Lewis County head coaching search!

[WingT08]

On 1/27/2023 at 8:12 AM, Sourapples said:

Damien Clayton- Has head coaching experience and has also been successful at many different stops as a coordinator.

Ronnie Yeiser- LC Qb Coach

Andrew Lawson- Accountant at Saturn.

Nick Patterson- Richland HC

Ricky Giles Rice- State Champion at Nearby Wayne County and currently in limbo at Summertown High.

Wesley Duncan- Columbia Central long time assistant, considered one of the best players to come through Lewis County

Matt McConnell- long shot but would make a lot of difference with the QB and WR they have coming back

Steven Britton, South Pittsburgh currently has him as the Defensive Coordinator.

 

 

We could play the game KFM all day with this group, but any of them would make a great hire.

Hitting a homerun two at bats in a row is unheard of, taking athletics during school away hurts..... a lot.

 

1. "HEAD COACHING EXPERIENCE" LOL

2. LOL

3. SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE CHOICE LAST TIME BUT YOU PEOPLE RAN HIM OFF

4. RICHLAND IS A BETTER JOB

5. KEEP DREAMING

6. NAH

7. LONG SHOT IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT

8. STAY AWAY STEVE!

 

ONE THING IS TRUE...TAKING AWAY ATHLETICS WAS A BIG MISTAKE. DECENT SPORTS SUCCESS WAS THE ONLY THING LC HAD GOING FOR IT AND NOW THATS IN SERIOUS TROUBLE.

[Hondo]

WingT08,

I don't think you have to worry about W.Duncan leaving Columbia to come back to Lewis Co, even though he has head coaching experience and a proven winner. I do not think it would be smart to go to a place that is moving athletics to after school. This move by adminstration will absolute kill athletic programs in small towns.  

[mrincredible]

Oak ridge athletics are after school. Columbia is also after school in the fall.

 

[LeroyBrown]

On 1/28/2023 at 9:57 PM, MichaelMyers76 said:

Was not last year for sure.

Never said it was, but he certainly has a checkered past when it comes to staying anywhere for very long. I told several when he was hired that he'd be there one, two years tops. He won't be at Oak Ridge very long either. 

[PeakyBlinder]

I don’t think anyone ever questioned if Rang was a good coach, any questions were about his loyalty and if he was the best thing for the program long term. He even stated in his Oak Ridge interview that he took the LC job to get back into TN coaching. He never WANTED to be at Lewis County, more he needed a place holder until a bigger program opened up. It is not Rang’s fault, he just applied and was given the job. It was no secret that he would not be here long, and those who spoke out about it were silenced. The blame lies on the former administration who wanted to hire the biggest name possible in an attempt to outshine Columbia Central’s hiring of Coach Sharp. Now we have a group of kids on their 3rd HC in less than a year. 

[BoardHater71]

I'll go out on a limb and say that this job draws interest from a coach who has won a state championship in the last 5 years.  

[MidTennFootball]

9 hours ago, mrincredible said:

Oak ridge athletics are after school. Columbia is also after school in the fall.

 

OR is also a big time pay increase

[Pizzpatriot2]

Does anyone know the reason the long term coach left Hohenwald to begin with? The real reason? 

[Pirate2003]

20 hours ago, howdoitknow said:

I'll go out on a limb and say that this job draws interest from a coach who has won a state championship in the last 5 years.  

Does Puckett want the job?

[YBsostupid]

Coaching high school football is not nuclear science.  Most people like to make their jobs sound like the most difficult in the world that only a small fraction of the population could possibly do well.  That's human nature.  Head high school football coaches are no exception.  For that matter, head middle school football coaches are no exception.  Normally athletic directors are totally bought in as well.  Maybe this is a form of job insurance for people in every profession.  Make people, and especially your boss, think that what you do requires an extremely amount of experience and that maybe .0000000001% of the population can do as well as you are doing.

Most people who could have been highly successful high school coaches did not major in education while in college.  They went for careers that promised much higher pay.  I do not intend to be mean spirited here, I am simply stating the truth.  A fact.  It is what it is and in this case that is a simple fact.  

Being a successful high school football coach requires above average intelligence for sure.  It requires a lot of intangibles as well.  A correct "sense" of who should play what position.  A sense of the personality of the team and of each player and thereby knowing how to motivate the individual and the team.  Also, how to develop an offensive and defensive game plan that, based on what you have to work with, compared to your opponent each week, give you the best chance of winning instead of thinking they must try to look as much as possible like the teams they see on television each weekend.

How many spread teams has Huntingdon's double wing and single wing blown off the field the past several years.  Many times the teams they blow out have much larger enrollments than their own.  Same with Union City.

I saw Lake County win a state championship about three years ago with the QB running the ball 9 times out of 10.  

Hey, if you have a gunslinger and several exceptional receivers then spread it out and go with the run and gun.  Usually, at most high schools, you will not have the athletes to do that.  The smaller the school the less often you will.

[BoardHater71]

21 hours ago, Pirate2003 said:

Does Puckett want the job?

It’s not Puckett.  From everything I know Puckett is the heir to the throne in Brownsville.  

[Yellowstone]

21 hours ago, YBsostupid said:

Coaching high school football is not nuclear science.  Most people like to make their jobs sound like the most difficult in the world that only a small fraction of the population could possibly do well.  That's human nature.  Head high school football coaches are no exception.  For that matter, head middle school football coaches are no exception.  Normally athletic directors are totally bought in as well.  Maybe this is a form of job insurance for people in every profession.  Make people, and especially your boss, think that what you do requires an extremely amount of experience and that maybe .0000000001% of the population can do as well as you are doing.

Most people who could have been highly successful high school coaches did not major in education while in college.  They went for careers that promised much higher pay.  I do not intend to be mean spirited here, I am simply stating the truth.  A fact.  It is what it is and in this case that is a simple fact.  

Being a successful high school football coach requires above average intelligence for sure.  It requires a lot of intangibles as well.  A correct "sense" of who should play what position.  A sense of the personality of the team and of each player and thereby knowing how to motivate the individual and the team.  Also, how to develop an offensive and defensive game plan that, based on what you have to work with, compared to your opponent each week, give you the best chance of winning instead of thinking they must try to look as much as possible like the teams they see on television each weekend.

How many spread teams has Huntingdon's double wing and single wing blown off the field the past several years.  Many times the teams they blow out have much larger enrollments than their own.  Same with Union City.

I saw Lake County win a state championship about three years ago with the QB running the ball 9 times out of 10.  

Hey, if you have a gunslinger and several exceptional receivers then spread it out and go with the run and gun.  Usually, at most high schools, you will not have the athletes to do that.  The smaller the school the less often you will.

Well said.