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Hendersonville's Principal retired yesterday... not the best look.

I wish they would let the media setup the finalists then let the coaches in the state vote on whose the winner. When it gets to that point coaches know best, not the media.

Everybody knows Gallatin has the best talent in the county. Yet are consistently losing to the other three.

Who brought up disciplinary actions? Cause I brought up academics. If you're wanting to bring up disciplinary... that was an issue with Station Camp what 5 years ago? Since then no incidents to my recollection. Hendersonville shot a Beech kid with a pellet gun.. the Hendersonville kids weren't even athletes at Hendersonville, just students. How about last year when Gallatin football players destroyed and stole property at Station Camp's facilities? And congratulations, you listed the one Gallatin player that went to Pope in the last 5 years. Station Camp, Beech, and Hendersonville lose 10+ a year and you're still losing to them.

Joslin, Lassiter, Brent Alexander, Dewayne Alexander, heck even Dewayne's son ran to coach at Beech a few years ago and left Gallatin. Pissed off Lassiter when his pick was Brent and he was never offered the job

We'll be having this same conversation in two years when the Gallatin community runs away yet another coach. Y'all talk so much about tradition and alumni yet all your alumni who are coaching get ran away too.

Teachers did leave for Liberty Creek. Coaches have left for Beech and White House Heritage. Liberty Creek only took 100 students from Gallatin High School. The growth was towards Hendersonville 10 years ago, there is nothing left to develop in Hendersonville. All the growth is towards Gallatin now. Look at all the land around Liberty Creek and Beech, acres upon acres. All that is owned by individuals not willing to sell to developers. What is getting sold to developers? Everything down 109. Look at the statistics released by the county. Gallatin has come in dead last in testing amongst every academic category. You don't have to paint a bad picture when the picture is out in the open for everyone to see. Hendersonville had 1600 students what issues have they had? Same with Beech. Station Camp had 1700 students in 2017. There biggest issue was losing kids to Pope, but Gallatin keeps every kid they have so why are they performing poorly academically and in every sport? Why are kids wanting to transfer out? Obviously Gallatin doesn't control teacher pay... that is a Sumner County issue. But every Gallatin fan runs away every coach they get, and that is not a Sumner County issue. No Gallatin alumni wants that job anymore. Every experienced coach in the area knows not to take that job. Watson isn't even leaving until after the spring semester = no teaching job open. How is Gallatin going to make a good coaching hire when they can't even hire somebody until the Summer? Gallatin has many issues and getting rid of one underperforming coach ain't the answer.

With the head job openings at Lipscomb Academy, Brentwood Academy, and Wilson Central I think Gallatin might be having a much tougher time hiring a coach now. Now have to wonder if someone can pull Crabtree away from Beech and create a job opening there...

Majority of the Sumner County School Board is old Gallatin people, also a reason why another school hasn't been built down 109 to help relieve pressure from Gallatin High. They don't want Gallatin to lose athletes. Facilities were great... 20 years ago. Seeing a lot of mention of Trey Perry on here but I don't see him leaving top notch facilities for what they have at Gallatin. Sumner County is closed zone, only open zoned school is Liberty Creek. I think Watson could have been successful if he had a coaching staff around him. He has had some great coaches however they have all left due to better opportunities. Past coaches and teachers of Gallatin have said it feels like a Metro school with the amount of students and crap that goes on, but without the Metro pay. I think more than anything the administration needs to get a handle on their school before athletics pick back up. I am pretty sure Gallatin is at the bottom of the county in every category academically as of the 2022 statistics.

Correct. However, those individuals that are not listed in the coaching portal are not allowed to give any instruction during season at practices. You really are getting close to a fine line by not registering them though. This all really started out with their first year doing 7 on 7 Code Blue showed up to tournaments with both Gary Terry and their head coach out their coaching them. People started catching on to what was happening and more and more TN HS coaches started attending tournaments in TN. That is why Code Blue goes to so many out of state tournaments, less eye balls on them.

Where is the personal shot? They run a 7 on 7 program within their own program, ran by their own coaches which is a TSSAA violation. They travel to tournaments with their own players all over the country. Are parents or the athletic donations paying for that?

Not to mention Code Blue 7 on 7. The fact that it is still running and TSSAA hasn't shut it down surprises me. I want to know how much money allocated to the school and other sports programs gets put to a "separate 7 on 7 program" which we all know very well what is happening with it.

If you played a playoff game at Henry County in the past 10-12 years, they would be your most hated. Incredible atmosphere but used to be hunting season for that whole county when your bus pulled into town.

The bona fide change of address has to be 20 miles from your previous home unless change of guardianship. I don't see him being eligible. Just because he went from private to his zoned public school does not make him eligible, still has to follow the rules. That's one hoop they have to hurdle. Secondly if it was disciplinary reason why he left, that could also make him ineligible. Thirdly, I am not sure if any of the Wolfpack 7on7 coaches are linked to Brainerd but if they are could possible be a coaching link.

I believe the last time SC and Pearl played was 2020. Played a freshman and JV game. SC's starting LB I believe grew up in the Pearl league so I'm sure that will be a great game next year.

Haven't heard anything from the Station Camp side, but that would be an interesting way to open up the season. However I'm sure Beech hasn't started next year talks since they are still in playoffs

Going to be a fun two years watching Station Camp and Pearl go at it. Just like the old days. Marshall County is going to be doing some travel that's for sure. I'll be interested to see Station Camp playing schools more their size. They are one of the largest 4A schools but have been in 5A the past two years playing 6A teams. Impressed with their rebuild and what Alexander has done.

Yep. For gate purposes I'm sure SC will be scheduling Sumner County opponents but would impossible to schedule all. I would assume top targets would be Gallatin, Beech, HHS, and Portland. SC has three open weeks, I guess the question now would if the schools can come to an agreement on which week to play. I know the last scheduling year, a lot of administrations in Sumner County have become stubborn with which week they want to play on and whether it's a home or away game.

From my understanding, SC is looking to schedule all Sumner County teams again. I guess that depends on how big their region in 4A will be. I've heard rumors that Liberty Creek has turned down every Sumner County teams offer to play them. Looks like they would rather have to travel then get pummeled by in county schools making kids not want to go there.

We all know Watson probably pulled some random guy off the street to coach DBs. Every good coach they have had has been run off by culture, administration, or head coach.. could be all three

Well I hope Cookeville comes out passing this week. Gallatin's DBs look good on paper and might look scary pressed up on you but they have no idea what they are doing out there.

If I am correct Cookeville torched White County in the passing game correct? If that's the case I think they can do the same thing against Gallatin. Gallatin's secondary is not impressive at all. They have D1 kids but they look like they have no idea what they are doing.

I think for Dowell to get the amount of touches he needs to get he needs to get mixed in some at wildcat again. WC hasn't used wildcat a whole lot this year but makes sense because the QB is playing very good as well. There were a few against MJ that QB should have definitely gave to Dowell. I think WC offense could be a whole lot more effective if you can get your snaps down. QB had to jump off the ground almost every snap last Friday.

It'll definitely shake some things up in the district if White County pulls off the win against Green Hills. MJ definitely ran the ball against White County more than Green Hills will. With it being a home game for White County I think they pull out the win in a very close one.

I'll agree to that, not enough coffee today