re: Excuse my ignorance but why is there so little football talent in Tennessee?

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Are you trying to say that Nashville is a bunch of yankees and Tennessee is really just South Kentucky?

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nashville residents are very southern. their definition of southern is modifyed some tho. middle tennessee has always been different than the south. seriously, hs football, in nashville is not viewed the same as elsewhere. the locals participate in many other sports and the private schools have been around for a long time and have nothing to do with the racial integration backlash. ice hockey teams, equestrian teams, lacrosse teams, wrestling teams, soccer teams, etc are alive and well at the high school level. nashiville is southern but very mid western as well. it's as close to chicago as it is to new orleans and much closer to st louis, cincinatti and indianapolis.