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12 hours ago, BarneySox2007 said:

Sad thing is injuries are apart of the game. When I played injuries wiped out close to half the opening day starting lineup  to what it was the very last game played in the playoffs losing to a team we had actually beat in regular season and lost in overtime in the finals only to watch that team win the state the following week in a runaway game so I know the pain.

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.

1 hour ago, Pinocchio007 said:

Sounds like you know a lot about this program, almost like you are a coach or  very close to the program. 

My kid was one of the ones out with an injury. They are all pretty good friends off the field.

Definitely not a coach.

2 hours ago, strongx said:

While watching the stream of the 2nd half last night, the announcers said something about a bunch of the seniors watching instead of playing.

What did that mean?

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.

27 minutes ago, BarneySox2007 said:

Heritage most likely is the worst team in 6A to put it kindly. This game will be any score Maryville wants it to be. Hate to be so direct but this is no longer a rivalry but and annual humiliation of teenager's and has been for the past twenty years. TSSAA needs to really evaluate this enrollment situation and readjust some of these schools into the right competition each should be playing in. This stupidity has went on to long and schools like Heritage will never have a chance at a winning season because of enrollment which matters so much to the TSSAA. 

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. 

31 minutes ago, orngnblk said:

Alcoas 1s?Still not that bad.Alcoas loaded.

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

18 minutes ago, orngnblk said:

Heard we beat Heritages 2s but that's not saying much.

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

2 minutes ago, orngnblk said:

Did WB win the Jamboree game?

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.

4 hours ago, Shadroach said:

You're just angry that after you got done playing naked Twister with the wife she was in a hurry to grab a beer and see if I posted anything new that day. Five minutes of her time reading a 'Roach post was more satisfying than the five minutes she spent with you on the Twister mat. By the way, she wishes you'd take those sweaty tube socks off when you get in bed.

This is boring drivel.

On 8/8/2021 at 7:28 AM, BarneySox2007 said:

But if not all Coach T readers will get to enjoy another good year of SHADROACH if this new plan don't workout.

Nobody reads that guy

1 hour ago, BarneySox2007 said:

Personally I would rather go to see Clinton and William Blount play on the 20th because it will be a good game. Unfortunately because of my convictions I feel obligated to go out to Heritage that night and pay my respects to a program that has been dead and gone for just over thirty years now. Anyone know how to pick up the William Blount Games this year to be able to watch while at another game. I do this at most games and even done it at a funeral one time until I realized everyone there was looking at me.

https://govnationnetwork.com

22 minutes ago, Shadroach said:

CTV

If I were a crude and callus man with no panache I would mention your posts were at the minimum boring, dis-jointed and generally disregarded as the musings of a sub 60 IQ gentleman. Not being crude nor callus I say, Good work. Keep posting, your mama can see the tutor she hired is making progress with you. Carry On.

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

5 hours ago, Shadroach said:

I'm perplexed at the statement "AD Cupp and Shad making statements with these hires". These new coaches are the Fire Department arriving to extinguish the dumpster fire that Shad and Cupp lit behind the VFW. If you're being truthful in your mind you're thinking "I bet these new coaches get together and talk about the anguish they will endure this season propping up and rebuilding Shad's reputation". The new coaches are the de facto leaders of the program. Its a solution on justifying keeping Shad on the payroll until his retirement. Cupp used his Ouija board to sort this mess out.

 

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.

1 hour ago, Rebel1972 said:

You don’t think they could have pulled that off staying where they were? Was the qb playing this year the qb that played last year or was that his brother? I know the younger one is better. I think he got an offer to ETSU but not 100 percent on that just what I heard the grandkids saying.

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.

8 hours ago, Solomon said:

They sure as heck haven't been rushing to do anything below the 6th grade level.

Look, I want and hope they pull it off, but it's been a debacle brewing in LA for about 3 years now with this. They've had plenty of chances to fix and move forward, but they've shown no desire that they want to.

I really hope WB and Eagleton can get youth programs going. Would be good for Blount Co. football as a whole.

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.

2 hours ago, Red Rebels said:

 

This was more along the lines I had heard. Fairview Raiders are no more, but they will become the Governors (or some similar name to match the overall program). My understanding in the spring parent meeting was they were trying to merge it altogether. I guess we will all know more next week.

2 minutes ago, Solomon said:

Nope. Pee wee and grasshopper programs have also folded.

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.

3 minutes ago, OldRebel2 said:

Sad!  I hate it.  They were champions (Pee Wee division) four short years ago.  Now, they appear to have folded the entire program.  That's not good new for WBHS or WBMS.  It may help Greenback.

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. 

On 4/29/2021 at 8:25 AM, DBKPT93 said:

Gerald Sensabaugh has been coaching this team. It is made up with mostly DB guys with a few other local guys sprinkled in there. I watched their first one, which wasn't a great showing. But I have heard they have gotten significantly better as the weeks have gone on. 

Spring Practice starts monday, is it open for people to come watch? I'd like to see what we are working with.

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.

4 hours ago, BarneySox2007 said:

Very glad your all bought in to the new staff and I hope things do change for the better. The schedule as I see it is a 7-3 or 8-2 possibility if they want it bad enough. 7-3 with this schedule seems so real something would have to really go wrong not to pull that off. Looking at the schedule and when fall break happens     ( Shads Vacation ) I see they play D-B which is one of the loses I project so it wouldn't matter if they took a week off or not before it. That's some of the nonsense that's got to change at WB for them to get better as a football team. Most other teams strive to get eleven weeks of practice and even a couple of extra games in the playoffs for the advantage of getting better as a program. Maryville and Alcoa usually get 15 or 16 weeks of practice in a year and that's like sneaking in half a season while someone across town is vacationing right in the middle of it. Another thing that has to change is 15 players playing the entire ballgame, arguing with the officials on every play and all the fights during games which means no team discipline what so ever. That nonsense at the end of the game last year with Heritage is a prime example of what I'm talking about and that has to change.

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. 

On 4/4/2021 at 8:03 AM, BarneySox2007 said:

Who would create a thread knowing about hires of assistant football coaches coming aboard a school that has an overall lifetime record of less than 30%. Don't take a genius to figure that one out but you know what, that's great and I do hope they will be a help with the program. For all that don't know I'm friends with a lot of parents that have kids on WB's football team and I do enjoy watching them play given ever chance. Because I do enjoy seeing them play don't mean I have to believe in the Tooth Fairy, oops I mean Shad like all the other sheep do on here.

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.