Three classes for soccer!

[AAASOCCER]

I am assuming this conversation ended somewhere after this. You know what builds a good program.? A feeder program, a club team, start one. Instead of trying to level everyone up, I think enrollment is good by the way. Start a club, educate your coaches, work your way up. No one said it is easy, there are countless examples of schools that evolved from recreational player heavy teams to Club player teams. It doesn't happen overnight, it takes planning, pooling resources, having people willing to work to finally get things in order. It is possible but everyone else until you do will continue to dominate. That's life.

 

Yes, it does! I think that would be an interesting possibility.

 

As for AAU and travel baseball, etc. Not an apples-to-apples comparison. The big difference is that soccer--in many communities--is in its infancy. In many places it hasn't been around for more than 10 years or so. That's not the case with baseball and basketball. Kids coming in to play those sports, even in rural schools, have likely been exposed to that sport since birth. Football too, although there's no real direct comparison to club (7 on 7 kind of, but not in the same way).

 

Another big difference: In football, basketball and baseball, high school is king of the hill. Most kids practice in the off season so they can participate on their high school teams. That's where they'll get the most recognition. In soccer, the biggest recognition--at least at the "next level"-- will come from club play, not high school.

 

Soccer, on the other hand, in many places the parents/communities don't know the first thing about it. Don't know the rules. Don't have access to a coach who really knows the game.

 

I'd like to see these schools' programs grow. Give them a chance to compete and have some measure of success. And that's not an either/or situation. Giving these small programs a chance does not mean you're taking away from the hard working/established programs. What it would do is better separate those classifications so that the genuinely good teams won't be facing off with the smaller/weaker programs.

[CoachHolly7]

11AA is  Marshall, Central Magnet, Nolensville, Giles, Lawrence, Tullahoma, Spring Hill.  

This is definite.  

 

Page is moving to AAA potentially?

[ballbasher30]

Where did you hear Page was moving to AAA? I thought they were set in AA in the district you listed above.

[CoachHolly7]

Where did you hear Page was moving to AAA? I thought they were set in AA in the district you listed above.

Just heard it a while back.  I guess not.  

[DIIA]

Page will be in AA.

 

Of the 8 "traditional" team TSSAA sports, soccer (b/g) and volleyball will be split three ways evenly based on schools which field teams in their respective sports rather than by total schools.  This puts the split points between A-AA and AA-AAA higher than if if it was done by total schools.

 

With almost all of the private schools gone In AA, Page should continue to do well as they have in the past 4 years  Nate Clap runs strong programs in the fall and spring and will ilkely contend for state titles each year for both boys and girls.