What has happened to Henry County?

[DanPatrick]

AINT THAT THE TRUTH!

[MSURacer]

Bumped this one up from the pit. Interesting read. Some of the stuff in this thread was absolutely spot on. Amazing the difference a committed administration can make...

[RedSwarm10]

I wasn't sure what in the heck I was reading until I looked at the date this thread was started lol. Serious digging there, Racer. I remember the early 2000's very well. It took basically a perfect storm of events for us to sink as low as we did, and an almost equally perfect storm of events for us to rise out of it (which we obviously did). A lot of people blamed the relatively low enrollment numbers (which actually weren't much lower than they are now) and the strength of our region as our problems. But you are right, the administration at that time didn't do a ton of favors with regards to athletics. And it didn't take long for that attitude to trickle down the proverbial "ladder". I don't see us making those same mistakes again any time soon.

 

I always hated it for Coach Webb. He struck me as a guy who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. But I hated it for the kids more than anything. We really did have some great individual players during those years. Unfortunately, we had an equal number of "potentially" great players who were either roaming the halls, playing other sports, getting kicked off the team, or quitting.