AlBundy

Understand there were at least 3 quits today and only 17 at practice. Has Scotty’s boy lost the team after only 3 games?

You got that right. When your school board "representative" looks you in the eye and says "why I voted the way I did is none of your business", and that attitude is backed by other school board members, you know your day is done. They apparently are only held accountable at the ballot box, and that day is coming...

Week One of the ‘Hire Scotty Newman’s Buddy Show’ went exactly as expected, other than the blank/indignant look on the Greenback representative’s face when asked why he didn’t support Ryan. It was obvious that they had prepared for certain questions, particularly the one about Clemmer being dismissed from Edmiston’s staff (“There’s no documentation of that”). Hah! Unless there’s a packed house next Thursday, including players and their parents, they’re gonna hire Scotty’s buddy, so we’ll be right back here in two more years, trying to resurrect the program.

You bet I will, and I’ll work to help anyone who runs against him. I wonder if the new principal realizes the bridges he has burned in the community?

Which county official or officials said no? If that question can be answered then we can identify exactly who hijacked the process.

Two things I learned this week - **The Indian carving next to the depot has a better chance of being elected to the school board than Moffett has of being re-elected. **I never thought I would see a Greenback principal who cared less about his relationship with the community than the last one. I was wrong.

If votes were submitted by email instead of at a called meeting, sounds to me like care was taken to see that the FOI didn’t apply to the process. When you can’t get a straight answer (or in some cases, any answer) about how votes were cast, you have to conclude there’s something to hide. This has been a hatchet job from the word go, carefully orchestrated by self-serving politicians and administrators.

The board said no, or one person on the board said no? If it was one person, was that person’s good buddy the final selection as coach? Just asking…

Friends In Low Places ??

Letting Loudon County politicians hire the Greenback coach is like letting the Crimson Tide Booster Club hire Tennessee’s coach. They’re going to make sure Greenback never embarrasses them again.

Oh, I thought that we ARE supporting the boys by wanting something better for them than a head coach with no experience and a part-time AD. People who are not confident in coaching staffs are known to take their kids to other schools and we are not deep enough for that to happen.

Nice first post! Credibility = 0

The so-called “search” committee should have to meet Greenback residents and explain this embarrassment.

Wow. Congrats to the pols and puppets on the search committee. Hired someone with no head coaching experience, no teaching certificate, but a good friend of some committee members. Couple that with a part-time athletic director, and the football program is in the dumpster. Even if there’s enough players to field a team next fall, there won’t be enough people in the stands to pay the stadium light bill.

You can disagree all you want, but numbers don’t lie. 6 Seasons prior to Ryan - .671 Overall win %, .625 District win %, .444 Playoff win % 6 Seasons under Ryan - .829 Overall win %, .971 District win %, .791 Playoff win % His teams lost 1 district game in 6 years, and that during Covid affected season where you were lucky to have enough players available to take the field. If you want to credit it all to superior athletes, maybe it’s worth considering that he helped to develop that talent into Mr. Football and D1 (actually 6) players, as well as attracted talent from outlying areas that wanted to benefit from his coaching. Did the talent just show up, or was it developed? Let’s also not forget Ryan’s contribution to our state championship baseball team. If you truly think that the kids are the priority here, talk to any of the ones who played for Ryan (including the ones still at Greenback) and see who they would rather have as coach. No contest.

100% the best thing that could take place. Unfortunately, political and administrative egos will never allow that to happen…

Why not Rayl? 2015-2020 Greenback Head Coach Greg Ryan Resume: Record 68-16 3 TSSAA 1A Runner Up (15, 16, 19) 1 TSSAA 1A Championship (17) 3 TN Titan Mr. Football Winners (16, 18, 19) ; 5 Consecutive Region Championships ('15-'19) 1 Baseball Championship ('19) Assistant Coach Greenback native, Greenback graduate, and all-state player at Greenback, as well as having extended family in the area. Rayl may be an excellent coach, but we want answers from the selection committee as to why this job was not Ryan’s to turn down in the first place, considering his resume. There is mischief afoot…

We already are the laughing stock of the county for allowing disgruntled politicians and out-of-touch administrators to take over the selection process. I hope all these guys that are getting offers are aware that the best players will be transferring to other schools and not having enough kids left to even field a team is a real possibility.

Lotsa lies being told in this fiasco. Feel sorry for the principal, the honeymoon is over for him. He was duped.

The “he would just be there a short time” excuse is the only defense offered by those who have a personal agenda against Ryan. Lots of jealousy exists because of the success he had here.

Ryan had an 80% success rate in getting to Cookeville and a gold ball on one of those trips. Maybe you can recommend a more qualified candidate?

Grapevine says that a Decatur County Riverside coach was offered the Greenback job and has turned it down. Greenback folks need to get on the phone with selection committee members and let them know in no uncertain terms that we will not accept anybody but Greg Ryan at this point. This is not a decision that needs to be made by disgruntled administrators or politicians and their puppets.

I wish the votes of the selection committee would be made public so we could see who supports our school and community. This shouldn’t be a secret process.

The folks that are doing all the negative campaigning against Ryan can’t put their long-standing personal grudges away for long enough to consider what another disastrous hire would do to this program in the long term. If another bad hire is made, the exodus of players will be such that Greenback won’t even be able to field a team. If the people who are trashing Ryan’s possible hire were as community oriented as they pretend to be, they would support the candidate that is obviously best for the school and the community.

Even with all that orchestration, there’s still no music. Roy thinks I’m joking but I’m not.