No. 1-ranked Tift County boys cleared of recruiting charges by GHSA

Oh no it wasnt spring. It was during the summer. Not blaming the kid. Blaming the system more or less.

Also, if they are going to move….I think the family should leave the county. This doesnt always happen.

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LISTEN FOLKS, THERE R PROGRAMS WHO DO IT THE RIGHT WAY AND THERE R THE WHEELERS, THE MILTONS, THE TIFT CO.’S AND THE NORCROSSS’ WHO OBVIUOSLY RECRUIT. IT’S BEEN GOING ON FOR AWHILE NOW. LETS START GIVING ATTENTION TO THE PROGRAMS THAT R HOME GROWING THE KIDS LIKE PEACHTREE RIDGE,HILGROVE, DRUID HILLS,STEPHENSON, AND FINALLY NORTH COBB WHO HAS A VERY GOOD (TEAM,) NOT JUST ONE OR TWO GREAT PLAYERS. THIS TEAM WILL BE THERE IN THE END WHEN IT MATTERS MOST. GOOD LUCK TO THE TEAMS WHO DO IT THE RIGHT WAY. GO WARRIORS!!

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JLR, respectfully, your reasoning is flawed. The size of a football field is not necessarily commensurate with the size of its stands. Class A fields obviously have smaller bleachers. The inarguable point is that stadiums (bleachers) in Georgia are much larger than the average stadium in most other states, and for good reason. You’re just being irrational if you think basketball is as important in Georgia as football is. There’s not even an argument. You’re dumbing down the argument by seeming to suggest that I made it personal by saying football kids are more important than basketball kids. I never talked about the kids. I talked about the selfish adults who have ruined the flagship sport, the one that pays for most other sports (although Tift’s basketball by now probably pays for itself). There is no denying football is king in South Georgia. There is no denying Tift County used to be a state force. It is now a joke. It should not be. The fact that it was successful in the past shows that the infrastructure is there to be successful now. That has been my point all along. Master Blaster has been saying the same thing. Tift can win the basketball state championship the next 10 years in a row and it wouldn’t mean as much to that community as one football state championship. It doesn’t mean the football kids are more important. It means football is the fabric of South Georgia life.

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Henjamcol, hate to burst your bubble, but I know from a reliable source (the parent of a player from a neihboring school) that North Cobb reps. came to his home this past summer to inquire about their son transferring to their school, of which they declined. I will not put the kids name in the post like some others have, that is not fair to the kid, but the schools you mention that do it right, don’t be so sure. They all do the same.

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Any transfer should be required to sit out a year, and that would preclude the top players from moving schools in all sports. Most don’t ever move, they continue to live in the same house and get in the car and drive to the new school they desire to play at. We in Georgia owe the kids a chance to get the education at the school of their choice, but we do not owe them the opportunity to play of a championship team in any sport. It has gotten to the point where everyone knows that cheating is occurring and everyone just looks the other way. 6000 transfers last year and many many for strictly athletic purposes. TIFT COUNTY has always been BASKETBALL school. They have had intermittent football success, but very little since Worth Bowers was the quarterback and Tift played for the State Championship in 1997. The 1997 team beat a good Brookwood team who had beaten Valdosta the year before to win the AAAA State Championship in the Georgia Dome and then lost a hard fought one to Parkview in the State Championship Game at Parkview. 15 years have gone by now and very little success on the football field except for the 2006 team. That is really a shame, but talking with Region 1-AAAA coaches, Tift County has always been a terrible place for a head football coach politically. Brodie, Winslette, and my coach Jay Walls were all capable and winning coaches who dealt with the politics of Tifton and Tift County even though they had winning records. We have no one to blame except ourselves because when we find a good coach, he often leaves because the Superintendent doesn’t like him or a certain faction of the fan base doesn’t like him. You can have a decent team in the region we play in, 1-AAAA, and go 4-6 or 5-5. Since the 12-3 State Champion runner-up in 1997, the only thing to be excited about was the 2006 team that was a 12-2 team and we lost to Roswell in the Dome. Over the past 13-14 years, the Blue Devils have had a record of 69-90, and the overall record of football at Tift County High is 288-248 for a winning percentage of 53%. As good a coach as Coach Brodie was, he only had one state champion in 18 years. Seeing the facts laid out, it is hard to say the Tift County is a football school. As most of the old timers in South Georgia will tell you, Tift County from the early days has always been a basketball school. Certain members of the basketball teams of the past would have been great football players, but were required to practice basketball year round to assure a starting position on the hardwood. This practice would have never happened at Valdosta, Lowndes, Colquitt, or Coffee. That is the difference in a basketball school and a football school.

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thank you Ricky Rude

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