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This will lead to a greatly reduced number of AAU travel teams and thus limit opportunities for athletes in the off season. Many high school coaches can only afford to make a living if they supplement their high school salary with their travel ball salary. Moreover, it will limit athletes ability to even recieve training in the offseason from very qualified "trainers" who happen to coach high school ball. This is an absolutely ridiculous over-the-top "solution" for a problem that is quite rare. It may also violate laws by limiting an individual's ability to work. Coaches should be talking to their athletic directors and telling them the shut this terrible idea down.

Watch Cherish Stringfield.....this will turn out very well once she can implement her system. There may be a few rough bumps early on, but I be they will finish strong. Cherish is very bright - this was a great hire by Hillsboro.

R U Serious? Do you watch many good teams in Nashville?

Not only do they have good young talent, but they are very well coached. They could use one more true post player.

Let's hear your predictions? West? East/Middle? Champs?

Ensworth....without much effort. They'll blow everyone out.

Justice Swett is good, but she is not an exceptional point guard. She'll play 2 or 3 for a loaded Ensworth Team. Ensworth has a killer point guard (can't remember her name). Justice is a great defender - long arms and fairly big for her age. I'm not convinced that Justice Swett is a better player than Derica Wyatt at FRA. With my money, i'd have to go with Derica Wyatt. From what I understand, Team Pride has consistently begged Wyatt to be on that team. She opted to play elsewhere and didn't get the publicity. But she is every bit the player and then some. She is a pure shooter, who when hot, can be unconscious shooting 3's. When someone tries to defend her from the 3, she'll slash you to death. Having said that, I agree with an earlier poster who said there would be a lot of impact freshman this year. Swett will definitely be in that group.

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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy!!!!! Centennial won a game!!!! I am so happy for the fans and the players and the coaches and the principal too!!!!. Here, I thought they couldn't get any momentum heading into the end of the season. Now they won a game by alot of points. That is awesome. So I do think that this was a big win for them. Now, maybe all of the no-it-alls will leave the coach alone for a while.

Well, Independence just beat em'. Centennial is running out of games to win. I feel bad for the girls.

two possible wins left. John Overton and Hillwood.

First of all, it is "affecting" not "effecting." Dr. Vader will get you for that. I could do a better job than some of the people we are talking about. But, their jobs don't pay enough.

Yeah, I'm quite sure that Darth Vader had a lot to do with Ravenwood's football and Lacross successes..... To suggest that Dr. Vader had anything to do with that is an all out absurdity. A blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile too.

Well, when you get these pseudo-intellectual elitists like Dr. Pam Darth Vader over at Ravenwood running the show, they usually don't understand the concept that sports add a lot to the culture of the school. Phd + sports = oil + water. Not really the NEA....just the fact that liberal women have a totally different agenda than conservative men.

Well, now they are 0-14 with no easy games in sight: Tue Nov. 13 BGA L 36-46 Thu Nov. 15 Hunters Lane L 28-55 Mon Nov. 19 Stratford L 33-39 Fri Nov. 23 Clarksville L 30-56 Mon Nov. 26 Smyrna L 17-82 Sat Dec. 1 Page L 33-41 Mon Dec. 3 at Stratford L 29-53 Tue Dec. 4 John Overton D L 31-38 Fri Dec. 7 Independence D L 22-55 Tue Dec. 11 at Hillsboro D L 29-74 Fri Dec. 14 at Brentwood D L 27-62 Tue Jan. 8 at Hillwood D L 36-42 Fri Jan. 11 at Ravenwood D L 28-59 Mon Jan. 14 at Smyrna L 19-59

This is a great accomplishment for a great kid, great school and let's not forget....a great coach in Joey Spann. He's done a fantastic job at Ezell over the years. Congrats.

Centennial now 0-12 (0-5) in District lost to Hillwood of all teams last night. What is the problem here? Someone told me that their coach is a guy who got fired from ravenwood. Will they win a game?

I have never even heard of Station Camp. Where is this school? Have they had any success over the past 10 years? Or are they just a recent phenomenon? Seriously, I've never heard of this school. Is it private or public? Size?

It was a great game to watch. FRA was down by 5 or more points with about 5 minutes left. Both teams scrapped. There was kind of a questionable foul at the end that gave FRA the free throw with 1 second left. I could have seen that call going either way. Cheatham pressed the entire game....I thought they'd get worn out, but they didn't. Canady missed a lot of inside shots but she just got done playing soccer (FRA won the state championship in large part due to Canady and Smith). When she gets her shot back, FRA will be dangerous. Good luck to Cheatham the rest of the way.

This is what would happen: A new governing body would not allow privates to recruit from other privates. So BA wouldn't be able to steal players from say Father Ryan. However, BA, MBA and the recruiting privates would have unfettered access to drive down to Riverdale and basically pick their favorite players who could begin playing immediately ....even in mid-season if the private school allows a mid-year transfer! There would be no waiting periods! Implications: It will be much tougher for public coaches to consistently field good teams. As soon as a public school athlete looks good, the privates will come in and steal him. Then, the best coaches will head for private schools for obvious reasons. I'm telling you, the very people who are anti-private stand to lose the most in this battle. The problem is that they are so short-sighted that they cannot see the long-term ramifications of such a split. Note to TSSAA lurkers: You had better quit treating the privates like red-headed stepchildren or you WILL lose big time. Begin by reducing the modifier. Then, add private school representation to the TSSAA controlling board.

Believe me, the coaches are not involved in these types of decisions. They may be the last ones to know.

It would be very easy to do this. It takes a few bright people and a little money. Funding: The money saved by not having to pay the TSSAA is significant enough to hire a few lawyers to put together a charter and put together a board comprised of maybe 9 board members voted in by the participating schools. Local sponsors could easily be identified who could help with championship game support. For the record, I'm actually a private supportor. I have heard rumblings from people at various private schools about their current relationship with TSSAA. They have no represenation on the TSSAA board and are treated as such. I think it would be bad for high school athletics, but if the TSSAA doesn't change its tune, I think the split is inevitable. In the long term, I believe it will hurt publics more than privates due to 1) $, 2) lost players to recruiting 3) loss of rivalries, 4) potentially loss of good coaches who will get frustrated coaching for public schools only to see their best players get stolen when they are sophomores or juniors.

For some, yes. But for the existing DII schools, there is a one year period that a transfer has to sit out. If the "recruiting" DII schools left the TSSAA, it is open game. They can recruit even more and lure out public school athletes immediately because they no longer have to abide by the 1 year transfer rule that forces transfers to sit out of sports for one year. For instance, many middle schools are not members of the TSSAA. This in essense allows middle school athletes to move at will without having to sit out a year. If private high schools are no longer members of TSSAA, there is no one governing this unless a new governing body enforces this among private schools. However, the new governing body would likely implement a one year transfer rule for athletes who already go to those private schools making it difficult for MBA to steal a player from Father Ryan. But I doubt this "new governing body" would enforce the rule for public school students wanting to go private.

While the insurance issue could be a minor issue for private schools, there is nothing to prevent a new association from governing playoffs for private schools. Just like AAU teams get insurance for players, either the new association or the private schools themselves could get the insurance. AAU insurance for travel players is actually quite reasonable. So it is not that big of an issue. It may be true that the association you are referring to would not recognize a private association, but that alone couldn't stop privates from exercising their.........freedom.

There was a move to force all privates to D2. It is often referred to as the 1.8 multiplier which is the most outrageous multiplier in the entire nation.