punt is as a non scoring scrimmage kick. According to NFHS rules section 2 scrimmage kicks, article 5: paraphrased - the kicking team can catch or recover a scrimmage kick beyond the neutral zone however the possession turns over to the receiving team at the point of first touch by the kicking team. Even if the kick is considered jointly possessed or recovered the possession turns over to the receiving team. Without the receiving team touching the ball beyond the neutral zone any call awarding the ball back to the kicking team is incorrect according to NFHS rules which TSSAA abides by.

Coach Murphy’s Laws of Football 1. You are not Superman; Linebackers and Kickers take note. 2. An ACL/MCL injury is Nature’s way of telling you to slow down. 3. If it’s stupid but it works, it isn’t stupid. 4. Try to look unimportant; the opponent may be tired and not want to waste a hit on you. 5. If at first you don’t succeed, have a coach tell the referee he saw lightning. 6. Never forget that your field house and stadium were made by the lowest bidder. 7. Your opponent invariably snaps the ball on two occasions: A. When they’re ready. B. When you’re not. 8. Five seconds on the play clock always last three seconds. 9. Teamwork is essential; it gives your opponent other people to hit. 10. If the linebacker is within range to be crack blocked, so are you. 11. Headsets will fail as soon as you need an answer. 12. The one player you need is always in short supply. 13. Interchangeable parts aren’t. 14. When in doubt, keep running. 15. The most dangerous thing in the world is a position coach with a white board and a dry erase marker. 16. The worse the weather, the more you are required to be out in it. 17. The more a helmet costs, the farther you will have to send it away to be repaired. 18. Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it. 19. For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. 20. There are two things every successful coach knows: 1) Never tell anyone everything you know

How does the middle school program work? Is it a community team from multiple k-8 schools? I've asked the HS Coach and the GCBE but nobody will or can answer the questions about the job.

I'd vote McMinn gets announced first because of the program size benefits compared to TP. It makes you wonder however if TP has offered to a coach who is waiting on another school's decision before they accept the Bear's position. If that is the case you would also be justified in asking if they are getting a coach that wants to be there for the right reasons or because it's whats left after the dust settles. If they didn't have a candidate then why not re-advertise so I am guessing they are just waiting on another shoe to drop somewhere.

I want to shake them and scream IT'S NOT ROCKET SURGERY! 1. MISSION: Hire the right head football coach. 2 ANALYSIS: Develop a problem statement (What are you wanting the coach to do) What assumptions are needed to make a decision (length of time he will stay is an example) Evaluation Criteria for your decision. 3. EVALUATION: Will your plan for the perfect coach get you where you want, Is the perfect coach available, what are must haves and nice to haves. 4. EXECUTION: Make sure everyone knows the criteria, create a scoring system that each interviewing member will use blindly along side other interviewers. 5. COURSE OF ACTION COMPARISON: Provide the top X candidates to Shawn with pro's and con's. 6. DECIDE: Pull the trigger or go through the process again or reach out to the guy that has shown a genuine interest in creating a competitive culture with the Bears by developing young men of character and making this sport a rallying point. "For Youth, as it crosses the threshold into manhood, football has become a rallying point to build courage when courage seems to die, to restore faith when there seems little cause for faith, to create hope as hope becomes forlorn." - General MacArthur

Maybe with the GBB team's success Shawn is busy and hasn't had the opportunity to reach out after Christmas

I have not heard anything one way or another from the AD. Tellico Plains is also in the same boat as far as when it was posted and no publicly visible movement.

Moonie, any news around the Bear's den about a decision?

Calvin Zemer (OC) has been promoted to lead the Perry County football program.

Two schools as HC in two years?

Mt. Juliet High School principal gave information to the Wilson County Board of Education about the synthetic turf Jan. 9 at the school board’s meeting. MJ received an anonymous donation of $500,000 to lay the turf and seeks to raise an additional $300,000 for the project. The field will be a light-green field with dark-green stripes and black end zones. https://www.lebanondemocrat.com/article/sports/football/2019/01/15/mt-juliet-high-school-to-get-new-turf-on-football-field/

It could be that TSSAA announcements are automatically removed after sixty (60) days and I believe the TP job was listed on 11/7/18 which might be the reason ORRRRRRRRRRRR they found their coach.

Any word on a new coach?

Well it depends. To do either job well requires a significant amount of time. All sports take time on top of teaching or administrative/educator time. Football especially is time intensive and to walk away from a practice to be at a different sporting event isn't the ideal position to be in. Off season wouldn't be as detrimental but man that is a long day to go from school to the locker room/ weight room, to a basketball or baseball game. Can it be done, sure. Can both be done well, potentially. Should one person be both....depends. Can the school system afford 2 different people; Is the AD/Coach mature enough to be objective; Is there comfort in the head coach/AD bifurcating responsibilities when it comes to promoting a certain culture on the team. Hey skill player you can't leave practice 30 minutes early to go to your after school job and if you don't like it come see me after practice...….I'll be at the women's soccer game. Maybe that is a little extreme but it gets the point across that IMO there isn't a blanket answer.

I've watched this board for a short while and I am trying to put faces with names and schools with events but it is difficult. Sooooo I think I have it figured out by using a mathematical analogy: How many HS Football fans does it change a light bulb? 50,000. One to screw it in, One to blame the previous coach and their fans for the old one going out and 49,998 to believe this theory without question and demand that because rival programs have cheated they should be sanctioned by TSSAA and stripped of their current wins and any wins since their own team won a golden ball. Am I close?

Congrats to Brent Peel selected as new Jellico Head Football Coach.