Bulldawg45

Chris Edwards is the head coach. Edwards is a big cry baby.....all he wants to do is whine about umpires all the time.

[i didn't know they had picked up Lawson and Patterson from Heritage. The Patterson kid is the one I couldn't place but now it make sense. I only saw her from a distance and didn't know who she was. She has a ton of talent as a pitcher, just needs to refine it some. Who is the head coach on that team? I know the guy that used to coach them left a couple of years ago.

She play for the Nighthawks???? /roflol.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":roflol:" border="0" alt="roflol.gif" /> You can take up the times with the UTC Coaching staff. Maybe they need to get their fingers calibrated. It might have something to do with it being eastern time zone. I do know my daughter said she saw the Willis kid out run Britney Rogers at the Alabama camp. I wasn't there...but thats what she said.

I saw four of them run at the UTC Camp a couple of weeks ago and they were all under 3.0. That's when the Willis kid ran 2.6 as stated in one of the other posts. The two that were not there are just as fast.

One of their pitchers is Casey Vincent. She used to play for one of the Xplosion teams out of Nashville and plays school ball for Coffee County. The other is a big kid from somewhere in North Georgia.

I would like to hear opinions about what it takes for teams to get to the "next level". Looking at the list below (from TSSAA.org) you might think it would be to move to Chattanooga...but if so, why? Is is something in the water down there or are they just able to play more ball and better quality of teams due to the proximity? I know that is what college coaches talk about when they talk about kids from Florida and California...they say they play all year and play good teams... I don't buy that it is just coaching, no disrespect intended. The way I look at this list is that Dickson Co. is the only "non metro" team on the list. Can teams outside the metropolitan areas compete on a consistent basis? State Champions 98 - 07 98- East Ridge 99- Soddy Daisy 00- Soddy Daisy 01 ??“ Beech 02- Dickson Co. 03- Soddy Daisy 04- Beech 05- Red Bank 06- Soddy Daisy 07- Soddy Daisy

I'll make an assumption that you feel it is not a good thing....just to take a side and start the discussion. Some of your more successful coaches are non faculty coaches or to put it another way, some of your least successful coaches are faculty coaches. Being on faculty does not insure success. If it did all these schools with faculty coaches would be the most successful....so in my opinion....it doesn't matter. If the school has access to a non faculty coach that played ball at a high level or had a kid that played in a D-1 program, they probably ought to take advantage of them. If a school or school system has the ability to put someone on faculty that could be coaching at a D-1 level...they probably should, but most of those people have a coaching job already. Pat Summit said it was all about the players...great players make coaches great coaches. A great feeder program (which the coach can help put in place) is probably far more important than the people that get a few short days with the kids before they go play. All that having been said any program needs to be run straight up. Best players play...period. It doesn't matter who mommy or daddy are. Good moms and dads want that for their kids anyway. Better to learn it now than out in the job market with a family to feed. If kids start playing because of who daddy is or mommy, it is over....the rest will be there but not give it all they have...and it takes giving everything to be successful as a team. All that having been said if you have a parent doing it because no one else wanted to or a faculty person doing it just to make a few bucks...it is going to be a tough thing. You are really getting what you pay for there....but if you have someone that has been doing it a while, just because they love it and they want to help the kids....especially if they are moderately successful...you better leave it alone. Things could get worse real quick with athletes deciding to move to other school systems to play even if it meant losing a year to do it. I would say is that any group of parents considering is it good or bad should consider that if you could flip a switch and change coaches tomorrow, it takes time for a new coach to come in and develop relationships with college coaches, umpires, etc. By the time those relationships are formed five or six classes could have graduated with kids that could have played college ball missing out. Better the devil you know than one you don't. The last thing I would say is that if a coach has a young Monica Abbott or Roger Clemens playing for them they are probably going to look like a great coach. If not...all they can do is try to teach the kids good fundamentals and hope for some breaks. Just an opinion...what does everyone else think?