ghostofthepast2021

17 hours ago, LadyCavsFan said:

Definitely have a weak back end of the schedule.  I believe that is why the York game was put where it was.   But the Cavs are battle tested from the first 20 games.  They know where they stand.  I just hope they are playing at the same level at the end of the season.  

 

Actually we are 5-1 in 7AAA this year.  We lost the one game by a last second shot.  We played that game vs Livingston without our head coach and assistant coach.  I think that alone is worth more than the 2 pts we lost by.  
 

I absolutely love the way Livingston plays and their players but Cookeville wins that game a high percentage of the time.  That’s not a knock on Livingston but there aren’t many games where Cookeville will shoot 20% from 3 and have the opposing team shoot 23 FT vs Cookeville’s 7.  Hope both teams make it to the glass house and maybe we can run it back and play next season.

Only takes one game, and you are out.

Livingston vs Cookeville is nearly 5 to 5 if they play 10 games today.

43 minutes ago, 85warrior said:

They definitely have some good wins this season, but other than AA York on their schedule it's cupcake city until the region semis. 

Could be worse... Can't help they got stuck in one of the weakest divisions in the state for their classification.  I get it tho, Lebanon as a #2 is a joke, mj lol, Wilson central lol.  There are 1A squads here who'd mop the floor with them.

11 hours ago, LadyCavsFan said:

First time I had seen them play this year so not sure if anyone quit or not.  Cookeville defense is very good.   I think Lebanon scored 3 pts in 3rd quarter.  Cookeville played bench for entire 4th quarter. Big week for the Cavs with Blackman rolling into Cookeville on Friday.  Hopefully we will be ready to play. 

Fun blowing out weak teams when you schedule them constantly, but you run into a good team and you get killed. #thebeginning

Big time beatdown... Rumor is Lebanon had kids quit on Barrett.

3 hours ago, LDFL24 said:

Recruiting isn't limited to the UC. It's across the state.

No doubt, The new style is getting em in in ms feeder schools.  We see you LHS.

1 hour ago, bobcatfan300 said:

My post was about PROGRAMS...not one year or another. Clarkrange has won 8 state championships. Pickett County 5. Both are more than LA's 4. Yes LA is 3A yet Pickett beat LA 12 out of the last 17 games. That's pitiful for a 3A school and LA barely beat Clarkrange and Pickett this year...STRUGGLED to beat 2 schools FOUR times SMALLER than LA. lol. This is the worst LA team in 40 years? Clearly you know NOTHING about LA. They lost 12 in a row to PC...those LA teams were far worse. What about when Riddle got FIRED? Those few years were far worse. Clarkramge has had 49 winning seasons in a row. How many has LA had? 2 or three? lol 

"LA is as bad as they have been in 40 years?" LA is 7-1 and ranked #3 on Coacht...and barely beat both Pickett and Clark range...5 and 4 points. So I guess if PC and Clarkrange were in 3A they'd both be in the top 10 since LA barely beat them.

 Try FACKS.

 

 

 

You guys havent won a title since 89, come on man..  Half the teams in this state weren't even fielding girls balls teams at that time lol.  LA, Pickett, Clarkrange all suck now bc the field has been evened up elsewhere. 

No one is down, everyone else is better.

On 12/9/2022 at 7:29 PM, Nontypical said:

Huge win tonight for coffee over blackman!

Glad to see big teams taking on other big teams. 

12 hours ago, bobcatfan300 said:

Easy. Clarkrange has had 49 winning seasons in a row. How many has LA had? A few? Clarkrange has 8 state championships. LA four? Coach. Rogers has well over 1200 wins and is the winningest active coach in the country, Can Riddle say that? She better keep winning or she'll get the boot again. Such loyalty.   They have 26 state tournament appearances. 3 silver balls. Thirty All Sate players. 52 got college scholarships. 2 Miss Basketball winners.4 other finalists. LA doesn't come close.

Jackson County has 8 state championships

Pickett County has 5...both better than LA.

That's right. A school of TWO hundred students shouldn't isn't supposed to beat a team FOUR times bigger, like LA is four times bigger. They have beaten LA 12 out of the last 18 games. When  LA beat then recently you'd think LA had beaten Connecticut the way the way your fans acted. Jackson Co?  Sure they won 8 state titles but how many years since they have had a winning season? Facts.

C

 

You are really comparing LA to Pickett or Clarkrange lol.

3A to 1A

They are waaaaaay down, and still beating you guys.  LA is about as bad as they have been in 40 years, and still beating both of you guys. Go home.  Next you'll say a team like Pickett is comparable to Blackman...

14 hours ago, cbg said:

What about the baseball players that want to play in the Ivy League or another academic school such at Boston College, Stanford, Rice, Northwestern, etc… do you have contacts with those coaches to get the kids signed.  Like it or not everyone has a roll in the recruiting process and it really takes a village.  Not all kids or their parents want them to play at the local JC or even the local four year college. 

Club and travel exist for the admin salaries, no other reason. Take away those salaries and see how long the organizations remain.

I think they are useful, but anyone who says club, aau, travel is superior to HS is most likely benefiting from selling parents the thousands of dollars a year dream, and almost all a parents I know who have went that route, spent more on travel than they got back in scholarship.  

It's gatekeeping, and then we wonder why we aren't getting the best athletes in all sports now.  Look at USA mens soccer, total gatekeeping programs, and they have the best facilities, best everything, but still can't get the best athletes because of this nonsense.

10 minutes ago, bobcatfan300 said:

That's funny. How exactly are "we" struggling? "They" lost their 1st game to Cumberland Co. away in a game Cumberland Co was supposed to win. They beat Van Buren by 49, Scott by 35, Jellico by 81, Monterey by 16, Oneida by 35, lost to LA by 5 in a game they were supposed to lose and beat a school 4 times their size in Kentucky by 3. They are ranked #6 in the state on Coacht.  Exactly how is that struggling? Clarkrange is 5-4 and lost to the weakest Stone team in years. For Clarkrange, with a girls' basketball history no school can match, 5-4 is hardly a typical Clarkrange record. And #17 isn't typical of a team usually in the top 10. Why don't you answer the question of did girls quit or is that just a rumor?

Clarkrange has a history no one can match?

LA can

Jackson can

I love the "We only lose games we are supposed to" argument...

#6 in the State?

State polls and rankings are always ridiculous, try again.

2 hours ago, cbg said:

Do the high school coaches not get paid?  Look, you and others may not like the higher level summer league coaches but 95% of the time they are the ones that get the kids seen and recruited by the larger d1 college programs.  The days of the college coaches attending high school games during the week and summer league double headers are long gone.  The college recruiters are looking at a recruiting profile list and going to a few “BIG TIME” tournaments which are in the summer.  Recruiting is one of the most in exact sciences on the planet.  If a kid fails to fit into size profile of the recruiter they are passed over most of the time.   Everyone has their place during the recruitment process.  

Everyone knows clubs, aau, non school leagues are about making money for administrators.  I coach and can tell you I get more juco, and 4 year hits than local clubs.  For every 1 kid in club ball that gets division 1, there are dozens who end up at Maryville or some school with no scholarship program.  This is all just a sales pitch, gotta keep making money for administration, and pretending like it is the only way.  Gatekeeping hurts sports, and that is all you are doing.

1 hour ago, cbg said:

Let’s answer the questions in three parts:

1.  Yes, there are a few high school coaches that do not pass along letters or inquiring phone calls from college coaches.  This does not happen often and in most instances it’s due to a bad relationship between the high school coach and family of the player.

2.  I have found that very few high school coaches feel comfortable reaching out to college coaches on a players behalf.  IMO, the really successful high school coaches have a good relationship with several college coaches and have no problem promoting their players.  On the other hand many high school coaches are either lazy or totally intimidated by the thought of picking up the phone and calling a college baseball coach.  

3.  A majority of the time players are discovered by playing on their summer league teams and the recruiting process completely bypasses the high school coach.  

#3 - sounds like a pay for play coach if I've ever heard one

2 hours ago, bobcatfan300 said:

I know Clarkrange is struggling again this year and heard some players quit. Anyone know if this is true or is just a rumor?

 

not really struggling any worse than you guys

3 hours ago, King21 said:

Matthan Houser is the new coach. 

Anyone who knows how that went down in Jackson Co is grabbing their popcorn... Gentlemen lock up your wives.

19 hours ago, ghostofthepast2021 said:

Lebanon isn't playing anyone, you are right, it's gonna burn them tournament time. 

Case and point, last night lol.

On 11/17/2022 at 10:24 PM, MidTennBballObserver said:

Blackman has looked good in the preseason.  I was impressed with Cookeville in the summer but they did not look very good earlier this week.  Oakland will get better as the season goes on and Cleveland versus Bradley will be a battle all year in East Tennessee.  Lebanon should compete in a weak district and region but their youth will be exposed at the substate and state level.  I still say the champs will come out is the East 

Lebanon isn't playing anyone, you are right, it's gonna burn them tournament time. 

5 hours ago, King21 said:

Hard to disagree with some of this take. 

But, Livingston needs to put their best foot forward and get a coach with experience. Commend those who have stepped in and up to work with the young men over the last couple of seasons. Keep them around to help them develop.

Those who have stepped in have done the same things.  Flatt being hired was a joke. 

14 hours ago, kappy said:

nobody wants this job

Only people who want this job are people who can't do much with it.  The program has sat in the hands of politicians in the county for decades.  Play my son, play my son...  You literally can not play the best kids there without getting fired.  It's a name game there.

So, no self respecting coach will take it.

15 hours ago, swipper said:

How are they 0-24 in the last 2 seasons when they only play 10 games a season? They would be 0-20

Preseason, and last few under Lamb

On 11/28/2022 at 3:43 PM, FBI said:

Will Wilson Cates come back home to take over?

 

No.

That team is 0-24 in their last 2 seasons.

Cates does not want it.

Right now, nobody wants it, it's radioactively awful.

12 hours ago, Grunt said:

You're due one. Bad news is Alcoa looms.

And Smith looms for you guys... haha.  I'll take Tyners chances vs Alcoa vs you guys vs Smith

This is less of a glowing moment for TC, and more of an utter embarrassment for Watertown.  I mean grab onto it and celebrate it if you want, Tyner will humiliate TC.

2 minutes ago, rlh said:

Losing a state championship to Maryville and taking home the silver ball  a local thing.  You must be 12 y.o. The thing is there are certain teams, specifically Trouserhoser County that you always have an axe to grind for some reason.  As far as history goes, SP won a gold ball last year and one in 1969 and several in between along with a bunch of silver balls.  Furthermore, TC wasn't that great in the 80s but they won gold balls as recently as 2005, 2008, 2009, 2013 and a silver in 2018.  I don't know where you are an alumnus, but TC, Gordy and Clay must have driven you into the ground like a tent stake every year.

Honestly, anyone who spouts this, "it was just as hard back in the day nonsense." I automatically envision and balding white guy with a beer gut who stands at a fence and mutters, "Kids just don't have the discipline anymore... I could call a better game than thaty" 

You guys act like football in this state wasn't ridiculous, heck, 1/2 of the high schools in this state didn't even field teams in the 80's.  I guess you are probably one of those guys who think Babe Ruth is one of the greatest baseball players ever, despite never having to face African American pitchers lol.  Dream on buddy.  Your generation would get curb-stomped by alot of these kids.

9 minutes ago, rlh said:

Exactly!  Recently is a big difference than "never."

Some people aren't looking back to the eras where teams beat the heck outta all their locals and called themselves "State Champions".

If that era was so glorious, why don't we do things like that now lol?

I'm sure teams like Livingston Academy, Trousdale County, Cumberland County, Cookeville, and alot of these other sad sacks would love to go back to the 80s and 90's and beat the heck outta tiny schools and scream 9-1 WOO!

8 hours ago, MJGOLDENBEARS said:

Lol are you sure

Hey MJ, the preppie boys get some lesson from the Soccer girls this week? They looked better...