BarneySox2007

7 hours ago, Rerun92 said:

they have paint that washes off turf i think.  surely it's not permanent.

Hopefully so Rerun. 

5 minutes ago, MissHawking said:

Suppose it could be the Maryville lacrosse team? Just a suggestion.

Have no problem if they want to use the football field but dang get a professional painter that knows what he's doing , not something that looks like Box Car Willie stopped by overnight to spray yellow graffiti on the field. if this was grass it would be no big deal but this is a synthetic football field someone painted.

Enjoyed watching Lee when he was at Powell and looking forward to his son playing at Maryville. Heard this from good sources over a week ago this may happen and glad to find out it was confirmed today.

21 minutes ago, STARSNBARS said:

Barn hit looks awfull....

I'll guarantee you this, there isn't a school in the State of Tennessee that would have allowed something this stupid to have happened. Think of all the money that has been raised to purchase that field and then some igmo goes out there with a bunch of yellow cans of paint and draws him out a lacrosse field. I wonder what Alcoa, Eagleton, Heritage or William Blount would have done had this happened to their fields. I don't even have to answer that question.

Went by and saw the team out on the field in shorts the first day of spring practice. Then I noticed yellow markings all over our million dollar football field. It absolutely looked like Earl Scheib had went out there and done one of his famous $99 paint jobs of a Lacrosse field. I hope the person that did that gets some serious jail time. How will they ever get that mess off there?

Thanks everyone for all the kind words. Been a very bad day to be woken up at 5.30 to hear someone on the other line telling me my wife has passed away. I've known for a couple of weeks things were not looking good. I found her Monday Morning unconscoius and called an ambulance and I was told lastnight things were looking much better but she had a heart attack and passed on this morning around 4 a.m. There were many times over the past three years I couldn't go to the ballgames because I didn't want to leave her alone. I know she is in a better place as to be in the pain she has been in the past few years.

This whole crazy idea of Concord Christian reminds me of The Little House on the Paririe starting a football team.

7 hours ago, oldrebel said:

My offer was for the titans of the program…. Don’t think Grumpy old barney qualifies

You might want to call "ETHRA" if you plan on taking a large group of older grumpy fans that can't physically attend those games any more because they can't go up those steps any longer. You'll find out those people are way better off at home watching the team on TV or they'll all be down at the local Hardee's cussing like sailors the next morning about who's running that place for no game to be on TV.

4 hours ago, STARSNBARS said:

Lett me innurjeck hear on a cupple ov preeveeus commints.....

A. Nevur fergit tha Tight-uns....Iz thait my goodur buddy Ricky #40, wearin' hiz 1976-1978 Mairvul helmitt makin' a cammy-o hear....???

 

2. Hits a goodur thang thait oldrebel haz maid a offur two give Barn a ride enstead ov Barn drivin' imo,,,,,

 

 

 

 

 

I bet he would like to give me a ride two counties over and let me out.

1 hour ago, HTV said:

,Maryville, Bearden, JeffCo, DB, off the top of my head have current head coaches who had no head coaching experience prior to being hired. 

 

And I believe the guy HVA just hired had never been a head coach, either. 

I think he was head coach at two different high schools. between 2015 and 2018 River Ridge and 2019-21 Coach and AD at Greenville in Georgia. 

1 hour ago, BIGPURPLEMACHINE said:

I’m here Boog. Always am. Just laying in the weeds… watching…

Whew!!!  I was scared something had happened to you big guy, was thinking about touching base with BC to see if you were Okay. Glad to see you back on.

Nothing has been the same since. In all fairness all school systems are on the most part the same page, some worse than others. 

5 hours ago, ILB1999 said:

who was the last homegrown guy?  The concessions thing was maryvill right?  Someone told me about that, and I swear that's what they told me.

The last hometown person was Mike Casteel who ran the place like the old Maryville High. 

58 minutes ago, ILB1999 said:

who was the last homegrown guy?  The concessions thing was maryvill right?  Someone told me about that, and I swear that's what they told me.

That was 22 years ago back in 2002. I still find that very hard to believe though. 

Finally!!!!

4 minutes ago, oldrebel said:

So, zero - got it

For the grand titans of years ago that we owe everything to - name names, I’ll give them a ride

When we live in a time where the TSSAA has broken up schools into 6 fifty school classes meaning we're going to Bradley Central, Cleveland, Science Hill and another trip to Bradley Central a lot of people aren't going to make it to a 7 p.m. game when they get off at five. Even harder to go to Knoxville to see a game because of all the traffic. Now those people all go home and either hope it's on NFHS or You tube. That's why? 

27 minutes ago, oldrebel said:

How much of that 45,800 in 2022 came out of your pocket? You won’t even hardly buy a ticket to a home game, just so you have the opportunity to come on here and complain about NFHS 
 

How many state titles are featured on that farragut website? One? From eight years ago?  Who gives a darn about a website

Do our coaches have the latest and greatest technology for practice and games?  I don’t care about NFHS, I care about HUDL. We’ve got drone, endzone, and sideline cameras feeding live playback to tablets and TVs.  I guess my priorities are just different

 

28 minutes ago, oldrebel said:

How much of that 45,800 in 2022 came out of your pocket? You won’t even hardly buy a ticket to a home game, just so you have the opportunity to come on here and complain about NFHS 
 

How many state titles are featured on that farragut website? One? From eight years ago?  Who gives a darn about a website

Do our coaches have the latest and greatest technology for practice and games?  I don’t care about NFHS, I care about HUDL. We’ve got drone, endzone, and sideline cameras feeding live playback to tablets and TVs.  I guess my priorities are just different

 

I Actually have season tickets and have had longer than you have been alive. We have a great product at Maryville High, why hide it. A lot of people that really had a lot to do with building this program can't go to the games anymore but I guess that's something you'll figure out for yourself in 25 years or so. Look at the teams that have games on YouTube like Bradley Central and even Eagleton. Maryville has a rich history in football and they should promote it. I don't go to some games due to my wife being disabled and Having a real bad day so I stay home and make sure she'll be okay. Major reason I can't jump up and go on a long away trip like I used to. That's just apart of life though. It's not just me but a lot of people want to go to the games but can't go. The Farragut website might only have one championship but they have an access to go on there so their fans can see the games. I would much rather pay Maryville High a fee on watching a broadcasted ball game on our own network if the worry is lost gate revenue. That's great that our coaches have the best of everything but a lot of your older fans are sitting at home forced out that help build this program. 

6 minutes ago, SheriffofRedRock said:

I think this is just more proof that the AD and HC don't care as much as the previous ones did. I may be wrong but it sure does seem that way.

Now the standard was set extremely high and it may just be being brought down to earth when there was an anomaly. 

The head coach and AD are very good young men. It's a big direction the school is moving in. Anyone in my generation are in total disbelief but most of us have moved out into the county and have no voice come election time. The group that do vote have been brainwashed so no help from that end on getting them out. I'm not on here to destroy the place I went to school but to shed light and get things fixed. My bet is the AD has his hands tied on a lot of things. When everyone watched how the girls basketball coach was handled 3 years ago that was the messgae sent down the line at MHS and a big reason most tow the line to not attract attention to themselves. If you know anything about Maryville High it's well known who the pets are, who sold their soul and who the brown nosers are.

28 minutes ago, strongx said:

Hmmm…what year was the change made at AD?

2021 to my knowledge. What some of the leaders at Maryville High don't understand is the people they love to cherish or that are on board with their agenda don't have two nickles to rub together. The one's that can write the big checks are tired of what's going on up there and quit writing them. We have a great athletic program with a 1924 mindset on promoting it. This NFHS or what ever they want to do broadcast the past few years is horrible. I'm not the only one that gets mad about that. When you have two County High Schools that have nothing compared to Maryville but can put on a production of every game of the season making us look like crap. Look at Farragut and their football website and what do we have, something that looks like one of the elementary schools put together. If they want to look like Fido's Azz keep on doing what your doing up there.

8 hours ago, JSamson7 said:

Believe me when I say that a good bit of the current staff there can't stomach her and think she's a plant looking to bring the whole thing down from within.

Here is what's very concerning about the Booster's Club that I pulled up online of the revenue the High School has taken in the past11 years. 

2012      231,508

2013      245,985

2014      250,971

2015      268,264

2016       309,064

2017       389,289

2018       352,064

2019       417,010

2020        65,985

2021       54,723 

2022       45,800

Grandma from the 'Class of 42'  watching from heaven in disbelief over Maryville High as the devil has positioned itself into the Booster's Club as if it didn't already have a finger in everyone's butt that teaches there. What could possibly go wrong!!!

16 minutes ago, Futbolfan2022 said:

I think the competition was a little different those years. Has Coach Osovet had to play against Bradley, McMinn, Cleveland, Alcoa. Not quite the same as playing against Cocke County. 

Wasn't until the 21 season they dropped down and played the same teams and scored the lowest which was 85 points. Cleveland  and McMinn County during those times were nothing to go home and brag about and Alcoa wasn't on the schedule then. Bradley until this year has never been able to stand up to Maryville until they went out and brought in outside players but that's another subject.

13 minutes ago, swift13 said:

 

 

Really not concerned with scores, numbers, all that. You can keep comparing Hammontree and O until your fingers can't type on that keyboard, it makes no difference. I'm more concerned with what I'm hearing from those connected to HHS.

It's one thing when a couple of parents butt heads with staff or head coach and kids transfer or whatnot, it's one thing to have losing seasons, but I heard nothing about the previous staff like I've heard about this one.

I guess having cussing and shoving matches between players and coaches on the sidelines (that you miss if you watch the live feed), players walking out on the team at halftime, players in the stands, players taking photos and videos, so on and so forth is just "what the doctor ordered" as you say. These kids are impressionable like I've said before and most will keep taking it, putting up with it so they have a chance at playing now and maybe in the future. It shouldn't be that way, no matter what coaches were doing 'back in your day'. These kids deserve good coaching, good life lessons, hard nose advice, but, any good - no, great - coach will tell you that they also need support, family, understanding and empathy.

Look, I like to win and see these kids put up numbers just like the next guy, but at what freaking cost, man? 

These players and athletes in other sports can log on and see these boards just like us, I hope that those asking for change and for help see that there are at least a handful of us backing them up, standing up for them and wanting the best for them. I'm not saying you don't, Barney, but choose your words carefully.

Quit comparing staffs, city to county schools. These kids know what they're up against, you don't have to beat a dead horse. 

Your the one typing your fingers off. Football is a tough sport and not recommended for the weak hearted. I know a lot of coaches that have coached out there over the past twenty years and most have told me the same crap and why it's a coaches nightmare out there. When they took applications for that job most were not qualified and if Oz told you all today to stick it the program would go 0-10 again and again just so the crying parents can have it their way again. 

7 minutes ago, swift13 said:

Like I said, and you just admitted, you do not know the reason those players quit. 

Just like how you do not know the reason a similar amount quit at Heritage when this coach came in and halfway through the season. Whether new ones came out or not, you cannot justify one coach over another based on those that quit.

I'm not going to say Coach Hammontree was perfect or his staff was top notch, but I do know firsthand what some of those players went through over the course of his tenure there. 

I'd like to see the coaching tree of Hammontree and the overall things that he's made happen at each of his stops and not the 'train wreck' you like to call Heritage. 

In one breath, nobody can fix it, another breath Coach O can, and in another if Coach O doesn't it'll be because of those above him or those that have it out for him. As if that didn't happen to Hammontree. You can't use one excuse for one coach and not the other. 

Pick your reasoning, but for God's sake stop comparing staffs. The big issue is what's going on NOW and what's being ALLOWED to continue.

Nobody is talking about the TSSAA rules that get teetered around either. Tobacco on campus, energy drinks being pushed. Dude up here in this thread talking about the new weight training coach that's had the athletes in his home gym, sounds interesting. But what do I know. 

 

I don't dislike Hamontree at all. When he was at Maryville he had all the tools necessary at his side to win and done well. When he went to Heritage he didn't have those assets. Tim would have been the perfect coach for a smaller school like Greenback where he came from. I watched a lot of the Heritage games the last two years because I did enjoy the progress overall and the offensive numbers, before I really had no interest in watching a team score 85 points in a season when I've seen Maryville almost do it in a game.