The Apocalypse of Tennessee HS Football (as we know it)

[GovMan]

Wow ... what kind of an idiot would live within the city limits--pay both city and county taxes--and still choose to send his kids to one of the county schools ?!? That's ludicrous.    

[lessur]

So BackinTN, lets say that you were as blessed as us and you now live in Blount Co. Which school will your children go to? Think hard and be honest.

[Governm]

Wow ... what kind of an idiot would live within the city limits--pay both city and county taxes--and still choose to send his kids to one of the county schools ?!? That's ludicrous.

I was an idiot that did that.lol

[wb85]

Wow ... what kind of an idiot would live within the city limits--pay both city and county taxes--and still choose to send his kids to one of the county schools ?!? That's ludicrous.

Aaron Tippin would be proud of you Govman. "You got to stand for something" right? That's a trait that is hard to come by in your area of dwelling.

[eF5]

Wow ... what kind of an idiot would live within the city limits--pay both city and county taxes--and still choose to send his kids to one of the county schools ?!? That's ludicrous.

LOL

If Geeker and "The Manila Folder" were at the county barns you would probably not be amazed at the idiots that would surface.

[STARSNBARS]

 That's a trait that is hard to come by in your area of dwelling.

 

Dang Gov-Man whut kinda nayburhood ewe live inn and whut kinda nayburrs ewe gott????..... ........

[MurvulHigh]

"Alcoa High School has 343 resident students and 193 tuition students".

 

People slay me. Alcoa has tuition students? So what? Repeat slowly after me - not... everything... is... about... football.

 

To reiterate: Alcoa High has a whole lot more tuition students *than they have football players on their entire roster*, and somehow the takeaway value is that it's about recruiting? Here's the deal. Maryville and Alcoa City Schools have a long history of being thought of as better schools, academically, when compared to their Blount County counterparts. Doesn't mean it's necessarily right, but it was that way when I was in school and I doubt much has changed.

 

I lived in Maryville and went to Alcoa Elementary, by the way, so in my own years I would have been one of the kids propping up this bizarre argument that tuition students have to have something to do with football. My folks sent me there because they believed that crazy blue hexagon was the best school in town for grade school kids. I wouldn't be surprised to find that a good number of those tuition students in high school have been there since kindergarten, and good luck convincing anyone that was a football decision.

[Red Rebels]

 

"Alcoa High School has 343 resident students and 193 tuition students".

 

I lived in Maryville and went to Alcoa Elementary, by the way, so in my own years I would have been one of the kids propping up this bizarre argument that tuition students have to have something to do with football. My folks sent me there because they believed that crazy blue hexagon was the best school in town for grade school kids.

I lived in Alcoa and went to Eagleton. My folks sent me there because they believed that crazy blue hexagon was the worst school in town for grade school kids.

[MurvulHigh]

 I lived in Alcoa and went to Eagleton. My folks sent me there because they believed that crazy blue hexagon was the worst school in town for grade school kids.

 

LOL shhhh that doesn't fit the narrative! I think it was probably pretty new when I started there (1976). The whole open classroom thing was pretty novel.

[MurvulHigh]

PS - the real Blount County football apocalypse happens if we bulldoze the public library there where Sky City used to be, and use that land for its proper calling: a football stadium.

 

Let Maryville and Alcoa work out land annexation so that the city border is there just a little south of Hannum, and everything north of the 50 yard line is Alcoa, and everything south is Maryville. Make a horse-shoe stadium, with the south end zone open to the greenbelt. Maybe 12,000-15,000 seats. People can park at Midland Center and walk a couple blocks over.

[STARSNBARS]

 

PS - the real Blount County football apocalypse happens if we bulldoze the public library there where Sky City used to be, and use that land for its proper calling: a football stadium.

 

Let Maryville and Alcoa work out land annexation so that the city border is there just a little south of Hannum, and everything north of the 50 yard line is Alcoa, and everything south is Maryville. Make a horse-shoe stadium, with the south end zone open to the greenbelt. Maybe 12,000-15,000 seats. People can park at Midland Center and walk a couple blocks over.

 

MH eye like thait idee....Tratter pulls and outdoar rasslin' baick on Perm Hill inn tha oft seesun...

 

Butt Luhmarr wuz jist brangin' two "Mr. Prezzydint" abowt uz haiv so minny lieburry cards.....

Edited December 16, 2013 by STARSNBARS

[Rebelsman]

LOL shhhh that doesn't fit the narrative! I think it was probably pretty new when I started there (1976). The whole open classroom thing was pretty novel.

Alcoa Elementary was dedicated on November 7, 1971. The previous school was Springbrook Elementary that burned down in the summer of 1968 between my 3rd and 4th grade year.