Who is the best coach ever in TN?

[reddevilfever]

Let us not forget about Carlton Flatt

[o21putt]

How about Boyce Smith from Springfield back in the day.

[bulldawgs#1]

Milan has been represented well by head coaches. John Tucker was obviously a great one. A few more years and another gold ball or two and you'll have to throw Coach Morris in there.

Edited October 11, 2006 by bulldawgs#1

[shs66]

I would have to say Jack Diggs....

[fieldgoal1]

Who beat who more as head coaches Jack Cain or John Tucker

 

Only problem with that is going to be that Cain had three seperate stints at Humboldt while Tucker was in Milan for 25 years.

 

Best coaches in West TN. Wow. Mansfield<Huntingdon>, Tucker<Milan-Humboldt>, Cain<Humboldt>, Pratt<Crockett>, Coady<Westview>, Morris<Milan>, Barnes<Union City> ... I am sure there are a few more.

[cornpone]

George Quarles from maryville and i would put ol Jack Diggs up there to.

JACK DIGGS!

[58Indians22]

Paul Bryant.

 

As a Vanderbilt assistant in the 40's.

 

And in the 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's when he would drop by to thump UT and VU.

 

In fact, he was the best in any state he ever entered.

 

RIP Bear. There won't be any more like you.

Don't forget that the Bear coached at Union University when they had a football team also.

[volcamry42]

A great man who was taken from us early and one heck of a coach.Earnest Smallen from Goodlettsville.The kids loved to play for him and it showed.

I agree. Coach Smallen was my coach back in the late 70's.

As soon as he came their,he turned the program completly around

and had Goodlettsville competing for a title year after year. It was a shame he

was taken from all of us way too early.

[salty]

Don't forget that the Bear coached at Union University when they had a football team also.

 

 

Exactly.

 

1936 - Bryant is hired at Union College in Tennessee to install the Notre Dame Box offense. He's making $170 a month when Frank Thomas calls him home to Alabama as an assistant coach, paying him $1,250 a year. Daughter Mae Martin is born.

 

1940 - Bryant goes to Vanderbilt as an assistant coach to Red Sanders after being recommended by sports writer and close personal friend Fred Russell. Bryant helps the Commodores upset the Tide 7-0 in 1941.

[snoball5278]

Paul Bryant.

 

As a Vanderbilt assistant in the 40's.

 

And in the 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's when he would drop by to thump UT and VU.

 

In fact, he was the best in any state he ever entered.

 

RIP Bear. There won't be any more like you.

listen man, i'm real sorry for doing this but i'll regret it if i don't.

 

Q. what does a alabama fan and a a bunch of maggots have in common?

 

A. they can both live off a dead bear for twenty years!!! GO VOLS!!

 

kudo's to bear for beating bama with vandy though, i didn't know that, good for him.

[salty]

listen man, i'm real sorry for doing this but i'll regret it if i don't.

 

Q. what does a alabama fan and a a bunch of maggots have in common?

 

A. they can both live off a dead bear for twenty years!!! GO VOLS!!

 

kudo's to bear for beating bama with vandy though, i didn't know that, good for him.

 

 

I'm surprised you were able to hear any dead Bear Bryant jokes with your head so far up inside Coach S's tail.

 

Someone must have been speaking pretty loud.

 

Listen man, I was going to regret it if I didn't reply. I'm real sorry too.

[BnL]

E.B. "Red" Etter coached Chattanooga Central to 9 state championships between 1943 & 1964. I believe he also coached a state championship team at Baylor in the early '70s. He is third on the all-time list of winningest H.S. coaches in Tennessee with 324 wins and a .752 win%.

 

#2 on the list is John Tucker with 332 wins

#1 on the list is Carlton Flatt, Brentwood Academy, with 334 wins and a .870 win percentage.