, for a violation of school rules, a day before the Mounties were set to host the Arab Knights in the first round of the AHSAA playoffs. \u00a0Shades Valley shut out the Knights 34-0 without the aid of their first string signal caller.<\/span><\/p>\nSmith came to Shades Valley after spending two seasons as head coach at Crossville High School. \u00a0Before taking over at Crossville Smith had successful stints as an offensive coordinator and strength and conditioning coach at several programs in Alabama and Georgia.<\/span><\/p>\nWith Smith’s record and reputation, he should not have a problem landing a head coaching position this off season. \u00a0Interest may begin coming his way sooner rather than later, in the Metro Area, Pelham, Thompson and Woodlawn are \u00a0already in the head coaching market.<\/span><\/p>\nNorth Alabama power, Deshler, and Mobile’s Mary Montgomery would be wish to give Mr. Smith a call.<\/span><\/p>\nStay dialed to Prepsnet.com for updates as the coaching carousel keeps spinning.<\/span><\/p>\nBrant Berry is the Managing Editor for Prepsnet.com. \u00a0Contact him at brant@prepsnet.com<\/span><\/p>\nPhoto courtesy of Prepsnet.com’s John Davis.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brant Berry |\u00a0PrepsNet Irondale, AL – After leading the Mounties to three straight playoff appearances in four seasons in Irondale, Bill Smith is out. \u00a0Smith was given the option to resign or face termination as head football coach during a meeting with SVHS principal Mary Beth Blankenship late Monday afternoon. Blankenship’s only comment was that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[132,27],"tags":[31,32,28,10,11],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}