GovMan

Who would that have been RR? I honestly can't remember that scenario

Strong, By the last couple of home games last year, I was calling out Kalib's name for tackles on a quite regular basis. Flashes of names like Lawhon, Borden, & Bloom came to mind watching his technique and his ability to get to the ball carrier.

A couple of kids from WB that I think will be leaders: Kalib Sugden (lb) and Nick Yoakum (wr / db).

Willie Nelson

Those of us that love and support William Blount--and who base our opinions on more than just football--are not "nervous" about anything. Incredible school -- incredible leadership -- drawing more and more recognition academically every year. It's a great school, just like Maryville, Alcoa, and Heritage are great schools. I'm a parent who "went through it" with three kids and I wouldn't trade the experience for anything in the world. Proud to be a William Blount graduate married to a William Blount graduate and father of three William Blount Graduates.

Rick Young is a fine man and a great coach. He and his wife have raised two great sons, and heck, even his brothers are pretty cool. I'm so glad to have Rick as our coach. To call him a "coward" over a middle school football dispute...wow.

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What an impressive win for the Governors tonight ... 65-41. Govs were dominant the entire game. Only bright spot for Admirals was the Rogers kid. Blount is just so deep ... and they have so many shooters. When they are "on" ... they are really tough. BTW ... of all my years of going to high school basketball games, Farragut by far has the worst P.A. system I've ever heard (or better yet, not heard). Their announcer sounds like the school teacher in Charlie Brown movies. I don't mean it's him, it's the speakers. Just awful.

now that's funny...

good post BKisler

Understand your general theory here. A ballgame is more than just one play ... and there are other opportunities throughout the course of the game to determine who wins and who loses. And yes, that rb for Whitehaven was really, really good. But there are occasions where you can point to one specific mistake by officials that directly determines the outcome of a game. In the case of Maryville vs Whitehaven I believe one could say this. The referees were caught off guard by the play Maryville executed perfectly and they threw a flag that should not have been thrown. Had they not ... Maryville would have won the game. I would contend this was the case this past weekend in the Ohio State vs Michigan game. After watching the replay over and over, it appeared as if the ref's made a mistake on the spotting of the ball on OSU's 4th down play in ot. IF the ref's get this right, Michigan wins the game. Yes, Michigan had other opportunities to win the game, but you can't completely ignore the fact that "one mistake by an official (s)" is capable of changing the final outcome of a game. And by the way, don't throw all the Maryville fans to the wolves for my post ... I'm a William Blount fan.

Lord Infamous! Hadn't heard from you in forever. How are you old friend?

Nice win for Coach Kevin Windell's William Blount Governors tonight over Murfreesboro Riverdale. With the win, the Govs improve to 4-0. Their resume also includes a 100-92 win over Powell on this past Saturday. Excited about the prospects of a good season for WB.

Teague looks good against Maryville's freshmen squad!

Anybody who's streaming tssaa having audio problems?

I agree with you post but I believe you left out one thing. Sports. Some parents send their kids to other schools because of the sports programs. And PLEASE NOTE, I said "some" ... not "all". And I'm not downing that ... that's ok. But people need to be willing to own it. I'm convinced that if WB's football team was upper tier, we would not see as many parents/kids in our zone go elsewhere.

Not that it matters, but I believe it's actually 17.

yep

Good question. You know the Pat Summit philosophy was always "you get better by playing tough teams." But for the program at this point, I think a winning culture would do wonders. And so, it wouldn't hurt to get some "winnable" games on the schedule. Heritage stepped down a couple of years into 5A and I believe that was certainly one variable in them starting to see some w's. Next year, they step back up and I would not be surprised if they aren't more competitive, because they've got to "taste a little" what winning feels like. Fair?

Jake, First of all, I hope you realize how much it has meant to our community that Austin (and mom & dad) did make the decision to keep him at WB. The same for all those graduating seniors that have stuck with us through thick and thin. While Austin didn't enjoy as much success on the football field as we would have loved to have seen, I don't suspect that that is going to impede the great successes that he is going to experience as he moves on to the next leg of his journey into adulthood. He is a quality young man that reflects our school and community well. I honestly believe that good groundwork is being put down that will result in our football program gaining more respectability in the coming years. I believe we have an upper tier head coach, who is on his way to building a quality staff. I also believe we are doing really, really good things at the middle school level--beginning with the leadership--that are going to pay dividends. I spent a little time today researching the past 38 seasons of WB football to try to find any trends or variables that might explain where we are right now. It's tough to make any sense out of our past. Our most successful run was an 11-year period between 1997 & 2007. During that time we won 66 and lost 57. We only had one losing season. We made the play-offs 9 out of 11 years. Locally, we were 11-0 vs Heritage; 5 - 3 vs Alcoa; & 1 - 10 vs Maryville (some things never change). And so I'm thinking ... coaching stability. But then I realize, we had five different head coaches (Fickert, McMahan, Reid, Phelps, and Meadows) in those 11 seasons. Hmmmmm ..... By the way--and some of you are thinking I have way too much time on my hands ... in 38 years, Blount has had 11 head coaches. Two of the 11 won more games than they lost while at WB -- Scott Meadows and Earl McMahan. It's hard to make any sense out of it sometimes.

Honest question for Strong X and Jake ... how many members of the 39-1 youth league are playing at WB now? And I really don't know, I'm curious. Did the Govs get the majority of them?

Stars, you're spot on. Wasn't trying to take away from what Coach Ham has accomplished. Concerning Nick, I knew he was good (both football and basketball) but quite honestly didn't realize how fast he was till Friday night. On the long td, he just ran off and left the HV defenders. And as far as Bubba, not sure who's picking up his garbage, but his momma cuts my hair ... so look for me to keep it nice, neat, and trimmed regularly for the next few years.

Stars, that's a good point. No question Coach Hammontree has changed the culture at Heritage. They have also benefitted from dropping down a classification. Unfortunately, I believe they have to jump back up next year. From being up in the box on Friday nights, the most encouraging thing to me is the large number of sophomores & juniors who's names I've been calling out a lot. I know everyone thinks (broken record) but in my opinion, I think it's realistic to think the Govs should be able to possibly win a couple more of these close games next year. We've added a couple of good coaches this year and that has certainly helped. The other key, as we all know, will be retaining those middle schoolers. There's a couple of them that are as good as any I remember coming up in a long, long time. And all across the board they will help. We also have a behemouth six grader that I believe is going to be dominant. They call him Bubba!

Scott West did that video with the "digitally imposed" light saber extending from the top of the upright and it clearly indicated that "the force was not with the young WB kicker." Or maybe it didn't ... who knows? I was on the mic the night of the '99 game. Never been so happy in the closing minute of a game to announce multiple times, "Hold it fans, there IS a flag on the play.!"

Yeah Strong X ... do you have a boy that plays anywhere?