wmcovol
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Tennessee used to have prep schools where you would go to bring your grades up and take remedial classes if they were not up to snuff when you graduated high school or if you had potential but we’re undersized or needed development.
UT would send players to Tennessee Military Institute in Sweetwater to get unqualified players eligible. Dale jones was one.
I’m not sure why that system when away, but I think it has to do with the economics of running those schools after the state created the public community college system. I think TMI closed in the 80s or 90s.
I think TN, GA, and AL attempt to educate their youth prior to college.Like you, I am not aware of too many JUCO football programs EAST of the Mississippi River. However, every JUCO in the State of Mississippi has a football program and they are very competitive each and every year - Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC) in Parkinson, MS won the 2019 JUCO Football Championship and East Mississippi Community College won it a number of times between 2010 nd 2020.
I was wondering why the larger community colleges in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama don't have similar programs? Here in Mississippi JUCO football is a real cash cow for the schools and the games are very well attended. As a bonus, some of the JUCO marching bands down here would blow a many 4-year college bands off the field in competition.
My grandfather went to TMI. Played basketball. I wish it was still around. Would have love to have gone there.
Vol St does hv sports basketball and baseball both programs are solid. Baseball is more prominent than basketball and they've had guys in baseball hp to Vandy and MTSU off the top of my head.
No you wouldn't have.
We used to play TMI in football, baseball, basketball in the late 80's as they were in our district. We went to football camp there my junior year and we stayed in the dorms for a week. What a nasty rundown piece of crap that place was. We literally saw a couple of roaches chasing a rat with a pizza crust in it's mouth.
I had some friends that got put in there by their parents hoping it would straighten them out. Everybody always thought that it was an actual military school and you got to shoot rifles and do military training, etc. Couldn't be further from the truth. It was basically your last chance before juvenile hall. It was full of drugs, drug dealers and lazy slack youth who didn't give a crap about anything. They didn't do drills, or teach military anything according to my friends. It was basically daycare for teens.
When did he go there? It once was a legit Military Training High School and College from what I understand. I do not know when that ended.
Uh...Vol State has baseball and basketball, to name two, at the main campus in Nashville. The satellite campuses, such as in Cookeville, will not.
Vol State is in Gallatin. Nashville State is in Nashville. One has sports programs. One does not.
The Tennessee Board of Regents oversees the Tennessee Community College System with the following schools in the system:
1. Nashville State C.C.- Nashville, TN- NO ATHLETICS
2. Roane State C.C.- Crossville, TN
3. Columbia State C.C.- Columbia, TN
4. Chattanooga State C.C.- Chattanooga, TN
5. Volunteer State C.C.- Gallatin, TN
6. Cleveland State C.C.- Cleveland, TN
7. Dyersburg State C.C.- Dyersburg, TN
8. Jackson State C.C.- Jackson, TN
9. Motlow State C.C.- Tullahoma, TN
10. Northeast State C.C.- Blountville, TN- NO ATHLETICS
11. Pellisssippi State C.C.- Knoxville, TN- NO ATHLETICS
12. Southwest C.C.- Memphis, TN
13. Walters State C.C.- Morristown, TN
None of the 10 community colleges in Tennessee that offer athletics have ever offered football. Some NAIA schools do, but not all.
This is easy stuff ya'll. No charge this time.
I'm well aware of where Vol State is headquartered. My son is in dual enrollment at Vol State.
And since this stuff is so easy, you might want to amend your list. Roane State's main campus is actually in Harriman.
So he's going to Vol State in Nashville? I don't think so.
Got me on Roane State. Live by the Google, Die by the Google......There is at least a satellite campus in Crossville for Roane State.
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You gotta admit, this is a pretty ridiculous thread for Tennessee fans and mostly Tennessee residents to be discussing JUCO football in Tennessee. Which doesn't exist. And we're on page 2.
The school was bought by the Japanese when I was a kid. So probably late 80's. I think Burt Reynolds played RB there. His pictures were up in the barber shop.Tennessee used to have prep schools where you would go to bring your grades up and take remedial classes if they were not up to snuff when you graduated high school or if you had potential but we’re undersized or needed development.
UT would send players to Tennessee Military Institute in Sweetwater to get unqualified players eligible. Dale jones was one.
I’m not sure why that system when away, but I think it has to do with the economics of running those schools after the state created the public community college system. I think TMI closed in the 80s or 90s.
Tennessee has 13 community colleges and none have a scholarship football program. They are expensive and form a brief look, no desire to add it