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The Pitiful State of William Blount Football


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Everyone knows WB hasn't had a winning season since 2007, but there was a somewhat slow decline from that 9-3 season to the absolute #### show the program is today. About a decade ago WB was winning about 3 games a year on average and looked competitive against really good teams. We played in the toughest region in the state and we were usually competitive against teams not named Maryville. Now we aren't competitive in any facet of the game against anyone we play. WB has had good teams with losing records, but this is not one of those teams. We suck out loud. And there's no excuse for it. We've had younger teams and teams depleted by injuries that were way more watchable and competitive than this

2022 squad. I'm done. I won't watch another game until this program gets serious about having a competent football program. The current state of affairs is an absolute clown show. What's the point of paying coaches and dealing with all the logistical things that having a football program entails if nobody involved is serious about winning? We can't even tackle and our "strength" program isn't making the kids strong. Do our players even practice and do workouts anymore?

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18 minutes ago, 1OldPatriot said:

This years WB team is the worst large school team I have ever seen

Agree with you for once and I won't even see them until two more weeks have passed.  West Ridge is horrible.  And for them to have beat WB 42-7, I am seriously doubting WB would beat Jellico or Cosby at this point.

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1 hour ago, GoPats2019 said:

You had my attention until you said William Blount played in the toughest region in the state. 

Uh yeah it was. We played in a region with Maryville, Knox West, Knox Catholic, Farragut, Bearden, Lenoir City, and Heritage.  That region was stacked from top to bottom. That was back during the weird hybrid regions when 5A and 6A were together in the regular season. Our region had state champions in 5A and 6A.

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And on top of having state champions in two classes, our region also had two other 5A teams that went to the semifinals (Catholic and Lenoir City) and Farragut and Bearden both had very good teams most years but like everyone else they couldn't get past Maryville. It's very telling that Farragut broke through and finally won a gold ball after dropping to 5A. We had a lot of good football teams in that region and yet WB was able to field teams that looked like they belonged on the field. Now we are just flat out awful. We haven't been in one game all year.

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24 minutes ago, TribalEmpire said:

Agree with you for once and I won't even see them until two more weeks have passed.  West Ridge is horrible.  And for them to have beat WB 42-7, I am seriously doubting WB would beat Jellico or Cosby at this point.

42-14, but not much of a difference lol.

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