DeadlyCatch

And it's always the same guys talked about on here. How could any new coach be successful when the fans are already disappointed that Rankin or Bowers didn't show up at their school January 1? Its the opposite problem in Nashville where the same guys get retread over and over again with the same results over and over again. It seems like everybody over 60 in that town has been the head coach at three or more Nashville public schools and never been past the second round of the playoffs.

Might be worth it.

Also, William Blount is open.

Don't forget Soddy Daisy. There will be more very soon once these start filling up. It's gotta be tough on the group of names that get mentioned on here for every job that opens up. Rankin is the fan favorite for every one of these, according to this message board.

Apparently only two of us have noticed. I guess they are gonna have to start selling bikinis.

Maybe I'm the only one who noticed this, but it's really tough to focus on reading the posts with that girl on the bad idea t-shirts ad on the side over there. Certainly not complaining, but the amount of time I spend reading on here xcscscscsxscsxscssxx jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj....... Wonder if it has anything to do with...... jhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh What? Oh...ahm....just an observation.

HA! Now THAT's funny....go north, young man.

Yes. Looks that way. All those Nashville coaches better dust off the resume and get ready to be turned down for an interview. Only two even have a prayer at discussing that one.

Indy was in the playoffs, but the other two non-playoff 6A teams in that district were terrible. Everybody in that district made the playoffs except Ravenwood and Franklin. You had a really good Brentwood team, two really bad teams in Franklin and Ravenwood, two 5A teams (so they don't figure in the 6A part) and then Indy. Of course they made the playoffs. There were few scenarios where they don't get in. They recruited a good player and, with him as their feature guy, won just enough to get in. Then they got smacked around. Murfreesboro is a hot bed of recruiting (ask Ensworth) so maybe he can use that recruiting ability to help his coaches win just enough there as well.

A letter from the previous principal stating that they are clear to play will suffice if transferring and not moving residence. Current rule interpretation as based on a case this fall is that if a student is suspended or expelled at a school, therefore transferring to another school in any zone in this state, the principal of the original school has the right to refuse to write the letter of athletic calendar or eligibility and may, therefore, deny that athlete the right to play a their new school for up to one calendar year from their last date of competition in a TSSAA sanctioned athletic event.

Mathers is from Blackman. It's still the Rebels, not the Black Bears. There is a Black Bear on the sidelines, much like UT is the Volunteers and has a dog on the sidelines. Calling them the Black Bears would be like calling UT the Hounds. Hugh Freeze runs a spread very similar to both Chip Kelly at Oregon and Gus Malzahn in terms of packaging plays and high tempo combined. I think the idea is to use multiple RBs as inside receivers and tailbacks (F, H, Z interchangeable) so you can run the wildcat, jet and screen packages without substituting, much like Auburn did when Cam Newton was there under Malzahn. That lets you put your bigger receivers (x, y) on the outside and/or swap to run seams and verts. Full speed, no huddle, no sub.

This is the closest poll to reality that I have seen. Whitehaven is tough, but I believe that they would split with Maryville five-five out of ten games. That was a great game in the 6A final! I don't think MUS or MBA belong ahead of Mt. Juliet and Brentwood HS either. Here is mine: 1. Whitehaven 1a. Maryville 3. Ensworth 4. Beech 5. Alcoa 6. CAK 7. Fulton 8. siegel 9. Mt. Juliet 10. Brentwood HS Just my opinion.

This is hilarious. I live on the other end of the state from you and have no dog in the fight. I don't even know what county you are in. Furthermore, I couldn't name one coach, teacher, administrator or fan associated with your school so don't think for even one second that I am in any way related to your school. If I were associated with your school, past or present, I certainlly wouldn't acknowledge that publicly after what yall wrote on here. I was merely commenting with some very good advice, as is my right to do. After all, you post a bunch of trash talk and garbage on a public forum, you are gonna get some responses from the public. If you choose to ignore it and continue to think you know it all, go right ahead. You live in a tiny speck on the map and there is a big bright world out there. Sometimes learning from people in other areas can be a good thing (especially since you are going to need to find a coach from out here). Apparently this is not the case when you have such an extensive list of championships and SEC talent like THE Soddy Daisy. Since you have all the answers yourself and know that simply mowing the field will surely attract top coaches from other areas you go right ahead with your coach bashing and public disply of EXCEEDINGLY lofty expectations. I'm sure coaches will just line up to be there. PS: if you don't want people to comment on your posts you should get your own forum. Good luck!

A little bird told me that those were definitely NOT Freshmen. A few may have been, but most were not. If a school with 800 kids fields that many Freshmen, they should have well over 100 on their varsity team. I was told by this same bird that in a particular very important game, one of their players yelled out "I aint losin to no Freshman!" It's hard to type when I'm laughing, but that is a direct quote. I aksed the bird, "why didn't you ask him why he was playing FRESHMAN FOOTBALL?"

Tom Landry is, posthumously, the new HC at Lebanon. The OC is Tom Osborne. The DC is Jimmie Johnson. Jerry Jones is the New AD. Roger Goodell is the new Executive Principal. Tony Romo is the new QB. They will lose to evryone in their district in embarassing fashion. Done deal....

Wait, there is a paycheck in there? I get paid to be a teacher, but i earn about 60 cents an hour (literally) for coaching. Last year I was coaching every day from July 19 through the last day of school at four hours per day and a total supplement of right at nine thousand dollars. I knew this going in. No coach is doing this for the money because if they are they don't stay long. I'm totally fine with the heat because I am used to it and have chosen a place to coach where the parents are VERY supportive in spirit, but we do all the work. It's a great place to coach and I love it here. The parents support us, the kids, the team and travel well. We were in the playoffs this year and worked our tails off for it. It has been very rewarding for us and the kids because we all chose to come here based on that support and a work ethic that the kids have bought into long ago. That said, I'm simply offering you good advice on what good coaches are looking for. You won't get a good coach because they have to be an idiot to put up with what you're defending on here.

There are multiple programs that were in the playoffs in 5A and 6A where the coaches do ALL the work you have mentioned....field paint, cleaning locker room, washing uniforms, equipment repair, preparing the team meal, driving the bus, cleaning after the game, pep rally organization, advertising, game programs, travel schedules, EVERYTHIUNG...PLUS coach the players and win games....go ask Whitehaven's staff. The difference is that the parents appreciate them and support them. Doing these things doesn't earn you the right to destroy the program from the inside out and undermine the efforts of a guy who is underpaid and trying to help YOUR KID! These coaches aren't coming to your job and screwing you up or undermining your efforts or scheming to get YOU fired. They ARE trying to help your kid learn about life and maybe get a FREE college education out of the deal. You should try doing your job in front of even as few as ten people (much less ten thousand) who watch your every move and criticise you at every turn, calling you an idiot and denegrating you in front of your kid. See how you feel about what you are doing to these guys. Then decide if you want that for yourself. Coaches go in expecting all this, but it doesn't make their job any easier and they still love the game and try to help your kid. Try helping THEM help your kid by supporting them in spirit more than deed. It will change your program for the better.

You are still missing the point. If there are parents scheming to get him fired during the game week one, there is no way he can win so all the help from the parents is pointless. You want something (wins), then work really hard to prevent it? That makes no sense. You expect a coach to come in who will energize the community so that you can take that energy and kill it in the stands on friday night? Wow, this is even worse than I thought. Look back at what you are saying. You think that because you paint the field or sweep the locker room that you are going to get a coach who feels good about you denegrating everything he does? You think that other coaches will say "wow, I would love to be there because I could avoid painting the field in exchange for having parents convince their kid I'm an idiot so they won't be coachable"? The atmosphere you are creating, then arguing in favor of, is absolutely opposite the atmosphere required to win games. I don't know squat about Soddy Daisy other than the fact that it sounds like a bunch of little kids arguing over candy then throwing it away once they get it. This is something coaches talk about all the time. Word will get around about what the parents are like there and people will stomp a mudhole in each other trying to get away from there. Anyway, again, good luck with the coaching search and maybe you will get someone who just sits back and takes it until you get to argue all this again. Good coaches will take painting the field, cleaning the locker room and doing every bit of the work over what you are offering. Side note: In large urban districts like Metro Nashville and Memphis the coaches do all the work you say your parents do....go ask Whitehaven's coaches what they do every day. Reduction of parent headaches, and parent SUPPORT are a huge deciding factor in the job search process for a coach.

Agree that the coach is liable for the wins, but what had the parents done to undermine the season by that point? Had the kids turned on him because of the parents? How could you expect him to overcome the opinions of a stadium full of parents to win over kids who have known him for a year? We are talking about an underpaid educator who you expect to do a million dollar job of teaching, coaching, fundraising and selling. I'll flip it for ya. If there was total support and the parents loved him, then he still lost...he isn't getting the job done and should be let go.....after the season and an evaluation by the admin. Maybe the admin has some issues with identifying good candidates. The reality is somewhere in between all this and if you care you should look at the whole picture because you probably won't be getting any candidates you like with the way your parents and fans are acting. Perhaps the old coach should be allowed to come to the job site of every parent involved and undermine their business or scheme ways to get them fired. Good luck.

That depends on the complaining and what they are saying to the kids I am trying to work with to win ball games. Then there is the scheming to destroy the program so the coach gets fired. Thats just stupid because you only hurt your kid. I would be glad for the interest and would love the support, but what is being said on here and in your stands is only hurting the program....that every coach can do without. If your HC is not the right guy then let the administration evaluate him at the end of the season and move on. Don't undermine your kid's season and possibly destroy a guy's career based on what you saw in the first half of game one. That's just stupid. Hey, I have no dog in this fight because I don't live anywhere near Soddy Daisy and I don't have a kid there. I'm just a guy who was scrolling through reading whats up with a program I have heard alot about from some old timers I have worked with. So you can take my advice or leave it. It just sounds to me like there are some people who want to win and others who want to prevent good coaches from winning and get them fired (in this economy, are you serious?). It also looks like the parents are out of control, putting their own self centered ignorance ahead of the well being of their child. Maybe I should shut up and schedule your school for next year.

Ahm....no What y'all have to understand is that by undermining the Coaches you are actually screwing over yourself and your kid, plus the kids coming up who want to win. If you want your kid to win and be successful, shut your mouth and let the coaches coach. You don't have to like them, but they are one of the most important influences your young man will remember when he is thirty and has to choose between all sorts of things, good and bad. Every former HS Football player can remember their coach. When Mom and Dad influence that memory because they believe their opinion is both informed and important they are dead wrong. They aren't in staff meetings, watching film, game planning, scheming, teaching techniques, instructing individual positions on their assignments and making calls based on their educated study of the opponent. You don't know who the weak guard blocks on a 27 trap versus a 4-3 because you don't even know where then seven hole is! So, if you are undermining those efforts you are preventing the team from winning....hurting your son and his friends, and showing your neighbors what a moron you are. You wanna win, embrace the new coach and his staff. Support the booster club and defend the coaches' actions as if they were your own. Help your son understand that the coach is making the best decision he can based on the information he finds on film and in studying the opponent and his own players. Tell your son to be on time and pay attention in practice. Encourage them to workout and eat right in the offseason, or play other sports. Get involved in a positive way, thinking of your son, not yourself. NO COACH EVER TRIED TO SCREW OVER YOUR KID OR LOSE A GAME! THEY WANT TO WIN MORE THAN YOU DO BECAUSE THEIR HOUSE PAYMENT DEPENDS ON IT!! Which is why the good ones don't take jobs where the fan base, especially the parents, are not supportive of the coaches and the program. Nobody playing this weekend is going to show up with 100 fans....they all travel well because good coaches take good jobs. Good jobs mean good fans and great parents so they will all bring fans who will cheer and support. Make yours a good job and you will win. Right now you are one of the worst jobs I have seen in a while. The opinion that matters is that of the people in the administration at the school and the coaching staff. If the parents aren't part of the solution, they are the whole problem.

Actually, after I posted the question I did go to the other discussion and posted on there regarding the same things you are saying. Totally agree with you. I cannot imagine why we, as coaches, put up with it sometimes, but we do.

As a HS Football coach, after listening to yall blast the crap out of your recently departed coaches, the available players, the administration and the future of the program, I can't imagine why any experienced Head Coach worth hiring would want to come to your school. Honestly, I haven't read much on this thread that would make me think, "hey that might be a great place to rebuild a once proud tradition." Instead, Im thinking more like, "Glad I don't have to listen to that garbage from parents and fans every week when the real problem is that they are in the kids' heads so bad I cant find space for my playbook." It's HS football people....it's not like you're gonna get the latest line from Vegas or anything. Grow up....graduate from the school and let your kids take over and enjoy it....it's not about YOU. Let the coaches coach. Let the kids PLAY. Be supportive, not destructive. The kids see what gets written on here and it affects their perception of their coaches. All because you guys wanna fight over who can be the first to post the latest "inside scoop" or tell about "this one friday i was there and saw the coach blah blah blah....". Meanwhile the coach is using every technique in the book to try and get through to his kids, but they ignore him because you say he is an idiot....on their own agenda they are 11 individuals and cannot possibly win....so it looks like poor coaching and they lose. So you blame the coach. Whose fault is it really? i have found that when I'm on the outside looking in and see/hear fans or parents going on about how bad the coach is it's usually a good, knowledgable coach who is busting his butt to win....meanwhile the parents are undermining him from home by calling him an idiot and teaching their kid to listen to them....do their own thing....dad knows best. Dad don't know the plays, the system or the philosophy but he is coaching him up in the garage that night. Jr loves Dad and the attention Dad is showing him so he listens. So Jr is now a crappy player because Dad taught him wrong...cause he don't know SQUAT. If you don't play Jr, Dad is offended because he "taught the boy" or "coached him up last night". Dad yells from the stands in a half drunk haze that you're an idiot and should be fired so his buddies parrot the cry. It snowballs to their kids and then to the younger kids who don't even play. Now the program is shot because one hot head moron thought his dumb, forklift drivin butt knew more football than the High School Head Coach who actually played the game, started and faced the pressure of playoff football.....while Dad was picking his nose or poppin zits on the bench. Good job, DAD.... So go ahead....sell the program some more. See what kind of coach you get. You can ruin his job as well so your son can lose with pride knowing his Dad coached him up real good. Twenty years from now the two of you can sit on the couch with a beer and talk about how he ALMOST made it big time. Meanwhile, the HC you COULD have had, who could have won state and gotten your boy to UT, is reading your drivel right now and thinking of staying where he is. Idiots......

Why did he resign? Any info on reasons or link to a news story?