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Looked like a complete accident. Video isn't great but looked like more injury occurred from the slip then the "clothesline." Even in the TSSAA after game report looked like everyone agreed it was an accident so I'm not sure how someone is going to receive emotional damages. That Hunters Lane staff are all stand up guys as well trying to make a change. I feel for the ref but there was no intent behind that. Assess the penalty and move on. Ref said he wants to continue to ref this coming up season, but I do not see how that will happen after a lawsuit against a coach and the entire metro school district.

Since 2010 Beech and Hendersonville have played a total of 15 times. Hendersonville has won 9 of those 15 games. In the last 10 meetings Hendersonville and Beech have 5 wins each. No where in there does it scream Buccaneer domination.

Starting with Beech and Gallatin is definitely a tough start. I'm very interested to see how Gallatin looks in spring with all the changes. Losing a few players to transfer hurts but you're right will definitely be a different Gallatin team this year.

I don't think you understand how many people wanted Bain to be the head coach and what he will do to change things even more at SC. Alexander helped change the program but everyone knew Alexander would only be for a few years and Bain and Alexander have pretty much been co-head coaches the past 3 years leading up to this moment. They also did not lose any assistant coaches. It's definitely not an easy schedule but SC has seemed to fair just fine the past two years playing schools with 6a number of students with them having the students of 4a.

Tough schedule but people have also said the past two years and they've been making their way back. I think SC is going to surprise some people this year

Just announced, the job is Bain's

Correct. Was at Hendersonville for around 15 years before going to Station Camp

The plan was always to hire within, and it will be a coach with 30 years of experience with a majority of that coming from Sumner County. They also have 15 assistant coaches on staff so I think they're good on that.

Everyone knew he would only be coaching for a few years to help Station Camp get back. Like Mondo said the position should just be rolled over to Chris Bain.

Hendersonville's visitor side is pretty large as well. Don't know what the seating capacity difference is.

Looks like Merriweather has left Gallatin for Bearden. The talk about him leaving has been going around for a while but I was surprised to see it be Bearden.

A good hire will keep them going. Definitely need a good DC. Blackman will still be able to put points up but got to stop teams that shouldn't have put up as many points as they did. Tygard did a great job building up the youth programs and a lot of talent going into the middle school and high school in coming years. The high school will be fine with the right hire, I am more interested to see the effect on the youth programs. Because Tygard was very involved with all of it.

Going to need to make a big hire. All these kids transferred to Blackman to get in Tygard's system now this is going to shake up some things.

Comical that you think kids from Station Camp or Beech would go to Gallatin after these upcoming classes from both schools have done nothing but beat Rucker and Shafer at the middle school level and Gallatin's freshman teams. New coach has to worry about beating Station Camp first before he worries about recruiting their kids.

Kid from Friendship Christian transferring to Riverdale surprised me.

Probably very little if any would follow from Jackson, but that’s just assuming things. I know a lot of assistants under Watson are still at Gallatin.

Any ideas from Gallatin people?

Sumner County doesn't offer the opportunity to go to a school based off academic programs one school has over another. The county is closed zone. Liberty Creek and I believe West Moreland are the only open zone schools in the county.

Free in the sense that he doesn’t have to fundraise any money to get it while he would have to do if he went to Gallatin. I’m not gonna name names but Brooks and Stewart have both made it know around the coaching community that they aren’t leaving.

They have told other high school coaches that. Jamaal has taken East Nash to back to back state games and is about to get a free turf field. Brooks went 11-2 in his first year and is pretty sold on their underclassmen and rising Freshman, as well as taking a new job would force his son to be at his 3rd school in three years. I don't understand why their names have been brought up so much.

The source is them.

Might as well remove Chase Brooks and Jamaal Stewart off that list. They're not taking the job.

TSSAA reasoning behind all of this is they wanted to get ahead of it before lawsuits begin against them in Tennessee. I understand the reasoning but still don't like it. I've seen a lot of people saying this is going to create more recruiting by private schools and so on. In my eyes, private schools have been doing this already for a long time and I don't see them dishing out more money than they already are. In Sumner County Jp2 has been getting kids from Beech, Hendersonville, and Station Camp every single year by offering incentives. I believe all this NIL stuff is going to allow public schools like those the ability of keeping more of those kids. However, that's just in my county; I know around the state it may or may not be a much bigger issue. I can't imagine what Knox County is going to end up like with all of this.

Very possible. I think Quarles offensive philosophy is better suited for collegiate than Creasy's is.

Trousdale needs to get rid of the last Satterfield and start over.. but we know that ain't gonna happen. What has interested me in this whole thing is Watson is promoting a "high paced, no huddle offense similar to what Tennessee does" at Kirkwood. He had the better athletes and ability to do it at Gallatin and never did.. confused me to say the least.