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[hoopsguru12]

Randy King announces retirement from Oakland

By TOM KREAGER ??? TKREAGER@DNJ.COM ??? March 18, 2009

 

 

Buzz up! Longtime Oakland boys basketball coach Randy King announced his retirement today.

 

 

 

King, 57, retires after spending the past 23 years as Oakland??™s coach. He spent 10 years prior as an assistant at Oakland.

 

King, who is also retiring as athletic director and math teacher, said he will remain at the school until the end of the school year.

 

 

Check back later at dnj.com for more updates.

[85warrior]

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[Borobaseball]

Great Coach, but a better Man.

 

You will be missed by all Patriots Coach King!

[randymc]

Randy King announces retirement from Oakland

By TOM KREAGER ?€? TKREAGER@DNJ.COM ?€? March 18, 2009

 

 

Buzz up! Longtime Oakland boys basketball coach Randy King announced his retirement today.

 

 

 

King, 57, retires after spending the past 23 years as Oakland?€™s coach. He spent 10 years prior as an assistant at Oakland.

 

King, who is also retiring as athletic director and math teacher, said he will remain at the school until the end of the school year.

 

 

Check back later at dnj.com for more updates.

 

No real surprise here. Had heard rumors for a while. Sad to see him go. His replacement has mighty big shoes to fill, but I am very sure they will hire an adequate replacement. Thanks for all the years and many W's he brought to OHS over the years.

[SiegelGrad]

Sad day for high school basketball in rutherford county. As much as I may hate Oakland hoops I have to respect Randy King for all he has done locally for high school basketball. Congrats on a great 23 years as head coach. It will be tough for any local coach to ever match what he has done.

[CoachF]

I have been fortunate to know Coach King for the majority of his head coaching career. He has had many great teams and many great players. Everything has been done with class. He will be sorely missed by all. Good luck to coach King and to Oakland in the future.

[riverdaleman]

Wow i am surprised to hear this but i am happy for coach King and glad he is about to enjoy some retirement CONGRATS COACH

[hoopsguru12]

Retire..I hear he is joining the old principal from Oakland and going to be coaching at Providence Academy, just down the street??? Wonder if that could be true??

[MidTennFootball]

I think every Oakland fan knew that eventually, Randy would resign. However, the timing was a suprise to me. However, I think one of the amazing things about Coach is that he spent pretty much his entire career at one school, which is almost unheard of in this day and time. Randy King IS Oakland Basketball, and while he would easily deflect any praise, he is certainly worthy of such status. Consider that Coach King has been a coach at Oakland for 33 of the 38 seasons in its existence, Oakland is charting new territory with whomever they hire next. However, Oakland had success with its other head coaches, and I imagine the same will be forthcoming to whoever takes on the giant task of replacing a Legend.

 

The most important is Coach King ran his program the right way. Oakland has always had a good reputation in tennessee, big part in the way that Coach King has run his program. Many years there were better, more athletic teams, but nobody ever played harder or more together than an Oakland Patriot team led by Randy King. No 1 player was EVER, EVER above the team, a mantra that Coach reinforced time and time again. With Siegel opening in 2003, it just further reinforced how good Coach King really was, in the 6 seasons after Siegel opened, Oakland managed to win 153 games, with a large part of his roster diverted to Siegel in the seasons after its opening, a further testament to the team concept at Oakland.

 

In a way, its fitting that Randy goes out now when Oakland is making a transition into a new 7-AAA, after being a part of the old one for its entire existence. Coach is part of a special group of people that dont just make their sport better, but everyone around them in the process. As good of a coach that Randy King was, he was even bettet educator, and human being, and that will be what is missed the most at Oakland High School.

 

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[PHargis]

It's preey easy to associate myself with Oakland's remarks as I as a reader of this site have alway depended on the insight of the post. But as a side note only, Randy King was known as someone who ran his own program and was a straight shooter. We'll see him again, I think, very soon. Something tells me he's not thru yet. He's got more to do.

[Celticsfan]

I don't know him personally, but his teams were as well prepared to play as any I have ever seen in high school basketball.

[MidTennFootball]

Maybe Coach does resurface again at another school, but the article in the DNJ sounds like a man who is ready to enjoy his retirement.