Elias287

That’s not what I’m talking about. let’s say a player from Hardin Valley moves like two houses down he still lives in the Harden Valley zone. However, he can pick whatever school he wants to as long as it’s in the 20 minute drive.

yes, there’s a massive problem, zoning rule in Knox County and only the TSSA Can fix it however, as long as it’s broken, every School is going to use it to their advantage so don’t get mad at the coaches or the players or the parents get mad at the people running this operation.

Oh, I’m not saying he doesn’t. I thought that was common knowledge, but he definitely does do that, but I’m just saying the bearded middle school team has been great for many years, and as soon as they get to high school, they transfer out, or before they even get to high school, and Coach Jones stepped in as soon as he stepped in. He stopped letting that happen, and it still has. The Bearden and Middle School teams lost a lot of players to West Catholic, etc., but not as many as they usually do, and that’s why a lot of coaches and Knoxville and parents, at least from my experience as an outsider looking in, don’t like Bearden High School because for schools like West, the Bearden zone used to be free picking, but now it’s a lot harder thanks to Jones.

They should’ve played in the Mac championship, but somehow Gibbs won and then Bearden took care of them but it would’ve been so fun seeing a Bearden Mac versus Alcoa Mac in the championship two very dominant teams in that league.

Yeah, yeah, you don’t have to remind me of that game, and hey, one of the best bulldogs during that game, Joe, is now at Alcola. Isn’t that convenient, but still, Eli Owens played many years of his youth, in Maryville red. and then Alcoa came knocking, and we know the rest is history, so don't try to deny the fact that Alcoa doesn't recruit youth football players, you know better than that.

Hardin Valley is also going to do this one day, and I wonder what people are going to be calling the coach because he will put a stop to schools taking all of their players. I wonder if they will start calling him a cheater or a recruit.

Oh, and also in the Bearden zone, they have produced some absolute dogs, which other schools have taken to not just private schools (West, Maryville, Alcola, etc.), and Coach Jones put a stop to that, and I know that has fated a certain coach(s) at a certain school that Bearden just played because the Bearden high school zone used to be their zone for football. It’s not anymore, and that’s another reason why a lot of people have strong hatred toward Jones.

It’s pretty funny because that’s what everyone was saying about this time last year, so maybe you should take your little conspiracy hat off and look at reality. Nothing’s going to happen because nothing is going on, and if anything is going on, I hate to break it to you. Bearden is not the first school in Knoxville to do it, if anything, they are just joining a pool of already established recruiting schools, but it just seems people can’t accept that. I don’t know enough about the Bearden situation to talk about it, but I know what other schools in Knoxville do, they recruit them young, they get to the parents in Little League, they promise a great education and a free pass to college, and that’s how schools get people like Eli Owens, CJ Smith, etc., but I’ve seen Bearden doesn’t do that, they cut the middleman and start grabbing people from middle school or other schools, so I don’t understand the hatred for Jones. Other than Coach Jones cuts the middle man, every other school in Knoxville does recruiting, and when I say every other school, I mean every school except maybe 2-3 in Knoxville and surrounding areas.

As if I really need to tell you.

Should be a very fun game 2 teams that have a lot to prove this year.

Bro, you have a weird obsession with Josh Jones. And the Bearden MAC team has been good way before he got there—runners up in 2019, they won it in 2020, runners up in 2021, and they won it in 2022—so I don't know how you think Coach Jones has anything to do with the middle school team, but you are crazy obsessed with that man.

McKenzie winning by a lot 42-0.

This isn’t a matchup between Oakland and Center Grove. This is a matchup between Tennessee high school football and Indiana high school football! Let’s go patriots!!

A matchup between two in state power houses. This isn’t a matchup between Oakland and Center Grove. This is a matchup between Tennessee high school football and Indiana high school football! Let’s go patriots!!

As much as I hate to see my alumni loose to School like Cleveland, gimme Cleveland 28-10

Lol

They are definitely not losing to Anderson County

I’m not gonna lie, if they would’ve beat West, I would say they are probably going to get killed by Alcoa, but since they lost to West and in probably the worst way possible, I feel like the bulldogs are going to be out for blood. It’s not an easy opponent, of course, but I mean, it’s not out of the realm of possibility.

Well, I hate to break it to y’all, but there would be a lot of schools in Knoxville, and in surrounding areas that will go down way before Bearden does.

Same, I was kinda shocked.

Very true but from who I’ve talked to in the coaching realm only one of them think West is winning out of 7.

Agree

This is the first time in a while that these two teams are playing, and West is the underdog, but I think the underdog wins this one. I believe in Bearden, but I think West has been quiet all offseason, and I think that’s for a reason, from what I heard, that got the QB situation dealt with, so I think Bearden is a very good team but West will just be too much for them. I got West winning 30-20.

It was a joke

What did Texas do? or you mean UTK