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One of Tennessee's (and the country's) great high school coaches of all time ... Coach O ... from Alcoa High School will be honored on Saturday night (March 5) at the Alcoa High School gymnasium.

 

While I never had the opportunity to play for him--I did play against his teams a few times--I have had the opportunity to work with him some over the past few years in league he directs at his church. He's an incredible guy.

 

I had the chance to speak with him this morning and to take a sneek peak at an awesome book that has been put together to honor his career. I was overwhelmed. This guy is responsible in a big way for where boy's basketball is both in the Maryville/Alcoa area and state-wide. I believe he could have coached on any level he chose and been just as successful as he was at Alcoa. He was ahead of his time.

 

Any former players ... opposing coaches ... etc. have any comments on Coach O?

 

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The main thing i remember about coach osborne back in the day, and being from maryville is that for the longest time we never beat him. and i mean a really long time. we had some good teams late 60's to mid 70's, scott randall, randy lambert (current maryville college coach) but if i am not mistaken we went from the late 60's until 74 without beating them. to say his teams were fundamentally sound would be the understatement of the year, and he got the most out of them.

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