BarneySox2007

Heritage lost a lot of good players from the year before last and had a lot of youth playing for the first time. Heritage overall before the staff that is there now has been the biggest dumpster fire in the East Tennessee High School Football area for much of the past 35 years. Heritage did shutout Lenior City 35-0 and actually played some good football against a few decent teams towards the end of the year. I wouldn't count out this DC, just saying.

Shad wasn't really that bad of a coach. Don't think he had ever experienced anything like William Blount. He came from a school that had a lot of money support at Blackman and had the ability to do things there he couldn't at William Blount. Actually he did a good job at Eagleton the year before last. Catholic has money to get what he needs like a DC that Heritage can't match.

Last season during fall scrimages I went and watched them play against William Blount and I could tell from that scrimmage they would finally end that losing streak that went on for five years or 45 games from what I saw that day. I'm sure this coach is trying hard to build a foundation for this team which was easy to see. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither are high school football programs that have laid in ruins for that long. The biggest question at Sequoyah is how much can a person take of the poor leadership that runs the school system before they can't handle it anymore and leave.

The defense gave up 35 points a game if that's moving in the right direction but I won't be a smart azz about it because they were young. If they lose someone on staff there I'm pretty sure school won't be shut down a day to grieve over it. Coach Oz would be happy for anyone moving up the ladder in their career and knows who to call next if that were to happen. Any coach that has been at the level he has been knows to always be ready when they have to make that call.

I'm pretty sure he will find someone just as he did when he put a staff together two years ago. This past year was a really young team but managed to score 290 points on offense. Go back two years ago and they scored 85 points for the entire season and got mercy ruled 6 different times. The only benefit going to those games was discounted concession stand food in the second half as time flew off the clock. Take it from Barney, Coach Oz knows more in one of his finger nails then any of us Coach T quarterbacks know in our entire body. This man walked into one of the biggest messes in Tennessee High School Football and blew air into a lifeless cadaver and brought it back to life. Go back and watch that Central game from last year where most teams would have given up and those boy's didn't give up and came back. Even though they lost they came an inch of pulling it off. Never thought I would live to see the day anyone could go out there and do what he has so far.

The New Word of the Day at Austin-East is "Freight". I've been hearing they got their man and waiting on KCS to approve their offer "Freight" Days now.

I certainly know of everyone that has coached there.

This is Todd Helton not to be confused with Todd Helton. Congratulations on taking over at Carter.

One of those pictures was William Blount at the stage with crushed stone. Hopefully they will be finished shortly if we have some good weather.

Really be interesting if he stays with Michigan since all the turnover is happening. I know he has many choices but will be interesting.

This is William Blount's field right now waiting for the crew at Heritage to come out and and start theirs.

I live out there and see it everyday driving by. Have another picture of the field last week also.

That reminds me of the 2022 Alcoa-Maryville game and we're down near the twenty with over a minute and a few seconds to go and we have three coaches on the side jumping up and down sending in signals and the clock is running while the boy's on the field were looking back like dear in headlights and the clock just clicking away. Then the panic set in and we throw a pick six because we wasted more than half a minute or more during that Chinese Firedrill that cost us a good chance to win the game. I have no idea why we were doing that stuff because I don't know of any Bill Belichick's coaching in East Tennessee stealing signals. But that's high school football and still the best entertainment around unlike tomorrow night when everyone puts on their blinders to watch a game that has already been fixed by Vegas.

Haven't seen anything on William Blount's field. Not sure if it's going in now or after this one is done. Skysnaps Aerial Photography on facebook had pictures of the field when they just put the layer of crushed rock down.

The new field has finally been installed at Heritage for this up coming season. Awesome picture by Skysnaps Ariel Photography. Hard to believe this will be the Mountaineers 48th team and I still remember going to the very first game there against McMinn County back in 1977 that Heritage won in overtime.

There you go, ole needle dick the bug f####r always ruining the party for everyone, never fails.

It was funny because there was a kid in the 10th grade for Greenback and the roster he was reading for him said he was in the 8th grade. The kid was having a great game and he kept talking about if this was an eighth grader Greenback was set for the future. They were playing Coalfield if I remember right. It was the kid that transferred and went to Virginia to play high school his senior year.

Just a note to all the Maryville fans, we lost a good man James C."Buddy" Allen on the 27th of January at the age of 84 who was one of the biggest football and basketball fans the school has ever had. He'll be missed very much and he was always a pleasure to talk with. Anytime you talked with Buddy the conversation was going to be about the football and basketball team. He loved his Maryville Red Rebels.

Back when I was in school Maryville had a head coach and 2 assistants and won three state championships and was runner up twice with that set up. One of my coaches told me if a light bulb blew he would have to just about beg the superintendent for a new one. I look at the crowd of three or four thousand on a good night then I look down at the field and count 15 coaches and wonder how does the gate pay for all of this not to mention the playoffs when the T$$AA gets to rob the cash register. If every coach on the field had to be a teacher the whole teaching staff would all be coaches figuring in all the other sports.

Since it's off season what will your next post be about, two headed women.

Kevin Lane will do well at Knox Central plus he sells a pretty dang good lighting fixture.

I'm totally surprised Lamar Brown hasn't been courted away from West by one of thsee big schools with the money to do so. I've watched enough football and to see a West team that got hit hard with graduation the year before last and come right back and do it again tells me all I need to know.

I still remember the time Mark Packer was at Greenback calling a game and found a game program in the pressbox that was either 1 or 2 years old and was going off that anouncing the game until later when someone else brought it to his attention on air.

What about their defense, that's what I would be concerned about with them. Walker Valley would have scored a 100 points on them had it not been for the mercy rule. How could a team be that bad on defense.