Dawgz4life

Well I believe they got class of 2024* Blake Heckmann And class of 2023* Cal Grubbs mixed up in with class of 2023 Army DL commit Caleb Graham whom played both sides of the play.

It’s called rebuilding. You just have to find the right guys, and you know you found the right guys when they go on to be head coaches at other programs. You can’t do anything if they leave for other jobs. That’s it, simple, and if it’s shown every day as a coach that you come in and slack and not reach your full potential, not just for the team but for the student athlete as well, then it’s the next man up, and you gotta go. Welcome to today's coaching. It's not just hiring some teacher who's only coaching experience is flag football and maybe played in high school. Schools are going out and getting coaches with experience under their belt, and those coaches are going out and getting people with actual experiences to help not just the program but the student athletes as well, whether they are teachers or not or have anything to do with the school or in a classroom, and that's what the TSAA wanted, and I would say most people.

That pretty much summarizes it all.

I mean, I guess I’ve never been and actually just looked at it. I just find the seats and sit, don’t really have any complaints. Whether that be the visitor side or the home side, I just sit wherever I find the most space, which at Hardin Valley is almost always the home section, but I don’t know, maybe it’s really that bad and I’ve really never paid enough attention to it. The away section is crammed, but it’s crammed up for pretty much every high school that has an away section.

Yep, you can always tell when every single player post the exact same thing word to word on Twitter, you can tell they were told to post it by a Coach.

Look, the Oldfield was awful. But you really hating on it a lot more than it needs to be hated. It’s really not that bad of a stadium. Yes, they could’ve done a lot more, and the old field was awful, pilot definitely saved them there, but the bleachers aren’t even that bad. The parking is awful. And they are fixing that because it’s no longer a problem just for football, basketball, or baseball games, it’s now a problem for students whom actually go there because they don’t have enough parking spots for most of their senior and junior classes, especially no spots for sophomores or freshman who get their license early. The football team has two great facilities. great weight room, and a pretty good film room, both very big. The weight room is its own building, and the baseball team also has great facilities, a great field, and a pretty darn good setting. I’m not sure anymore, but before COVID, there was a plan to make a soccer stadium on the right side, right next to the high school. They cleared the trees that were there, but I’m pretty sure it was canceled because of COVID. I’m sure they’re going to do it eventually. But for a four-school campus, preschool, elementary school, middle school, and high school, They did a pretty darn good job with what they had, and I don’t know about traffic. I mean, I’ve been to baseball, football, soccer, and numerous basketball games before, and traffic is just like any other high school after a game, but maybe I’ve gotten lucky. I don’t know.

Or it’s because they’ve always wanted to be a head coach and finally get the opportunity to, so they take it, but that would make too much sense.

They got players from everywhere

Bearden

Oh yeah, that’s very obvious now. All the boys he got have now jumped ship since his retirement.

Farragut middle takes from HVA and has been for years.

Austin East, Hardin Valley, Oak Ridge, Central and West.

I mean every Coach and staff does so I wouldn’t be surprised.

Not sure how I would put it as recruiting perhaps kids trying to better their career by going to a head coach and coaching staff with connections all over college football that gets them the opportunity to go play college football and be coached by a coach with a pretty good track record.

Smith was not recruited by Bearden. He went to Bearden, the school he zoned for, after playing his freshman year at Catholic. And the point I’m trying to make is, Why do you think Smith went to Maryville? Do you think it’s better coaching, or was he recruited? But, oh no, Maryville doesn’t do that, right? Well, when you finally decide between one of those, you can find your answer to the question you’re asking.

I’m not sure how it works or how he won. I never even heard about the award, so I don’t know how credible it is, if at all. Oh well, that’s my mistake. I thought he was at Harden Valley when he wanted it. I know nothing about the award. I can’t even find anything about it or how you can enter to win it. Maybe you just get an email randomly saying you want an award. I’m not sure. And here you go with the recruiting scandals again. It can just be that the player or parent chooses that they have a better opportunity of being coached by a certain coach or playing with a team in a different zone and not the school that they are zoned for. but that would make too much sense. I thought that bug of “Bearden recruiting” already went out the window with Brody Smith going to Maryville, but apparently we still have that bug on us, and for Maryville, it was just a pure coincidence that they got one of the best linemen in the state and completely didn’t recruit him, but Bearden did. Yeah, sure, and Bearden has always produced great talent. Most of them were zoned for Bearden and went to Bearden Middle School but decided to go to other high schools, whether that be Catholic, Knoxville West, Farragut, Webb, Maryville, etc. To play football because the players and/or parents choose where they have a better chance to go and be coached and hopefully get them farther in their career, but when the school in the block, that’s been a cookie jar to every other program around Knoxville and the Knoxville area, finally stopps letting that happen. Everyone complains, whines, and tries to hide the fact that their schools, haven’t been doing it for years...

I’m not sure.

It’s a game that the Smith family has played perfectly.

Not money lol it’s about company and who can help it the most.

You guys should be he’s a very good kid. I'm sad to watch him go, but I’m glad he’s not going too far away, and I can watch him grow. Maryville will have a very good line next year. The Bearden vs. Maryville game should be a lot more interesting now. I hope you guys keep it on the ground because you won’t be able to throw it.

Here you go again. I’m really starting to think you don’t know anything. Brody Smith went to West Valley, which is a pipeline to Bearden high school. That’s where his siblings went, and that’s where he was zoned for, however, before his ninth grade year, he decided to transfer to Catholic, which I’m sure you can take a guess and I can to on how he ended up there, but we’ll just slide over that. After his first year at Catholic. He wasn’t happy with the team, and he didn’t want to play tight end even though that’s what the team wanted him to play, so he had options on where to go, but he obviously just decided to go back where he’s zoned for… Which is Bearden High School.

Yeah, it’s a wonder what the Maryville booster club can do, but never doubt them. They’ve been doing it for years. Address hasn’t changed either unless they all plan to live with a current coach on the Maryville football team.

Only thing that changed is the Smith’s family wallet size ain’t nothing else change.

It’s doing his job when Maryville does it but when anybody else does it it’s recruiting… coaches better take the boosters out for a nice dinner for this one.

How did the coaches get this out of the boosters? Good Lord. Wish him nothing but the best though.