The countdown to a crossroads in Tennessee prep sports is nearing its conclusion.
Finally.
For the past couple of years, there’s been a commotion for change from a growing number of high school football coaches and administrators at influential programs around the state. At issue are the TSSAA rules that shepherd which direction Division II athletics — most notably football — are headed for Tennessee’s private schools.
At each of its last two meetings over the past year, the 12-member Legislative Council, which writes the rules the TSSAA’s 426 member schools must follow, has opted to delay voting on that issue as well as discussion of allowing any form of a transfer rule to trickle down from the NCAA’s example.
Those two topics represent the most impactful potential change for high school sports in the state since the public/private split in 1997.