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Clarksville is going to be fine. Everybody needs to calm down. They have the right coach and they have the right coach in the Middle School/AAU Team working up there so be patient. Clarksville will come back. They are going through what every program goes through and that is a down time. Give Coach Badon a couple of years and this will be an afterthought.

 

This happens when coaches leave when the cuppard is bare and this is not the first time it has happened at Clarksville.

 

Coach Badon and Clarksville will be back.

 

 

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As a former Coach in the Clarksville area, who coached against Coach Badon at Dickson and at CHS, I can tell you he is not the problem. I heard they were decimated by injuries this year to their upper

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I doubt that is it. coach Badon is one of the best coaches in the state and a good man. Clarksville is not the only "game" in town now as far as wrestling. Many newer HS's have excellent programs and

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@firemans, tells us sir, how did you build your program into such a state power? Please tell us so that we may learn from your example.

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I also agree that Coach Badon is a fine person and a competent coach, but that was the secondary question. The question is what is the problem with Clarksville wrestling. 

 

A feeder program is very important, but Clarksville High has never had much happening there. Artie Manning was definitely valuable to the program, but Artie was doing his part long before Clarksville won their first region title and was still there for three years after they stopped winning 

titles. Injuries? Who doesn't have injuries. Apathetic kids? Why did kids suddenly become apathetic after twenty years of not being so? Too successful for too long? I will just say Father Ryan. 

 

I think that if you really want to know the truth, you should ask your fiercest rivals. Ask Soddy, Bradley, Cleveland, Ravenwood or Independence. They can probably tell you what has changed and what the problem is better than anyone else.

 

I once was at a meeting where the coaches were asking for the districts to be realigned based on splitting up the powerhouses. The TSSAA director said no. He said that schools are not inherently superior or inferior to one another. He said that the TSSAA would never base divisions on separating the powers because the powers always seem to follow certain coaches. Where those coaches go, there goes the power.

 

There are certain coaches who can do things with and for teams that others simply cannot. Tradition and feeder programs are important but rarely can they alone carry the day. Father Ryan certainly has both of these, but I don't think anyone would venture that Ryan would have won a fraction of their titles without Coach Simpson. Father Ryan seems to know something that others may have missed. If you ever get your paws on an extraordinary coach, never let him go.

 

 

 

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Team Clarksville was 2nd in points out of 82 teams at this weekend's AAU State Championships. We crowned more state champions than any other team in the state (7). CHS had 10 freshmen starting and getting lots of varsity experience this season. A great group of middle schoolers moves up to CHS this year and the flow will now continue. I'm very excited about the future. Thanks everyone for the concern, but it's all under control and we'll be OK.

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Team Clarksville was 2nd in points out of 82 teams at this weekend's AAU State Championships. We crowned more state champions than any other team in the state (7). CHS had 10 freshmen starting and getting lots of varsity experience this season. A great group of middle schoolers moves up to CHS this year and the flow will now continue. I'm very excited about the future. Thanks everyone for the concern, but it's all under control and we'll be OK.

Woah! with 7 state champions I see Clarksville being on top again very soon!!

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I know Jeff personally.  He coached my youngest in travel soccer.

I'm not bashing the current feeder program or current coaching

staff, BUT  Jeff is on a different level as a coach.  Just the fact !

 

He demanded more than most, and the kids rise to his expectation.

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