DeadlyCatch

Yes, but they do have workout times after school for off season "conditioning". Also, there are certain other "enhancements" that are available which are very effective when the student athlete goes to workout with his personal trainer at D-1. When your parents pay for a personal coach and all the trimmings who cares if the school has weightlifting?!

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Weightlifting is offered to everyone and is not a sport specific class. As far as after school lifting, its the same everywhere in Metro. Its always one or two coaches who work with whoever shows up. TSSAA rules say it cannot be mandatory. You can check all that on the football schedule found on their webpage (www.TSSAA.org). You are, however, allowed to offer it. If there are weights in the building....and some of the kids want to come lift....and a coach is willing to open the weight room....I bet that there is nothing the school board can do about it if they come lift. It is backed by TSSAA. Before you say it, the argument that the board says none can do it because all can't do it is BS. It's BS because you aren't competing just against your county, you are competing against schools from other school districts and you must keep your field level with theirs to be competitive. Somebody should have checked that out before taking the job.

You are correct, sir.

LMAO....this is just flat out fun to read. The background dynamics are amazing. People criticising and slamming other people when they, unknowingly, are actually slamming the person to whom they are responding. Then to be able to keep your cool in response to a person who just slammed you in public....now that is self control at its best. Good stuff! It's gonna be a metro assistant who is very similar to Darnell. No way anybody with HC experience applies, unless they have been under a rock the last five years in this district. Anyone who knows anything about this principal would never risk the career death nail that will come from working under her, much less working with kids who don't care, a program with ZERO money (literally), outdated and busted equipment and facilities that are rapidly deteriorating due to lack of care and maintenance. Hunters Lane will be another Stratford by the time this hire gets run out of there. For those who think that this is a great opportunity, think again. The people who were telling you this is not a good place to be are VERY familiar with Metro, have coached against Hunters Lane for years, know the coaches who came out of there and every one of them have been in this area long enough to know that Hunters Lane is on the verge of becoming an unsalvageable graveyad for the next coach who steps up. Five years ago HL was a potential gold mine. District Championships, huge playoff games, fans showing up, tailgating in the parking lot, great atmosphere. The band was pretty good. Clay Myers had that place rolling and won principal of the year for the WHOLE STATE. Then this new principal came in and totally rearranged everything. As for Hillsboro, the old principal let it become a zoo. The current principal came in and cleaned it up, changed the direction of the school, as a whole, for the better. Folks I know who work there say it is night and day different, mostly because of the principals. Football is a HUGE school morale booster when you win and the EP knows it because he used to be a coach. Got rid of the HC and staff who had tanked a state title program, replace them with a proven winner and bring in a staff with some leadership ability and football knowledge. Change school morale and the kids buy in....road to success and it appears to be working. The fact is a principal is going to create opportunity if they believe in what you are doing. Obviously that staff did nothing to make the principal believe in what they were doing. Looks to me like the new staff has turned some heads and seems to be moving in the right direction. When you hire a HC who has a history of success they can get more doors to open because they have tangible proof that they know what they are doing, versus a new HC who doesn't have state titles and a ton of wins to back them up. It's a shame that Moreno has to get dragged through the mud on this again because some people want to take pot shots at the guys who replaced them and cry about their own inconceivable failure. Good luck to HL, hate it for Darnell. He is a good dude. Not sure how "someone" twisted this into a discussion of Hillsboro, but sour grapes should never be shared.