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Luckily he has a lot more football ahead of him after high school. Overall he was pretty lucky it happened right before this game. He probably would have missed 2-3 games if it happened any other time.

My kid was one of the ones out with an injury. They are all pretty good friends off the field. Definitely not a coach.

No hidden meaning unless they meant the following: At least 4 seniors were on the bench with injuries at the end of the game. 2 started on the bench with injuries. 1 has been a starter for 30 plus games in a row. Never missed a practice or game. It also meant at least 3 multi year all region players were on the bench with injuries. 2 of them were 2 way starters and on special teams. All 3 of them were captains and all 3 will be playing on Saturdays next year. Say all you want about all the other losses this past year, but in my opinion, WB takes the win if they were playing. It was a real blow to have them out of this game. You were missing your starting TE and best blocking back, your best offensive lineman, your leading tackler for the last 3 years, and your long snapper. It kind of hurt a bit.

This is something we can agree on. It isn't that hard to come up with a better way to do it either. Since most things like this come down to revenue, I would argue that better aligned competition would put more fans in the seats. It is a win across the board. The TSSAA needs to get a backbone and just do it. They are either lazy, incompetent, or both in regard to this issue.

It is really hard to gauge this up coming game. WB easily handled a team that beat Clinton bad last year, then they played bad at the Bearden scrimmage. I don't think Bearden did anything spectacular. WB just played bad on offense. Alcoa is Alcoa. They will put up more than 12 points in a quarter against a few teams and will easily roll to another title. Clinton on the other hand hasn't surprised me. I have been hearing they are better this year. They beat who they were probably supposed to beat and lost to who they were supposed to lose to in scrimmages. It wouldn't surprise me to see a close game.

Not sure if it was the whole game, but I know lots of their main players played most, if not all of the game.

I had to leave before that one was over. I personally didn't pay much attention.

Lost 12-0 to Alcoa. Could have been worse and could have been better. I would argue Alcoa has one of the best OL's in the state.

This is boring drivel.

Nobody reads that guy

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I see you have a thesaurus. Most KW's do.

The keyboard warrior is back. What a waste of forum space.

William Blount (Not sure of times, I am guessing around 5:30) Friday 7/30 - Cherokee @ WB Friday 8/6 - WB @ Bearden I expect the Cherokee scrimmage would be a good one to get a feel for how the changes will look on O and D. Bearden will be a great test against a 6A opponent to really see where we stand and what needs work.

The older one that graduated is going to ETSU. The second one will be a Junior. He doesn't have much experience, but he throws a nice ball and is crafty when he needs to be with his legs. I am guessing he is 6'4" or 6'5" now. He looks the part. Both the offense and the defense will look a little different this year. The scrimmage on Friday should answer some questions. Then Bearden next week.

I am sure it didn't help that that coach that I believe was helping organize it all left for another coaching job. The new MS coach is Coach Reeves from Heritage. I am sure he is just trying to get his feet underneath him. I do know for a fact that the H.S. is trying to get a feeder program established with the new name being under a WB logo of some sort. This should help eventually.

That is news to me. The JV games are a thing though. They will be doing 5th quarters at normal games. I think this means more 6th graders might be playing at MS level.

Watched the Bearden vs WB 7v7 and Big Man practice today. I didn't watch as much of 7v7 as I did the Big Man, but I thought the big man squad looked much improved, even from the spring.

Actually it is not completely dead from what I heard. They are supposedly playing in a JV type middle school league from what I am hearing. This means those guys will be practicing with the MS a year earlier. I don't know about the younger kids. Are they no longer playing either? What I heard could be completely wrong, but I believe the person that told me.

I do some of the filming for these 7v7 games. Sensabaugh is hard on them in a good way. Fun to watch and listen to throughout a game. I would definitely agree they got better throughout the season. Having said that, I am not sure they were all DB kids. I think it was mostly DB, but others sprinkled in.

I won't address all the points because I am not "taking the bait". 1. I think depth will be better this year. More kids have come out for spring. If just a couple work out that will help tremendously. 2. I don't disagree with your assessment of final regular season possibilities. One thing to caution is that this team has to actually go do it. I know many of the Seniors on this team, and they hate losing enough to work hard to change it. Weight room gains so far is proving that out. 3. There are still some wild cards out there that could dramatically help this team. If they all work out (big if) in WB's favor, that 7-3 becomes a harder floor and the 8-2 is a weaker ceiling. Lets have this discussion after week 1 of summer practice in pads. 4. The ending of the Heritage game was unfortunate. Not sure the majority of blame should fall on WB for that one. Still shouldn't happen regardless. Don't think that will be a problem on this team. They respect the rivalry, but they have bigger goals than winning a bell.

Update after the first week of Spring Practice. I am convinced these new assistants are the real deal. They seem to be good in scheming X's and O's AND they are good at coaching technique. Should be a really good thing for WB. Actions are better than words, so I won't say much more about what I have seen with my own eyes other than this team could be interesting to watch next season.

Having a son playing 7v7, I get to see a lot of football this time of year. Regardless of what you think about 7v7, and how it may or may not translate to real football, DB has a team called the Tribe playing. I don't know any names on the team, but they look pretty decent to me. It is hard to gauge in 7v7 though as some HS's bring their own players out and they play against some all star type teams that are made up of players from different schools. From the little I can the Tribe has been swapping 2 qbs out every few plays. Neither has eye popping ability, but they aren't bad either. By eye popping, I mean one guy from one other team has 50 TD's thrown in 7 weeks and another guy was Kaden Martin (Tee's son). Those guys are eye popping and just different. If you want to watch, it is free and I think they play again at Alcoa on Saturday.

Not sure what your getting at. I am not a coach, teacher or anyway on staff with WB. I have absolutely no say in anything they do at WB. I only know a little about the hires as I asked after the first one. AD Cupp did post it on Twitter, so it is not like it is secret information. If your looking for my motive to post, I do have one as I have a player on the team. Seems like the right thing to do is post about something good when it happens. Regardless of whether you think Shad is a good coach or not, these hires should help. Not sure what is sheepish about that point of view.