Ravenwood vs. White Station

[RHSRaptor08]

Is this game gonna be on the radio?

 

and is there a wabsite that i could listen to it?

 

thanks and good game to both teams

 

It's gonna be on 950 AM from Franklin.

[kwc]

If what 'B' said does start to happen I think W/station will get a good number of the players. I have only talked to one parent who said they picked Ridgeway because of sports and it was baseball. He enrolled his son when the school went from 7-12, then AC retired when the boy was in the 10th grade. He said if he had it to do over he would have went to WS. I have had alot more people say that they wouldn't let their child go to Melrose no matter what because of the area.

 

Melrose will get the most but these kids want to play and I see WS getting quite a few of them. I don't know how the 5-A playoffs were done before last year but I know that it was hard for anyone to get past G/town. With Houston takeing players from them and the talk of a new school in south east Shelby County, G/town isn't going to be the king of the hill ever year. Just this year they lost 3 in a row in the region, won a game 3-0 against an average 4A school and were one and out in the playoffs. Depending on who R/way gets I'm thinking that good things are comming White Stations way.

 

What is sad to me is we are even talking about this. That a parent would send their child to a certain school because of sports is kind of sick. All they have to do is stress grades and the lottery will pay for college. So many think that their child is going to be the next great player and make millions. I bet Cooley has told the parents a 1,000 times that they have got to have the grades to play at the next level. Now I think that they think he is talking about football, I'm thinking he just may be talking about life............

 

Good post Papawofboo but you and I know full well that this isn't a new thing in the City of Memphis. Personally speaking from my days of playing ball some 20+ years ago, I remember we had a very good player on our team, who transferred his senior year to another school to play, only to find out that the grass wasn't greener. He wasn't the only transfer player I know of at that time, because we had a guy transfer into our school to play on our team. He started when he got there, because he was that good. This was over twenty years ago.

 

I personally know of two parents on last years Melrose team who moved into the Melrose district so that their sons could play their senior years at Melrose because they were dissatisfied with the teams that their sons were on the previous years. Both of these young men were starters, impact players on their respective teams when they were juniors. Both contributed to Melrose's run to the title game a year ago.

 

I said that to say this. As many folks that you will run across who say they will never let their child attend Melrose because of whatever reason, there are just as many who will do whatever it takes to get them there. Melrose isn't the only school like that. You find the schools with the winning tradition in whatever sport there is, and you will find students and parents alike going out of their way to get their child into that school. When coach Tippet was at White Station coaching basketball, people were coming out of the woodwork trying to get their basketball playing son over there. The same could be said about Hamilton, East, Raleigh-Egypt, Fairley, Ridgeway, Booker Washington and now Mitchell. Baseball has the same dilemma. There are only a few schools that produce quality baseball players in the Memphis area, and they are not City schools. They are County and private schools. Those who are involved in this sport know that if little Johnny is going to excel in baseball, he better be playing for Houston, Germantown, ECS, or CBHS to name the obvious. Those are just a few that I am sure about. Academics have a lot to do with most folks decisions as to where their child will attend school. Let's not kid ourselves; the sports program has a lot of influence in these decisions as well. In some cases, maybe too much.

[kwc]

Nice article in today's Commercial Appeal about the White Station vs Ravenwood game. If you haven't seen it, hit the link and check it out for yourself.

 

http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/preps/...5166656,00.html

 

Enjoy.

[stuman89]

part of an article in todays' ( Memphis ) paper I thought you Ravenwood fans would appreciate :

 

"But it's the prospect of containing standout Ravenwood quarterback Michael Becker that's kept Wright up late for most of the week. The 5-11, 165-pound junior, Wright said, is unlike any quarterback White Station (12-1) has seen this season.

 

"He's what makes them go. He's very good," Wright said. "He can throw on the run, and that's the scary part. That's when he's at his best. He's a big-play guy, and our aim will be to try and keep him in the pocket and make him be a quarterback rather than a dual-threat guy.

 

"But that's a lot easier said than done."

 

Nashville Hunters Lane certainly couldn't do it last Friday, when Becker torched the Warriors for 311 passing yards and four touchdowns and rushed for another 55 yards on 18 attempts in a 40-29 quarterfinal victory "

 

 

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Edited November 24, 2006 by stuman89

[stuman89]

lol, I did not see that you had posted the article link.

[rappy]

I'm heading over to the bus to Memphis. I wish everyone to have a good time and cheer loudly. Go Raptors.

Edited November 24, 2006 by rapbwood

[stuman89]

We looki forward to seeing you.

 

For late November, we could not have asked for better weather.

[seantn_4]

Sean you really need to get overyourself. Youll be watching at the House cause I BELIEVE your not gonna beat Ooltewah

i live next to the school. ill be there. i wouldnt miss this for the world

[PAPAWOFBOO]

Good post Papawofboo but you and I know full well that this isn't a new thing in the City of Memphis. Personally speaking from my days of playing ball some 20+ years ago, I remember we had a very good player on our team, who transferred his senior year to another school to play, only to find out that the grass wasn't greener. He wasn't the only transfer player I know of at that time, because we had a guy transfer into our school to play on our team. He started when he got there, because he was that good. This was over twenty years ago.

 

I personally know of two parents on last years Melrose team who moved into the Melrose district so that their sons could play their senior years at Melrose because they were dissatisfied with the teams that their sons were on the previous years. Both of these young men were starters, impact players on their respective teams when they were juniors. Both contributed to Melrose's run to the title game a year ago.

 

I said that to say this. As many folks that you will run across who say they will never let their child attend Melrose because of whatever reason, there are just as many who will do whatever it takes to get them there. Melrose isn't the only school like that. You find the schools with the winning tradition in whatever sport there is, and you will find students and parents alike going out of their way to get their child into that school. When coach Tippet was at White Station coaching basketball, people were coming out of the woodwork trying to get their basketball playing son over there. The same could be said about Hamilton, East, Raleigh-Egypt, Fairley, Ridgeway, Booker Washington and now Mitchell. Baseball has the same dilemma. There are only a few schools that produce quality baseball players in the Memphis area, and they are not City schools. They are County and private schools. Those who are involved in this sport know that if little Johnny is going to excel in baseball, he better be playing for Houston, Germantown, ECS, or CBHS to name the obvious. Those are just a few that I am sure about. Academics have a lot to do with most folks decisions as to where their child will attend school. Let's not kid ourselves; the sports program has a lot of influence in these decisions as well. In some cases, maybe too much.

I agree with you.

 

Are you going to the game? I'm not going to make it, all the in-laws came in town to shop. Not healty to bail out and go to a football game that the g/son isn't playing in.

[kwc]

I agree with you.

 

Are you going to the game? I'm not going to make it, all the in-laws came in town to shop. Not healty to bail out and go to a football game that the g/son isn't playing in.

 

I'm not going either. I'll have my radio tuned to 88.5 FM and I'll listen to the broadcast. I totally understand about in-laws and kinfolk during the holidays. I hope White Station can pull it out.

[RHS07]

update 21-14 white station

Edited November 25, 2006 by RHS07

[philobedo]

update 21-14 white station

 

 

anyone know the score now?