wolfman

Hardly anybody knows about this small school memphis rivalry except for people associated with the schools. It's become very heated over the past few years. They were just recently able to resume playing each others because games against in each other in all sports have the potential to become ugly. FACS plays at TR on their senior night this season.

1) if this was planned, it was planned VERY badly. I've heard of coaches throwing things to get kids attention, but hurling a 10 pound projectile in a closed room full of kids is pretty stupid. So stupid it probably disqualifies you for any type of leadership postion. 2) If he had told the parents immediately what had happened instead of letting them wonder why their kid didn't come out for the second half, my guess is that most of this could have been avoided. See stupid comment above. 3) Those of you lamenting the passing of the good old days when coaches carried paddles to practice and such think for a minute. If your kid comes home and says he got paddled for putting too much weight on his hand in a 3 point stance, you'd be steamed. And you should. Maybe those days weren't that great. 4) True, football is as close as we have to combat and the armed services in civillian life. In the armed services, if you injure a fellow soldier being an idiot, chances are you may spend time in the brig. 5) I do feel for the coach. In one instant, his career is pretty much over. If he could have put his own head in the path of that helmet, my guess is he'd do it in an heartbeat. Sorry this is so long. After reading some of these posts that almost made the kid out to be the villian, I just had to respond. wolf

...if you buy an external modem for your laptop on the road because the com port dies and you have no way to log on to coacht ....if you search the girls basketball threads because you just KNOW someone is going to have a Rick Insell insult ....if you log on at midnight and you're NOT shocked to find 15 other people logged on with you

FACS actually went 7-3 last season, not 6-4. Sorry about that. By the way, Facs pounded St. Benedict by at least 28 points during the spring.

I wouldn't count out FACS here in Memphis as well. Returning essentially the entire team that went 6-4 last year in their first year back in TSSAA ball. Should be an interesting fall.

Jim, my daughter's team here in Collierville will be looking to play tournaments this fall. I'll pass the info along to the coach (the current 12 and under coach is moving up). Would be neat to have my daughter play in the same park where I spent a lot of time growing up (I'm originally from Shelbyville and at one time actually lived in "doolittle" ) Tim Baker