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Best football coach in Middle Tennessee? Public or Private school.?

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Best Coaches in middle Tennessee
Ricky Bowers-has repeated at Ensworth what he did at MBA
Ingle Martin-has taken a perennial contender at CPA and turned tehm into perennial champions
Walt Smith-has taken local talent without the benefit of recruiting to levels that are not expected from public schools in a private school dominated sport and it is a shame he wont return to his alma mater at LCHS
Roger Perry-has duplicated his Portland feats at MJ
Marston at Lawrence County--has taken a school with 1 playoff appearance in the 20 previous years and made them a perennial playoff team albeit they dont accomplish much once they get there, he still gets them there in a district that includes Tullahoma and Shelbyville

I cannot include Gary Rankin as he is no longer in middle tennessee, but his records speak for themselves at Riverdale
 

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Instead of best coach, this topic should have been best talent. anyone can win with talent.

Not always true. I have seen several very talented teams lose to well coached teams.

 

Fair to say great coaches with elite talent typically beat great coaches without it. There are teams that couldn't win a gold ball with Lombardi coaching them, while I'm sure there are several marginal coaches that could win with some of the talents the elite teams have had.

 

There are so many factors that could go into this that it's hard to say. If it's wins and losses, doesn't GC have to come into play? That said, he's also had talent.

 

Too many variables and there's nothing to substantiate any of it. Sometimes it just takes the right coach, in the right place, at the right time (and a couple lucky breaks).

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Best Coaches in middle Tennessee

Ricky Bowers-has repeated at Ensworth what he did at MBA

Ingle Martin-has taken a perennial contender at CPA and turned tehm into perennial champions

Walt Smith-has taken local talent without the benefit of recruiting to levels that are not expected from public schools in a private school dominated sport and it is a shame he wont return to his alma mater at LCHS

Roger Perry-has duplicated his Portland feats at MJ

Marston at Lawrence County--has taken a school with 1 playoff appearance in the 20 previous years and made them a perennial playoff team albeit they dont accomplish much once they get there, he still gets them there in a district that includes Tullahoma and Shelbyville

 

I cannot include Gary Rankin as he is no longer in middle tennessee, but his records speak for themselves at Riverdale

 

Nothing against Walt Smith but when he's has talent he won a lot of games but when he didn't have talent he didn't win!

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confucius say....same could be said for Bowers...i mean when has MBA or Ensworth NOT had talent....

I think Bobby Sharp of Lewis Co is one of the best coaches in the state because we never have top tier talent but we still have a very good program. ( 22 straight years in the playoffs )

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Cody Finley has to be considered if we are talking about coaches who have gotten the most out of what they've had to work with. He took Cheatham County to the state playoffs in 8 out of 11 years as the head coach. The school only has 5 playoff appearances outside of those 8 since the playoff format started in 1969. He will soon do similar things at Stewart County.

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