foozballman

There weren't any kids laying down and not playing because of what any Parent or member of the faculty did or didn't say. My son had been a member of the team for 4 years and starter for 3 and I promise you neither he or any other friends laid down. There were a bunch of kids including my own discouraged about this and other seasons and how they were treated by the coaching staff. My son who was told at the beginning of the football season that he had a real shot at playing college ball next year as a defensive back(which everyone else would have said as well) now no longer even wants to try and walk on at any program. My sons and others love of the game has been RUINED by this coaching staff. They are gone and no one is to blame but the coaching staff. So quit getting on here talking about whats happened to bring this about when you have no idea. If you want this to get ugly it can. Let it go and let Soddy move on in a better direction. I'll purchase season tickets next year, I have a lot of love for a lot of kids still there. I now feel like I can support Soddy Daisy and not just the kids.

Amen, I am really trying not to have to go into details about the ridiculous lack of responsibilities taken up by the coaching staff. When they already don't do half of what other coaches at other programs do.

First of all I want to make you understand that NO ONE thinks that Kevin Orr isn't a good person. However I want to let all these outisde people commenting on something they no NOTHING about to be a little informed. My son has been there for 4 years and i promise you there are very few schools that have a Booster Club that support the team as well as Soddy's. The coaches only had to be responsible for coaching, uniforms, (which doesn't mean cleaning) and the well being of their players. The booster club did EVERYTHING else. If you don't believe then go ask Slaughter. You know I really intended on writing on this but I can't I would be on here all day. The Soddy Daisy football program is better off now.

It ABSOLUTELY makes sense that a coach can have more success at one school than at others. Some coaches systems just fit the kids he has available to him at the school. No one thinks Nick Saban is a bad coach.... but he sucked it up at Miami. Your coach has to fit your with your kids and those kids have to fit with the system the coach is trying to run. Tom Weathers system didn't work at Soddy( and we all know why that is) but Slaughter came in and with the SAME kids turned it completely around at 7-3 (8-2... Rhea County) from 2-8.

If a change is not made soon next season is over before it starts. I have already heard from to many parents at Loftis that they are going to move their kids to Hixson if somethings not done soon ( amazing what a change of coaches can do). Hixson was a more talented team the year before Fitzgerald got there and there is not a parent at Hixson that would tell you any different. If you don't think parents move kids for sports your fooling yourself. This will also hurt other sports i.e.... baseball and wrestling. My son has decided to wrestle for the first time this year because he was so frustrated with football this past season. Its only taken 3 weeks to understand why the wrestling team is a juggernaut and the football team "is what it is".

I think Indian was referring to the kids. I heard Ron Cox was selected to be the head coach at Sale Creek.

Talking about kids, I would never put their names out on a message board unless it were my sons but the ones you mentioned would all start along with these. NG, SH, WP, AC, TL, DD, TJ, CJ, These are just the Juniors and Seniors I can think of off the top of my head. I am SURE I can come up with more.

We don't have community support! Where the heck do you live? I pretty sure will get to find out whether its the talent of the kids next year. I am pretty sure one variable will CHANGE!

This thread will blow up in a few days.

Its a matter of finding the round peg that fits the round hole. I promise you I talked to alot of Hixson parents before the season and none of them were to keen on Fitzgerald, but he just happens to be a great fit for Hixson where he wasn't at Rhea. The 2007 record was 2-8. Just because you're successfull at one school may not translate to all other schools. Everything has to come together...Coaches, Kids, Parents and Community. My biggest point was that the talent just didn't get amazing for just one year.

Here is Soddy's record for the last 5 years 2008 belongs to Slaughter( not including playoff games) 2008 8-2 2009 5-5 2010 6-4 2011 4-6 2012 at best can finish 3-7

Good point, I know I absolutely would and a number of others as well. We miss a lot of good games for having them all played on the same night.

Don't think I've heard a more accurate ascessment. Being a small 6A school only matters in the playoffs. Every other team we play durring the regular season with the exception of Bradley and McMinn are smaller than us. I have long talked about the lack of support we get from the city. They don't donate any money nor do they even advertise the games on the electronic sign at the municipal building. Lakesite supports the team more that Soddy Daisy does. If you didn't see the lights on Friday night driving by the school you would never know there is football game being played. As far as the band goes they are there only for their own amusement. The same tired songs are played over and over again. While every other band is playing top forty we are play "Hang on Sloopy". I mean really....... the bands original purpose at games is to "pep up" the crowd. My family loves hearing the other teams bands play songs my grandmother doesn't know. With that being said I love the band and the kids but the their agenda needs to change. We have lost 2 other games this year in which we didn't have homecomming week so I don't think we should blame anything on that. I am tired of hearing that there isn't any talent at Soddy, if you really believe this maybe you should attend the quartbacks club meetings and discuss this with the parents. There are a lot of traditions that need to be changed to bring about a better atmoshpere of winning at Soddy. But that winning atmosphere has to be manufactured through change. Take a look at Hixsons program right now, there is a great article in the Timesfreepress on their reenergized program and what Fitzgerald has done to create that. It can be done at Soddy and it can be done by the coaching staff we have. Someone has to put that plan in motion. I ran into a friend of mine who happens to be in the media. Before anything was said he looked at me and said, "Central......really, Central"?

Ok, Trojansrule4ever what SDL and I both know from being around these kids since they were 7 years old is that there is enough good if not great talent walking around the halls to make up a very competitive 1a football program. We ARE the LARGEST program as far as numbers go in Hamilton County, we have 2 feeder middle school programs, but if you look at our sidelines and Central's you would see that those numbers aren't represented by the number of kids on each team. As far as #14 goes, I promise you, and SDL will back me up is that he is not going to be recruited as a Safety. If he weren't a QB he would put on 20lbs and be one of the most dominate defensive ends you'd ever seen. Playing him both ways wears him down and he CANNOT play to the best of his ability at QB and he is not able to have time on the sideline to get the needed instruction from Coach Roberts. The recruits aren't going to take into consideration when they look at the film and say well he couldn't avoid that tackler or make that throw because he was tired. There is a lot of frustration going on with the program. Especially when you compare it to the other sports teams at SD (funny how the lack of talent doesn't affect them). So there will be things said whether it be on this message board or at the games.There maybe one or two who get on here only to bash the coaches but there are some on here playing nicely too. However, DONT BE A HYPOCRITE and start bad mouthing kids who aren't getting paid to play this game, and yes I know not all coaches are getting paid. Lets try to put all this behind and focus on the next remaining 5 games, they aren't getting any easier.

If you win by 2 or three scores they will all be safeties.

Corn was All-American in Freeze tag in Elementary. What he can do is SILLY good.

I am really trying to figure out how a 40-0 blowout last year was dictated by the refs. Question, WHY DO SO MANY OF YOUR FANS SIT ON THE VISITOR SIDE WHEN YOUR SIDE IS NO WHERE NEAR FILLED? But lets travel back 2 years ago on the swinging ladder play where your team wasn't even set when the ball was snapped or 4 years ago when Fugate blocked an extra point when he was in the backfield WHEN the ball was snapped. You don't beleive me ask him, he'll tell you he was. Just watched the tape there were 0 not 1,2,or 3 but 0 holding calls on Rhea. The only 2 penalties you had was a facemask and a false start. The fake field goal the reciever was OUT OF BOUNDS!!! He slid to make the catch and his entire lower half was out of bounds before he caught the ball. I just watched it, slowed it down, replayed it numerous times. I can pull a pic of it off the video when I get it uploaded. I am telling you know had we thrown the ball DOWN the field more we would have scored 40. But not in the first half while the olympic yellow hanky competition was going on. However, your field looks nice and I really like your PA guy, great voice and very professional. No sarcasm there.

Soddy should have won this game by 2 scores or more. The penalties called in the first half were beyond ridiculous. Worst I have ever seen. Turned the first half in a way I have never seen officiating do. Also more than obvious the refs were not calling penalties in the second half for fear of WAY over doing it. Will look at the film for the official count of flags. Absolutely one-sided. I'll discuss this game more tomorrow. Did not see much wrong with Rheas coaching. The biggest problem was you had more drops than catches. Game was not that close.

As our team had a bye last week I watched the Cleveland and Central game online. Very well done. It would be nice to see all high schools be able to offer this quality of service.

Just realized this is almost exactly what SDL predicted. Oh well,

Soddy 35 Rhea 20

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Nice to know Supercuts is backing the Mustangs.

Baylor has finally realized that in order to have a chance at a state championship they will have to go into the public school system and recruit or offer "financial aid" in order to compete. There are a number of athletes on the football team that would not be at the Baylor school had it not been for their ability on the football field. Not condeming anyone looking to better themselves when given the opportunity to attend Baylor/McCallie, but its one thing when they come to you and its another when you go to them. There is a fine line between Recruiting and "financial aid". Its just taking Baylor longer than it did Signal Mtn to understand this.,