TryNotToSuck

General statement about all coaches. I don't know why it takes High School 2+ months to choose a coach. Especially in this situation, Morris was going to retire anyway regardless of how far they were going in the playoffs, and I would assume the administration knew that prior to their loss at Covington. I don't know why it takes 2 months to figure out a head coach. Milan isn't the only school, there are many schools that takes this long for some reason. My statement was towards coaches, because coaches are trying to get as much money as they can, without doing anything teaching related. I understand not teaching during the fall, but at least teach two classes during the spring. That's all. I'm not throwing a shot at Morris or anything like that.

This is odd, but I don't think Milan is that "valuable" of a job as it is compared to the past. Going .500 hurts, losing to Liberty in the playoffs hurts as well. In addition to that, you have a football stadium that is not on school property (yes, it's a few hundred yards away, but still), and the facilities probably aren't the best. No offense. Amazing and passionate fan base. However, if the school board is not willing to open up their checkbooks, then that practically means there is going to be a lack of support for the future coach. Think about this, I know USJ is a private school, and therefore, I doubt they release how much money teachers/coaches received based on salary because they are a private school. But USJ was able to bring in Rusty Bradley from Knoxville, and all the Knoxville people said it was a home run hire and that the Bruins will win a state title before the year 2020 if his offensive scheme works, which fits at USJ. In order for USJ to get Rusty Bradley, they had to pay the price. I guarantee you Rusty got a pay raise, in addition to that, he wanted things like a new play clock, upgrades to the practice field, and a new locker room (they added TV's and electronic gaming systems) for the players. They paid the price to get Rusty Bradley. Rusty knew the expectation is to win state championships at USJ, nothing less. Poor USJ, they got Rusty Bradley, did all these things to upgrade their facilities, only to see Rusty leave after year one. But USJ supported Rusty. I don't know what to expect from Milan, but saying that you want a home run hire, and not doing whatever it takes to bring in the guy, sounds a little hypocritical. However, I don't think it's fair for a football coach to get paid significantly more than teachers, and not teach at all. I mean, do something in the offseason for once. High School football has a long offseason.

McNairy Central's coach Franks is probably the only one. He is also the head baseball coach down in Selmer and the AD. So I'm assuming he's an administrator. Can't image a baseball coach, a football coach, and an Athletic Director being a teacher on top of that.

So if Woods is apparently the new head coach at Milan (or will be), I guess I'll start a thread call "Milan's job opening in 2020." I understand college coaches leaving like crazy to different universities, but this dude's resume is absurd and non-commitment.

Do they get bonuses for winning? I think you'll probably see that happen in a few years.

More classifications? NO. Look at football. Shot clock? Yes, but who's going to pay for the Shot Clock?

Talent? or Team wise?

Somebody got to win state.

Say what you want about officiating, but officials are just like teachers. Regardless of how many years an official has been officiating, they’ll always deal with 14-18 year old kids, which are way smarter, faster, stronger, and bigger than the athletes in the last century. Sometimes, officials can’t keep up with the athletes (both on the basketball court and football field), and they know it. However, they want to keep officiating for as long as they want, which is understandable, before reality kicks in and they call it quits. However, I won’t sit here and call a veteran official (10+ years) more “quality” than an official that is less than 10 years in service. Time shouldn’t be the determine factor whether an official is a “quality” official or not.

Hey, West Tennessee, let's just go ahead and cancel the 2018 football season!!!

Totally disagree. Officials leaving saying that the "coaches, fans, and players" are the reason why there are less officials than the past is simply bologna, BS, whatever. I'm not buying that, and I will never buy that. It's a SCAPEGOAT! simple. An officials job is to ignore the criticism from fans. It's their job, simple. If an official feels like he/she made the right call and gets booed, or criticize by coaches/players, why bother? The official felt like he/she made the right call. To sit here and blame it all on players, coaches, and fans is garbage and asinine. Sorry, just not buying it.

Agree and this is something I want. If you tell an official that you have to run a certain distance in a certain mile, then you'll piss officials off and they'll quit. A lot of these officials enjoy calling games and do nothing in the offseason to improve themselves as officials. Then, if someone questions themselves as "why didn't you run or maintain your shape in the offseason?" The official will come back and say "Well heck, we're only getting paid $95 a game." What I just said primarily is to the older officials. If they younger officials maintain their shape and physicality, then they will probably won't be an high school official for long, they'll move up to the college level when they're more experience. Point is, officials will do anything and everything to get more pay in games, but less work (off the field/court) to do.

So this is a weird post of what I am about to say because I officiate Football in a local association, but I agree with points on fans side and the referees side. First let me say this, I could be wrong, but I don't think I am wrong. In basketball, they have camps during the summer at UTM where officials can come up to Martin and work a few summer games. If you attend those camps, a referee eligibility to call postseason games are still available. If you don't attend those camps, a referee lose the eligibility to call those postseason games. So I do believe basketball does have camps where they force referees to call games in order to obtain their postseason eligibility. They totally leave the option up to the referee. Second, assigners are a problem because they will have "their buddies" that'll get all the games and leave others out to hang. Send officials to schools far away knowing that game will be a blowout. They'll do this to tell the official "you haven't earned the right to call bigger games" while they're buddies are just as good as the official that calls the bad games. It can be very political at times. Third, there's no film, well, in football there isn't. Officials call there games, and they leave. They'll receive their evaluation score if they're being evaluated. However, there's no game film for the official that just called his/her game. Why? I don't know. The technology in this world and we're less than 30 days from entering 2018, I'm sure this is something that can happen. There are officials that have no access to the game film that they just worked.

Spring Hill is apparently looking for a head coach. Major Wright is leaving Raleigh Egypt and will now be Central’s head coach. So the Pharrohs now have an opening.

Yeah, good luck with that. It’s an easy no for me, not a hard no. #AnEasyNo

Just curious, who? Try to give me a hint where it doesn't "leak" any info. I'm kinda curious to see where Humboldt goes from. No excuse for not competing with Huntingdon, Dresden, and now Lake County for 1A playoffs.

Milan has an opening.

Seems like he's getting bored. Does he ever think about going somewhere else? This is starting to become like UCONN's women's basketball team.

Congrats to Springfield. Underdogs this week, but found a way to win. Now go beat Greeneville!

We haven't hit Thanksgiving yet. Who are the two teams that'll finish above the Hawks?

Tennessee has had their fair share of great coaches, but failed to maintain them. What I am about to say is a shot at Jackson-Madison County Schools. Jackson have four high schools, all four schools sent a team to the state tournament. All these athletes and coaches work constantly hard, and the school-board does not do anything in terms of updating facilities or congratulating the teams. There's no reward for the athletes and coaches that work hard. Therefore, coaches see no support, they leave. Liberty had Tyler Turner who coached football, and they went to the 3A state championship game against Alcoa. Granite, Turner was going to leave anyway, but he left near Memorial Day to head down to 6A Olive Branch (MS). Olive Branch went 0-11 in 2016, now they're 12-1 and has a game Friday. School systems are not supporting their athletes and coaches. Second, there are coaches that are stubborn and want to have this offense and will run this offense regardless of the players. Coaches need to run their offense based off the players they have. But they won't. If I know I'm a receiver, I want to go to a school that throws the ball. It utilizes talent. But there's a lot of offenses that has a certain offense that ruins a player and his talent. Third, I don't think the state of Tennessee do a good job of developing players. But that's just me. Fourth, our playoff system is so run down, that every team pretty much gets in the playoffs, and you see us (posters) complain saying that this class or that class is weak, because of the playoffs system. Majority of the time, the playoffs really determines whether if this class is strong or not.

I’ll take that back, West Tennessee has had a terrible year of football.

LOL. It would interfere with soccer/volleyball and girls basketball. The amazing thing about having softball in the spring is that is girls can play volleyball/soccer, then basketball, then softball. Some smaller schools need those athletes.

Agreed, and they also lost their head coach, Baird (I think that's how you spell it) to Independence over the summer.

They have a really big WR that's no joke. #23 can't be taken lightly either. Offense will score. Defense is flawed, but the Cards are a gritty team. They'll compete and play hard. Is Beech offense the same from Jalen's days? Are y'all that team just runs it all the time?