South Pittsburg Pirates’ Coaching Search

[FridayMainEvent]

14 hours ago, wingman10 said:

The cool kids

Welcome back, Wingman.   I thought you'd dropped off the face of the Earth with Bass....

[chs1984]

On 4/14/2021 at 11:25 AM, Red Rebels said:

Vic to Coahulla Creek.

 

 

 

 

Coahulla Creek is a challenge along the lines of Heritage. They have improved under Wilson though. Whereas they used to lose 55-0 every single week, they now lose like 27-6.

[Bridgeston]

4 hours ago, chs1984 said:

Coahulla Creek is a challenge along the lines of Heritage. They have improved under Wilson though. Whereas they used to lose 55-0 every single week, they now lose like 27-6.

Wilson is a class act. I’m sure fun times are ahead. Might try to catch some of their games. Two legends 

[chs1984]

5 hours ago, Bridgeston said:

Wilson is a class act. I’m sure fun times are ahead. Might try to catch some of their games. Two legends 

I’ve never been to CC, but hear that they have outstanding facilities. They will get it going eventually. 

[Tide21]

Why would grider leave sp knowing they still had talent ?  You guys said he was retiring or was leaving because he said he was only staying 5 years. Seems like he knew the mess that went down was brewing 

[The Drunken Sailor]

9 hours ago, Tide21 said:

Why would grider leave sp knowing they still had talent ?  You guys said he was retiring or was leaving because he said he was only staying 5 years. Seems like he knew the mess that went down was brewing 

Why? To go to Georgia and double up on retirement.

He retired after the 2012 season with that in mind. The perfect opportunity never presented itself so he stayed on as assistant principal. After the 2014 season he still was not coming back to coach for us until an assistant coach talked him into coming back. He not only talked, but poured his heart and soul into a conversation with him and pleaded with him to come back. At that point Coach Grider agreed to come back and promised 6 years. At that point he said that it would be 2 years until his daughter graduated and then give her 4 years of college. This past season was year 6, he kept his word. Now he's moving on to Georgia as he originally planned. It's not about talent levels or coaching, it's about planning for his retirement.

Besides, no one knows just what kind of "mess" is coming 6 years in advance. Everything just happened at the same time to make it look like it was the perfect storm. In reality, it was just coincidence. And to be perfectly honest, most of the storm (paying rent) he was not involved in and had no idea about. But the timing made it look much worse for him than it really was.

[PiRaTe._.MiKe]

4 hours ago, The Drunken Sailor said:

Why? To go to Georgia and double up on retirement.

He retired after the 2012 season with that in mind. The perfect opportunity never presented itself so he stayed on as assistant principal. After the 2014 season he still was not coming back to coach for us until an assistant coach talked him into coming back. He not only talked, but poured his heart and soul into a conversation with him and pleaded with him to come back. At that point Coach Grider agreed to come back and promised 6 years. At that point he said that it would be 2 years until his daughter graduated and then give her 4 years of college. This past season was year 6, he kept his word. Now he's moving on to Georgia as he originally planned. It's not about talent levels or coaching, it's about planning for his retirement.

Besides, no one knows just what kind of "mess" is coming 6 years in advance. Everything just happened at the same time to make it look like it was the perfect storm. In reality, it was just coincidence. And to be perfectly honest, most of the storm (paying rent) he was not involved in and had no idea about. But the timing made it look much worse for him than it really was.

I just people would accept the truth ^^^ and move on, but that won’t happen.   People these days think there’s always a conspiracy theory involved.  Just let the man retire he deserves it.  

[BIGPURPLEMACHINE]

[BIGPURPLEMACHINE]

1 minute ago, PeabodyPride said:

We dub the SS McButtlovin

 

[OLD PIRATE]

1 hour ago, PiRaTe._.MiKe said:

I just people would accept the truth ^^^ and move on, but that won’t happen.   People these days think there’s always a conspiracy theory involved.  Just let the man retire he deserves it.  

Old Pirate says you Fellers pay way too much attention to those clueless trolls! YepReconSo 

[Roy Dillard]

3 hours ago, OLD PIRATE said:

Old Pirate says you Fellers pay way too much attention to those clueless trolls! YepReconSo 

LRDAO.... The trolls are out in full force today. You think im joking but im not. 

[Sidelinehustler]

It makes perfect sense as to why Grider is leaving and going to another state. It’s money.
 

I have always found it awfully hypocritical for a guy, which does what’s best for their financial future, to criticize a coach for doing the same. Stay around for another year because of “what’s coming back”, or draw $3000 in retirement and make $5000 a month in another state. Most people would take the $3000 bump in pay each month. 

Edited April 18, 2021 by Sidelinehustler