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I hope he does too and proves me wrong. I want West back on top where they belong. My opinion is that had they made the hire they should have made back in 2015, they would have never fallen off. Unfortunately, the numbers don't lie at this point.

Half a hundred? I believe the final score was 28-17 that year West lost to Powell. Last I checked 28 is not half a hundred. I hope your not in charge of a bank or anything. I think it also helped that Rang knew how to defend West's offense since he saw it everyday in practice for a couple of years while on staff and knew their personal. That inferior Powell team also went 12-2 losing in the Semifinals that year. Lane is a solid coach and Catholic is happy to have him as are those players. Total troll post if you ask me.

"sour grapes" over what? My post was stating that West has fallen off (numbers don't lie) and the admins made a choice to replace one coach with a new one and not much has changed. Offensively you can blame a new Quarterback or a young offensive line this past year, but what about the last three? The fact is that West went 4-7 and barely got into the playoffs? If it wasn't for Powell playing an ineligible player and having to forfeit their region wins and a choke job by Clinton, West would not have even made the playoffs this past season. If West finishes 4-6 next year and misses the playoffs then what will the excuse be?

This post was extremely hard to follow, but I'll elaborate on it. Your post sounds like a jealous Bearden fan/alum as you attack both West and Farragut personally. You clearly didn't go to West because their academics have always been legitimate even before the move to an IB school. Your post is insulting and even has a racial undertone to it (rich white kids?). It is an attack on all the communities and families who have fed into a good school for a few years now regardless of their affluent or color background. I am one of those Marble City kids and am proud to say that some of my best friends came from Westmoreland estates and Sequoyah Hills. Please keep your insensitive and jealous comments to yourself, it will make you sound less ignorant and uneducated than your post already did.

My younger brother played under Derek Rang and Kevin Lane when they were defensive coordinators so I would have been good with either of them being named head coach. I would have preferred Marc Giles. He was my position coach and would always get the whole team fired up before every game.

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I have sat back too long not to address the sad state of affairs that is Knoxville West High Football. Being a proud alum and graduate of the 2007 Rebels football team, nothing made me happier than to see West make deep runs during the playoffs in 2010 and 2011 as well as state championship appearances in 2013 and 2014 being only one point away from back to back championships! Since that rainy night in December 2014 everything has gone downhill for a program that had one of the best records in 5A football from 2010-2014. Of course it all started with Coach (and that's what I will always call him out of respect) leaving for Cleveland and look at all of the success he has had down there. I'm surprised Cleveland hasn't let him go yet because I know they had grandeur plans then first round exits and losing annually to bitter rivals when they hired him. Coach Cummings should have stayed at West and continued the powerhouse he created and worked so hard to do, but he chose a different route. That being said he had a heckuva coaching staff, a couple of which coached me personally, still intact and ready to continue the tradition. The admins or booster club down there at West had other plans and decided to hire Jeff Harig out of Loudon. A lot of the kids and former players like myself were taken aback by the hire especially when he revealed that the offense would change from the veer and "be like Ohio State's offense". The current players were used to the veer and if someone on staff would have been hired it would have likely stayed in place and been successful as it had been in previous years. The only saving grace was that the defense would stay in place as is. In two years with Harig - West went 13-9, won a Region Championship, went 1-1 in one playoff appearance including a loss to the current coach Lamar Brown while he was at Morristown West. That "Ohio St offense" for West also averaged 23.1 ppg in 2015 and an even more impressive 15.8 ppg in 2016. The defense gave up an average of 16.79 ppg in two years. The 2016 season also ended with a pathetic 5 game losing streak with West missing the playoffs for the first time since 2009. The season ended with West replacing Harig. Again West had an opportunity to hire from within, but chose to go elsewhere and went with Lamar Brown out of Morristown West. When Brown was hired, it was another shock to the current and former players. Again the players asked what the offense would be like and this time they were told it would be like "Auburn's offense". This coaching change also led to more staff changes than the previous one did. In two years with Brown - West is 11-12, went 1-2 in two playoff apearances as well as an outstanding 1-7 record against your main rivals (Bearden, Farragut, Fulton, and Hardin Valley). The vaunted "Auburn offense" for West also averaged 15.5 ppg in 2017 with some improvement to 21.1 ppg in 2018. The defense has given up an average of 16.8 ppg. Coach Brown still in great standing and not replaced like Harig? The defense has never changed and was setup beautifully by Derek Rang/Kevin Lane where you just plug players into spots. With defensive numbers like that under two different coaching staffs, its amazing the record is as good as it is. I know many opposing teams fans, coaches, and players as well as some from West even made fun of the Veer but the offense was rolling regardless of who was behind center or running the ball. I know that opposing coaches hated only having a few days to prepare for it since no one else ran it. It made West unique and extremely successful. Whoever has made these decisions for West in regards to coaching hires should really look at themselves and ask if the program is in a good place? Well it isn't and it has become a joke. Those kids played their hearts out last Friday night against Catholic and for those Seniors they deserved better than the four years of mediocrity they got. They came to West right after a championship win with plenty of talent left over and could not find success because those in charge failed them. No one can tell me that if Coach had stayed or they hired from within to succeed him and kept everything as is they would be doing any worse than what they are now. Could care less which teams reclassified or the different teams now on the schedule, that previous staff was equipped to handle whomever they played and would have had more deep playoff runs and even another Championship (your welcome Farragut) instead of the sad state West is currently in. From Champs to Chumps thanks admins.