H20 vs Macon

[Khall555]

2 hours ago, kingofthenorth said:

I assumed their numbers were growing. Had no idea they are closer to 3a.

I looked it up they were barely at 800 a few years ago but are already over 900. If they continue to grow like that it’s possible that they do move up. Putnam is considering a new HS to lessen the amount of students in Cookeville but until then it looks as if they are content to move kids to Upperman. The cut off for 5A now is around 1125. 

Edited October 20, 2023 by Khall555

[JohnnyRay]

I thought this was the watertown vs macon thread not the crybaby convention 

[H2Oman]

Absolutely the worst defense I’ve seen in Watertown for at least the last ten years.

 

[H2Oman]

11 minutes ago, H2Oman said:

Absolutely the worst defense I’ve seen in Watertown for at least the last ten years.

 

Borders will have 500 yards before halftime.

[DealLawyer]

Hackett lost his touch??  Is Webster just watching this bull??  

[ReallyREAL]

36 minutes ago, DealLawyer said:

Hackett lost his touch??  Is Webster just watching this bull??  

nah

 

[UpperCumberlandMan]

Here is the thing folks can't comprehend. Putnam is split into 3 bus zones. West Putnam-Upperman, Central Putnam-Cookeville, East Putnam-Montery. So the fact Baxter has 1600 residents or not, Upperman is a west Putnam bus zoned school. That is literally from Buffalo Valley to almost Willow Ave. Only a fraction of the students are "from Baxter" city limits. Now let say a county like Macon, in general numbets, built RBS a new bigger school on the west side of thier city limits. Enrollment jumps from 180 to 450. Macon drops from 930 to say 680. And say, Macon sports programs continue to thrive, RBS does not. So the say the same  team MCHS  has now, is playing in 3a. That's the basic math of what's happening. Better programs draw atheltes in open zoned systems, which is 80% of all schools in Tennessee. You build it, they will come. 

But, what is the solution? Go from 9 playoff brackets to 12? Cancel all school choice within all counties over sports? Special multipliers? Give rual counties 7 point advantage to start games?  Back in the day, you had 3 divisions. 3 champions. Teams like Macon were in same division as teams from Smith County up to teams like Springfield. Folks lined up and played ball. What is the solution for all the cry babies so they feel completely equal and not disadvantaged? Pointing out a problem without a solution is simple being a crybaby, not a problem solver. 

[biggest]

10 hours ago, DealLawyer said:

Hackett lost his touch??  Is Webster just watching this bull??  

Jimmy and joes 

[kingofthenorth]

32 minutes ago, biggest said:

Jimmy and joes 

You see what I see. 

[H2Oman]

33 minutes ago, kingofthenorth said:

You see what I see. 

Then is it safe to say that when the D was playing lights out a few years ago… it was more about Jimmy and Joes than Hackett?

 

I’m not trying to stir the pot here, but you can’t have it both ways. 
 

When H2O was playing it’s best defense all that everyone kept saying is that Hackett was a defensive genius and not much said about the kids playing D.

 

Now that our defense is horrible… it’s because the kids are not good enough and none of it rides on Hackett?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 21, 2023 by H2Oman

[ReallyREAL]

3 hours ago, biggest said:

Jimmy and joes 

Bingo

[ReallyREAL]

2 hours ago, H2Oman said:

Then is it safe to say that when the D was playing lights out a few years ago… it was more about Jimmy and Joes than Hackett?

 

I’m not trying to stir the pot here, but you can’t have it both ways. 
 

When H2O was playing it’s best defense all that everyone kept saying is that Hackett was a defensive genius and not much said about the kids playing D.

 

Now that our defense is horrible… it’s because the kids are not good enough and none of it rides on Hackett?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easier to gamplan and scheme when you have the right type of dudes