Lakeway Christian Academy New School Unbelievable Facilities

[EastTNGoldBall]

A new school with indoor facilities built like a college really just hired Bruce Fowler, former Vandy DC and HC at Furman. Big hire? Will this change the landscape in East TN? Go Lions! 

[Booger]

Awesome start-up for sure...sumwon left a huge gift....but no...it doesnt change the landscape of east TN.....so is this the expansion of cornerstone.....hopin they stay this strong after the build

Booger just sayin 

Edited April 5, 2018 by Booger

[EastTNGoldBall]

Nearly 70 million facility! No doubt it’s going to impact many in the Lakeway area and beyond! I just saw billboard driving on 81 with campus picture. Yes expansion of cornerstone. 

[Booger]

dont think they could be a Lakway Christian Academy logo on that #34 or 38 Nascar soon do ya

Booger just sayin 

[QSouth89]

On 4/4/2018 at 1:19 PM, EastTNGoldBall said:

A new school with indoor facilities built like a college really just hired Bruce Fowler, former Vandy DC and HC at Furman. Big hire? Will this change the landscape in East TN? Go Lions! 

Will they play D2 or as an independent?

[Booger]

19 hours ago, QSouth89 said:

Will they play D2 or as an independent?

Private-A East...win they get enuff to put one together......that ex Furman coach is revruitin real hard

Booger just sayin 

[EastTNGoldBall]

On 4/7/2018 at 10:21 AM, Booger said:

Private-A East...win they get enuff to put one together......that ex Furman coach is revruitin real hard

Booger just sayin 

I think they will be independent next year, and join TSSAA when the school opens fall 2019. You are right about the race car, and maybe even name a taco combo after the lions too! Go Lions! 

[EastTNGoldBall]

[cbg]

On paper it appears as if they will be building a great facility!  It would be a good idea if they take a page out of the Ensworth playbook as to how someone should build a successful high school athletic program.  Ensworth did have the advantage of already having a very well established K-8 school.  

[BlueDevil58]

22 minutes ago, cbg said:

On paper it appears as if they will be building a great facility!  It would be a good idea if they take a page out of the Ensworth playbook as to how someone should build a successful high school athletic program.  Ensworth did have the advantage of already having a very well established K-8 school.  

They already have an established elementary school in the area and have plans to build an entire system of elementary and middle schools that feed into LCA.  As a D2 school, they're going to recruit athletes hard.  This school is serious about being a dominant program and has the money and administration to back that up.  The size of the school is also going to be a big deal--the plan is for it to be 1200 kids, making it a 5A school in football.

This is going to be a game changer in NET.  Morristown West and Morristown East are a little bit down already and they'll definitely lose athletes to this school.  Jeff County, Cocke County, and the Greene County schools (which already lose athletes to Greeneville) are going to be put under a lot of pressure as well when they get a stud in their system.

Personally, I think any school within an hour's drive of Exit 4 is going to feel the pinch of having some star athletes recruited away.  That includes the Hawkins County schools, Greeneville, Grainger County, and maybe even Dobyns-Bennett.

My only question is if there is the kind of demand for this sort of expensive private schooling in our area.  As it stands now, unless some type of voucher program goes through the state (and I doubt the school operators would be spending $70 million if that wasn't about to happen), there just aren't thousands of families in the NET area who can afford to pay $10k or more in tuition.  That's why private schools east of Knoxville tend to be small and so broke they struggle just to keep their doors open from year to year.

Edited April 9, 2018 by BlueDevil58