Jim1956

Been watching Springfield since 1966, there is a lot of difference in coach Boyce Smith playing the biggest schools in Nashville ie Isaac Litton, M B A, Clarksville, and Murfreesboro ( last two cities only one high school in each town) and today’s list of opponents. Elizabethton and Greenville are cities of comparable size but are better coached and conditioned than Springfield. Springfield beat teams with more population and resources regularly to the point Boyce Smith was approached by the Nashville Intersolastic League to join them because they played so many games against the city schools there. Now Springfield struggles to beat White House and Greenbrier every year teams Coach Smith wouldn’t have scrimmaged let alone play in the regular season.

Springfield, always the bridesmaids never the bride, can’t compete with East Tennessee.

Too much recruiting in Memphis and not enough in East Tennessee.