BarneySox2007

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.

Most all youth league coaches work another job and coach for free and I'm sure he isn't on the clock and commission based and coaching job would offset any losses there but who knows the coaching job may even help his sales. Most coaches are tied up at school all day for the same period of time he would be on another job.

The last I heard they were buying land on Simpson Road which is on the backside of Home Depot and beside First Baptist Church of Lenior City. As a bird flies this new school and Lenior City are just shy of being 2 miles apart.

Think you read it wrong tradertwo. Alcoa pays well enough that not many are willing to leave and take less. Maryville. The two main coaches for Alcoa are former Maryville players and neither one of them could take a cut in pay just to go back home.

Alcoa pays much better than most to jump up and leave.

Well we finally have a coach at Knox Central, if they hadn't have picked by Friday Feb. the 2nd I was ready for Punxsutawney Phil to make the hire.

After watching that Baylor and McCallie game before 20,000 people and to think of Catholic playing at a place that is more in line for a decent 3A school. Always dreaded going there to play because I'm not one of those that wants to go 2 hours before a game to get a seat.

Rickey Townsend was All-American barefoot kicker for Tennessee his soph. and junior seasons.

It's good to see he is getting to bring in someone himself. I'm curious if Slover is still there teaching or has found another job coaching somewhere else.