Jump to content

Columbia Central


BASEBALLFAN11
 Share

Recommended Posts

Janay was sick not suspended! Check with the ER in Clarksville on Sunday night before you repeat what you read in the newspaper. Media makes mistakes if you didn't know!

 

Those low down newspaper reporters, they have done it again. I'm heading down to the ER right now. I'm sure they will release the records of everyone that's been through the ER. Get real. Why would they make up a suspension story?

 

The media makes mistakes, but everything posted on a sports message board is the absolute gospel truth.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 60
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

I'd like to reiterate my earlier sentiment that this is a question of integrity. Even if the coach was the worst in the history of high school sports, a person should not quit their team this late in the season. Go ahead and talk about the coach, complain, whatever you feel is necessary, but don't quit on your TEAMMATES. They are the ones you are letting down.

 

Now I know that some of you who are close to the situation are going to come back and say "oh but her team supports her decision" but I don't see any of the rest of them quitting. Why? Because they have chosen to stick with their team until the end of the season.

 

Integrity...Responsibility...Leadership...qualities that are lacking in many of today's youth.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Janay was sick not suspended! Check with the ER in Clarksville on Sunday night before you repeat what you read in the newspaper. Media makes mistakes if you didn't know!

 

The Leaf Chronicle today quotes APSU coach Carrie Daniels saying that Janay Armstrong was suspended for the TSU game, but will be back for the game Saturday. I guess now the coach is in on the media conspiracy. I must confess, I never did check out my sources at the ER.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I have to say that I know Coach Moore very well and I know Vanessa very well. I am sure the argument between the 2 got very heated BUT I have to agree that you don't just quit on your team this late in the season. I have a son that plays high school ball and they do get yelled but this is not elementary school ball, they need to grow up and stop expecting their parents to go in and try to take care of everything for them.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I'd like to reiterate my earlier sentiment that this is a question of integrity. Even if the coach was the worst in the history of high school sports, a person should not quit their team this late in the season. Go ahead and talk about the coach, complain, whatever you feel is necessary, but don't quit on your TEAMMATES. They are the ones you are letting down.

 

Now I know that some of you who are close to the situation are going to come back and say "oh but her team supports her decision" but I don't see any of the rest of them quitting. Why? Because they have chosen to stick with their team until the end of the season.

 

Integrity...Responsibility...Leadership...qualities that are lacking in many of today's youth.

 

 

Everybody knows that coaches are going to yell and that is understandable, but to talk down to them and tell them that you can say whatever you want to say to say them because you are their coach and they are your student athletes is going too far. You are right this is high school and now is the time they have to learn responsibility and integrity, but no one is paying them to go to school so they don't just have to take whatever is said to them and grin and bear it.

 

As far as letting her team down and none of them quitting, I have heard that over half the team wanted to boycott, but couldn't get all the parents to come together since there were only two regular season games left.

 

Also I heard that when LaTeira went to the coach to tell her that she wanted to quit, she was very undecided about the situation, but that GREAT COACH as you all have said didn't even try to persuade her not to quit. Instead, her response was that she can quit if she wants to but she had already decided to suspend her for the Giles Co game anyway. Now, I don't think this is their first run in so why wait until the end of the year to suspend her from a game. It almost sounds like to me that you just suffered a humiliating lost from Shelbyville on the previous Friday, you tell your team on Monday that they will run until "T" no longer has an attitude and you don't let them have anything to drink the whole practice, you had a meeting with LaTeira's guardian that didn't go your way on the same day, so now you have to do something to this CHILD. Yes, she has to learn responsibility, integrity,etc....but she is still a child and how can they learn if we all as grown-ups don't try to teach them.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I can't take up for the coach because I wasn't there, but I just can't buy that quitting with only two games left was the right thing to do no matter what the situation.

 

If a student came to me and wanted to quit I wouldn't try to talk them into staying, either. Their heart wouldn't be in it anymore.

 

I'm sure Coach Moore didn't plan to suspend her until she had a reason.

 

As a parent, I don't let my kids quit something once they make a commitment to it. That is how we, as adults, teach them integrity and responsibility. It's my job, not the coach's.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Yeah. I think the mirror is where she needs to look for her troubles.

 

As far as scholarships at CHS go, there's been several over the past few years with the exception of boys basketball which has been down for Central's standards. Was Zac Walker the last in basketball?

 

Coger signed with Alabama, Sparkman with UNC. Demario Williams was looked at in football but signed with MTSU in basketball from Culleoka.

 

Bratton, Lovett and some other kids whose names I can't remember right now in baseball. There's been a few in softball too.

 

I don't think Central's scholarship offers are down, but grades and character come into play when colleges are looking at kids. Sparkman's no longer at UNC and Armstrong left WVU. You don't think college recruiters notice what schools the kids that aren't panning out originated from? I do.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Okay, the last I check there are more than one football player on the team, matter of fact there are more than one senior in each sport. So big deal if one player get a scholarship what about the other seniors that are on the team, that played night after night only to take home some 5 dollar trophy. And the boys basketball team, that coach shouldn't even think that he is a coach, please he needs to go back to a single A school, this division is to much for him.

 

And besides if you don't build a winning team, what college in his right mind is going to come and watch a sorry team.

 

And as far as basketball, Central has had talent and a lot of the girls was look at because of being on AAU teams, nothing the coach did for them. So girls play AAU and the college coaches will come.

 

And I also wonder why do we have teachers and why are the kids in school if they can't build character in a child, yes a lot of the raising takes place at home with the parents, but it takes a village to raise a kid. I guess that village does not include teachers, coaches, and adminstration.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

janice, almost all high school basketball players(boys & girls) are first noticed by college coaches while playing AAU. It's a good bet when you see a college coach at a high school game he's already in the process of recruiting that player.

 

And remember not all players have the ability or talent to play at the next level.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

 Share

Announcements


  • Recent Posts

    • Deja vu all over again, 7 yrs apart. SMDH Does anybody talk to each other?
    • OK, well, that’s because two quarterbacks can’t start. That’s football 101. The main quarterback won the starting job, so he was on varsity, and the Seymour transfer did not win the starting job. He played some varsity. He was mainly junior varsity, and he balled out when healthy, so for the starting quarterback who’s been starting varsity since his freshman year, if you have any form of proof that he’s gotten worse, somehow, whether that means stats or whatnot, please feel free to share.
    • They’ve both gotten worse. I’ve seen enough games to know that. 
    • The only two transfers that Bearden has gotten that went on to play college football were a defensive back from Karnes, who transferred here way before the new coaching staff got here, and a running back from Carter, who went on to play at Maryville College. Both players received those offers while at Bearden, and both players got a diploma from Bearden High School. Therefore, they are Bearden kids, and you can’t do anything about that.   The transfer from Seymour didn’t win the job, what do you expect two quarterbacks to start at the same time? He played great on JV when he could stay healthy, and when he came in on varsity, he did great. The quarterback position is definitely going to be in good hands when the current starting quarterback leaves, but until then, they’re just going to be battling it out like every good quarterback competition does. The current starting quarterback has his flaws, and that is in the pass game, but what he doesn’t have flaws is running and scrambling, and if you go back and watch any game, which I’m sure you didn’t watch any, we used him very often, and when we needed a deep ball, we brought in the transfer from Seymour. The starting quarterback last year will be a senior this year, and the Seymour transfer will be a junior, so the Seymour transfer is definitely going to get his spotlight. He may even win the job this year. Football isn’t about who the newspaper thinks is the best kid. The best kid in the position will win the starting job, and I trust the coaching staff more than a newspaper or article to pick my starting QB.
    • I mean, we’ve only gotten two transfers that went on to play college football, one who went to UT Martin came his second semester junior year before the new coaching staff was here, and the other one went on to play at Maryville College, in which I don’t believe he had any interest prior to transferring.
×
  • Create New...