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It's no secret that Daniel Boone and David Crockett (TN) High Schools don't like each other- and haven't for a time...
The 45th matchup ended up in a big fight that required some big punishments from the TSSAA (Tennessee Secondary School Atlhetic Association)
Here's the aftermath- and it's harsh
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Three year post-season ban... that's huge... even more than the close to $5,000 in fines.
The schools are debating an appeal- citing the lack of time to put together an addequate defense...
Showing posts with label Tennessee high school football. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tennessee high school football. Show all posts
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
OSG High: Tennessee's First-Ever Women's Head Football Coach
((HT: WSMV-TV))
We first got the attention of this story in the espnw piece by Ashley Scoby
But, circling back and checking out the best season Pickett County High has had in a handful of seasons, the HQ figured we would go back to the beginning.
Brittney Garner was named head coach for the Bobcats when they let her predecessor go over the summer. The bottom line was that Garner was already certified for softball and took the job so the team wouldn't be dissolved.
Former Pickett lineman Samantha Harden is helping out as a community coach and former coach O.B. Caudle has come out of retirement to help Garner out as well.
The fact that they're 2-7 doesn't matter...
Patrick McMurtry caught up with them at the beginning...
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Like we said...
Cool stuff...
We first got the attention of this story in the espnw piece by Ashley Scoby
But, circling back and checking out the best season Pickett County High has had in a handful of seasons, the HQ figured we would go back to the beginning.
Brittney Garner was named head coach for the Bobcats when they let her predecessor go over the summer. The bottom line was that Garner was already certified for softball and took the job so the team wouldn't be dissolved.
Former Pickett lineman Samantha Harden is helping out as a community coach and former coach O.B. Caudle has come out of retirement to help Garner out as well.
The fact that they're 2-7 doesn't matter...
Patrick McMurtry caught up with them at the beginning...
WSMV Channel 4
Like we said...
Cool stuff...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Navy's McKamey Passes Overnight
((HT: WBIR-TV))
Navy freshman football player Zack McKamey collapsed Saturday morning during a football practice at Annapolis. The reason for this collapse is unknown at present, but sadly McKamey died Tuesday night after slipping into a coma. He never regained consciousness after surgery to relieve swelling and bleeding in his brain.
The former Mister Football in the state of Tennessee was 19.
Here's the morning report out of Baltimore...
((HT: WJZ-TV))
“We are all so very heartbroken by the death of Midshipman Will McKamey,” said Naval Academy Superintendent Mike Miller in a release. “This is devastating news for his family, his classmates, his teammates and the entire Naval Academy family. We offer our deepest condolences to Will's family, friends and shipmates in the wake of this tragedy.”
“During this most difficult of times, first and foremost, our prayers and thoughts turn to Randy, Kara and their beautiful family,” said Ken Niumatalolo, Navy head football coach, said in the same release. “Our deepest and most sincere condolences go out to their entire family and friends. As our Navy football family mourns the loss of one of our brothers, we also celebrate and honor his life. He loved his family, his friends and his teammates. The Brotherhood loves you! Keep the ball ‘high and tight’ in Heaven.”
McKamey suffered head trauma after a game against South Pittsburg in the 2012 season, but after MRI and CAT scans he was cleared for release and did not play any kind of contact sport for nine months...
Here's the original story from Knoxville from October of 2012...
McKamey, was a member of the Third Company at the Naval Academy, and was a 2013 graduate of Grace Christian Academy where he was a two-time All-State selection. Grief counselors have been made available on campus at Annapolis.
Navy freshman football player Zack McKamey collapsed Saturday morning during a football practice at Annapolis. The reason for this collapse is unknown at present, but sadly McKamey died Tuesday night after slipping into a coma. He never regained consciousness after surgery to relieve swelling and bleeding in his brain.
The former Mister Football in the state of Tennessee was 19.
Here's the morning report out of Baltimore...
((HT: WJZ-TV))
“We are all so very heartbroken by the death of Midshipman Will McKamey,” said Naval Academy Superintendent Mike Miller in a release. “This is devastating news for his family, his classmates, his teammates and the entire Naval Academy family. We offer our deepest condolences to Will's family, friends and shipmates in the wake of this tragedy.”
“During this most difficult of times, first and foremost, our prayers and thoughts turn to Randy, Kara and their beautiful family,” said Ken Niumatalolo, Navy head football coach, said in the same release. “Our deepest and most sincere condolences go out to their entire family and friends. As our Navy football family mourns the loss of one of our brothers, we also celebrate and honor his life. He loved his family, his friends and his teammates. The Brotherhood loves you! Keep the ball ‘high and tight’ in Heaven.”
McKamey suffered head trauma after a game against South Pittsburg in the 2012 season, but after MRI and CAT scans he was cleared for release and did not play any kind of contact sport for nine months...
Here's the original story from Knoxville from October of 2012...
McKamey, was a member of the Third Company at the Naval Academy, and was a 2013 graduate of Grace Christian Academy where he was a two-time All-State selection. Grief counselors have been made available on campus at Annapolis.
Saturday, November 23, 2013
OSG High: TN HS FB Coach Ejected Post-Game, Can't Coach In Title Game...
((HT: lmundy21/FoxNashville))
Okay, here's how the game ended between Ensworth and Brentwood Academy last night in the Class-AA semi-finals in Tennessee... it's clock-killing and a late hit...
So, it sounded like the Ensworth students called the game...
But, this happened on the field after in the discussions about said late hit...
Fox Nashville caught up with Ensworth head coach Ricky Bowers...
So, BA's Derek Barnett blows up the QB and now Bowers is out for the II-AA title game against MUS in two weeks. That's standard protocol for an ejection...
An official report is made on Monday, according to the TSSAA...
Okay, here's how the game ended between Ensworth and Brentwood Academy last night in the Class-AA semi-finals in Tennessee... it's clock-killing and a late hit...
So, it sounded like the Ensworth students called the game...
But, this happened on the field after in the discussions about said late hit...
Fox Nashville caught up with Ensworth head coach Ricky Bowers...
So, BA's Derek Barnett blows up the QB and now Bowers is out for the II-AA title game against MUS in two weeks. That's standard protocol for an ejection...
An official report is made on Monday, according to the TSSAA...
OSG High: Marion County Bounced In Playoffs
((HT: WRCB-TV))
Let's face it...
Marion County Football has taken it in the chops this week and the ones you feel for the most are the athletes...
After all of the revelations involving coach misconduct- on multiple levels of immaturity and lacking in common sense- there was still one thing that had to be done...
The playoff game against Trousdale County- and, no, it didn't go all that well...
FOSG Keith Cawley has the breakdown...
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Trousdale advances to the state semifinals to play Knoxville-Grace
Let's face it...
Marion County Football has taken it in the chops this week and the ones you feel for the most are the athletes...
After all of the revelations involving coach misconduct- on multiple levels of immaturity and lacking in common sense- there was still one thing that had to be done...
The playoff game against Trousdale County- and, no, it didn't go all that well...
FOSG Keith Cawley has the breakdown...
WRCBtv.com | Chattanooga News, Weather
Trousdale advances to the state semifinals to play Knoxville-Grace
Thursday, November 21, 2013
OSG High CONTINUING: Marion County Preps For Playoffs
((HT: WRCB-TV))
Believe it or not, Marion County (TN) still has football coaches left for their playoff game against Trousdale County in 2-A Friday night...
Four (now) former coaches will not be around (or even be allowed to be around) and the team is trying to focus on what is coming up and not all the funky business going on around them...
Paul Shahen actually got people to talk...
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Believe it or not, Marion County (TN) still has football coaches left for their playoff game against Trousdale County in 2-A Friday night...
Four (now) former coaches will not be around (or even be allowed to be around) and the team is trying to focus on what is coming up and not all the funky business going on around them...
Paul Shahen actually got people to talk...
WRCBtv.com | Chattanooga News, Weather
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
OSG High: Marion County FB Is Out Of Control...
((HT: Chattanooga Free Press/WRCB-TV))
The number of Marion County (TN) football coaches off the job is now at four... including head coach Mac McCurry...
Our original coverage of the weirdness starts hyah...
Now, two assistants have been let go and McCurry resigned- even as McCurry hasn't been brought up on charges...
Here's the latest update...
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Assistant Joe Dan Gudger is now up on identical charges as former Marion County assistant Michael Schmitt- vandalism of $1,000-$10,000. Volunteer assistant Tim Starkey was also relieved of duty...
It gets better... or worse... depending on how you're looking at it...
The Chattanooga News Stephen Hargis has mandatory reading on the complete degradation of the story and the Marion County program...
Evidence is out in text messages that alludes to coaches stealing playbooks of neighboring programs and paying a former player to come back to practice with the team- and the player was from a rival school to prepare Marion for THAT school's offense...
From Hargis:
Starkey alludes to Schmitt, who lives in Dunlap, having also taken playbooks from Sequatchie County, before the Indians' game against Marion County on Sept. 27. According to Sequatchie County Principal Tommy Layne, after checking with head coach Ken Colquette, the football team is missing two playbooks from its fieldhouse. Marion rallied in the second half to score the last four touchdowns in that game to beat Sequatchie County 52-28.
"If you have no better morals than this, you don't need to be around kids in any way," said Layne, who also is a member of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association's Board of Control. "I'm just in shock at all of this. I've never, in all my years as an educator and coach, heard of anything as bad as this. It just makes you sick. You feel bad for the kids at Marion for having men like this as their role models."
The TSSAA, the state governing body for high school athletics, is even set to discuss the idea of giving the death penalty to Marion County's football program. They are waiting, however, for the criminal proceedings to get sorted out...
This is not the first time McCurry has been relieved of duty for questionable behavior...
In May 2010, he was let go by a school for 2 alleged DUI and a domestic assault charge...
Here's what one message board alluded to with McCurry's coaching wake:
Moore County- shambles
Marshall County- wrecked
Ripley Miss- Destroyed
Lakeview HS- Left after one game.Bailed on the kids
Signal Mnt- Recruiting scandal...1 year
One larger question the HQ has is the idea of a "show cause" penalty and whether it exists with high school coaches who have had nothing but trouble at every stop...
Seems like the coaches in and around the Marion County program may be the prime examples for this idea of it doesn't currently exist...
The number of Marion County (TN) football coaches off the job is now at four... including head coach Mac McCurry...
Our original coverage of the weirdness starts hyah...
Now, two assistants have been let go and McCurry resigned- even as McCurry hasn't been brought up on charges...
Here's the latest update...
WRCBtv.com | Chattanooga News, Weather
Assistant Joe Dan Gudger is now up on identical charges as former Marion County assistant Michael Schmitt- vandalism of $1,000-$10,000. Volunteer assistant Tim Starkey was also relieved of duty...
It gets better... or worse... depending on how you're looking at it...
The Chattanooga News Stephen Hargis has mandatory reading on the complete degradation of the story and the Marion County program...
Evidence is out in text messages that alludes to coaches stealing playbooks of neighboring programs and paying a former player to come back to practice with the team- and the player was from a rival school to prepare Marion for THAT school's offense...
From Hargis:
Starkey alludes to Schmitt, who lives in Dunlap, having also taken playbooks from Sequatchie County, before the Indians' game against Marion County on Sept. 27. According to Sequatchie County Principal Tommy Layne, after checking with head coach Ken Colquette, the football team is missing two playbooks from its fieldhouse. Marion rallied in the second half to score the last four touchdowns in that game to beat Sequatchie County 52-28.
"If you have no better morals than this, you don't need to be around kids in any way," said Layne, who also is a member of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association's Board of Control. "I'm just in shock at all of this. I've never, in all my years as an educator and coach, heard of anything as bad as this. It just makes you sick. You feel bad for the kids at Marion for having men like this as their role models."
The TSSAA, the state governing body for high school athletics, is even set to discuss the idea of giving the death penalty to Marion County's football program. They are waiting, however, for the criminal proceedings to get sorted out...
This is not the first time McCurry has been relieved of duty for questionable behavior...
In May 2010, he was let go by a school for 2 alleged DUI and a domestic assault charge...
Here's what one message board alluded to with McCurry's coaching wake:
Moore County- shambles
Marshall County- wrecked
Ripley Miss- Destroyed
Lakeview HS- Left after one game.Bailed on the kids
Signal Mnt- Recruiting scandal...1 year
One larger question the HQ has is the idea of a "show cause" penalty and whether it exists with high school coaches who have had nothing but trouble at every stop...
Seems like the coaches in and around the Marion County program may be the prime examples for this idea of it doesn't currently exist...
Friday, November 15, 2013
OSG High: HS Coach Arrested For Self-Vandalism
((HT: WRCB-TV))
The HQ is hip-deep in high school football playoffs here in the southeast...
It's important and, to a lot of towns, it's the life blood of the season and the calendar year...
Motivation takes many forms, but in one case, it might have gone over the ledge and into the extreme...
In suburban Chattanooga, Marion County played South Pittsburg back on November 1st- both smaller school powers in Tennessee high school football. Marion assistant coach Michael Schmitt was arrested for vandalizing his own school in his rival's thoughts and colors as what looks like a motivational ploy to get his own team fired up for that game...
Yes, he did do that...allegedly...
WRCBtv.com | Chattanooga News, Weather
Schmitt is on administrative leave and was released on bond pending the resolution of the charges...the court date is set for two months from now...
Here's coverage from WDEF-TV as well...
The HQ is hip-deep in high school football playoffs here in the southeast...
It's important and, to a lot of towns, it's the life blood of the season and the calendar year...
Motivation takes many forms, but in one case, it might have gone over the ledge and into the extreme...
In suburban Chattanooga, Marion County played South Pittsburg back on November 1st- both smaller school powers in Tennessee high school football. Marion assistant coach Michael Schmitt was arrested for vandalizing his own school in his rival's thoughts and colors as what looks like a motivational ploy to get his own team fired up for that game...
Yes, he did do that...allegedly...
WRCBtv.com | Chattanooga News, Weather
Schmitt is on administrative leave and was released on bond pending the resolution of the charges...the court date is set for two months from now...
Here's coverage from WDEF-TV as well...
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