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Tom Kreager
The Tennessean
White House Heritage coach Stetson Dickerson

Stetson Dickerson will replace Hunter Hicks as White House Heritage's football coach.

Dickerson, a 2001 Greenbrier graduate, has been the Bobcats' offensive coordinator the past four years.

"It's always been a personal goal when I got into coaching. I did want to be a high school head coach if it came to me," Dickerson said."

Dickerson was an assistant at Heritage from 2006-08 under former coach Pat Brown. Hicks was 4-16 in two seasons at Heritage, including an 0-10 season in 2017.

"He's a high energy guy," Greenbrier coach John Elmore said. "He is really good at those small details, whether it be having the offensive line making the right steps or a running back taking the proper angle or a quarterback getting his feet right.

"He's always done a great job with that."

Dickerson has coached numerous positions in his role as an assistant, including offensive line, linebackers, quarterbacks and corners backs.

Dickerson said Heritage has just one assistant returning from last season. He will likely be able to hire three assistants and hopes to have some volunteers.

Dickerson acknowledged that getting the position in June isn't ideal, but has a plan to get the program back on track.

"To me, it starts with attacking every practice with great enthusiasm," Dickerson said. "I told them the first time I met them that the timing of this is what it is. We can't choose the timing.

"We can't dwell on excuses built in. We are going to go in every day enthusiastically and with the work ethic that we will get better every single day. If we let excuses drag us down we will never get any better."

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