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I support Coach Ried but do not think on an early post Now "Alcoa will win some rings hands down". Ried, a good man for sure, did not have an established winning tradition at WB. I do not think he will do to well anywhere until he has a four or five seasons under his belt. I also agree, the modern HS FB coach does not want to be a field maintainer specialist, he wants to coach FB and teach. I also agree Blount county 5A AD˜s are clueless about what it takes to have a winning program. They don˜t allow enough money and do not look for ways to promote their programs. Many kids try and do transfer to Maryville or quit football altogether. Sad because Blount county has some of the finest athletes in the state bar none. Alcoa, Maryville and Greenback all local programs know what it takes to win and have it figured out. I also support all Blount County programs and know this is a HS Football fans dream. I hope the Blount 5A programs figure it out. My .02 worth. Good luck to Coach Reid.

Good luck Coach Reid, he is a fine man and works very hard. Don't think any of the staff would make the trip. He had a pretty good season at WB but really has not arrived as a winning HS Head Coach yet. I think he will and I wish him all the success in the world. OK who will replace hime at WB???

It is early my friends and many of the first shirts are not even at practice. Time will tell, but UT's fall practice is where they get the men in camp and gunning for playing time. We will see how Mr. Riggs does then so good luck to him.

Watch your toung boy. City and County officals have to allow those monies to go to the school boards for large projects like a new field, above normal ops. costs. It appeared to me there was limited drainage at the site, therefore one could do little to "Maintain" a site like Carter's field. My thoughts and comments were ment to be mostly postive as I do think that all kids should have good facilities from which to preform athletics.

For all who are disrespecting a community that has been forgotten by the Knox Co school system to fund Carter HS, for a better facility until now, the dump they have played their games in is not the teams fault. This past year when Maryville played them in a down poor it was my first trip to the facility. I was amazed the school board would allow their students to play in that quagmire; nonetheless the Carter fans were behind their kids 100% and the team put great effort in the contest, more effort than a few other teams I saw Maryville pummel this past year. So let˜s not use this great forum to discourage other teams or show disrespect to a community that does not have the best facilities. With all the tax money we are paying all teams deserve good turf to play on. I am looking forward to visiting Carter˜s new facility and good luck this season. We will see you week one.

Good post KevB, and Maryville was and is beatable. But no one could get that job done, last year. FACT! I am very proud of the young men who suited hurt and stepped up all year and certainly the men who coached them. Mr. B and the team Doc. from Maryville Ortho earned a rings as well in my book; he was a hero big time. History will record that Maryville is a model program. What has been established will not fall easily therefore the kids can play with nothing to prove to anyone but themselves. Next seasons underclassmen have been and are now preparing to defend the honor and tradition of the Community. It matters not what those who take cheap shots at the program say or wish it ill will, the record stands for it˜s self as a testimony of boys who grew into men during their 4 years of High School. I am proud and not ashamed of it.

RebRon: You again my friend and fellow fan, are the man. You nailed the facts of the Maryville season right on the head. Hissboro was a great team and people who watched the game live and on TV saw one of the most competive games of football played by two outstanding teams. Many of the kids you named, some you did'nt were not starters in the spring but steped up big and men with a purpose. They got the job done week after week for 15 weeks adjusting to what ever was presented them. The coaches did an outstanding job again and will do it again. So other fans can diss "Our" program but we, I love it because it is the purest form of TEAM THE GAME! Go Rebs

This statement proves one of my points concerning 2nd & 3rd string developement. Stated; "The Reese kids record that year speaks for itself". This is part of the problem, it is not (Was not) Reese's Team! But he was the number called 9 of 10 plays, every 0 play. He was a great kid and athlete/leader no question. Great young man almost the athlete his sister is! (Just a Joke, but she is great as well) But even Mr. Reese could not carry a 5A team, Fact! Randy Moss is washed up by the way. Also John Reid is a great guy, but spends to much time trying to coach baseball and should pick a sport and learn it. Football will take him places not baseball!

To GOVman and CoachDG: I have been close to both of your programs through the years and will not name any names, because this is not the place for it, is not appreciated unless positive, and these are only my opinions and observations. I have done some coaching at the 5,6,7,8 & 9th grade levels as a volunteer, but have never been in a HS coaches shoes. In other communities I have been in volunteers were necessary because of the ever present issue of funding. Today˜s rules and laws prohibit this for some good reasons I am sure, but there are many of us former HS and College players that could offer a program a great deal, at the HS level. HHS I think should unload the coaches they have that are over 35 and have coached there over the past 5 years. Most are great guys but are not getting the job done, simple. Yelling at today˜s young men is not the way to go. Look at the military. The coaches presently there cannot and have not developed younger players. This has been proven by the play of the ˜Feeder˜ middle schools. Both HHS and WB play too many players both ways and are not in good enough condition to do so. To be effective in the 3rd and 4th qtrs. Your bench needs depth, to win in today˜s game. Look at the ˜Little˜ QB WB had year before last (Coaches Son?) He was a great player and athlete for his 160 5˜9 size and great kid, but come on; he did throws, kicks, runs and plays D! You˜re a 5A for crying out loud! Two years prior your head coach had his lineman size son at tailback who had a displayed attitude that got himself kicked out of 2 or 3 games in two years. That is not leadership. I also saw him used on D some. My view on developing players and where WB and HHS are missing the mark are a few simple issues and some complex ones. I offer some simple observations. Big schools that have an enrollment approaching 1600 and get 100 kids out for the team have got to find a way to play one kid at one position and play up to the third string every chance a coach gets. If you˜re a coach and you don˜t use a depth chart outside of your head, shame on you. Keep notes of who got in and how many reps they really got and was the game on the line when that reserve got them. This info after half a season will be worth a great deal when the injuries come, because they do. The second, third and fourth string kids work just as hard, many times harder sometimes, as the starter does without the talent. Your younger lower priority kids and strings below 1st are the future and if they don˜t ever get a rep until you˜re counting on them on Friday night, you are setting up that young man and your team for failure. If you are allowing your freshman and JV games to be cancelled for weather or other non-football issues, double shame on you coach. These younger kids work hard and look forward to the opportunity to show you what you have taught them, during a game setting. Those games that are cancelled year end and year out are a loss of reps to the younger players and an emotional let down to developing players. During those games the only thing on the line is your reputation as a winner, so play every kid that suits more than one set of downs. Besides the game means nothing really or you would not allow them to be cancelled in the first place! Coaching is an art and learned skill, but falls way down the list in life˜s people skills. Yelling and looking like an #### to the team, fans, lower classman and parents serves on the sidelines no purpose, they are just kids! If coaching is a job or chore to you get out of it! Playing lots of kids is what got Maryville another championship this year. Injury˜s were higher the past year than and developed ready youth pulled who stepped up won big for the program. Enough here for now. And this is only my thoughts.

To CoachDG, no disrespect intended concerning the Heritage FB Program. The coaches and players do work very hard, as far as thier ability allows. In my view the program has the best Blount County facilities, bar none! The coaches work hard but the future player development pool at the ˜Feeder˜ schools and midget programs are not serious. As far as Maryville goes the attitude that ˜The Program˜ is lucky is a joke. Those players and coaches˜ work as hard as any program in the state because the school is not blessed with enormous talent like you, and others think. The coaches know how to develop young players and how to employ the schemes that fit their talent pool. The players believe, know and expect to win. This is not the place for the Maryville debate. Over the past six years many kids have stopped playing or transferred to other schools because they and their parents want a different situation. My son was one of them. On his way to Heritage, looking forward to it, then not given opportunity coming out of one of the ˜Feeder˜ schools and did not like foul mouths. Maryville gave him an opportunity to WORK his way into the line-up, Bingo 2 rings in two years. Not talented enough to play college ball, but worked hard and paid his dues and contributed greatly to a winning program. It˜s not winning its attitude! At Heritage the school has huge kids walking the halls smoking and joking who, because of attitude won˜t come out for the team. The kids simply don˜t believe the hard work is necessary and don˜t think the present staff knows how to win. The AD situation does not help. (Another Debate). Commitment, attitude, hard work and belief in team will change this at Heritage. Remember, the Heritage team and only the Heritage team has manhandled Maryville the past five years, twice. Bar None! Coach you got the talent, community support all you need a positive motivated person or force within the program and your play-off bound, no question, I'm pulling for you. Good luck.

My thoughts are that Rankin, has a great job at a football school. His program and system for player development is also tops. The program is one of the top ones anywhere and he is paid very well for doing what he loves. The Alcoa job will not happen simply because he has nothing to prove and won˜t take that kind of pay cut. I think many overrate the program at Alcoa. Alcoa is not a powerhouse at 2A year end and year out like other programs. Rankin could and would win there or anywhere else he would want to go. John Reid, a good man, is a victim of the WB athletic political mess and has not yet become a winner. He really wants to move on because of WB˜s year end and year out funding mess and the pressure to play kids who can˜t as well as other kids who stand on the sidelines. Little brothers of former players are beginning to jump to other Blount County schools because of it. Reid does not have the tenure of a seasoned coach to get the Alcoa job because of the perception (Alcoa˜s own view) that it (Alcoa) is a power house. The second year Alcoa Principle Jesse Robinette is a good football man and ex coach from Maryville will pick the right man for sure. He knows football and knows the program is in danger of becoming another Heritage program, if the wrong guy is hired. He˜ll get the right guy. It won˜t be Rankin or Ried.

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I was wondering how The Blount County teams, the Home Of Champions will fair this year. I know Maryville will be ready to defend their Region Title and things at Alcoa will settle down with a new coach and they will be competitive WB should win 7 of 10 and I hope Heritage will rebuild and be competitive with a 500 record. I even claim Greenback because of its location. What are the thoughts of the fans of the teams in the county? Please no bad mouthing, this is my home, my kids and I think this county has some of the best H.S football in the state.

Late 1st round, speed is in question I hear. No question another year of college ball where the team would have thrown to him would help, but UT only threw to him in the clutch. Lions, Packers, Seahawks or Texans looking at TE's.

Not to pick on young Mr. Riggs but he is not a big time D1 player. He is a guy you sign to quite the local fans, nothing more. Kind of like Joey Mathews. Everyone saw what UT did to this great E. TN talent. I think many D1 schools stay away from the area because they figure UT don˜t see any thing there then there must be no one there. East Tn has had some great H.S. players but no one will give them a chance. The kids that do get signed do pretty well outside of the UT local area. I saw Riggs play in H.S and could never figure out why UT was interested in him. Speed yes, thinking and running with instingh no. He could not take a hit in H.S. and will never be the go to guy at UT. Saw him in the Maryville play-off game and I think there were two or three kids out there who were better athletes than Mr. Riggs will ever be. But they were no names with no family money or pull. Riggs will not suit in orange this year. Count on it.

There goes this goat-punk shooting off his mouth about things he knows nothing about, Class and Football! Jeff Co. has a great tradition and very good academics. It is great rural area to live in and the people/fans are great. I don˜t live there but I work near there. As far as John Deere and tobacco go, these things help build the great America we call the home of the free and brave. Jeff Co has won at the highest level and the program is on the up swing. Rebuilding is a fact in all sports. billyGoat go back to chat rooms.

MARYVILLE AND WHO EVER SHOWS UP IN THE BORRO FIRST WEAK IN DECEMBER!!!!!

Mo West has had a great record the past few years, true. Weak Region, period. Colleges don't seem to think E. Tn has much talent or there would be more kids getting signed! Fact: Mo West is not much better than TN High, Greenville or for sure Elizabethton. Central, Cleveland or Powell are cuts above Mor West for sure and well Maryville is in a class all its own. Could-a, would-a, should-a don't get it West Fans! Never has.

You can measure how good you are by beating Maryville. Which MWHS can't do in the play-offs. Until then Morristown West is still just another team from a weak region.

On the point "Coaches (college) want to see what competition is. I think (if) Maryville would play some of the big 5A programs they would get the signees. Its all about exposure of the atheletes. FACT Maryville beats every 5A team it playes 90% of the time and would do so anywhere in the state! My $ .2 worth!!! [Edited by coacht on 2-10-03 7:40P]

I went and watched some of the "Winter practice" and things are good. Still early but I think Rebel fans will have a few things to cheer about as we look to win the region again this year. Go Rebs!

Coach White will be missed by his family and his extended Maryville commuinity. This is a great family and asset to the area and Coach White will be missed. All our prayers and thoughts.

The wing T stops itself! This out of date offence has had it's day. Todays focus on speed, position and end containment shuts the WingT down every time. Developing good position playing corners combined with containment type D ends will stop it everytime. Ask Maryville, the home of champ's, that is how they do it. WingT, what a thing of the past. Great thoughts in most posts, those are my thoughts. BY the way, there is no dead period, only weight lifting time!!

Pink is well liked, he is just demanding. As evidence by the kids who played the defensive end spots on his teams. Case in point Gaylon, Hodge, Killebrew, Smith and Fondel (Before his injury). Every one of these kids were hurt on and off all last year, but played exceptional with emotion and sacrifice. Can˜t argue with success! Gaylor has been a head coach and could handle the Alcoa job. But why would he? I think he is waiting till GQ departs.

What dominating defense would this be? Who cares where or if Helton leaves? A one many show will never win. Ask Powell and Red Bank. Dominating defenses are found in Maryville boys, not to many other places in E. TN. Fact!!