BigOrangeBaller

With the district tournaments over now, are there any schools that are going to be looking for a new coach for next year? I know that Franklin Co. was playing for an interim... any others that maybe coming open?

So with the district tournaments ending, what schools are looking or are going to be looking for a new coach next season?

If that is who they hire, I do not understand why you would leave Oak Ridge for this spot. Its not RuCo pay nor talent. Add to that the fact that he better kiss the correct people's backside in Manchester and play the "right" kids, its not a job to leave an Oak Ridge for... If he is going to Coffee Co., he had better be a great juggler and able to recruit well and know how to please the "important" people/families down there.

I thought that they had decided as a county to go on and get out early by using their remaining unused weather days. If they did that, then she should have been good to hold tryouts, but if not, then yeah it sounds like a violation for her...

Murrell did a great job with the boys team at Columbia. Good luck to him at Summit.

Congrats to Coach Stotts! She had done a very good job with those middle school kids and starting to build up basketball there in McMinnville with a camp and things already. I think she was a great choice even if she wasn't their first and that she will make them forget about the others they chased after and couldn't reel in. Good luck Coach Stotts!

Stotts would make the most sense at this point, since she knows what she has sent up to the high school, but she isn't the "name" that they are desperately searching for... I have heard great things about Hobbs, but I am not sure that this deep dig to try and find a "name" is his doings. He has been around for a long time and I think he gets that the program is not one of the top tier programs in the state that would draw that "name" that they are wanting so bad. Just seems like they are wasting a lot of valuable time to get a new coach in to hold spring practice, get the summer calendar set, etc... Digging a bigger hole is what it looks like and pushing the program backwards for sure...

As far as I know its the same one...

Heard there is a new front runner for this spot. He interviewed today according to the word on the street... Bud Brandon...

The word around is that they have started cold calling coaches to see if anyone would be interested. Sounds like they didn't get any big name applicant that they think they should have. It's hard to draw a big name when they can't compete salary wise with other systems that are within driving distance from McMinnville like a Rutherford County and even a little further like a Williamson County. Both of those systems are getting raises again and they already were paying much better than Warren Co. The folks in charge may need to temper the expectations there a little bit, only returning 1 kid from a team where as it has been said there were only 6 that saw meaningful minutes and with no development in the younger kids, it might take a little bit to get back to where they were just at. So, I wouldn't expect a Chad Hibdon, John Wild, Kyle Turnham, etc... type name to be interested in going there.

I think she is the only one coming back. The other 5 were seniors I believe.

Who is the front runner then?

Wrong, a high school coach can coach anyone that is not enrolled at their school... so if you coach at a 9-12 school, then you can coach an 8th grade AAU team even if those kids will be enrolling at your school for the fall...

I think from what I have heard from some decent officials about why they don't get high profile regular season games, much less state tournament games is because their mechanics isn't the old "bird dog" type that Mr. Menees looks for in an official. Now, I understand that some of that stuff is important, but just because someone can call a foul and stand like a statue in doing so with my hands in the right position doesn't mean that it was the right call. I think that it is time that the officials that don't make the games about them and do/try to do a decent job of getting the calls right and communicating with those involved should start getting those important regular season games and state tournament games. Just my 2 cents...

Any idea why the old coaching carousel isn't spinning away by this point? Everything is very quite and doesn't seem to be moving with very few exceptions...