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Hope it's an injury free game and will be pulling for the Rebels in this one.

Good reading, and People were definitely crazy at those old time wrestling matches in this area. The toughest I personally ever met that I wouldn’t have wanted any part of was Doug Furnas. I was still a young man and into weights and Martial arts when he came into the gym where I worked out in Greeneville. He was just playing around and had already done his workout. He put 500 pounds up on the bench like I would press 225. Super human strength and extreme athleticism. I went and watched him destroy the Mongolian Stomper that night . Sure it was fake but he was real enough not to mess with outside the ring.

Very nice win for DB

Absolutely love the fourth down call and it paid off in a huge way

Ha, I say that and then WR has their best play of the night and then score

You never know until the game is played. Just like those other years I mentioned against South, very few fans would think it could go this way.DB just matches up very well with WR .

This game has the same feel as when Sullivan South came to J Fred in 2006 or when DB went to South in 2009 and South was prime to take over the state number one ranking with a win. Two of the largest crowds you could put in either stadium. It’s not a done deal until WR gets it done on the field against DB.

Great win DB !! I Absolutely enjoyed the comments on the YouTube broadcast by one of my favorite DB coaches ever Michael Holt, talking about my very favorite Coach Watson.

Been a while and I just started catching up and seen these two quotes by you and for sure three or four games jump out , with the playoffs being the hardest of them. For myself , that 2008 first round McMinn county game is unbelievable . I think number one ranked DB beats them by five touchdowns in nine out of ten regular season games that year and even worse in the tenth game. Still stings but nothing is a given in sports and just because you are supposed to win , doesn’t mean the opponents will roll over . I don’t know the whole staff these days but was an early fan of coach Gaines from years ago and everyone knows I have the upmost respect for TY Hayworth and his whole family . Especially when it comes to what he done in the weight room during his playing days at DB and WF.

I've always been a football fan first and then if you have a band that's awesome.No question that DB has one of the best bands in the country and the whole region should attend at least one DB game just to see their band. I don't know if Nick Saban could come to Kingsport and build a football program that could match the Dobyns Bennett band's success.That said,as mentioned before, a couple of things would have to change in order for the Tribe to just win a state championship on the field.Besides a program that starts from the peewee teams and goes all the way to J Fred with all coaches and weight training { in time }on the same page. Sometimes it also takes a little luck like the 1998 Vols .There are a lot of great athletes at a lot of big schools around the state and just because you want something doesn't mean your going to build a program like Alcoa has. Yes,start at the bottom and have guys that are quality coaches teaching at every level is 100% the first step. Parents can make it a lot easier by getting their young athletes into an early start with conditioning and weights as well when they are old enough to lift.If your son is a man in the weight room before he gets to DB , then it won't take a "Dobbs" coach to make him competitive against other schools athletes when it comes to strength.

Just my two cents. As a parent of a couple young men who attended one of these programs, I took it personally to have my boys as physically ready to play before they ever got to the high school level. That just left the coaching up to the coaches. One of mine stayed the distance and got the very most out of his potential and that was all NET .The most gifted had a no BS policy as did many of his gifted teammates. I guess the answer for Batman is it starts at home and continues with the coaches and everyone involved with a program. Some parents expect little jimmy to go from a boy to a man and frankly, not all coaching staff’s are as good as Greeneville and Elizabethton’s.No way these schools should be able to beat the local 5a and 6a schools as often as they do. We know now by watching these 4a powerhouses over the last 15 years, that there is talent in NET.

Sometimes that doesn't pan out in the future.I watched both Dobyns Bennett 8Th grade teams beat Greeneville's 8th grade with a lot of stud 7th graders playing for the young Devils a few years ago. Four years later, Dobyns Bennett with both those middle schools combined couldn't beat the Devils.

I can remember a few games at about every level that I thought the odds were nearly impossible .Like Brady and the Pats coming back against Atlanta down 28-3 towards the end of the 3rd quarter.Nothing is a given in sports and if DB has a great week of practice and gives everything they have, then yes they can win this week and four more games to boot .Sports is played on the field and not in the paper or on coacht. Never count a victory or a loss until the competition is complete.

I'll have to be the guy that goes against the grain from reading through some of this. Dobyns Bennett has some fine coaches on their staff . There has always been some fine coaches since I started watching them years ago. Yeah,I've gotten a little aggravated at times over the years with this and that ,but hey we all get aggravated with everything in life at times and that's part of it.Besides having some great coaches on their staff ,they also have some great men who try and help the young men on the team with everyday problems besides just being football coaches.I appreciate many of the coaches today and many that are no longer there for their efforts with my kids and their teammates. I remember one young man that Coach Christian and coach Clark tried to help and went over and beyond to do so.I liked that young man and wish like everything that life would have been better for him but the effort several on DB's staff gave was more then great and those kinds of things you just have to be thankful for and really appreciate besides just winning or losing football games........

Yeah,Way back when they talked about doing everything with the new upper deck,I wish they would have moved the baseball field and built a brand new home side where the { mini -me seats }are and gave the visitors the old home side facing the sun.