The TSSAA's Board of Control meet­ing came and went last Thursday. Of course there was plenty of things to dis­cuss in the aftermath. Anderson County seems to be the school with the most to complain about. If you don't believe me, just go check out twitter.com @tssaa. Plenty of interesting tweets there regard­ing the choices made by the TSSAA.

Overall, many were happy with the outcome of the meeting, including Tellico Plains Athletic Director Shawn Yates. 

"We are extremely happy with TSSAA's decision to let us remain in District 3A. If we would have been in District 5A, every trip except one would have been over 75 miles," said Yates. 

No doubt travel was a factor in the Tellico decision, but you have to wonder how much it affected others. Now District 5 will have just four football playing schools. That is something we know the TSSAA isn't exactly fond of, but travel wise Tellico made more sense in District 3. 

"It would have been very hard on our students to travel 75 miles to play games, especially on week nights. Going to District 3A, we have three trips under 40 miles and no trips over 70. We know TSSAA does have to make a lot of tough decisions, and we are thank­ful that they will listen to help out our schools when needed. They did what is best for our school," said Yates.

I agree with Yates; the TSSAA made the right call.

Loudon will move from 4-AA to 5-AA creating a tougher time for Sweetwater and Sequoyah. Travel again, was a fac­tor. Driving one way to all the schools in 4-AA was 205 miles for Loudon. After the move that number falls to 111 miles.