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I originally posted this in the general discussion coach's forum, but it hasn't been posted in recently, and seeing as I'd love some interaction, I'll post it in this area. Scroll past if uninterested!

 

Hello high school sports fan folks,

This post may only interest those who are members of a church of Christ or affiliated with a CoC school, but all who wish to contribute to the discussion are certainly welcome!

It has been a WHILE since I've been on this message board, but all this quarantine downtime got me curious to come back and check...glad to see y'all are still here, unfortunately I can't remember the username or password of my old account...haven't used it in a decade!

As a David Lipscomb (Academy) fan dating back to the days before the late legend Glenn McCadams had arrived on campus, there was a period in the late 80s where I was so impressed with how many of the elite coaches were at the various CoC schools, Lipscomb and Goodpasture especially. I thought the DL combo of McCadams, Roller/Bostic, Ernie Smith was arguably the best big-3 combo (football, basketball, baseball) in the entire midstate at one point. Anyway, it seems that every time one of the greater-Nashville area CoC schools (Lipscomb, Goodpasture, Ezell-Harding, Nashville Christian, MTCS, Friendship Christian (are they still CoC?), Columbia Academy) has a coaching opening, everyone discusses how big of a limitation it is that they "can only hire a coach that's CoC."

This gets me to my point of the post...as the conversation has arisen more and more overtime, I've begun making a mental list of the coaches around the city, and it seems as if a tremendous amount of the top coaches in the midstate area are, or have been, CoC members at some point, both at CoC schools and at public and other-denominational high schools. So, I'm trying to make a more comprehensive list of the top big-3 sport CoC coaches around the city of all-time, past and present. Apologies that there are fewer public high school coaches on here, it's just a lot harder to ever get wind of a public coach's church info, and anything too direct in seeking that info is an invasion of privacy I want no part in. I'll provide my current list, and let me know who I missed or who is incorrectly on there if you'd like. I'll do a "Mount Rushmore" at the end since that's what the kids are doing these days.

My current list (* denotes still active):

Ernie Smith (and his 36-year assistant Chico Hale)-Lipscomb

Glenn McCadams-Lipscomb, 2 west TN schools before

Mike Roller-Lipscomb

Randall Bostic-Lipscomb

----To my knowledge, basketball coach Will Mantlo is the only remaining CoC big-3 coach at Lipscomb

David Martin-Goodpasture, Stewarts Creek

Jeff Forehand-Goodpasture (Now Lipscomb U head baseball coach)

Someone please remind me of the names of previous Goodpasture basketball coaches, this is admittedly the sport I know the least of in terms of coaches)

*Adam Sonn-Goodpasture

*Lynn Dearing-Goodpasture (I know said big-3 only but she's won too many volleyball titles to stay off this list)

Charlie Anderson-Nashville Christian, old Central High, Stratford, ole Bellevue High, Hillsboro, Aquinas, Lord only knows how many other places!

Mike McPherson-Nashville Christian, Ezell-Harding, Lipscomb (no state titles but any coach with good success at 2 different schools is a success in my book)

*Richie Estep-Columbia Academy, Goodpasture (HOW did they let him leave)

*Joey Spann-Nashville Christian, Ezell-Harding, Goodpasture (Last I heard Coach Spann is still coaching, I'm not sure though...I hope!)

*Rex Brothers-Nashville Christian (assuming he's CoC)

*Ricky Bowers-Ensworth, MBA (still active basketball, not football)

*Paul Wade-DCA, Ensworth OC for top Bowers years

Ed Caudill-Ensworth, MBA...Bowers' o-line coach for most of his run

-------Amazingly, ALL 4 of Bowers state football titles had CoC quarterbacks: 2010-Andrew Parker, 2011-2012 son Andrew Bowers, 2013 Coleman Goodwin

*Ingle Martin-CPA

*Larry Nesbitt-CPA

*Drew Maddux-CPA...now attends Christ Pres. church from what I've heard but grew up CoC and is a Goodpasture alum

*Becky Legate-CPA (volleyball and girls bball...not big 3 but again, has won a LOT of games)

Hubie Smith-Brentwood Academy, Ensworth

Buddy Alexander-Brentwood Academy (might not be CoC, but brother Casey was the basketball coach at Lipscomb U so I'll include him until I know otherwise)

Wesley Wilkerson-Ezell-Harding

Craig Clayton-Hillsboro, Franklin, can't remember where before

Gary Waller-Franklin (now teaching at Lipscomb but took Franklin High basketball to the state tourney some 20 years ago)

Jay Johnson-Franklin

*Jay Gore-McGavock (still there?)

*Ronnie Seigenthaler-Nashville Christian, Brentwood (not big-3 but won several track titles at Brentwood High)

Leslie Mote-Goodpasture, Columbia Academy (just to make sure Goodpasture fans are still reading, I'm kidding with this one)

 

My All-Time Nashville CoC Big-3 Coaches Mount Rushmore:

1. Charlie Anderson: wins, wins, wins

2. Ernie Smith: 8 titles and 900+ wins in baseball and girls bball EACH. Only coach in TSSAA history to win a coach of the year awards in 2 sports during same year (he did it twice), 2011 National Coach of the Year, Pat Summit Lifetime Achievement Award (might not be a huge deal to some, but the past winners are certainly all huge deals)...I know I'm biased, but I listed this all just to show Ernie Smith is a LOCK

3. Ricky Bowers: love him or hate him, he left his mark on private high school athletics forever, plus won titles across 2 sports

4. Jeff Forehand: hired at Goodpasture in '93, won 3 state titles, and was hired as a D1 head coach by 2007, the ultimate coaching goal

 

Let me know anyone I left off my list, and please make your own version of the "Mt. Rushmore" if you'd like. And yes, feel free to create as much tension as possible on the old McCadams vs Martin debate that used to fill these pages! And lastly, to the many of you who will read this and want to reply "who cares????"....I know most of you don't, because I normally don't, but this is a time of unprecedented boredom for all.

GO MUSTANGS!!

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Speaking of the Church of Christ, are these the Rook rules y'all use in Middle Tennessee?

This game is for four players in fixed partnerships, partners sitting opposite. All the twos, threes and fours are removed from the deck, leaving 45 cards including the Rook card. Ones are high in each color, so that the card ranking is 1-14-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5. The Rook card counts as the highest card of whatever color is trumps, ranking above the one. The card values are:

Each 1 . . . . . . . . 15 points
Each 14 . . . . . . . . 10 points
Each 10 . . . . . . . . 10 points
Each 5 . . . . . . . . 5 points
The Rook . . . . . . . . 20 points

so that a total of 180 points are available in each deal.

Ten cards are dealt to each person, one at a time, and five cards are placed face down in the middle of the table to form the nest - the dealer adds one card to the nest after each of the first five rounds of the deal.

The players then bid to decide who will have a chance to choose trumps. Each bid is a number; the minimum bid is 100, and higher bids must be multiples of 5. The player to the left of the dealer has the first chance to bid and the turn to speak passes clockwise around the table. At your turn, you can either bid or pass. Each bid must be higher than the last, and a player who has passed cannot bid again in that hand. The bidding continues as many times around the table as necessary until three players have passed. The fourth player is the high bidder, and the high bidder's team tries to take at least the number of points mentioned in the final bid. If on the first round of bidding the first three players pass, then the dealer is forced bid 100.

The bidder must then pick up the nest cards, without showing them to the other players, to make a hand of 15 cards, and then discard five of these cards face-down to form a new nest. The bidder may discard point cards. In that case any points in the nest belong to the team that wins the last trick. Having discarded, the bidder chooses trumps by naming a color.

The player to the left of the high bidder leads any card to the first trick. The other players in turn must play a card of the same color if they can. If they have no card of the led color, they may play any card. The Rook card counts as a card of the trump color. When everyone has played a card, the trick is won by the player of the highest trump, or, if no trump was played, by the highest card of the color that was led. The winner of a trick leads to the next.

At the end of the play, each team counts the total value of the cards they have won in tricks. If the tricks won by bidder's team contain at least as many points as the bid, that team score the amount of card points they took. If the bidder's team take fewer card points than the bid, they score nothing for the cards they won; instead they subtract the amount of the bid from their previous score. The non-bidding team always score the total number of points taken by their team, whether the bid was successful or not.

The game ends when a team reaches 500 points or more. The team which then has the higher score is the winner.

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