Talkin’ White Plains

With groundwork laid, Smith brings proven track record to goose belief that White Plains football can achieve what similarly situated programs have.

Editor’s note: This is the seventh installment of Talkin’ Football 2025. East Alabama Sports Today editor Joe Medley will do on-campus interviews at all football-playing schools in Calhoun County. The package will include a video interview, interesting facts and Joe’s take for EA+ subscribers. Today’s visit: the White Plains Wildcats.

WHITE PLAINS — Clint Smith feels at home at White Plains for so many reasons, it goes beyond wife Ashley’s history of teaching there.

It goes beyond working with long-time boys’ basketball coach Chris Randall, a pair that traces back to the late 1990s and early 2000s and their time at Trinity Christian.

Smith can look around and see a rural campus, just off of a county highway. He can see a football stadium situated downhill from the front of the school.

Squint just a little, and it looks a little like the Clay County campus, where Smith played his high school ball.

More details, quotes, interesting facts about White Plains football and a video interview are available for EA+ subscribers.

What a dream it would be, if Smith could lift White Plains football to the glory his late alma mater’s football program achieved, but the setting rings familiar. So does the clientele.

“The setting here is very similar to where I grew up,” he said. “When I went to Clay County High School, it was a (Class) 2A school, just a real country school. The community loved the kids and loved the school and supported us.”