Tom Knotts, perhaps the greatest high school ... not good in school, I don’t want you playing with us.’” 12/05/95 1B Photos by GARY O’BRIEN/Staff West Charlotte football coach Tom Knotts ...

But for fans of West Charlotte High football ... Tompkins. The school won the 1995 state football championship and was a state power from the 1970s into the 1990s. Tom Knotts coached there ...

With a win on Saturday, West Charlotte head football coach ... Knotts led West Charlotte to its lone NCHSAA title in 1995 and, beginning in 2000, created an Independence High School dynasty ...