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With Riverside coming back to R5 from R6, will that alleviate the championship path for teams from R6? (It does make sense travel wise for them to be in R5.) I’m still learning about those West Tn teams but seems to me Riverside had a good build up to their run to the state championship. Now, they also seemed to dip last year so, are they the Fayetteville and Cornersville of 2A or, will they still be dominant or was last year just a down year? With East Nashville electing to play in 2A I have a feeling they are going to be the new Alcoa of 2A. That being said, who out of R5 and/or R6 will be left to face them? Loretto had a break out season a couple of years ago but then got handed a first round loss to the R6 fourth place team. The teams and playoff matchups with 2A are different now compared to when the Z plan was done away with. It used to be R5 champion had an easy first round game but, that is no longer. With Milan playing down in 2A for the foreseeable future, and playing for the state last year, are they the team from the west to beat? Adamsville seems to be a long way from the other R5 teams but, is that the same distance to the R6 teams? I’m curious how they were placed in R5 and, to a larger, more comical sense, could Adamsville have competed for the R5 championship the past couple/few years? Is Mckenzie a solid 1A school or are they close to being in 2A? If not and they move up to 2A, will the traditional R6 teams be able to compete with them? I’m figuring Hohenwald and the rest of 5A will field their traditional teams so, will it come down to Milan vs Riverside for the right to face EN? Then again, what about R7 and R8 in 2A?

In all of my years, it seems that there is a transference of power every couple of years between the three areas (East, Middle and West). Now that privates are split, it is more prevalent to see. However, having six classifications effectively nulls that. It does rotate but, where you are sitting and, perhaps, more influential is where you originate from, Maryville and Alcoa fans will not see this.

Be careful what you wish for as the old adage goes. Hearing rumors over here about a couple of private powerhouses from my neck of the woods filling out two of the first three weeks. Supposedly, home and home. That means not one off’s either. Have also heard a rumor about some powerhouse team from Kentucky. As you young guys state, looks like Westview wants all the smoke! Kiddos to them scheduling up!

4A better watch out! https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/sports/high-school/2024/12/12/garrick-barnett-hired-lawrence-county-football-coach/76949302007/ Seems like a local kid who has real world experience and, not just in football, is “beginning a new era”! The try is always harder when it’s (home). Will LC evolve from a basketball school to a football school? They have been up and down over the years but mostly down.

I don’t understand the magnet school setup, at all. Are they recruiting kids from Metro schools? Legally? Are kids from Winchester still driving to Moore County to play sports? What about Lincoln and Giles counties and, I guess Fayetteville now; are they still pulling kids in and recruiting from Alabama? Now, I haven’t heard anything the past few years about Giles county and Marshall county snitching on each other but, are they still recruiting players from each other’s teams? Since Richland did so well this year and Giles with a below average season, is Richland recruiting Pulaski kids again? Are some of those residences in Gibson County housing Jackson kids empty? Does the company that replaced Goodyear in Union City pay as well as Goodyear and, if so, does Westview and Union City have boosters connected close enough to said replacement company that parents of transfers to both schools get good jobs? I guess the transfer problem really doesn’t exist around us. With dozens of living structures being built every day, south of Nashville doesn’t get looked at much.

Hearing rumors that the boys basketball team, loaded with football players, is going to make a run to the state championship in basketball. Was stated that the Simpson kid is even better at basketball.

This ^^^^ all day long! I know there have been a couple/few back to back Mr Football’s but, can you imagine having one kid get it for all four years of his high school career? I’m sure that played into the committee’s mind as well.

The Wade kid was “from” just south of here. IIRC, he was a 2X Mr Football. Are you talking about the play where the kid stood over by the sideline just in front of their coach and streaked down the field for that TD when the ball was snapped?

I remember being at Dudley Field for that 1985 Clinic Bowl between South Pittsburg and Spring Hill. SH had Orlando Wade and seems that SP had a stud RB too. Two things stand out about that one specific game. First, that was the weirdest single wing I have ever seen. The QB lined up sideways to the rear and side of the center. I never could tell if he ever took a snap from center and if he did, did he pitch or hand off? The second and probably most important was the overtime two point conversion. SP called the same bread and butter play but it was stopped. Had they not called the exact same play, would they have gotten the two point conversion and, did Spring Hill actually stop them? Did Lake County beat SP the year before (1985) in the Clinic Bowl? Also, it was cold that Saturday morning!

Ha Ha you give me too much credit ST! He’s wearing shoes!

Well, now that the season is complete, what is everyone’s take? We all know they made it to the dance but, were they overrated? They beat a good Covington team twice but, like WV, Covington didn’t exactly have a difficult season. Now, Westview beat East Nashville to face Alcoa in the championship. However, if you add the W/L columns of EN regular season opponents and I’m not sure they are .500. Was it a cake walk to get to the game to face Alcoa?

Didn't Dresden beat WV by something like 70-0 when Dressor Wynn was leading them to Mr. Football?

I don't see the *Milan rule on the agenda for the next T$$AA meeting. But, here is the link for items to be discussed. https://cms-files.tssaa.org/documents/tssaa/2024-25/legislative-council/LC-12-24-agenda.pdf

Booger, do you remember the old days of only three classifications when it seemed every year Alcoa was matching up with Brentwood Academy for the championship? Then, to make it more fair, BA decided to move up to 3A on their own?

Anyone remember the recruiting going on over in west Tennessee by both Union City and Westview back when Goodyear was there? Seems like they were both getting kids out of Memphis who's family or had a family member get a job at Goodyear and move to Union City or Martin. I remember specifically that one yar Westview brought in that running back just before school began.

I've heard of Karma. A lot of people speak of it. Until now, I never thought it was real.

Can you image, after everything *Milan has done to get away from Alcoa, Covington and other competition, to cheat and form an academy, to be placed down into 2A just to have to face East Nashville (the new Alcoa of 2A). Can't imagine a better fitting. Not as much as ironic as hilarious!

We are taking a large hit of about 20. The middle of our defense is gone but unlike past years, may be difficult to replace. Offense production is going to take a major hit, as well.

Except for Trezevant https://www.chalkbeat.org/tennessee/2019/12/17/21055625/judge-rules-fired-football-coach-at-center-of-memphis-grade-changing-scandal-can-have-his-job-back-a/ winners never cheat and cheaters never win.

The turnovers killed us more than anything! The difference between this year and the previous three is that there were NOT as many head scratching calls this time. I wondered if the kids were waiting for some out of realm play calling like before. It wasn't the play calling that got us like the past three times.

There is a major difference between schools who are operating academies to hide student enrollment numbers and schools who are co-oping for sports. The best example of the co-oping I can think of is in Maury County. Many, and I do mean many years ago, they told students who went to Culleoka High School that since the school was too small to originate at football program, if they wanted to play, they could drive to Columbia. There may be two or three kids who did that. For those who do not know, the entire school is a K-12 and has maybe 1K students, for the entire K-12 population. Now, don't get the co-oping mixed up with academies to hide students. They are, in some cases, different entities all together. Also, having said all of that, I do not know how Pearl and EN do their co-oping. So, that may be completely different.

Looks as if Dresden is dropping long time intercounty rival Westview from their schedule. This rivalry dates back forever but has been most recently in effect for almost two decades. Who will fill in for Dresden? Personally, I would like to see Milan jump in there since it's been stated so much in the past two years how they are not scared of competition. Now, is McKenzie coming back with everything from this year? I know they came to Middle Tennessee and beat perennial third round 3A playoff contender Giles by a large margin. Question is, would Westview take the chance and perhaps schedule 1A McKenzie if Milan did want "the smoke" as they call it? With Westview set to be the dominant 3A school for at least the next two to three years, who is going to want to face them anyway, much less out of region or classification? It just seems like there is a cluster of very good teams in a small radius of that part of West Tennessee. Anyone know the radius of distance between Martin, McKenzie, Milan, Trenton and the other good schools? Just something else to think about when scheduling. Just from that area, you had a 1A school almost make the state and two 3A schools that actually did.

DP, the consensus is that *Milan, being led by their BOC member, knew what they were doing and fully understood how it would impact them when they first began to orchestrate the (Academy). In other words, *Milan searched for and found a loophole to lower their enrollment numbers so that you could move down a division from 3A to 2A (on paper). Such as reverse engineering or solving for X, *Milan then proceeded to do what was needed to accomplish just that. The problem that is going to stigmatize *Milan is that everything was done not to help students nor improve education for *Milan students but rather it was done specifically for athletics; more specifically, to artificially lower football competition to increase odds of winning a state championship. No matter what is stated by the *Milan faithful, T$$AA or *Milan fans, the actual enrollment numbers for the school state that *Milan should be playing in 3A, not 2A. Everyone but *Milan people; fans, administrators and parents, will always hold this against them. That means, regardless of how successful this season is or the success of any *Milan team as long as they are playing *2A, will always be remembered as cheaters, scared of competition and, looked down upon.

Can the East Nashville DB’s and safeties turn around and play the ball? If so, it may be game on. Now, if they can’t and it’s 46/47 degrees or above and no wind or rain, Westview will wipe the field. Saying all of that, it is depending on WV being healthy.

Have to play the odds. Remember, the house always rules.