You'll have to go back and pull out the post where I said I doubted her (I'll let you do the work)...I think I remember posing the question for discussion and actually think I added the caveat "deserved or not" if she did lose...I got the feeling some fans were thinking just that when she was down under .500 early in the season...I had seen her coach before...I knew she had a lot of spunk...A coach can coach...Man or woman...I could be totally wrong as far as my memory goes...A lot of things have happened since she was hired...I'm on second shift now as well and do not get to go to any games or even get to listen to many...I feel like wardawg would have been on me all year long had I actually gone out and said I doubted she could coach...To be honest, coaching wise, I'd put her above Boykin from Day 1...
If anything, my thoughts were of whether or not she could get high school boys to respond to her...I had seen some of those kids play before...I saw how some of them disrespected Coach Whitby, something by the way would NEVER have happened had he been healthy...I think I even said that football coach Barger might want to sit near the bench in case basketball coach Barger ran into some type of situation...I think those would be legitimate questions, even concerns...There is not much of a track record concerning women coaching boys teams...She is only the second one in Tennessee that has done it, if I'm not mistaken...
I say congrats to her...She took the big boys down in the postseason (she was 3-5 in 8 overall games vs UC and Humboldt, don't forget that)in only her FIRST season...Pretty impressive...The most impressive game though was the win on the road over an unbeaten Middleton team...If the Falcons make it to The Boro, fans can look back at that game as the one that catapulted them here...