edwardblake

From my perch at West High, It would be easier on your part and more satisfying for the rest of us if you would just to have diarrhea on your keyboard. You’re typing into the void about a man who is universally respected by multiple generations and people from all walks of life, and you are who exactly? Someone who posts in an anonymous chat room about high school football? Don’t feel the need to respond to those questions because no one cares about the answers. Regardless if you hate or love Eddie Courtney or that his son was hired to continue the work of that program, all you can ever do is watch as they’re remembered and you’re not.

From my perch at West High, We like to pay ours the going rate on Sutherland but then again we like winning gold balls and also like winning the first game of the year. My question for my Bearden High folks is why pay Abernathy, a glorified Starbucks employee for Jeremy Pruitt and Kevin Lane who is a solid assistant, over ten thousand dollars each per KCS to run the defense? I’m not sure if Abernathy is still a barista but last I heard Kevin installs light fixtures.

From my perch at West High, Just a word of advice, people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Bearden has 30 coaches on the sideline. The booster club’s tax return must weigh ten pounds.

From my perch at West High, It would be in the gambler’s best interest to put the Seymour kid in. Just sayin…. Did I say it right?

From my perch at West High, Hearing a lot of the same, three or four QBs have transferred in from what I hear. That has been a problem over there for a while now. We benefitted this past year from a linebacker (great young man) transferring into West that had been playing out of position at Bearden as the QB.

From my perch at West High, Opportunists will find ways to use this to serve their agendas, I think we can all agree on that. Having raised two boys in a fortunate situation, I have concerns about this unrelated to recruiting in fact I don’t think that is the tip of the tip to the iceberg. Putting money in young people’s pockets has a lot of ramifications and they’re not always positive.

From my perch at West High, Can confirm. The Bearden parents I know have told me there are some concerns but I doubt anything will change for now. After watching the Thursday rivalry game, the biggest hurdle Bearden faces as always is getting over the Farragut hump. Both teams play strong defensively. At West we benefitted from having Kevin Lane immensely for quite some time so I could be biased. All that Bearden lacks compared to Farragut is offensive ability and in particular QB play which has become Farragut’s calling card.

From my perch at West high, I’ll take Kingsport in this matchup. Bearden’s pass game looked nonexistent against Farragut. QB hasn’t gotten much better since last year, hard to improve arm strength or lack there of. Everyone knows they can’t run the ball. Stupid routes. Kingsport is good up front and offensive skill positions and is always well coached.

It is so bizarre. I’ve seen stuff on FiveStar and Packervision talking about what all has been done in Year 1 of the Jones era. When did this become college football? HS sports are pretty stable year to year. As evidenced in their performance regardless of blatant recruiting. It’s their job to create disciplined young men we can be proud of. Not build some kind of ridiculous all star team that gets more penalties than completions.

From my perch at West High, I’ve been staying off the boards because I didn’t want to seem like I was gloating and I didn’t want to jinx anything. I’ve felt a swell of pride ever since the Alcoa win. Central has a good running back but we just need to take care of business tonight and keep everyone healthy. Regardless of who we all support I think we can all agree that West going 10-0 for the first time ever with Maryville and Alcoa on the schedule will be a huge achievement for the school and for the school system. The only regret I have is I won’t be there to see it. My hip has been bothering me again. They’ve got to make it to Chattanooga so I can see them go the full distance.

From my perch at West High, Having been a parent who contributes to a program’s success in the past when my sons were at West in the late 90’s I can’t imagine the parents at Bearden are overly enthusiastic about paying Abernathy - former UT get back coach a monthly stipend was worth getting more or less the same result Bearden has always gotten - an average season with a loss to Farragut. Just a shoutout to all my Bearden friends I’ve been there and I feel your frustration.

From Gus’s fried on Sutherland, ‘Coach O’ isn’t the only newly minted head coach who uses foul language. Another area high school here in Knox had to change sidelines to cover for the fact they speak poorly to players. Every night I go to sleep I’m glad my two sons didn’t have to play for these clowns. Don’t they know it’s not Halloween yet? It’s a little early to be impersonating football coaches.

From my perch at West high, I am concerned about this one especially with Farragut outlasting Beech the way they did. We definitely won’t be able to have as many penalties as we did last week. I’m not sure of a score prediction but I feel like we are much more athletic than Farragut.

I’m curious as to what has improved at Bearden because from my perch at West High it looked like the same game as last year. Still a poor performance up front on both sides of the ball, still have poor QB play, and still have ball security issues. Last year it was 24-2 and this year it was 27-7. Same amount of turnovers except this time with an interception run back for a touchdown. What are you seeing that I’m missing?

From a bar on Sutherland, holding penalties and stalls in the red zone on West’s part have made what should have been a blowout a mild drubbing. Still unimpressed with Bearden’s recruiting class after seeing them play on DCM. If the Bulldogs want to cut the cheese with their schedule they’ll need to make a change at QB. Very impressed with #3 for Bearden one of their few bright spots.