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On 2/15/2018 at 3:04 PM, BlueDevil58 said:

That's going to cost him greatly, I'm afraid.  It also means he has no influential supporters to have his back politically.  Coaching at Volunteer is like Game of Thrones.

My sources tell me they offered several candidates the job, but every one turned them down when they were told they have to keep all the same assistants as last year and wouldn't be allowed to bring in any new coaches to help, but would be held accountable for the record.  The administration wants to keep everything the same as much as possible, even though "the same" was an 0-10 laughing stock.

I give him 2-3 years, tops, before he wonders what he's gotten himself into and resigns or gets run off.

He has been lucky to always coach in places where he had lots of speed and talent that was just poorly coached before he got there.  Pearl Cohn has been an NFL factory.  siegel sends players to the SEC regularly.  The team he took over in Chicago was like Chicago's version of Austin East.  Unless Pressley can magically make Volunteer's WRs and RBs run 4.4 instead of 5.4, he's in for a rude awakening.

Welcome to Hawkins County, Coach Pressely!

He might be having some young help from kingsport (:

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On 2/17/2018 at 2:58 PM, JDHoss said:

He's got his work cut out for him. No doubt about that. IMO it's the toughest coaching job in East TN outside of Sullivan Central. It's a school with lots of internal politics, and a rural student base that's trying to compete in 5A.

I think this is the hardest job, due to it's location in the Championship Triangle.

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I was actually speaking of Upper East TN, but I doubt the WB job is any tougher, and neither is tougher than Sullivan Central. Since 2004, Central has a record of 19-122....they haven't won a game in three years, and may very well finish the last 2 (or maybe it's three) years of their existence without a win. 

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37 minutes ago, JDHoss said:

I was actually speaking of Upper East TN, but I doubt the WB job is any tougher, and neither is tougher than Sullivan Central. Since 2004, Central has a record of 19-122....they haven't won a game in three years, and may very well finish the last 2 (or maybe it's three) years of their existence without a win. 

I don't think Central was any harder than Volunteer until they voted to close the school down.  Now it's just a lost cause.  I'm not sure whey they even bother to field a team.

There are a lot of NET schools that have it tough: Volunteer, Central, David Crockett, Unaka, and the Greene County schools are all tough gigs for coaches due to losing athletes to nearby schools, demographics, money, and the internal politics.

Volunteer long had the worst politics in all of NET holding them back in all sports.  It's no coincidence that many top assistant coaches in the area and about half the Dobyns-Bennett staff have ties to Volunteer.  With that said, I now think Crockett's actually the toughest job now that Sensabaugh has salted the earth there.

The sad thing is that Volunteer always has a bunch of talented athletes in the feeder system and community.  They just never play football at Volunteer.  The fan support there is awesome, too.  If the politicians and parents could just get out of the way, they could be at least as good as Boone.

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