WestTNroundball

Apparently Parsons was the guy. Had the kids involved, brought in a big freshman class due to having an AAU team with his feeder schools. I don’t think Rudesill ever did anything like that. It sounds like Bolivar made a huge mistake letting him go. I just wonder who ends up taking it over.

Was told by Berkley at Middleton that the new superintendent was going to make him teach at Middleton High School for a little over half the day and drive back to Bolivar to coach in the late afternoon. Why on Earth would you want a head basketball coach to do that?

Wow! Still no hire, must be going to go in house or going with Brian Reed. Was told there’d be a lot of kinks to work out if they hired Reed, it appears that that’s happening.

I don’t see Rudesill leaving JCM. I would say if they are going for experience that theyd go with Reed or Forsythe, Parsons could be an option especially with what he’s done with the middle school players already with Bolivars feeder schools and getting those girls playing spring ball together. He has shown that he grinds and works hard, but I very easily could see them hiring from within like the boys position. It will definitely be an interesting hire and one that many people will have their eye on. HC has a good group of incoming freshmen and another good class behind them.

The name Brian Reed is coming up a lot. Currently one of the middle school coaches at the private school in Savannah. He coached both south teams in the WTN Middle School All Star games and from what I’ve heard is a very solid coach. The new girls coach at Bolivar (Rob Parson) is from Hardin County and had a successful year there, took them from a 5-16 record to a 17-12 record, lost by 3 points to Scotts Hill in the region semis, Scotts Hill ended up going to the state tournament. Would he leave to go back to Savannah?

I’m hearing that Dyersburg will be hiring Coach Strayhorn who is one of the county middle school’s boys and girls coach. I know he was an assistant at Dyer County for awhile under McCord, I bet McCord will be mad about that especially if they are in the same district and competing for the same kids.

*Breaking News* Joel Ayers to USJ

Embry to South Gibson...

They lost to Haywood in a substate game back 5-6 years ago. Check your history sir.

If Catie is wanting to leave, USJ or Dyersburg would be a WAY better job that South Gibson. That would be a very bad move on her part in my opinion.

I think there’s some quality coaches who have interviewed there already. Maybe they are wanting someone with a lot of experience and they’re trying to hold out for that? I know of 2 people who are assistants who have interviewed there, one of whom has been named in this thread, who would be a quality head coach at South Gibson.

I can’t believe South Gibson hasn’t made a hire yet. Sounds like the coaches with head coaching experience are holding out for a bigger job (USJ, Bolivar, etc). They need to go on to the next person and pull the trigger on a quality candidate.

See I disagree. I don’t think Dancy is a very good coach in my opinion. Let’s call a duck a duck here. He went to the state tournament at Haywood with athletes. He went to Milan where he had some good athletes and had the potential to win games and he didn’t. Instead he blew up on the kids, would call 4 timeouts in the first quarter and go nuts. He didn’t believe in freshman games or a big jv schedule. How do you get better in that atmosphere? You don’t!

I’m heading Aaron Woods to North Side who was Liberty Boy’s HC