Sevier County High School

[TheBigLebowski99]

What is wrong with this program? Is it the coaching, the players, a mixture of both?  In the last 3 years they have won less than 10 games. I would presume he is going to get fired after the season with such a storied history. Before he took over Coach Brewer had the Smokey Bears as a top 5 landing spot for a head coach in East Tn, who do you all think will be the next head coach there? 

[HTV]

There is an old saying that it is better to be the guy who follows the guy who followed the legend than to be the guy who followed the legend. 

Steve Brewer was a legend at SCHS. 

[oridgecat]

When things aren't going well and a brand new school opens (Northview?) and GP is playing for championships with Coach Rang.  You lose players to those schools.  SC is going to have to start winning again to keep their players or else this trend will continue.  They are in between a rock and a hard place.  I don't call for coaching changes because it's none of my business, but maybe a change would keep some SC players at SC?  I don't really know the situation, just a thought. 

Edited October 21, 2019 by oridgecat

[WaCoJaCo]

Might have to get Dolly involved.

[TheBigLebowski99]

I do not think even Dolly would be able to save this program. Back to what HTV was saying, maybe only Coach Brewer could resurrect this program. I do not know if any coach would want to deal with that dumpster fire. The only school in worse condition is Heritage.  

[STARSNBARS]

1 hour ago, WaCoJaCo said:

Might have to get Dolly involved.

WaCo a littull Dolly-wood nevur hert ennythang......imo.....

 

 

[oridgecat]

19 hours ago, STARSNBARS said:

Dolly-wood

I see what you did there.

[oridgecat]

19 hours ago, STARSNBARS said:

WaCo a littull Dolly-wood nevur hert ennythang......imo.....

lol.  good one Stars.  Oops double post.  My bad.

Edited October 23, 2019 by oridgecat

[PurplePride95]

Im a Long-time reader and first time post"er" I guess you could say. But after the Seymour debacle last week, I have to vent a little..I will remain nameless, in fear of coach retaliation toward a player that is a relative of mine. 

I played for the Smoky Bears in the early 90's before coach Brewer arrived, and I have a strong sense of Purple Pride! I am very close to the program and haven't missed many games in several years. What is happening to this program is EMBARRASSING! The problem isn't with the players, it is LINGO! These players have competed for championships all through youth league and middle school. They have been winners with every coach except LINGO! The problem isn't X's & O's necessarily (except defense)... The leadership is lacking. The accountability is lacking. The discipline is non existent. Lingo has belittled, berated, and insulted these kids so much that they have no respect for him anymore and don't want to play for him.

Some coaches regularly miss practice. Some coaches are never there during summer weights and conditioning. Also, lets remember his off season staff reshuffling! He brought in the "de-facto" head coach in waiting from Northview and named him the defensive coordinator. Even though we had co-defensive coordinators by title, everybody close to the program knows who actually ran the defense and it wasn't the POLITICIAN! That decision costed us our best defensive coach and our best player to leave the program. Lets see how Lingo's defensive shakeup has worked out...

Jeff County = 53 points (Most points they have scored in a game)

Heritage = 24 points ( Most points they have scored in a game)

Central = 55 points (Most points they have scored in a game)

South Doyle = 60 points (Don't feel bad, they have also scored 61 & 62 points this year)

William Blount = 51 points ( Most points they have scored in a game)

Gibbs = 55 points (Thanks, Lenoir City they gave up 56 points)

Morristown East = 21 points ( YAY, offense sucked that game)

SEYMOUR = 41 points (OBVIOUSLY MOST POINTS THEY HAVE SCORED)

Thats an average of giving up 45 points per game!! (5 of the 8 teams have scored season highs agains SC defense) 

As you can see, the head coaches decision making, lack of leadership, lack of discipline, and lack of accountability is why we are taking a nose dive! Take from this what you want, but these PLAYERS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM! They play with great effort, emotion, and heart! They are just lacking the other intangibles that the head coach is supposed to provide! Good luck to the future and GO SMOKY BEARS!

[old24eagle]

33 minutes ago, PurplePride95 said:

Im a Long-time reader and first time post"er" I guess you could say. But after the Seymour debacle last week, I have to vent a little..I will remain nameless, in fear of coach retaliation toward a player that is a relative of mine. 

I played for the Smoky Bears in the early 90's before coach Brewer arrived, and I have a strong sense of Purple Pride! I am very close to the program and haven't missed many games in several years. What is happening to this program is EMBARRASSING! The problem isn't with the players, it is LINGO! These players have competed for championships all through youth league and middle school. They have been winners with every coach except LINGO! The problem isn't X's & O's necessarily (except defense)... The leadership is lacking. The accountability is lacking. The discipline is non existent. Lingo has belittled, berated, and insulted these kids so much that they have no respect for him anymore and don't want to play for him.

Some coaches regularly miss practice. Some coaches are never there during summer weights and conditioning. Also, lets remember his off season staff reshuffling! He brought in the "de-facto" head coach in waiting from Northview and named him the defensive coordinator. Even though we had co-defensive coordinators by title, everybody close to the program knows who actually ran the defense and it wasn't the POLITICIAN! That decision costed us our best defensive coach and our best player to leave the program. Lets see how Lingo's defensive shakeup has worked out...

Jeff County = 53 points (Most points they have scored in a game)

Heritage = 24 points ( Most points they have scored in a game)

Central = 55 points (Most points they have scored in a game)

South Doyle = 60 points (Don't feel bad, they have also scored 61 & 62 points this year)

William Blount = 51 points ( Most points they have scored in a game)

Gibbs = 55 points (Thanks, Lenoir City they gave up 56 points)

Morristown East = 21 points ( YAY, offense sucked that game)

SEYMOUR = 41 points (OBVIOUSLY MOST POINTS THEY HAVE SCORED)

Thats an average of giving up 45 points per game!! (5 of the 8 teams have scored season highs agains SC defense) 

As you can see, the head coaches decision making, lack of leadership, lack of discipline, and lack of accountability is why we are taking a nose dive! Take from this what you want, but these PLAYERS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM! They play with great effort, emotion, and heart! They are just lacking the other intangibles that the head coach is supposed to provide! Good luck to the future and GO SMOKY BEARS!

I see the youth league MS championship stuff thrown around a lot, just got to say thats nonsense. Everyone knows that the best High School programs have youth and MS teams teaching a TON of kids to play football, not taking their best athletes and trying to win MEANINGLESS youth league championships and pushing other kids to the bench so they quit before they even reach High School! The difference between MS and HS is light years apart. That super fast kid that beats everyone to the edge and scores 5 TD's a game aint that fast anymore when he gets in HS and hes never been taught to play any other way because that doesnt help Coach Daddy win a MEANINGLESS Youth league title!

 

[MeritIII]

On 10/21/2019 at 2:46 PM, oridgecat said:

When things aren't going well and a brand new school opens (Northview?) and GP is playing for championships with Coach Rang.  You lose players to those schools.  SC is going to have to start winning again to keep their players or else this trend will continue.  They are in between a rock and a hard place.  I don't call for coaching changes because it's none of my business, but maybe a change would keep some SC players at SC?  I don't really know the situation, just a thought. 

Always did like Coach Rang  - he was good to West.

[HTV]

3 hours ago, PurplePride95 said:

Im a Long-time reader and first time post"er" I guess you could say. But after the Seymour debacle last week, I have to vent a little..I will remain nameless, in fear of coach retaliation toward a player that is a relative of mine. 

I played for the Smoky Bears in the early 90's before coach Brewer arrived, and I have a strong sense of Purple Pride! I am very close to the program and haven't missed many games in several years. What is happening to this program is EMBARRASSING! The problem isn't with the players, it is LINGO! These players have competed for championships all through youth league and middle school. They have been winners with every coach except LINGO! The problem isn't X's & O's necessarily (except defense)... The leadership is lacking. The accountability is lacking. The discipline is non existent. Lingo has belittled, berated, and insulted these kids so much that they have no respect for him anymore and don't want to play for him.

Some coaches regularly miss practice. Some coaches are never there during summer weights and conditioning. Also, lets remember his off season staff reshuffling! He brought in the "de-facto" head coach in waiting from Northview and named him the defensive coordinator. Even though we had co-defensive coordinators by title, everybody close to the program knows who actually ran the defense and it wasn't the POLITICIAN! That decision costed us our best defensive coach and our best player to leave the program. Lets see how Lingo's defensive shakeup has worked out...

Jeff County = 53 points (Most points they have scored in a game)

Heritage = 24 points ( Most points they have scored in a game)

Central = 55 points (Most points they have scored in a game)

South Doyle = 60 points (Don't feel bad, they have also scored 61 & 62 points this year)

William Blount = 51 points ( Most points they have scored in a game)

Gibbs = 55 points (Thanks, Lenoir City they gave up 56 points)

Morristown East = 21 points ( YAY, offense sucked that game)

SEYMOUR = 41 points (OBVIOUSLY MOST POINTS THEY HAVE SCORED)

Thats an average of giving up 45 points per game!! (5 of the 8 teams have scored season highs agains SC defense) 

As you can see, the head coaches decision making, lack of leadership, lack of discipline, and lack of accountability is why we are taking a nose dive! Take from this what you want, but these PLAYERS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM! They play with great effort, emotion, and heart! They are just lacking the other intangibles that the head coach is supposed to provide! Good luck to the future and GO SMOKY BEARS!

Giving up 45 PPG and the DC is supposed to be the head coach in waiting? 

That must instill a lot of confidence in the future among the community.