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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

Good hire. Nowhere to go but up!

I completely agree, but we are past spring ball at this point. If there’s not a hire till May then a full summer will be what is needed this summer. 10 days of camps and playdays, playing as many games as possible, practices, working with the middle school coach. Having the kids play in a fall league and setting up a league for his feeder system. There’s a lot of things that need to be in place for whoever gets the job if they want to do it right!

I think the middle school coach at Milan really deserved the position. He does a good with that middle school program over there, knows the kids better than anyone else, and seems to get the most out of them. Really hard to believe that he wasn’t hired!

Just makes the TSSAA looks powerless. What is this teaching the kids but you don’t have consequences for your actions.

Can you share with us the facts of what the comments were about? I have read the police reports and have read the TSSAA letters that show hard concrete factual information. It’s already been proven that there was no contact between Shields and McCord. The video footage from Arlington High School showed that. The facts that we do know. We know who the attacker was and his relationship with Shields. We know that several players were involved with the incident as either a bystander, as someone enticing the violence, or by being in the getaway car. I’ve also seen Shields statements by the police where she contradicts herself. She started out saying her son wasn’t there and then he left early etc, and then saying this is my only son and he didn’t do this. When in reality that was not the case. She started out with the whole thing not being truthful. And then her son gets arrested the next day and was charged with assault which from what I’m reading and seeing in reports will probably go to assault with a weapon. These are FACTS. But I would love to hear these statements from McCord that were said and I would like to know how that you know these are facts and not a 14 year olds spun words to Shields, who could have spun them to her players and family. Have you ever played the game where you put everyone in a line and you tell a one sentence story. And you tell the next person the story one time and then it trickles down to the next person. Have you seen how much changes between person to person when the first knows the truth and then the last person tells something completely different. Could be the same case here. All I know is the facts of the situation. All I know is a man has been hospitalized and not working and he is being viewed as the problem and the person who did everything. And please tell me why Shields son and family members started this whole thing and justify their actions. You can’t do it! It sucks for the girls and I totally agree with that, but the actions of their leader and the actions of a few on the team are going to cost them their season. It sucks but it’s life. You have consequences for your actions. and it’s funny how people from Arlington are making accounts just to say “positive things” about Coach Shields. I’ve always thought she was a great person and could be a great role model to the girls of Memphis. But her actions on this incident and her actions with the incident that occurred at Dyer County with her profanity and allowing her players to cuss the Dyer county players and staff was uncalled for. As you saw in the videos earlier she was accessed a technical foul and never sat down the rest of the game, she should have been tossed in the 3rd quarter. There’s no doubt that she is a good coach but she has to learn to cool her jets when it comes to her actions

Are you sure this is fact and not hearsay? I’m pretty sure that now that their season is over there is no practice, and if McCord is hurt as bad as everyone says with a concussion and all, I doubt he’s even at school.

So the son admits that he did it and he admits that it wasn’t over things that were said during the week that lead up to the game between the DC staff and their players. Therefore, nothing was said to Shields. From my perspective there was no altercation or exchange of words at Arlington high school that night. The report says that Shields’ son, was caught on camera changing clothes to all black and shows him waiting for the DC crowd to leave. It is on record that it took the DC fans, players, and coaches over a half hour to leave the locker room and gym. This proves that it was premeditated. Also the report states that the son ran towards the DC group after they had walked outside so he was running at them from behind. No doubt in my mind that he did this and had bad intentions for hours maybe even days prior. Also in the police report it says that the tag number of the getaway car for the son was given to the authorities, and it came back as one of the Arlington players and several of them were identified as being at the scene and fleeing in this vehicle. You have to remember this was done with a group of around 30-40 people, so there were a lot of eye witnesses. You can spin this as much as you want, and it sucks that it happened and that the girls can take continue on, but Arlington needs to look at its leadership. This is the 2nd occurrence that had to do with fighting. Also Arlington was popped twice for playing 2 ineligible players. One from MS and one from a private school. Maybe Shields isn’t the answer and they need to part ways with her. That seems like the best play for AHS. I hate it for their girls though, but you have to lay the blame on their leadership.

Commercial just posted that Arlington has been removed from the playoffs. Collierville goes straight to state. Hardin County wins their region and plays Houston. Do you think the state should push Dyer County through to play Collierville?

I’ve heard that one of their player drove the boy who attacked McCord away and that several other Arlington players were enticing the fighting. It was said that several girl players were with the men who approached the Dyer county group where the minor physically assaulted McCord

Way to join 45 minutes ago and make an argument about this. No matter how much you want to cover it up or try to justify anything. This should have never happened to McCord whether you like him or not. And the fact that it was coach Shields son is unacceptable. She is liable, Arlington high school is liable, and the TSSAA should be liable. I’d hate to be Chris Duncan right now. If he doesn’t play this the right way, I here that he may lose his job.