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Whitehaven's Rodney Saulsberry - "It's time for us to have our true grit and grind"

In a comeback speech for Memphis, Whitehaven's Rodney Saulsberry gets us fired up - "It's time for us to have our true grit and grind"
MEMPHIS COMMERCIAL APPEAL

5:00 a.m. CDT May 29, 2020

 

 

 

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On 8/4/2020 at 12:49 PM, kwc said:

Whitehaven won't play football until Sept. 18. Will others follow?

Khari Thompson
Memphis Commercial Appeal
 

Whitehaven, which made last year's Class 6A quarterfinals and won state titles in 2012 and 2016, will not play football games until Sept. 18, coach Rodney Saulsberry told The Commercial Appeal on Monday. 

That means one of the state's most dominant programs will not play games until Week 5 of the regular season. 

"Our bodies are not physically prepared to play football. Football is a collision sport," Saulsberry said. "And if you haven’t been lifting weights and been in the building to use weight equipment and all those different things, it doesn’t make sense to put your body in harm's way that way. It’s just not sensible."

The start of the high school football season is less than three weeks away, and Shelby County Schools' teams are not permitted to have contact in practices yet. SCS has not informed coaches of when they can practice with contact or whether the season will be pushed back. 

There's a chance other schools might follow Whitehaven's lead and start their seasons later than the original Aug. 21 start date.

MAHS coach Cedric Miller also said that he's "probably" going to wait until September to play games, but he will wait until he hears from SCS to make a final decision. He said he was concerned about having his team play against teams from other school districts that were allowed to start earlier. 

"I'm worried about the safety and the physicality," Miller said. "You don't want to put anybody's kids out there in harm's way if you don't have to. If TSSAA would have stuck with the eight games and starting the season in September, I would have been fine."

Metro Nashville Public Schools asked its schools last week not to have games until after Labor Day. 

Some SCS coaches, such as Melrose's Cedrick Wilson, want to play on Aug. 21.

TSSAA's football practice regulations say that an athlete cannot be considered "conditioned" in a period of only two to three weeks, so unless SCS allows contact practices this week, teams might not be able to play on Aug 21. 

 
"Right now we're just waiting on the (Shelby County Interscholastic Athletic Association), and I would really like to hear something because we're all taking the chance of getting this virus," Wilson said. "And if we're going to play, I hope that they can go ahead on and make a decision. I know it's a tough one, but we need to somehow come up with a decision."

This is why I wasn't expecting a BGIM thread @kwc

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10 hours ago, BlackHavenSenator said:

We miss you k-dub, first and foremost. 

Secondly, we are proud to have 2 Whitehaven alumni participating in tonight's National Title Game. I want to s/o Blackman's Master Teague as he's ballin right now. 

#RespectDaHaven 

#RollTide 

Much respect for the two men in the championship from Da Haven. 

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