ChuckDSanAntonio

Looks like Knox Catholic has been rolling out the NIL money with all of these collegiate level announcements of continuing the academic and athletic career for multiple athletes. Everybody is chasing the worldwide recruiting machine at McCallie. To have any rule about recruiting in this day and age is way behind the times. The movement is, whatever is in the best interest of the athlete and family, goes.

If this were true, the prior football regime would have been anointed, that’s still on campus, to bring the wing-t back. That didn’t happen. The Dilfer tree was re-established and the word on the street is he had a hand in it and was there to celebrate it.

How does that make sense? Isn’t the former coach with McCadams legacy still around? That would be putting the legacy back in charge.

Lipscomb Academy paid the piper for the players that didn't move with their families in a bonafide move. Whoever knew it or facilitated it should have been fired. That's cheating and not exemplary of leading men and women in a Christian way. I am not convinced the text messages that were made available to the public constitute cheating. The message was along the lines of, "I know Lipscomb Academy didn't renew your financial aid, but there are people that are called to help kids be enrolled that aren't able to financially afford it. I can connect you to them, but I don't want to get in the way..." In addition, would your head explode if you knew the coach that reached out with the text message to the father of the student that ended up at Ensworth, was the basis for the 2 yr penalty and was fired at Lipscomb Academy, is now on the Ensworth coaching staff?

I can only imagine the internal conflicts of a transfer coming in 3 weeks prior to the season and displacing a senior. You probably had factions for it due to his stary hype and other saying the current QBs earned their spot. If the administration knew Duece didn't move then they should have been fired. I haven't heard of that fallout. That's a blatant lie at the highest level of the school that wouldn't align with the mission of the Christian school. The school was punished for playing ineligible players. That was taken care of. Perhaps the firing of complicit admin hasn't been taken care of. Why did the remaining McCadams staff of good men and women stand by and allow that to happen at the highest level? In my mind they are also complicit and need to check themselves as well.

I have no dog in the hunt or on the field. I have heard great things about Coach McCadams. Alumni that played for him rave about him being a great man. If there was more, then that should be known. I completely agree that adults got in the way, but the cited crimes just don't seem to align with the extent of the punishment when you read Kreager's story. The text message in my mind hardly constitutes recruiting for an enrolled student. If that's the smoking gun, then the TSSAA should have followed that smoke over to Ensworth.

As a reminder, here is how it went down and what the rulings were based on. From Tom Kreager’s article on Oct 30, 2023. Text messages link Lipscomb Academy to recruiting rule violation Reeves wrote in his decision that text message exchanges from a Lipscomb Academy football staff member and a father of an athlete violated the TSSAA's recruiting rule — the most significant allegation outlined Monday. The father told the staff member that Lipscomb wasn't renewing his son's financial aid. The staffer, who has not been identified, offered to "look into it." But that alone, the TSSAA said, wasn't how Lipscomb violated the recruiting rule. The violation occurred when the coach continued: "Also we have donors who feel called to help... Im [sic] glad to intercede but don't want to interfere." In another text the staffer wrote: "I literally had 3hr [sic] lunch today with a guy paying the difference for several guys..." Reeves added in the letter to Schultz: "You have indicated that coach (staff member) was making a short-hand reference to a donor to the Good Samaritan Fund at Lipscomb Academy. Our reading of this communication suggests that Coach (staff member) was offering to 'intercede' with donors to help secure financial assistance for the family." Speaking of bones to pick - who / what was the source of providing the text exchange to the TSSAA? Scott Cooper? Was he mad that his sons financial aid wasn’t going to be renewed (which is a clearinghouse determination). That actually shows a level of above board by the administration for a high potential athlete. I presume the same clearinghouse had the same determination for his enrollment at Ensworth and they would have been looking for 2x to 3x more financial support to attend En$worth.

Did anyone else find several of the points in the interview a bit odd? - Dexter Williams is a Public school representative as a voter, but a coach at a private school. The comment was, if he wanted to be re-elected he had to vote the way he did - one of the voters against is from a school with notorious shenanigans in West TN that couldn’t be pulled of at Centennial high school in Nashville - the Chattanooga boarding schools are going and getting students from out of country. D2AAA is a different animal. - the text message with Scott Cooper to connect him with additional aid sources was the source of the recruiting violation. His son is at Ensworth which is considerably more expensive than Lipscomb Academy . If he needed aid at Lipscomb Academy, he needed more aid at Ensworth. - The athlete at the center of it was enrolled in the school. I don’t think the spirit of the recruiting rules is to prevent helping a kid that’s already enrolled pay for tuition. - somebody had some bones to pick. This isn’t at all about the kids. Listen to the segment: https://omny.fm/shows/high-school-sports-saturday-with-tate-mathews/hsss-tom-kreager-85

Website says it allows students to take in-person classes as well as online classes to allow for a more flexible schedule. Sounds like a college preparatory school. https://www.lipscombacademy.org/academics/endeavor

I find that hard to believe. You would think they would like nothing more than to take 2 gold balls from Dilfer and give to Martin. In addition, todays vote wouldn’t have been 1 vote from a tie. I had heard people were crawling all over that program when Dilfer was there looking for infractions.

Board of Control members who voted in favor of lifting the ban include Board president Mike Reed of Morristown West, Michel Sanchez of Hunters Lane, Jay Watts of Girls Preparatory School, Dennis Goodwin of DCA and Braxton Brady of Evangelical Christian. Those voting against lifting the playoff ban included Jody Wright of Fulton, Patrick Spangler of Bradley Central, Grant Swallows of Warren County, Greg Scott of Milan, Bryan True of Loretto, Dexter Williams of Trinity Christian and Greg McCullough of Memphis Central. At first it looked a little strange for Coach Dexter Williams being the only private school representative voting against lifting the ban, but his prior coaching experience at Milan in 2013, 2014 and 2015 perhaps explains it.

Coach Paul Wade?

What are the thoughts on coach Blade? Not from the Dilfer tree. Also, the Kreager story said he was out of coaching for a year or two. Not coaching or teaching.

Seem like all kinds of gray in "entice."

“Recruit”?

For that matter, is there anyone in TN that would mercy rule the top 10 or 15 teams in TN? Probably not. https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/12/05/tennessee-high-school-football-super-25-rankings-mccallie-finishes-no-1-tssaa/71795641007/

Looks like 2 games in recent years with a running clock. https://www.unapproved website.com/tn/nashville/christ-presbyterian-academy-lions/football/21-22/schedule/ https://www.unapproved website.com/tn/nashville/christ-presbyterian-academy-lions/football/22-23/schedule/

Has there ever been a more well known parent of a player that’s a cancer wherever they go? https://x.com/coop_fca

Truer words have hardly been spoken. I once knew a parent that ran into the head band member recently spoken about and asked, "when do you start recruiting athletes?" The response, "Which state?" If we are about the kids, we are about the kids earning the ability to put themselves in the best place possible. I did hear from a Page parent that supposedly the band leader was spotted at a coffee shop on granny white at the green hills end of the pike this morning.

Word here in foggy Chatt is that Timmy Trumpet has already been booked for the band that's been in the works and forming on Granny White Pike.

Isn’t it really about gold balls. And, a culture that isn’t toxic. He’s got all that in spades.

What about Wade?

Is Bironas back?

Does anyone know the response to this that Lipscomb gave? If they said the parents told us where they were living, showed us an apartment rental agreement and an electric bill as evidence they have moved…what additional responsibility does David Lipscomb have?

Not personally help, but connect the father with a fund that could help.