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5 hours ago, MidTennFootball said:

Some program nobody has ever of

Someone who figured out how to win 3 straight 30 years before someone else did. Lol.

It was in the days before social media but one of my coaching mentors once told me on the subject of publicity “You don’t get any in high school unless you create it yourself.”

11 hours ago, 18NCS said:

Probably well known in metro Nashville, but Antioch's 9th grade QB is going to be a problem for other schools over the next few years. The Bears are a program on the rise in Nashville.  

Would this be the same Antioch that has won a total of 5 games the past 8 seasons? That hasn’t won a playoff game since 2007? That has 3 total playoff wins in school history? That has never been past the 2nd Round?

6 hours ago, MurphyCollege said:

Which inner-city schools are you referencing? When I think of inner-city schools in tennessse I think of sneedeville and sunset gap. 

I mainly bought Mr. Fair’s book in the 90’s and early 2000’s. You could be sure that 100% of the Memphis schools, downtown Chattanooga schools and 90 plus % of Metro Nashville schools would read “Survey Not Returned.”

On 5/14/2023 at 8:15 AM, BarneySox2007 said:

There's Maryville's first loss of the season. They don't have anyone that can catch him once he makes it past the line of scrimage.

I tend to agree Mr. Barney. Getting back to the topic at hand, I believe this move makes Bradley the team to beat, at least until the semifinals.

3 hours ago, BarneySox2007 said:

Same goes for college also, in a week or two there will be a dozen college mags on the shelf. High School Football needs all the promotion it can get. It's nice to know about the schools, coaches and their thoughts. I know Murphy Fair had a very hard time getting all of his feedback from certain coaches but for the most part those unwilling to provide info were either losers as human beings and the records most of those schools produced were a living testimony of those losers. Then you had a Butt-Head or two with dry personalties that can't understand why no one likes them and losses 30 in a row and a new guy comes in and wins 4 his first year. One of those reasons was promoting his kids.

90% of the lack of feedback in Mr. Fair’s book was from inner-city schools.

Going way back. But when I was in Tennessee in the late ‘80’s don’t I recall a couple of Alcoa teams ranked in the Top 25 Nationally?

On 5/24/2023 at 10:37 AM, Cactus Jack said:

Having been to all of these, I think its about right. DB did a nice job modernizing J. Fred, although I agree with some that the baseball stadium should have been moved to be by itself. The visitors side at DB does leave a little to be desired as well as their visitors locker room!

Blankenship Field in Oak Ridge has the best setting, after a slow start, modernization has begun, now it may have one of the best visitors sides in the state, the home side still needs upgrading, new bleachers and press box with good sized locker rooms, A good plan would be to build a visitors locker room on the visitors side.

I saw a game at Lincoln County back in the 90s so I am not sure how much it has changed since, I liked the down in the bowl setting, unfortunately, Lincoln County football is nowhere near what it was in the 90s.

I have been to Sevier County many times and they have done a really nice job there. Very good high home side, although the press box might have been a little bigger, when we filmed there, we had to sit in front of the press box in the bleachers and contend with people standing and walking in front of us. Dollys House!!

I have only been to Baylor a couple of times in the 70s and 80s, but I remember it was a very nice field. You had to know where you were going to find it,

Maryville has done a nice job with their stadium, parking is a little tough there, but the success of their program shows there,

Other places I have been that I liked were: The Stone Castle (Bristol Tn), and Bradley County, 

Agree on Baylor being hard to find. Had to try and give a guy directions in the 90’s. Finally gave up and said just try to follow me.

Years ago I had a bad cold and sat in the press box next to our OC on a cold night instead of my usual place on the sidelines. I was surprised to see that he allowed the QB coach to call almost all of the plays on the sidelines, only occasionally offering guidance over the headsets. I do remember him saying late in the 3rd quarter “If you’re going to run that fake punt you’d better call it now.” It went for a TD. 

Saw that on another site. Surprising. Said he was likely going to take an assistant coaching job somewhere closer to his family.

When i was in Tennessee the gate from the district jamborees was used to pay for catastrophic insurance. Of course, I am sure it was cheaper back then.

I heard a year or so ago that he had been promoted to HC at the school he was at. Didn’t know about the BC thing. Congratulations.

On 3/1/2023 at 12:01 PM, MidTennFootball said:

I'd be rich for every instance of Rankin being connected to a job while he was at Riverdale. He was so good at getting raises out of Riverdale, that everyone one was surprised that he actually did leave. It will probably be a yearly thing at BBS

Truth. He even interviewed for a prominent job here in Georgia years ago.

On 3/1/2023 at 10:06 AM, CaptainGuru said:

Several good candidates have applied for this position. James Mainor from the current Tyner staff has applied for this position as well as another assistant on staff. Several current head coaches and notable assistants from Chattanooga have also applied. Others in the mix include Marion County's coach, and a couple of resumes from Georgia. I am Captain Guru and I approve this message. 

Nothing against Tyner, but your previous coach, with a state championship ring, just left to become a position coach in Georgia. Doesn’t that speak volumes?

On 2/23/2023 at 11:22 AM, MurphyCollege said:

I don’t know either. But I think he’d have a better chance under the guy that developed a tusculum commit and the vandy commit instead of the guy that got shutout by arrowmont. JMO though. I was worried about next year until I got on coach t and read that I was just spewing venom. Obviously the coaches we got from kodak are doing a fantastic job and I for one trust the process. GoBears and #JDIR. And we all know why arrowmont recruits so well. Been going on since the 80s. Had NIL before NIL was cool. They did go outside for the past 2 coaches. I thought Rang did a good job and it looks like Waggoner is doing a good job too, JMO though. Honestly, they may be the best team in the county. 

Waggoner is an excellent coach. He spent 3 seasons at my alma mater, one of which tied the school record for regular season wins. The only knock on him is that he never stays in one place too long. BTW, I like your style.

2 hours ago, Blaze45 said:

I don't guess I understand the issue. I have been deep supporter of every Coach Blackman has had; This time it just happens to be in my opinion that was he is not a good fit for the program at this time. and somehow the thought is I/ we are not going to support him. As the biggest Blackman fan on this site, it is baffling to think folks who don't have a dog in the fight have gotten so riled up by the ideal that a very loyal fan to the program is not overly excited about the choice. Nothing said about not supporting him or the program. 

The funniest thing about all this is some of the folks throwing a fit in this thread who had no clue who Tygard was,  the same ones slamming me for supporting him. Seems like it . is darned if you do darned if you don't . Most of these folks will crawl back in their shell or flip the switch midway through this next season, and by season 2 will ready to see him tarred and feathered regardless of his record at that point 

 

 

 

 

 

Not riled up Mr. Blaze. And I’ll vouch 100% that you are the biggest Blackman supporter on this site and that I have no dog in this fight. In fact, I usually add the latter quote when I make a post like I did. Just adding a relevant example from an outsiders perspective. I hope the hire works out great for you guys. BTW, I remember, back when I used to go to the BlueCross Bowl at MTSU each year,that one particular year during Riverdale’s heyday, a man and his wife wearing Blackman shirts or jackets came in and sat a couple of rows in front of me. Could that have been you?

Some of our fan base was underwhelmed with the hire that we made a couple of months back, and then he went out and assembled what is probably the best coaching staff in NW Georgia, and no, I am no longer a part of it, although I still help out a little. So give him a chance. 

On 2/17/2023 at 7:59 PM, BarneySox2007 said:

I looked at the schedule and only eight games but the Alcoa game wasn't on there but who will fill the other void left by Powell and Science Hill ? Lots of people thinking Maryville could see it's worst season in over 25 years with the big loss of 10 on defense from last years team. We lost 2 or 3 on defense I think we're going to really miss but the way Oakland beat us I'm not sure I really care. My old coach would have thrown all of next years team in there if we were getting beat like dogs. The QB position is really going to be the big question again. One big thing that really hurt Maryville last year was the shortage of good athletes that we're all used to seeing on the roster. That's why Oakland took us to the cleaners. Once they hit the corner it was like watching a 4.3 guy being chased by 5.3 guys, it was all I could handle to watch what I did that night. I really couldn't say anything against the coaches because you can only do as good as what you have to work with which wasn't much on defense. The offense did at least show up some which was good. Just glad I had enough sense not to go or I would have ran into the first Cracker Barrell I could find going home and flush my Maryville clothes down the toilets or at least until I had them all running over.

Lol. I destroyed all of my Florida Gators clothes after they lost to Vandy last year.

to accept assistant job in Georgia.

On 2/10/2023 at 2:14 PM, ItsAlwaysSunnyInAtwood said:

This move doesn't seem to make sense from the outside looking in. Meigs to sale creek?

It surprised me as well. I thought he might return to Rhea Co. when Pemberton retires. Even though it didn’t go as planned, his offer to step down at Rhea Co. so they could bring back Tim Hammontree is one of the most selfless moves I’ve seen in this game.

1 minute ago, tradertwo said:

I'd love to see you try and justify how any entity could profit financially by paying TSSAA $250,000.00 to host the championships. If you're going to base your judgement on an NFL franchise hosting (or not) entirely on finances, please break down how Chattanooga could profit from it.

About the financial aspect I know nothing, but I live in Georgia, not far from Chattanooga, and hosting the games is a big deal to them. If there was still such a thing as newspapers, the story would be on page 23 Section D in Nashville.

On 2/10/2023 at 4:30 PM, SurfingPatriot786 said:

Agree with this. Nissan Stadium might be a good location, but I just can't wrap my head around playing the state championships at a huge stadium where it would be really empty. 

Is the high cost of money why Murfreesboro doesn't try to get the football title games anymore? It's been years and I still hate not seeing those games being played there.

Murfreesboro essentially ran them out of town. They were tired of losing money on them. We here in Georgia just went through this battle (again.) When the Falcons moved to the new stadium they basically raised the price to the point that the GHSA couldn’t justify paying it. They moved down the road to the Georgia St. stadium (the former Turner Field) and watched as attendance plummeted each year. A couple of weeks ago they bit the bullet and signed the contracts to return to the Falcons stadium. I’ve always had a novel idea that actually had a little momentum in Georgia about 10 years ago. Instead of paying a small fortune to play in a 2/3 empty stadium, they identified 32 high school stadiums in Georgia deemed worthy of hosting a title game. When the teams in each class are determined, you pick the most centrally located town between the two cities and play there. With GPS technology a computer could likely select the cities. Until about 20 years ago state finals were still played on campus in Georgia. But, no team deserves to have to be a visiting team in a state final. I remember one coach who’s visiting team lost such a game saying “If we would have won, I can guarantee you that we would have had to fight our way out of that place.”

On 2/6/2023 at 7:29 AM, cbg said:

I have always said that to win a state championship a team must get their average players to play better than the other teams average players and Maryville has consistently done this better than any other school.  The good players on each team will normally cancel each other out.

THIS!!

On 12/15/2022 at 12:56 PM, runninblind said:

Remember Todd Collins watched him play in  the 1989 State championship ! He was a beast ! 

Was 1987 state championship. In 1989 Rhea Co. edged them out in the quarterfinals at their place. Rhea lost to Oakland in the semifinals. Collins was indeed a beast though.

I have posted this in the past, but if you know Cleveland’s history, they have never been successful when playing in the state’s largest classification, even under Benny Monroe. Their 1982 run to the finals was when they briefly got to drop to AA in the 3 class days. Once they returned to AAA they made it past Round 2 once, in 1985 when they were eliminated by Jeff Co. in Round 3. Of course the threepeat was in 4A.