LCborn

LCBorn, you're not exactly in exclusive company in terms of folks that beat me in church basketball. Did you play at Concord UMC? And you're right -- that was longer ago than I care to admit publicly. You've got me stumped now!! I would love to know who you are.

Hint: Faith LC, wearing the Laimbeer jersey!

Y'all are far too kind..... Just an old ball coach showing off on the radio....

 

It's good to hear from old friends like HV, Bizazz, SoupKitchen, and AD25.

 

Go Admirals!! Let's come back to Murfreesboro and do this next year!! Look for another celebration at the Ballpark at Farragut in the days ahead.

 

By the way, the team should arrive at Farragut between 1:30 and 2:00pm tomorrow. Let's have a huge crowd to greet the STATE CHAMPION ADMIRALS!!

Well, congrats to the Ads! They've really had a special season, developing as they did from a so-so contender in their district to state champs. Really a great job by Coach Pharr and especially by the kids to believe and to work hard to get better.

That doesn't change the fact that I kicked Ralph's butt in church-league basketball a few years ago, though. (Well, I'm being kind when I say, "a few.")

The kid who got chased out of LC was starting catcher on a AAA state championship team tonight. Way to go, Ty! Congrats to the Admirals!

To set the record straight. Most of DB's wins in all sports have come in the "modern day" not "back in the day".

Well, maybe...but in baseball, over the last 5 (10?) years there's been Farragut and then everybody else...and D-B is in that "everybody else" group.

Ty and Tony, I couldn't be more pleased! I am very happy for the Ads!

LCborn,

 

You are so right in everyone of your posts from what I read. Very Good.

 

Reading this thread makes me sad but on the other hand I feel blessed. There are some coaches out there that have no business coaching but their are some great ones out their too. The truth is, that coaches have an awesome responsiblity. The coaches (Brown and Dugan) I played for took no crap off anyone. The childs and parents knew it and I pitty the person that tried to test them. They expected curtain thing form us and if we did well we were expect to keep on improving if not we heard about it.

 

The key was the principles/college president honored the head coaches and had their backs. feel for the coaches that don't. If you are a HS coach out there and you don't set "documented" bounderies to those associated with your team, then don't expect anything. This is also true, we always reap exactly what you sow and your team is a reflection of the coach. Like it or not those thing are forever true.

I had an outstanding coach--John McKamey of Sullivan East--and I had good parents. In particular, I'm grateful that my folks let me succeed or fail on my own. I feel blessed, too. I hope that in 20 years my kids will feel good about their Pappy.

What a great job by Coach Pharr. What a great job by the Farragut kids to hang in there and get better through the course of the season.

What did the Admirals finish, third or fourth in the district in the regular season? And they were second in the district tournament? And second in the region?

Wow. The Admirals' ship is leaving some pretty good teams in its tournament wake.

yelling at people and blaming them for things and using them excuses will never get it done......

Exactly right.

Some people don't seem to get the idea that as long as you are blaming somebody else for your failures, you can't fix whats making you fail.

Your words are right, but they are easier said than done.

Well, yeah, I can't deny that.

There's some Kipling poem about how a sparrow on a fence talks about patience, but "the toad beneath the harrow knows exactly where each spear-point goes." I'm not one of those under the harrow. It's easy to be a sparrow. It's tough for coaches, administrators, and teachers.

If you want to know why a player acts the way he does, just follow them home. It's true in the classroom, on the field, and in society.

Absolutely true.

But that's "why" he does something. The "what" he's allowed to do is the responsibility of the adult who is supervising him.

When the "why" overcomes the "what," either the kid has to change, he has to go, or the coach is abdicating his authority.

How effective as a coach or a teacher--or a leader--can a guy be if he's giving in to the kids?

I agree with that too. While umpiring, I've told coaches to control their fans or we'd sit both teams in the dugout. If the heckling is profane enough or of an intimidating nature, we just call the Sheriff's Department to come and escort them from the park. If your park does that once or twice, the parents learn how to control themselves.

I get how that's necessary some times, but I can't get past a coach letting that happen. If it's a reflection on society, it seems to me it's more a reflection on how the coach fits into society than on how the players do. Players are kids. They're looking at the coach and other adults to see how to behave; if the players behave badly, it's the coach who's most at fault, in my opinion.

If you've got a team with discipline problems, do you blame the adolescents on the team or the adult who's running the team? Do you look to the adolescents to establish the behavior criteria, or the adult?

Coaches set the tone. A team that's cheap in the dugout can't be that way if the coach doesn't condone it. Parents who are out of control wouldn't be that way if the coach walked over and told them to cool it. That's part of the leadership that a coach owes his community.

When you say, "the actions of parents and some students is [sic] just a reflection of our society," you are absolving the adult leaders of the program of responsibility. How does one change the ugly reflection of our society? By requiring that adult leaders take charge and show these young men how to behave.

Don't blame "society": hold the grown-ups responsible. That's what grown-ups are supposed to be: responsible.

It seems that WKCLL did good with some of the kids in this class at Karns.

I credit Kathy.

Harriman players was chattering just like Sunbrights players and Harriman is not the only ones who does this we get it from everyteam we play. It could not have been as bad as you are trying to make it out to be as there was 3 TSSAA Umpires that would have warned the coach if it didnt stop and did thay NO they did not. All is this comes from sore losers not bad sportsmanship. I would be proud to have any of the 19 players from Harriman live around me they are all very good young men you are making it sound like they need to be put away somewhere. Oh wait they are not rednecks so I guess thats why you dont want them where you live.

 

Go Big Blue be Proud of who you are.

Good post! Naturally, if Sunbright does it, it must be OK. And we all know that Harriman learns how to behave from watching Sunbright. Harriman is lucky to have those Sunbright kids providing them leadership.

Congrats to AC. Congrats also to Loudon, and to D4AA for having two teams advance.

I don't know anybody who could've said that any better, not just for the LC program, but programs across the state. Your statement should be put on a plaque and hung in every locker room and coaches' office. Nice job.

Thanks.

People talk about 5-skill players (hits for avg., hits for power, throws, runs, plays defense); I guess one could talk about 5-skill coaches, too. They (1) develop player skills, (2) develop players mentally and emotionally, (3) nurture and provide leadership, (4) manage game situations--including making good lineup decisions, and (5) either call good pitches or--better--teach their catchers to call good pitches and trust them to do it. Or, more succinctly, the 5-skill coaches do skills, brains, leadership, management, and pitch calling.

Coach Pharr has had a lot of talent but you can't win 8 straight regional championships without doing those coaching jobs, even with talent. Of course, the Farragut program is on a serious downhill slide, since they were only runners-up this year.

Good answer on the "no-brainer" question. And about Ty, I've heard Farragut accused of recruiting him but that wasn't the case.

Well, many people would mind to go play at that farragut field which is MUCH better to say the least over LC's. Playing for coach Pharr wouldnt hurt either.

I don't know that Farragut's field is all that much better than LC's. And LC has a good-quality club house and an excellent indoor hitting/pitching facility and weight room.

There is Coach Pharr, though. I can't argue against that advantage. I mean, 25-14 and in the playoffs vs. 13-24 and looking forward to summer league vs. TMG. Go figure.

Coach Brown was a good pitcher for LC but I don't know how much impact he has on the overall program.

..but it took fans almost four years to make it.

What, impatient, are you?

Thanks, though. You're the best!

There is some things that will have to change before LC will start beating teams besides Greenback (no offense to Greenback, but they are a single A school).

Now that the dust has cleared on 2006, it will be interesting to see what adjustments LC makes to become competitive in 4AAA.

1-0 in about 27 innings?

Given that expecation, it will probably be about 32-31, LOL

If you wish you had a couple of CoachT t-shirts (hint, hint)

Great talent and adding a few extras along the with a coach that has known his players since they were 10 means a lot. How far can anderson go. Are they state tourny good?

I'll be pullin' for 'em. They've had a geat season and I hope it continues.

The best way to handle this kind of behavior is probably via a letter to TSSAA cc'ed to the Tipton County school board. That way your complaints can have some impact on the situation.

Congrats to Coach Guinn. He's a class act and he's been doing a great job.

A perfect example this year? My pick to win AAA state tournament, South Doyle, didn't get out of the district tournament...

 

And look out west, Collierville, Houston and Germantown are all in the same district - so one of them is odd-team-out....

Yeah, 4AAA was really interesting. I think S-D and William Blount tied for first in the regular season but neither one of them made it out of the tourney.