Springfield Yellow Jackets 2012

[BTree4UT]

Unnamed sources are now saying that the Coopertown Middle coach has been offered the Springfield head coaching position. No word as to whether he will accept but it would be a shock if he didn't.

[MSURacer]

Unnamed sources are now saying that the Coopertown Middle coach has been offered the Springfield head coaching position. No word as to whether he will accept but it would be a shock if he didn't.

 

Shocking, but best of luck to him.

[TheCommissioner]

If this is true there is a verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry BIB jump from a small middle school program to Class 5-A. Especailly in the same district as the returning state champion. Things should be interesting at Boyce Smith this year

[LEON]

If this is true there is a verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry BIB jump from a small middle school program to Class 5-A. Especailly in the same district as the returning state champion. Things should be interesting at Boyce Smith this year

For the upcoming season, before the Jr. Grimes "other direction" plan, I thought 7 maybe 8 wins. Whoever the next coach is, they will inherit a team with two all-state players who are listed on the Unapproved Website list, a QB who threw for a whole lot of yards and many returning starters who have been to the play-offs three straight years.I just hope the "other direction" is not back to the days of: the only folks at the game are band parents and parents of a few players, with the best atheletes walking the halls of the school. This is where we have been in the past and it was not a good thing, I just hope the Jackets are not going back to this. Your'e right commish things should be very interesting at Boyce Smith Field this year.

[TheCommissioner]

For the upcoming season, before the Jr. Grimes "other direction" plan, I thought 7 maybe 8 wins. Whoever the next coach is, they will inherit a team with two all-state players who are listed on the Unapproved Website list, a QB who threw for a whole lot of yards and many returning starters who have been to the play-offs three straight years.I just hope the "other direction" is not back to the days of: the only folks at the game are band parents and parents of a few players, with the best atheletes walking the halls of the school. This is where we have been in the past and it was not a good thing, I just hope the Jackets are not going back to this. Your'e right commish things should be very interesting at Boyce Smith Field this year.

There are rumors that the coaches arent the only ones who may be moving to other schools. We may not recognize next year's Jacket team. I think the offense that we run will be different (back to run heavy) and this may affect/effect our play makers playing time. Only time will tell. The past three years has been exciting at time with the Meyers spread offense. I look for us to go back to more grind it/time possession football.

[12NCS]

There are rumors that the coaches arent the only ones who may be moving to other schools. We may not recognize next year's Jacket team. I think the offense that we run will be different (back to run heavy) and this may affect/effect our play makers playing time. Only time will tell. The past three years has been exciting at time with the Meyers spread offense. I look for us to go back to more grind it/time possession football.

 

What i am hearing from your post is that the Jackets will go back to a boring style offense with most likely little success in terms of wins especially if key players elect to go elsewhere.

[DANR]

What i am hearing from your post is that the Jackets will go back to a boring style offense with most likely little success in terms of wins especially if key players elect to go elsewhere.

[DANR]

What i am hearing from your post is that the Jackets will go back to a boring style offense with most likely little success in terms of wins especially if key players elect to go elsewhere.

A boring ball control offense kind of like...Alabama. They havn't even named a coach yet, and we have figured our what kind of offense they will run, and which players will quit. Calm down folks.

Edited April 19, 2012 by DANR

[TheCommissioner]

A boring ball control offense kind of like...Alabama. They havn't even named a coach yet, and we have figured our what kind of offense they will run, and which players will quit. Calm down folks.

 

 

I will take your advise and try to calm down. Rumors are flying and we need cool heads. I just hate us to totally ditch the spread. We have a TON of play makers and a QB with cannon for an arm. BUT I sit on the sidelines and don't coach so I will leave this up to the paid professionals

[MSURacer]

What i am hearing from your post is that the Jackets will go back to a boring style offense with most likely little success in terms of wins especially if key players elect to go elsewhere.

 

A run-heavy, smash mouth style of offense is anything but boring if you can run it successfully. Just ask Henry County, although we do have some variations of a spread attack thrown into our game plan as well. Either way, my point still stands.

 

As for the playmakers comment, I'm not sure why a change in offensive philosophy would make them want to switch schools. If a player is good enough, he will still be on the field enough to have plenty of opportunities, especially if he has all state talent. It's ridiculous to think otherwise. We had a wide receiver who just signed a college scholarship who only caught 16 passes last season in our run-heavy system, because his talent was still very noticeable. And he wasn't even an all-state caliber player.

 

Whoever the new coach is needs to tell them and their parents to not give up on the program so easily.

Edited April 19, 2012 by MSURacer

[BURLEY]

the only two coaching graduates from springfield that i know are jerry pearson, pat brown and scott smith. Coach Pearson is retired but returing to springfield to live, both pat brown and scott smith played for him. coach brown is coaching at white house heritage and smith is at moore county. It is hard to imagine that springfield would hire a middle school coach, no matter how good they are. That is a huge adjustment and if it is a inside job that will be hard to accept. go luck to the jackets and dont settle for a middle school coach

 

Does the Moore County coach have any interest in the job?

[LEON]

Does the Moore County coach have any interest in the job?

Don't know if he applied,would be an excellent choice.SHS grad played for Jerry Pearson, won a state championship at Ezell Harding,very innovated offensive mind and for good measure he came to SHS via Coopertown.Looks like the coach search was a farce, I just hope it works out and doesn't set us back.