Norman Dale

IMO, Fulton is the best public school team in the state this year regardless of classification. They beat all of the top teams in ET this year, including 4A teams, and then coasted in 3A state tourney after tough first game with Fayette Ware. Very talented team and extremely well coached as always by Jody Wright.

I’m sure Lee Humphrey doesn’t care what I think, lol. Lee had a great high school career for sure and then started on two national title teams at Florida. But I’m talking high school only and Carter’s accomplishments, both individually plus two state titles/ state tourney MVP’s, are the best ever for a high school player in Blount County, imo You can say Alcoa plays in a lower classification but the reality is Alcoa has had some very good teams in the last 50 years but hasn’t won a state title playing in lower classifications before they won two with Carter leading the way.

Congrats Tornadoes! Incredible effort by Alcoa. Jahvin Carter is simply amazing. I’ve watched a lot of basketball in Blount County and he is the best player ever at Alcoa and the best high school player in Blount County history, imo. His accomplishments, both individually and for his team, are off the charts.

Watched Alcoa vs. Tyner last night and was very impressed with the Tornadoes. When they are locked in defensively like they were last night, they are very good. Jahvin Carter is an absolute scoring machine and just keeps getting better. Scoring over 3000 points in his high school career is just ridiculous. Their young players are very talented and big contributors, too. Freshman Jahmir Dean is a big time athlete and can jump out of the gym. If he keeps growing and gets stronger, he will be a high major prospect, imo. He is the type of rangy athlete that college recruiters love.

I will respectfully disagree, Owensby is good but WB’s Windle was the best player on the floor, imo. And no offense to WB’s other players because they played very hard but I would also say Owensby’s teammates are quite a bit better than Windle’s.

Maryville gets the win over WB 67-61. Third quarter was the difference. Great performances by sophomore guards Woodlee and Hazelbaker for Rebels- those two are a handful. Robertson and Windle had good, but not great, games for WB. Govs needed one of them to score 30+ to beat Maryville and they didn’t.

Yes, that would be an issue, lol.

Woodlee is a stud at PG for Maryville and is just a sophomore. There are some really good players in Blount County this year. Windle and Robertson at WB, Carter at Alcoa, Woodlee & Akard of Maryville would be my starting five if I could pick a team of Blount County players.

Maryville is looking really good. The addition this year of sophomore stud transfer Brayden Hazelbaker has been huge. He can flat out shoot the basketball and is a very good athlete, too. Their 6-9 big man Alex Akard is also playing very well.

Five turnovers and a zillion penalty yards on Alcoa, It’s a miracle they only lost by three points. Very poor effort and lack of discipline by theTornadoes, Great win by Maryville when very few thought they had a chance.

You and Govman are correct, Ron. Maryville has looked like a totally different basketball team since Clemmer joined the squad. Games with William Blount will be very intense this year, imo.

Horrendous late hit call on West. That was awful.

This has been a great high school football game. Several huge plays both ways.

Very true- change is inevitable. Coach West had a very good run at MHS and I wish him well at Eagleton. I also hope the new girls coach does well at MHS. As for football, I’m sure MHS can find another tech guru to run the NFHS broadcasts. However, Scott’s on-air personality will be much tougher to replace. He did a great job.

Facts: 1) Scott West loved Maryville High School. 2) He resigned as MHS head girls basketball coach. 3) He has taken a head basketball coaching job at Eagleton College & Career Academy. I am out of the loop but I did carefully read the Daily Times article the day after Scott resigned as girls coach, paying special attention to who he mentioned and more importantly who he didn’t mention in his article quotes. IMO, that article indirectly shed some light on why he resigned as coach.