South-Doyle & Webb Coaching Openings, Maryville & Alcoa's State Title Odds & Sevier County's Rise With 5StarPreps' Jesse Smithey. Plus, Riverdale Warriors HC Will Kriesky!
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
5.0 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On today's program, Chase is joined by 5StarPreps' Jesse Smithey to talk about South-Doyle and LA Headrick parting ways this week, what to make of the Cherokees' job, if Webb is still a good job in East Tennessee, Maryville & Alcoa's title chances, Sevier County peaking at the right time and why Anderson County is set up to have a very interesting offseason. Then, Riverdale Warriors head football coach Will Kriesky joins the program to discuss the Maryville playoff loss in the second round, how his team fought hard, Vaughn and Hampton's big games offensively, his offseason plans for the Warriors, his favorite part of coaching this team this year, and much more.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guests: Jesse Smithey, Will Kriesky
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we're back here on SRM varsity, a subset of Tennessee Sports Renaissance Man and the Chase Thomas podcast because I don't do enough content each and every day all across our great state to East Tennessee. |
| 0:12.2 | But we're back here for our second installment, kicking things off with Jesse Smithy of five-starpreps.com. |
| 0:17.7 | Go subscribe to five-star preps.com today if you are not all ready to get you prepared for the quarterfinals, which, Jesse, I can't believe we're already here. The season is going to be over here in just a matter of weeks. Right. It's a, I feel like the whole regular season, you're just fighting to get to a fall break and kind of catch your breath, and then you get out a fall break and you realize you only have two or three weeks of the regular season left. And you plow |
| 0:41.2 | through those. And then the playoffs just steam roll by as well. So it's gone really, really fast. |
| 0:46.5 | It probably doesn't seem like that to the kids. But as we get older, these weeks fly by. |
| 0:52.7 | Absolutely. And, you know, I was at Marrable last week, and Marrival, Riverdale was a lot of fun. |
| 0:59.5 | That was a really, really fun back and forth game. |
| 1:02.0 | And we'll actually have on Riverdale's head football coach here this week as well, |
| 1:06.7 | to talk about his Murphy's Borough program, which really pushed Maribel. |
| 1:09.9 | The final score, not a great indicator of actually how that game went on both sides. |
| 1:15.3 | But we'll get into Marival here in a second, but I wanted to start things off. |
| 1:18.7 | You had some breaking news here today where South Doyle makes a head coaching change. |
| 1:25.6 | There's going to be a couple. |
| 1:26.8 | It looks like here on the market here in Knoxville for the 2026 season. |
| 1:30.9 | What happened on that front? |
| 1:33.8 | And what do you see is the path forward for the Cherkees? |
| 1:37.6 | Sure. |
| 1:37.8 | I think the first question that comes to mind in nowadays is like, whenever a coach gets let go, |
| 1:43.2 | it's, okay, what did he do what what did he do |
| 1:45.2 | do bad in this case i can't find anything and with l a hedrick this was his second year at south |
| 1:51.7 | oil he had the program going in the right direction they were when he took over they were coming |
| 1:56.6 | off of two consecutive two and eight seasons and in his first his first year, he took over, players left the program. |
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