Headhunter42

Warrior faithful don’t to get to discouraged on the possibility of hiring a top assistant from a successful program if that's what ends up happening. Creasy was Oaklands 3rd Choice and he didn’t let that slow him down any. I think it worked out for Oakland pretty well. There’s a lot of great assistants that’s just waiting for their opportunity.

I'm not a hater at all. Its an exciting time for that young man and his family so kudos to them but we both know you cant argue with anything that I stated cause its a simple google search away from confirming everything I said is facts. Now what I do hate is politics getting involved and everyone can easily see what happened here. Hopefully for those kids sake he has great success, I hope he does. I think its more realistic that the administration set this coach up for failure. Time will tell. Saddle up boys like it or not yall riding with Coach O.

IF this administration hired the coach with the least credentials/experience out of the 5 that it was narrowed down to they have done this program a great injustice. This is an extremely bad look for the Central Administration if they in fact allowed politics to sway their decision on this hire. Surely they did not hire a guy who has never been apart of a quality program, nor any experience in meaning games in the playoffs. I'm sure Coach O is a solid fellow but when you compare the backgrounds/experience that matter in winning football games he would be the last out of the 5 in regards backgrounds/experience/winning programs associated with/deep playoff runs/State Title appearances. Additionally someone previously stated that this fellow didn't even win a game with his Middle School program but yet they hire him. If this is in fact true and the hire they made this is laughable and feel sorry for those kids.

If a college football coach has a desire to come home to his Alma mater then obviously that’s gonna be the biggest splash hire that central would be able to make out of the 5 originally that got interviewed and then add him so 6 total that the job has been narrowed down to. Barring he can relate to younger kids with much less talent than he’s used to the biggest upside to hiring him is his defensive background and from all accounts Centrals main issues in the last 5/6 years is the defensive side of the ball. Looking at there region it appears that you will have to beat Meigs and Austin East every year to have a shot. Surely Central administrators realize that unless they can slow them two teams down every year it’s gonna be hard to ever be relevant in that region. You had a good offensive minded coach the last few years but was still getting beat by nearly 40 pts a game against Meigs county over the last 5 years. If it’s true he wants to come home that should be a great hire! Can anyone definitely say if the former alum that coaches in college truly has shown a desire to take the program?

So for those in know. Now that these unfortunate circumstances have taken place how does the administration move forward? Is there a plan to reopen a new hiring period and take application all over again or will they just sort through the ones that applied the first time and narrow it down to a few to bring in?

The AD has been out on leave for a little bit, I 'm sure this is the biggest hold up. I would think by this next week they will have a finalists list. Shouldn't be more than a couple more weeks now.

Covington isn't going anywhere. They will get a top coach and be right back in the thick of it.

Everyone bailing on Cleveland but the Head Coach that speaks volumes. Tyner appears to have all the pieces for a run to the Title this year.

Pretty sure the DC is going with the coach that just took the Ooltewah job, of course if they offered him the job I'm sure that could change things. It may end up being Vestal just not sure if that isn't to close to the Sequoyah experiment and we all see how that worked out. Gilley at SP is a veteran coach that has won a State Title with multiple Finals appearances in TN and GA and is thought of as one of the best DC's around but has never been a Head Coach, not sure why he would walk away from one of the best programs around to go to Central. Ryan is proven just wonder if past issues might be to much for some administrators to take a chance on.

Have heard one of the Asst. coaches at South Pittsburg has shown some interest in this job.

Young Sir, it’s hard to be good or efficient when you have a defense with as much speed and nasty as the Pirates have draped all on you. No one was beating the defense the Pirates displayed throughout the year. It’s pretty obvious by your comments that you have no real concept of football. Some of the fans for McKenzie stated that the interception by the Pirates #10 was only the second interception he’s thrown all year. Evident that he hasn’t seen the kinda speed the Pirates presented across the board. Smaller spaces/tighter windows. This game would have been a mercy rule if their QB was fully healthy.

If either of two South Pitt Asst. Coaches applied and pretty sure they did. If either of them didn’t make the cut then you may want to question your administrations ability to see talent. Cause after what I’ve seen this year them dudes can coach and scheme as good as any I've seen. Pretty evident they have the championship formula with the states best defense and just brought home a State Championship. May wanna get them boys on the phone pretty quick cause both them fellows will make great head coaches for someone.

Which of these two teams match up better personnel and scheme wise against South Pittsburg? Curious as to thoughts on which match up better.

Saw this job was open, not all that familiar with the program. Could this be an appealing job? Any athletes ? Community support? Pride in the program?

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