Ever since 1974 under Tom Weathers Red Bank dominated Chattanooga football.
If you moved to the Chattanooga area and your son was a good football player all
you had to do was ask who had the best football program and Red Bank was the answer unless you wanted to go private. We were also forunate enough to have Lynn Byrd who ran the Home for Troubled Children. Yes, such players as Parker,
Fletcher Williams made this place their home for they had no parents to speak of.
Once a coach builds a dynasty such as Tom did at Red Bank kids will come to you
to play and the coach doesn't have to recruit at all. Riggs and the Ellis brothers all had good homes but their parents wanted them to play with the school that could give the best chance at taking it to the next level. I've never said that Red Bank wasn't lucky, but remember a good team will make it's own luck and Tom Weathers did that a lot. I am a big Red Bank fan, I played their and my father played there under Marion Perkins. Together, since 1964 we have only missed less than twenty games thats pretty loyal, my dad took care of the sound system at the sadium for years until he got to old to do the job. My oldest son played at Red Bank, and personally I have nothing against Ralph King, he was a good back. But, I do get as kick out of getting a rise out of certain people on these posts and I got a good one out of a couple of you on this one. Riverdale has a great history of winning football games and has become a super program that is
competitive year in and year out. I remember playing basketball my junior year
at what was then Murfreesboro Central they had a stud named Leo Martin who went on to play for Vanderbilt he was super player, this was just one year prior before Oakland and Riverdale came on to the scene. Having said all of this I still
say Gerald Rigggs is a super back and could have a great senior year at UT as well as a good pro career.