Best Coach Ever

[ftballmom22]

Coach Steve Brewer fromSevier County High School Top notch coach Very good mentor for these boys

[TennesseeGator]

My vote goes to John Tucker

 

Marville's coach has to also be a strong canidate due to what he has done so fast.

 

 

Ken Netherland is another strong canidate.

 

Tim Thompson would've been a strong canidate but cheaters stink.

[Ti-Ta]

Tom Weathers Red Bank Best coach then best coach now even at Soddy!!!

[cross55]

coach ford of gordonville or coach medley

[bhsOL]

Some people have said Coach Tucker from Milan. What's funny is another great coach, Gary Rankin, named his son after him. Rankin's son's name is John Tucker Rankin.

[NWTennSports]

Well, two great coaches haven't been mentioned but need to be: Randy Barnes of Union City and Rod Sturdivant of Bruceton. Both are out of the game now, but they were both two of the most successful around. Both had around 200 wins in their 20-plus years.

Barnes did not win a state title, but took two unbeaten teams to the state 2A championship game (1997 and 2000) and his 1998 and 1999 teams were in the semifinals. Also, he won big when only one team from each DISTRICT (not region, back in the three-classification and no public-private split days) went to the state playoffs. In 21 years, his teams were in the postseason 19 times. Pretty good.

Sturdivant won some state titles at Bruceton and had some of the state's top players, too. Look in the state record books. You still see the name Longmire.

Seems to me these two men should get some credit, both on this message board and in the TSSAA Hall of Fame.

[BigDogDaddy]

Best Coach Ever .... now thats an interesting question. 9 out of 10 people automatically think of winning record. What about that coach that was 0-10 but made men out of boys and inspired them to great things. What about the innercity coach who struggles to win 50% of his games but acts as a surrogate father to a half a dozen teenagers and keeps them out of drugs and gangs and jail. I've seen some winning coaches that don't go the extra mile to look out for their kids and plenty of losing coaches that would mortgage their house to help support a teenager's family that needed the help.

 

Best Coach Ever .... I don't think we will ever really know!

Edited August 21, 2004 by BigDogDaddy

[DarnRef]

If you were to pose this question to the coaches themselves, without a doubt one name that would be mentioned across the state is Clint Satterfield of Trousdale County. From a standpoint of pure football expertise, they don't get any better. Even when his teams lack in athletic ability, you better beware. He is a mastermind at exposing superior opponets weaknesses and motivating his team no matter who they are playing. Had Trousdale not made the jump to 3A from 1A 3 years ago, there would be more gold balls in the trophy case. Even at that, they still managed to make the semi-finals in 3A in 2001 and 2002 as the smallest school in the division. At some point in time, I would wager that Coach Satterfield will be teeing it up in the college ranks.

 

Several have mentioned Rankin. No doubt about it, he is a good coach. But he sure did not want to play against Satterfield during his tenure at Smith County. He's not alone in that category though. Many coaches would rater not play Trousdale whatever the classification, because it will be a hard fought contest every time.

[Indian]

Tom Weathers Red Bank Best coach then best coach now even at Soddy!!!

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Why Weathers over all these others who got it done in the regular season and playoffs both?

Edited August 21, 2004 by Indian

[Ti-Ta]

Why Weathers over all these others who got it done in the regular season and playoffs both?

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If you looked in the paper this past Friday, you would have seen their top ten coaches of all time, Etter was #1, #2 was Chappell of Dalton, #3 was (forgot who)

,#4 was Monroe of Cleveland and #5 was Weathers of Red Bank need I say more thumb

[GimmeSumKetchup]

tom moore from Brentwood Academy

[MBAWR5]

it depends on what u mean by "best". If you are talking winning percentage and state titles, it would have to be Tommy Owen, but that was back in the older days. In terms of motivation and teaching guys to become men, it's safe to say that Coach Jeff Rutledge does just that, motivates young men to be better sons, friends, husbands brothers and better men.