facilities Maryville to get new turf

[Red Rebels]

Don't pay any attention to her Stars. She doesn't represent us true William Blount folk.

She doesn't even live in the William Blount "ZONE" anymore unless y'all annexed Vonore!

[Red Rebels]

I still think the best and least expensive improvement would be two velvet ropes and a few volunteer ushers. If you didn't have a season ticket, you couldn't foot cruise in front of the stands. It would also help those useless first row season tickets see the game.

[STARSNBARS]

She doesn't even live in the William Blount "ZONE" anymore unless y'all annexed Vonore!

RR.....Goodur point....Eye've ben lookin' att sum playurs on the ovvur side ov Von Orr...

[Rebelsman]

Did the city council also approve Maryville to finally step it up and take on an OOS team? I wish they would join the club that includes Alcoa,MBA,BA,Riverdale,Ensworth, and BA. It would go a long way towards justifying their national ranking.......

Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.

[QBClubPrez]

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/feb/26/george-quarles-hopeful-maryville-will-get-turf/?partner=RSS

 

George Quarles 'hopeful' Maryville will get synthetic turf

 

 

Maryville High School has one of the state's premier football programs — but its football field suffers from overuse and drainage problems.

 

That could change before the 2012 season.

 

The Rebels will be playing on a new synthetic turf field if a proposal meets final approval by the Maryville city council in the next couple of months.

 

Maryville football coach/athletic director George Quarles and director of schools Stephanie Thompson were among a group who put the proposal before a city council work session Thursday.

 

Quarles said the council was "receptive to it."

 

"We're not there yet," Quarles said Friday. "We're hopeful. We've presented it to city council. It would have to pass I think two readings of their meetings, and I believe that's two months' worth, so we're probably two months away from final approval. We're hopeful. We've met with several of the companies and grading people."

 

Maryville would be following the lead of Grace Christian Academy, which built a new football/multi-purpose field with synthetic turf during this offseason. It's the only school in Knoxville with a synthetic turf field.

 

Quarles took a recent visit to Grace Christian to see the field along with Alcoa football coach Gary Rankin and Alcoa athletic director Josh Stephens.

 

"They have a beautiful field (at Grace), and they kind of motivated us a little bit because we do have a drainage issue and we have an overuse issue," Quarles said.

 

"Fixing the drainage wasn't going to help the overuse, so we felt the best way to help the overuse was to put the synthetic field down, and that way you can't hardly overuse it."

 

Quarles estimated the cost of the project to be $500,000.

 

The earliest the project could start would be mid-May, but the field would be ready for the start of the 2012 season. It would be a multipurpose field also used by the school band, soccer team practices, and physical education classes.

 

The proposal includes a version of a JumboTron next to the scoreboard.

 

"That's something we've proposed as a way to help pay for (the synthetic turf)," Quarles said. "We've called it advertising. It would be a video board that we could use to advertise during games. That's got to be approved also by City Council."

 

Stephens said Alcoa would like to add a synthetic turf field, but only after a new school building is funded and built.

 

"We're just waiting on funding for that new high school," Stephens said. "As we talk about field turf, obviously the high school comes first. But field turf is obviously something we're interested in."

 

Stephens said he and Rankin were impressed when they saw Grace Christian's new synthetic field.

 

"We really liked that," Stephens said. "We have talked to some people about it, but it all goes back to funding. There's definitely more pros to field turf than cons. I think we all have the same problem as far as having too many athletic teams on one field and it not being able to handle the traffic. This kind of takes care of all that."

[strongx]

Part of the increased safety of this type of field comes with the consistent condition of it. No more slop at the end of a season. Most of these fields can drain as quickly as it rains.

 

As far as the complainers: this field will pay for itself. There really isn't much more to say about it. Maybe if Fort Craigers were more concerned with not finishing at the bottom then they would have a school worth keeping. The MHS football program has earned an upgrade to the decades out-of-date field & stadium.

 

Yep, that ought to help things.

[Frydaddy]

Maybe if Fort Craigers were more concerned with not finishing at the bottom then they would have a school worth keeping.

 

With statements like this you prove what you really know. Is the humidity starting to rise under that rock?

[countryREB]

Part of the increased safety of this type of field comes with the consistent condition of it. No more slop at the end of a season. Most of these fields can drain as quickly as it rains.

 

As far as the complainers: this field will pay for itself. There really isn't much more to say about it. Maybe if Fort Craigers were more concerned with not finishing at the bottom then they would have a school worth keeping. The MHS football program has earned an upgrade to the decades out-of-date field & stadium.

[/quote I have heard those fort craigers are a rough bunch. I don't know any of them personally, but I've been told they would all drown if caught outside without an umbrella. Looks like that 20$ I donated for the turf really payed off. Thank goodness!!

[oldrebel]

With statements like this you prove what you really know. Is the humidity starting to rise under that rock?

 

According to the Daily Times, Fort Craig graded lower than the other Maryville City elementary schools.

 

John Sevier Elementary School at 13, receiving a score of 11.4414, or an A;

Foothills Elementary School at 112, receiving a score of 5.156, or an A

Sam Houston Elementary School at 395, receiving a score of .2199, or a C

Fort Craig School of Dynamic Learning at 531, receiving a score of -1.7128, or a D

[Frydaddy]

According to the Daily Times, Fort Craig graded lower than the other Maryville City elementary schools.

 

Haha. You believe in the tooth fairy don't ya? I have some oceanfront property in Loudon that we need to talk about.

[oldrebel]

Haha. You believe in the tooth fairy don't ya? I have some oceanfront property in Loudon that we need to talk about.

 

Prove me wrong then

[MLREB]

He is correct. Fort Craig students graded lower than any elementary school in the city.