Coach of the year, so far...

[KILLACAM]

what are some candidates for coach of the year???

 

In my opinion, it is Coach Hester from La Vergne with a 5-1 record so far, should/could very easily be 6-0.....

[2priceless]

Coach Aric from Wilson Central. 6-0 and picked to be the last place team in a very hard region.

[tdntn]

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[flngrvy]

Have to go with two "homer" picks here. Coach Roger Perry at Mt. Juliet in his second year has the Bears hitting on all cylinders now. Folks sometimes forget that Robert Hill the Senior starting QB has never played there until this year after moving over from wideout. The linebackers are solid with one of the best one-two punches in the state in Matt Jones and Caleb Knox and the D-Backs are picking up where they left off last year and are on pace to surpass the 18 picks last season. The team is bigger, stronger and faster and the weight room work is really showing this year.

 

Second, Wilson Central's Trey Aric has to be given serious consideration. Did anyone see this team at 6-0? If you prognosticated that, go to Vegas.

 

Still half the season to go and a lot of football yet to be played. This is high school, anything can happen.

[RealFaith]

Coach of the year right now should be Bruce Lussier for Father Ryan He finally put the fight back in the Fightin??™ Irish, and they are now 7-0. The next three games are BIG, and they will help determine if he should receive this fine Title.

[sakkatak]

definitely dan mcgugin, mba. suddenly mba is a contender for the state title (still undefeated), despite an abysmal season last year

[Highschool101]

I would have to say MBA's new head coach who has MBA at 7-0, when they were 4-6 last year. impressive.

[utfootball08]

Depending on the last four games Tim Johnson at BGA. In a season where they moved up to the big leagues, they are sitting at 5-1, 1-1 in the region, and control their destiny.

[TheBigLebowski]

How about Brad Taylor over there at Bearden. With the loss of Bill Wilson in the off season coach Taylor really stepped up and has his team at 6-1 and the front runner of region 1-5a i think he could def. be a good candidate

[Tribefb]

It looks like there are a lot of great candidates in the state.I'll wait a couple of months and then decide who has done the best job.

[pioneer90]

How about dyersburgs new coach coming over from oc and dominating that region

[Trojan Fan]

Ken Netherland at St. George's is doing exactly what I thought he would do (and hoped he wouldn't!) when he came to St. G from Germantown. He's taking the Gryphons to the top of the DII small school ranks. In a few short years, he's put in his system and has a very good but not dominantly athletic team (unlike the St. G hoops team that has 2 high D1 players on it) and made them the class of the league so far. To put it more bluntly, they have some good talent but not so much to be THIS good. Great coaching job of taking your talent and using it to it's max.

 

They host SBEC this upcoming Friday night and Bishop Byrne in 4 weeks. Neither is likely to win but those are really the only obstacles left in a run to an undefeated regular season and likely run to a state championship. I honestly don't think SBEC has the defense nor does BB have the offense to beat the Gryphs.

 

...but our boys (SBEC) and coaching staff will give it everything they have to see if they can't pull one out. I'll also give props to SBEC coach Butch Veazey who has a squad, with an awful lot of juniors and sophomores and even a couple of frosh playing key roles, playing better than I ever thought they would. The upcoming 4 week stretch of St. G, Davidson, BB, and FACS will be a harrowing one, though.