Sullivan South 2015

[RebRaider85]

from what I heard a South might be the only county school safe, north is most defining closing and going to be added to south's population. Central and east might be building new schools.

http://www.timesnews.net/article/9085601/two-of-three-sullivan-schools-facilities-options-would-close-north

This is all the county options as of right now.

I think south might be down from last year but last year was a top 5 in south's history so it will be hard to compare to that but they are still a playoff team and in a few years the upcoming freshmen will start making some noise.

Three thoughts on the situation:

...If they go to 3 high schools I'd bet that they will change the name/mascot of the school located at the current South building.

...If they elect to go to only 2 new bigger high schools then South would close as well. It is hard to get alumni to contribute to building programs when every time the early graduates of a school get to the points in their careers (later earning years) where they have the means to contribute but the school gets closed.

...The North community seems to be up in arms about not sending their kids to South. That sort of attitude was there when I was a student there. Now that I have ties to both schools I just don't understand it. The only thing they have to complain about is that their neighborhood school is closing and they are having to send their kids "across town". You know I bet I might have had a longer more twisted commute to North from the Carter's Valley area back then (in-zone) than Bloomingdale might have in the future to Moreland Drive.

[blazer1set]

With the exception of Tenn High and Greeneville, South has a cupcake schedule, even for a down year.    At worst you will be 8-2.     So I wouldn't worry too much if I was a Rebels fan.

[SECPowerHouse]

Three thoughts on the situation:

...If they go to 3 high schools I'd bet that they will change the name/mascot of the school located at the current building

From what I heard they are going to leave south as is and change rock springs to Sullivan south middle school. And won't change the name or mascot of south.

[RebRaider85]

From what I heard they are going to leave south as is and change rock springs to Sullivan south middle school. And won't change the name or mascot of south.

I hope you are right but talk about a traffic jam if that happened. Not too bad with Rock Springs starting much later than the high school now but move that to a 10 minute differential starting time and it will get ugly fast.

Last time when they were talking about combining Sullivan North and Sullivan South they said the new school (wherever it may be) would be changed to Sullivan West since that would be the effective area of the combined school.

Edited March 27, 2015 by RebRaider85

[BigDave1967]

I think Sullivan South goes 8-2 in 2015 with losses to Tennessee High and Elizabethton

[Swipes]

I think Sullivan South goes 8-2 in 2015 with losses to Tennessee High and Elizabethton

It's going to be hard to lose to Elizabethton since SS doesn't play them.....

[RebRaider85]

Any news about spring practice or scrimmages?

[sshsfan]

Any news about spring practice or scrimmages?

I have heard that spring practice starts April 28th and the 2 spring scrimmages will be against Elizabethton and DB. 

[RebRaider85]

I have heard that spring practice starts April 28th and the 2 spring scrimmages will be against Elizabethton and DB.

Any word on dates yet? I was told both would be the week of 5-4 to 5-8 but nothing firmer than that.

[sshsfan]

Any word on dates yet? I was told both would be the week of 5-4 to 5-8 but nothing firmer than that.

South scrimmages Elizabethton 5/8 at South and DB 5/15 at South.

[lawnman]

Anyone know how scrimmage went.

[sshsfan]

1st string against 1st South 3 betsy 1. After that South subbed alot and betsy scored 3 on our freshmen. I was surprised at the low number of players for the cyclones, looked like fewer than 30 players.