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On 12/6/2017 at 1:56 PM, RealisticFan45 said:

Interesting! This will be a crazy year in 14 AA

Much more parity this year than in previous years.

26 minutes ago, 8ManFront said:

the Point that you seem to be missing is what was written after the stats of 2009

 

unless admin changes the attitude and gets on board as far as letting the head coach choose his staff (hire / fire) and allows the HC control of schedule and makes it so they can lift during school hours the ability to MAINTAIN success is impossible.

 

There have been good coaches to come in there and temporarily fix the problem but they can’t maintain it because the admin doesn’t care enough to allow them what is needed to maintain success

 

how do you keep a good coach when he is not given what he needs or is promised?

Throwing a 2 year record out there means no more than me throwing a one year record out there. There were NO division 1 recruits on the team I mentioned. 

 

Why did Emmons leave? I guarantee you he was not getting what he was promised in the beginning. 

Sometimes the school administration does support athletics and school district does not.  No matter how "pro-athletics" your principal is if the central office and school board do not believe athletics are important then your program will struggle.  And the number of districts that see athletics as important and vital to the school is shrinking every year.

36 minutes ago, IrishBBall said:

Yes. The rationale for staying public was the travel. The majority of our games would have been in Nashville. Feasible for football since you would only have 5-6 road games on Fridays.... not so much for other sports with games scheduled thru the week. Lost classroom time, late arrivals home and cost of transportation were major factors.

Makes sense.  Suppose they would have to travel to play MBA, BA, EHS, FRHS and JP2. That’s a lot of time and miles.

Congrats Pickett

Lady cats look like contenders

Would Catholic have been in D2AAA if they had not decided to play in D2?

They will never bring the privates back in. Too many bridges burned. 

5 publics and 2 private classifications would make the most sense but small privates will hate it as will public’s who will be put in a higher classification than they already are.

35 minutes ago, Indian said:

Not largest but Henry in 5A, 2011 and 2013. Could have competed with any in 6A.

But they did not compete in 6A so they don't count.

Still curious for when the last time a Rural LARGEST classification team was in the state championship.

14 minutes ago, alt1958 said:

I would not say the large rural county schools are bad. That is too strong of a statement. But they don't have the numbers of quality athletes that the schools in the large urban area schools tend to have. And that makes it tough on them to get to the top level.

Bad might be a poor choice of words.  My point was that 6A rural schools have not been relevant in terms of state championships for quite sometime.  When was the last time you saw one in the largest classification championship game?

Rural 6A  football has been bad for a long time.  Memphis teams, RuCo teams, WillCo teams and Maryville always are represented in the championship.  The large rural county schools cant’t compete like they once could. Maybe is 1A-5A but not 6A.

SS will improve as well Haywood.

Oakland dominance all season might have worked against them tonight. Didn't seem to handle the pressure of a close game very well.

Unreal! Congrats to Whitehaven. Could have folded numerous times but showed great perseverance. Coach Saulsberry did a great job keeping his kids in the game. Great season by Oakland.

Hitch and pitch?

Has Oakland had to play from behind all year?

Uh-oh

Wondering if the weather is playing a factor or if the Rebels just played a bad game against Oakland? This does not even resemble the team that took them down.

Make no mistake Whitehaven's defense is the real deal.

Doesn't Packer do all the east Tn TV games? If so then I feel for all those good people that have to listen to it weekly.

They forgot Scott Blade. State champion at Hillsboro and Indy.

Shortens the game. Not a bad plan if you want to keep the other teams offense off the field

Why do teams in 2016 still make the QB run a marathon during a game? Have they not heard of a signal?

Oakland should stay with their wing-t stuff. Whithaven sees I-Formation all the time and seems to play it well. The wing-t seems to be giving them more trouble.

Volume on TV is turned down. Just once I wish they would have a color commentator and play by play guy that understood HS football.

A very good player.

Cards win.