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Well hellfire... guess I should dust off the old playbooks and throw my non-teaching self in there. I had assumed HC was never a possibility.

Makes sense. So why can't someone who isn't in education at all be a Head Coach? Some guy who played back in 85' and approves loans from 7-3? Separation of powers. Let your teachers teach and your coaches coach.

My bad, yes, we are on the same page.

No argument there. Something has to be going on over there.

Do you really believe this? I think there is far more pressure on a principal to hire a quality math position, regardless of their coaching ability/willingness, than a PE position. Those who can't do, teach, and those who can't teach, teach gym is a funny old quote for a reason. PE teachers who don't coach are not good for a school.

I don't think this is true. There was a former OC that still teaches at Bearden, the HC that just stepped down, and I think a former track or girls basketball assistant? that is no longer coaching but still in PE. These all in addition to the supply PE job that just posted.

Although it "could" be done, I don't think it's a good look when your HC isn't in the building. I cannot imagine this happening. Also, I understand coaching and teaching not being linked in all of the other teaching positions in the building, but think it would be perfectly reasonable, and understandable, for high school PE teachers to be expected to coach something. PE teachers aren't pushing the growth & achievement needle.

I am confused. I didn't realize people taught PE that didn't coach a sport. I am all for schools focusing on academic rigor, and ensuring qualified candidates in the academic setting, but PE should be reserved for coaches. Period. Does Bearden really have a bunch of PE teachers not coaching? That seems to be the easy solution there...

I disagree. But, hey! That's what makes the world go round.

Agree that the offense needs the most work. I'd say it would be easier to find an OC to fix the offensive issues than to take a chance on an "offensive mind" and risk losing the DC to somewhere else. A better offense would have given Bearden 2-3 more wins this year. A better offense with the absence of their DC, they probably only beat Hardin Valley.

Reading all of the comments about how the administration doesn't care about football, why did the old HC resign? Isn't Bearden always right around .500 and in playoff contention? Was the community getting restless? Was the HC just over it? Anyways, wouldn't the DC be a prime option as a replacement? Don't know him or anything about him, but just looking at the performance of the defense, seems like he probably knows what he's doing. And if the school has no positions to offer external hires, wouldn't this make sense? First order of business would be fixing that god awful offense.