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I gotta say, on the whole, I agree with you. I think all-state time is when the AP really looks bad with some place really loading up on the honorable mentions and people like Marty Reagan getting left off (which I beleive happened when he was a junior). And most of my family would agree with you saying that my point is contrary to whatever. My dad's been describing me as contrary for years.

One thing I don't understand about several of these posts is why everyone thinks the AP voters are so much less informed that our BGP voters. The AP people follow sports for a profession, Most BGP voters have a day job and commit what free time they do have to sports. The BGP voters reside somewhere I suspect and would also suspect that they have more knowledge of local teams than those from across the state. Our BGP voters often have a favorite team, many times that they follow fanatically. I'm not sure AP voters have such a rooting interest in any one team. And how much do the BGP voters travel that they know so much more about football state wide than the AP guys do? The advantage the BGP poll has over the AP is more members and anytime you have more samples, the accuracy of any scienticif sampling will be greater.

Little did Guru and the Cheese Graters know that their first gig as a headlining band would also be their last. The above photo, taken just before the 1986 Beechwood homecoming football game. G and the CGs were to play the national anthem before hte game and the annual sock hop that followed. Their mistake was wearing old practice uniforms for their stage costumes. "Uniforms worked for the village people," the Guru said the next day. "We were all set for our big day. We had all just gotten new hair cuts and learned our fourth and final cord. "This picture was the lineup as we were going to be on stage. Tito (57) was on synthesizer, Slick Stewart Jones (10) was playing accordian, Wild Will Westenhopper (66) was on drums and Little Davey (4) played guitar. And me, well, I was in the middle. Where the lead singer belongs." The trouble began when when the Beechwood coaches mistook Guru and Cheese Graters for actual players as the game kicked off. "I don't know how they could make such a mistake," Slick Stewart said from a stretcher after the game, "I mean LOOK at us." By the time the dust had cleared every member of the bad except the Guru has too badly injured to play. Since the Guru didn't know hot to play any of the musical instruments, he decided to give up the band and devote his efforts full time to football. He became a kicker. The end

Ox, I think your post on the AP polls is one of the best I've seen. Instead of blasting the voters who do take the time to vote every week, you place the blame for underrepresented areas on those who chose not to vote. I think it's a very valid point. Is the AP poll correct every week? No. Is any poll correct every week? I'd say no on that one as well. The handicap of the AP is not enough voters for a true sampleing of the state. But I would say it's pretty much as good as any other.

Ummmm. No Besides, Bush is Mr. Football and will be wearing the No. 1. I think it's pretty much a law he has to start. Wonder what he would say if the coach tried to put him at receiver or DB?

LIke I said, I was assuming. Usually there is also a lot of pressure for UK signees to be first team all-state and all of those guys (the seniors) should be on the team. I would be interested to know the last time a UK signee didn't get asked to play on the team. I'm sure some may have opted not to.

I talked to Dallas Greer today and he said the Bell County coaches AND Rich Brooks had told him he would be playing in the all-star game. That leads me to assume (dangerou always, but what the heck) that all UK signees will be on the team. I'm also glad that the UK coaches are allowing their kids to play in the game. P.S. Greer will the fifth kid from Bell County/Middlesboro to play in the game since 1998

I don't think having the fans sit together would be a problem at this game. It's a pretty warm and fuzzy environment. Plus I don't think it would draw enough to exactly have to sit in each other's laps in there.

It might be fun with a nearly full stadium ever if it was a smaller one. I remember in Knoxville in 98 how depressing Neyland looked with so few people in it.