Rankin must be looking!!!!!!

[JungleJim125]

250-29 with 13 title game appearances & 8 championships in 20 years speaks for itself as howdoitknow said earlier

Thats eye popping stats! The only thing Coach Rankin is looking for is another Gold Ball!

[bigstick12]

True statement about Dalton and the assistant positions. Dalton has a TON of highly qualified volunteer coaches. One for example is Bill Mayo. Other volunteers on staff went to Dalton and then succeeded highly at the college level.

 

How many state championships have they won?

 

 

Alcoa & Maryville both have 11 State Championships since the TSSAA began what is known as the State Playoffs back in 1969. Maryville won an earlier State Championship, in 1964, as well.

 

There are no schools that have won more TSSAA State Championships than Alcoa or Maryville (11).

You are correct no schools have won more,but one school is knocking on the door with 10 state titles, and that school is trousdale county.

[warhawks]

From 1982-1989 Gary Rankin was the head football coach at Smith County. His overall record there during that period of time was 59-31.

 

From 1990-2005 he was the head football coach at Riverdale. During that time he went 194-25 and won 4 State Titles.

 

2006-PRESENT he has been the head coach at Alcoa. In that time his coaching record has been 56-4 and he has captured 4 additional State Titles.

 

 

 

The last 20 years (Riverdale & Alcoa: 1990-2009) Gary Rankin's overall win/loss record is an incredible 250-29. He has won 8 State Titles and finished as the State Runner-Up on 5 occasions. That means that for 20 years he has won right at 90% of the games he has coached.

 

At what point do we just give this man the credit he deserves and stop questioning/criticizing every decision that he makes and airing it out in such negative ways?????

Gotta love Coach Rankin! He would do just as well or maybe even better here in Ohio! He is one of the Best high school coaches I have personally had the privilage of watching in my life time and I have seen quite a few! Keep going Coach Rankin! We sure miss he and his family! Great people!

[scaldeddog17]

Trousdale County has 8 state titles under the TSSAA (1969-PRESENT) and overall they have 9 state titles. The years for those titles are 1922, 1972, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2008, 2009.

 

Brentwood Academy has 10 state titles. The years are 1974, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2006

 

 

Alcoa & Maryville each have 11 state titles:

 

Alcoa's are 1977, 1978, 1979, 1989, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

 

Maryville's are 1970, 1976, 1978, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

 

 

Dobyns-Bennett has 11 state titles but none of them are recognized by the TSSAA. There titles came in 1923, 1935, 1936, 1939, 1940, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1959, 1960.

 

Montgomery Bell Academy has 6 state titles that are recognized by the TSSAA. 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007. Prior to 1969 they have 8 state titles that I have discovered but again they are not recognized by the TSSAA. The years include 1915, 1917, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1955, 1967, 1968.

[scaldeddog17]

Hope that helps you bigstick12.

[warhawks]

From 1982-1989 Gary Rankin was the head football coach at Smith County. His overall record there during that period of time was 59-31.

 

From 1990-2005 he was the head football coach at Riverdale. During that time he went 194-25 and won 4 State Titles.

 

2006-PRESENT he has been the head coach at Alcoa. In that time his coaching record has been 56-4 and he has captured 4 additional State Titles.

 

 

 

The last 20 years (Riverdale & Alcoa: 1990-2009) Gary Rankin's overall win/loss record is an incredible 250-29. He has won 8 State Titles and finished as the State Runner-Up on 5 occasions. That means that for 20 years he has won right at 90% of the games he has coached.

 

At what point do we just give this man the credit he deserves and stop questioning/criticizing every decision that he makes and airing it out in such negative ways?????

Gotta love Coach Rankin! He would do just as well or maybe even better here in Ohio! He is one of the Best high school coaches I have personally had the privilage of watching in my life time and I have seen quite a few! Keep going Coach Rankin! We sure miss he and his family! Great people!

That means he has coached in 13 state title games in that span of 20 years! One more tid bit on Coach Rankin im sure many of you know this! Riverdale played in 5 state title games in a row from 2000 to 2004 and Alcoa has played in Under Coach Rankin 4 from 2006 to 2009 that means he has coached in 9 out of 10 State title games this past 10 years!

[scaldeddog17]

http://www.murphyfair.com/staterecords_coaching.html

 

http://www.tssaa.org/schdir/records/GetRecord.cfm

 

 

If you all look at the state record on both of the websites under coaches then you will see that Gary Rankin's name is not on the list. That is an error that I was sure someone would have caught on and gotten when I posted the following information:

 

1982-1989: Smith County (59-31)

1990-2005: Riverdale (194-25)

2006-PRES: Alcoa (56-4)

 

That gives Coach Gary Rankin an overall record of 309-60 with 8 State Titles and a 0.837 winning %. That my friends should place him in the Top 5 on the All-Time Wins List for a head football coach in the state. I am sure that the 8 State Titles should place him #1 All-Time but I'll research it just to see. Furthermore the 0.837 winning % is better than Carlton Flatt's 0.833 winning %.

[warhawks]

I think Coach Flatt has 10 state titles. I believe Coach Rankin will catch him before all is said and done!

[scaldeddog17]

I think Coach Flatt has 10 state titles. I believe Coach Rankin will catch him before all is said and done!

 

I have another MIND BLOWING STATISTIC on Coach Rankin for you warhawks........

 

In the State Semifinals in his career as a head football coach his overall record is 13-1. I have personally always felt that this round is the toughest for a coach to get his team over the hump because of the "what if" factor as far as the state title is concerned, you are facing a team that nobody in your quadrant of the first 3 round of the state playoffs is familiar with, and also this round usually always falls on Thanksgiving Weekend so the holiday often times can play as a distracting factor. The only loss was the final game he coached at Riverdale back in November of 2005 when Oak Ridge punched their ticket to the title game. Maybe the shock of actually losing a game in the state semifinals is what drove him away at that time

[I Love HS Football]

I understand what some people are saying. I think 90% of the head coaches in the state of Tennessee could win state championships at Alcoa the last 6 years and in the future. That I will not argue. It doesn't take a genius to figure that out. Having said that, unless my memory is failing me, Riverdale was not the powerhouse until about 1990. Enter Gary Rankin and staff. However, I don't know if Murfreesboro was zoned at the time or not, but that was before siegel and Blackman were built for sure, which did allow for a lot of exceptionally gifted athletes in the 'boro to play football for the Warriors. Again, not arguing that point either. I never played for Rankin, but I do know him well and I can tell you that the talent he has coached is enough to make a lot of coaches sick, but I can tell you that has nothing to do with the fact that he is still one of the best football coaches out there, and on top of that, he always surrounds himself with a very capable staff.

[aliastn]

This thread is cracking me up!

As someone who lived in Dalton for 10+ years and was closely associated with the high school for a few years (during the Bill Chappell era), here's something for you:

A community that will run a pastor out of town will run a football coach out of town. Dalton is a very strange place. It's not like any other place in the SE USA. At one time it had the most millionaires per square mile in the USA. Those people with $ think they can run the football program...and apparently they can.

[warhawks]

This thread is cracking me up!

As someone who lived in Dalton for 10+ years and was closely associated with the high school for a few years (during the Bill Chappell era), here's something for you:

A community that will run a pastor out of town will run a football coach out of town. Dalton is a very strange place. It's not like any other place in the SE USA. At one time it had the most millionaires per square mile in the USA. Those people with $ think they can run the football program...and apparently they can.

By the looks of it the people with the $ have run that program into the ground!