Knox Catholic 21 Fartgut 18

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Anyway you look at it we are talking a school with 620 students beating a school with over 1800 students.

And Farragut can only draw athletes from a small area in and around Farragut and Catholic can and does attract top athletes from a several county area all over East Tennessee.   

It's a draw.   Farragut will win more often than not in this series, just not this year.

[plumbervol]

Knox Catholic recruits from St Josephs, Sacred Heart, St John Neumann, St Mary's, and the Home schoolers. Only 26% of the sr class did not fall into the groups that went 12 years of total Catholic school. That 26% includes kids that only went to Catholic schools a few years and went public and then back to Catholic High and home schoolers. That is fact and the reality of KCHS. 6 kids went to West Valley, but they came out of Catholic Grammer school. Some came out of the Episcopal School........

You do not send your kids to Catholic School to play sports, hell Tim Irwin was sent to Central to play football after St Joe's and Chris Gettlefinger was sent to Gresham to play Basketball. The Wright kid fron South Knoxville was sent from Sacred Heart to Young to play Basketball. He wanted to go to Catholic, but the reality is he could not have started at Catholic and he was All City, we use to party together..

Like I said 620 vs 1800 anyway you look at it.....Fartgut has a bunch of AE refugees so cut the crap.....My nephew and his wife teach there.... He went to McCaulie

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Like I said 620 vs 1800 anyway you look at it.....Fartgut has a bunch of AE refugees so cut the crap.....My nephew and his wife teach there.... He went to McCaulie

You are ignorant on the AE refugee situation.   All they bring to the school are gun threats and more police (happened last Thursday).   No Athletes that I know of.

If you think Catholic doesn't have some athletes who are at Catholic only because of sports, you are either ignorant or delusional.   Either way, they are drawing students and athletes from a much larger area than Farragut.

I don't blame 'em and I don't care.   But don't get on here with your tired old "poor little rich private schools only have x number of students.  

Plus, y'all can hire and fire coaches based on their performance.   Farragut is stuck with school teachers who oversee sports programs and can't coach a lick.   Courtney would have been fired years ago at a private school.   Further proof would be, Farragut just hired a guy as their HC in basketball who y'all fired as your girls coach 4 years ago.  

[plumbervol]

I am tired of playing the publics personally, we travel well and I am for lumping all the privates together and telling the TSSAA to go to hell. If you are not public make all the privates play themselves, ALL OF THEM. That would end the 6 hour bus rides to play a game.......

Fulton bitched and moaned about recruiting when they were pulling kids from South Doyle, now they want a home and home because of the money draw that it was. We play AE because we consider them a sister school.....

The numbers I gave you are correct and the 2010 Sr Class is an indicator of who attends. The school population went up after we opened the Cedar Bluff facility and more kids from Sacred Heart, St Mary's, and St JOHN NEUMAN started attending HS at KCHS(The old facility was on Magnolia Ave) but St Joe's rate fell. Central is deteriorating and the belief is that more St Joe's will start attending KCHS. Only 5 St Joe's kids attended all 12 years, but 3 came back to KCHS after attending public school for a period of time. One girls brother attended Central and returned, the starting QB came back to Catholic from the publics. One of the boys who went to Central now has his sister back at Catholic after attending public school(Her mother teaches at Sterchi) The majority of the school population attend 12 years of Catholic Schools. over 95% attended Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, or other private Schools before enrolling at KCHS. That is fact.... You are only talking 6-7 kids and all of them are not athletes.

[plumbervol]

The big thing at KCHS is kids with learning disabilities.........
They really are not equiped for this mission, but they got it anyway...

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The question still remains:  How big of an area does the roster of your football team come from?  To be honest, I don't really don't care but you keep bringing this up as an excuse.  Either play your schedule or don't.   There's no excuses.  There are advantages to both sides.

I did notice how you included all private schools in your middle school argument.   Why is that?

 

[SanFran1966]

I have a funny story PV.  I have on very good authority the WR had the incorrect arm-bands on from the prior week.  The error was discovered at halftime, after a heated exchange between QB and WRs, and corrected.  check your sources...

Lastly, Far-git is in for a large sports dropoff.  The CBFO programs are not relative in most age groups in youth football.   Baseball travel kids have stopped moving into the district as well.  Farragut has become a true transient community.

Keep your eyes on Fulton & Powell down the road...

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I have a funny story PV.  I have on very good authority the WR had the incorrect arm-bands on from the prior week.  The error was discovered at halftime, after a heated exchange between QB and WRs, and corrected.  check your sources...

Lastly, Far-git is in for a large sports dropoff.  The CBFO programs are not relative in most age groups in youth football.   Baseball travel kids have stopped moving into the district as well.  Farragut has become a true transient community.

Keep your eyes on Fulton & Powell down the road...

The county has apparently declared war on the Admiral Athletic programs.    The zones are being cut down drastically to reduce the number of kids in the program.    Farragut Middle School is now the only school feeding into FHS and not all of those kids are zoned for FHS.

[SanFran1966]

Good point - there are actually subdivisions in The Town of Farragut zoned for Hardin Academy...

[plumbervol]

I did notice how you included all private schools in your middle school argument. 
 Why is that?

The Lutherans and up to NOW the Episcipol school system do not have a High School. Many roll into KCHS from these privates. IMO if Grace and CAK did not exist KCHS would have 1200 students. Many of the Episopal kids went to Webb.

The Catholic Schools have kids K-8 grades and some parents pull them after the first few years. First Holy Communion happens in the 2nd grade and many kids leave after the 2nd or 3rd grade and come back into the system at HS. Middle school Kids hate being bunched into a school with 1-5th grade.... Again note that 75% of the kids went 12 years in the Catholic School system and 95% atteneded Catholic schools before they started Catholic High. As an example the kids from St Joe numbered only 8, but 5 attened all 12 years and the other 3 was home schooled or went elsewhere during middle school.  Home schoolers were a big thing during my youngest sons 12 years in the Catholic School system. I expect the 75% to rise over the next few years as home schooling peters out. Kids leaving for middle school will probably stay constant until we build a Catholic Middle school. Maryville use to have a 1-5th grade school and then the kids went Alcoa or Maryville until it closed a few years back

I have not heard that Story San Fran, they better get their stuff together. LOL!!