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10 hours ago, Jet Pride said:

The lack of media coverage for schools like Sparta hurts. If you polled most media people in Knoxville, Memphis, Johnson City I bet more than half know nothing about Dowell. Except what they see stats wise. 

 East is basically the SEC of HS public school football. No disrespect to those other areas, but not bringing home gold balls to your part of the state

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13 hours ago, MeritIII said:

Not that anyone cares - but Latham averaged over 200 yards a game in most of the games that didn’t feature a running clock.  I would be curious how many yards he could have had in games if we fed him the ball 25-30 times a game.  I’m sure arguments can be made all around - but without Latham there would be no gold ball at West this year.  All were deserving, but only one could win.  Congratulations to Bishop.  

This is a great point.  And one could argue that the competition was far more difficult.  hadn't even considered it.  Where is the vitriol on behalf of Brayden latham?

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9 hours ago, sumcofootball said:

Everything’s just crazy nowadays. I was at SD with Elijah Young when he won Mr. Football with 1600 yards and now we got kids hitting 3000 in a season.

nowadays?  like the world has changed dramatically in 4 years?  I would imagine plenty of ppl thought EY shouldn't have won then.

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9 hours ago, sumcofootball said:

There has to be some better way for the voting though, however I don’t know what that would be. Bishop has the offers and a historic career, yet Dowell had one of the top three single season rushing yards in Tennessee history. Both were well deserving. Seems like they voted Bishop for his career instead of the year. I feel that if Dowell was playing in a bigger market like Middle TN then he would’ve had more votes, which sucks for the kid.

You can make an argument for each of these three guys, and that happens just about every year. Unfortunately, only one can win it, and I certainly understand why so many are disappointed that Dowell didn't win. I remember in 2011 when Powell's Dy'shawn Mobley wasn't even a finalist, yet he broke TSSAA's single season rushing record, logged the 2nd most rushing TDs in a season, and barely played after halftime that year. The only reasonable explanation I could come up with was two of the finalists (Kimbrow and Mathers) were from larger metro areas, and Robinette was the Maryville QB.

At least they got it right the following year and Jalen Hurd won it.

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1 hour ago, ILB1999WHS said:

Yes.  the vast coordinated conspiracy was succesfuly executed.  WTH are you talking about?  A bunch of reporters vote.  They're all biased, and most of the have only seen their little world.  No one cares enough about it to conspire or cheat.  Every year there are winners you could argue, and no one cares.  Get over it. They're all good players.  No one stole anything.

Let me be the first to apologize for having my own opinion that's different than yours.  Should of know mine was wrong and yours was right to begin with. That's my bad 

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1 hour ago, ILB1999WHS said:

nowadays?  like the world has changed dramatically in 4 years?  I would imagine plenty of ppl thought EY shouldn't have won then.

Changed in statistical numbers since then yes. And the runner up to EY was about 300 yards and 15 TDs short of his numbers. We went from the Mr. Football winner in 5A rushing for 1600 yards 4 years ago to now having a guy win it back to back years with 2500+ yards and have other people competing with those numbers. I would've loved to see Latham win it. When a kid is putting up numbers like that with the competition West plays I believe it deserves more recognition. 

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25 minutes ago, YoungBuck said:

Let me be the first to apologize for having my own opinion that's different than yours.  Should of know mine was wrong and yours was right to begin with. That's my bad 

It wasnt just an opinion.  You were spawning an illogical conspiracy theory.  But sure.... first ammendment... keep it up.

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8 minutes ago, sumcofootball said:

Changed in statistical numbers since then yes. And the runner up to EY was about 300 yards and 15 TDs short of his numbers. We went from the Mr. Football winner in 5A rushing for 1600 yards 4 years ago to now having a guy win it back to back years with 2500+ yards and have other people competing with those numbers. I would've loved to see Latham win it. When a kid is putting up numbers like that with the competition West plays I believe it deserves more recognition. 

Season Individual Records

All Purpose Running Yards in a Season (Includes Rushing, Receiving, Punt Returns, KO Returns, and Interception or Fumble Returns)
Gary Meadows Meigs County 3630
1993
Jalen Hurd Beech 3575
2012
Franklin Payne University School of Jackson 3342
2000
Andre Sterling Farragut 2835
2007
Da'Joun Hewitt Davidson Academy 2648
2017
Tanner Thomas Farragut 2476
2015
LaQuinton Wells Dyer County 2417
2019
Da'Joun Hewitt Davidson Academy 2409
2017
Jeff Norman Moore County 2250
1992
T.J. Sheffield Independence 2041
2018

 

 

Nope.  Another fabrication.  Yall just live in a fantasy world?  It has nothing to do with changing times.  Maybe everyone was mediocre that one season... but not as a general trend.

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19 hours ago, YoungBuck said:

People and TSSAA can say that they only use the regular season to chose but I'm not buying it. 60% of the winners' team won the state(1,2,3A) and it really seemed like Latham was passed on so that the 'regular season" aspect of this award could be preserved. Just my take

I agree many things said in past don't apply - post season doesn't count , really like finalist to be upper classman (Freshman made it) ,must play complete season (couple guys missed 3-4 weeks), schools record doesn't matter, same schools seem to have winners. Schools with multiple finalist should split the vote but seems one of two is a lock.

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6 minutes ago, ILB1999WHS said:

Season Individual Records

All Purpose Running Yards in a Season (Includes Rushing, Receiving, Punt Returns, KO Returns, and Interception or Fumble Returns)
Gary Meadows Meigs County 3630
1993
Jalen Hurd Beech 3575
2012
Franklin Payne University School of Jackson 3342
2000
Andre Sterling Farragut 2835
2007
Da'Joun Hewitt Davidson Academy 2648
2017
Tanner Thomas Farragut 2476
2015
LaQuinton Wells Dyer County 2417
2019
Da'Joun Hewitt Davidson Academy 2409
2017
Jeff Norman Moore County 2250
1992
T.J. Sheffield Independence 2041
2018

 

 

Nope.  Another fabrication.  Yall just live in a fantasy world?  It has nothing to do with changing times.  Maybe everyone was mediocre that one season... but not as a general trend.

FWIW, there are multiple names missing from this list that are on the single season rushing leaders list.

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