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Legend each time you post people are concerned about you. Stay on your meds. Aside from say Bentley no one has done as much in this amount of time as Knotts especially with the level of competition now and if you can’t understand that you are just refusing to take off the rose colored glasses you like to sport. Take your meds.Wolverine_Legend wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 12:11 pmTom Knotts is NOT a better coach in this state than John McKissick, Willie Varner, Shell Dula, Keith Richardson, or Pinky Babb.
Just stop.
Winning the most doesn’t equate to best without context. McKissick coached into his 80s; and how many of those wins and championships came before integration and all the African American schools and coaches and their winning streaks not taken into consideration(mckissick became the HC in the 1950s during segregation)Players today are bigger, stronger, faster and better students of the game. That’s a fact not my opinion. The high school football landscape is the most competitive that it’s ever been. Knotts being able to do what he’s done in SC at the highest level makes him “best”. This is the 8th consecutive year he’s taken the Foxes to the 5A state title winning 6 with this season still ongoing. Since SC has had 5A, DF has played in every title. This is not taking into consideration the 7 NC titles in a much larger state. Context makes him the best…the Carolina GOAT.7timechamps wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 12:50 pmTom Knotts is up there but how can he the best ever in SC when the most winningest coach in the nation is from SC??
Knotts is a legend in his own right with 14 championships between NC and SC no doubt, but McKissick with over 600 wins in our state is SC’s undisputed greatest coach.
DFOLDMAN wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 10:45 pmWinning the most doesn’t equate to best without context. McKissick coached into his 80s; and how many of those wins and championships came before integration and all the African American schools and coaches and their winning streaks not taken into consideration(mckissick became the HC in the 1950s during segregation)Players today are bigger, stronger, faster and better students of the game. That’s a fact not my opinion. The high school football landscape is the most competitive that it’s ever been. Knotts being able to do what he’s done in SC at the highest level makes him “best”. This is the 8th consecutive year he’s taken the Foxes to the 5A state title winning 6 with this season still ongoing. Since SC has had 5A, DF has played in every title. This is not taking into consideration the 7 NC titles in a much larger state. Context makes him the best…the Carolina GOAT.7timechamps wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 12:50 pmTom Knotts is up there but how can he the best ever in SC when the most winningest coach in the nation is from SC??
Knotts is a legend in his own right with 14 championships between NC and SC no doubt, but McKissick with over 600 wins in our state is SC’s undisputed greatest coach.
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Agree.7timechamps wrote: ↑Sun Nov 26, 2023 1:42 pmDFOLDMAN wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 10:45 pmWinning the most doesn’t equate to best without context. McKissick coached into his 80s; and how many of those wins and championships came before integration and all the African American schools and coaches and their winning streaks not taken into consideration(mckissick became the HC in the 1950s during segregation)Players today are bigger, stronger, faster and better students of the game. That’s a fact not my opinion. The high school football landscape is the most competitive that it’s ever been. Knotts being able to do what he’s done in SC at the highest level makes him “best”. This is the 8th consecutive year he’s taken the Foxes to the 5A state title winning 6 with this season still ongoing. Since SC has had 5A, DF has played in every title. This is not taking into consideration the 7 NC titles in a much larger state. Context makes him the best…the Carolina GOAT.7timechamps wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 12:50 pmTom Knotts is up there but how can he the best ever in SC when the most winningest coach in the nation is from SC??
Knotts is a legend in his own right with 14 championships between NC and SC no doubt, but McKissick with over 600 wins in our state is SC’s undisputed greatest coach.
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Don’t disagree with anything you’re saying about Knotts. But McKissick won 10 and only 2 of those in the 50s, with most coming in the late 70s and entire decade of 80s. Then his final championship in 1998. He won a decades worth of state championship over 40 years. That’s very diffferent than what Knotts has done and makes their legacies hard to compare. Knotts is a legend in his own right.. But we can’t lose the context behind McKissick either, being able to adjust to how much the game changed over 40 years and still able to win the big one!!
Damn Wood.....tell us how you really feel. Well spoken brother.bringthewood wrote: ↑Sun Nov 26, 2023 7:27 pmTrying to compare one era to another is waste of time. And segregation has nothing to do with that either.
Anyone in the 1970s in the shotgun was thought of as simply trying to mimic the Dallas Cowboys. Anyone today running the Wishbone has to defend their offense at every booster club meeting. If some team did today what Alabama did when they busted out the Wishbone in 1971 and had some decent talent, they'd run through their schedule like Shi'ite through a goose. Just like if you could teleport Mike Leech back to the 1960s and run the Air Raid.
Go look at those eras when those offenses and others came onto the scene, those offenses dominated, and then defenses adapted. The Single Wing was put out of existence by the 6-2 defense long before Brown v. Board, and 10 years from now on Friday night you'll be watching your team run something that looks nothing like what you saw last week.
On top of that, coaches are just as different. Appreciate each for what they do/have done and quit doing the 'my coach has a bigger **** than yours' shtick. You sound like those idiot fans beside you in the stands during the game.
Taking pride in your program means you don't have to defend it from the outside.