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Some of the concern may be coming from the same crowd who during football season posts (on another site) that we will lose whenever the other team gets a first down, who in basketball (they were mostly right this year) that we will lose everytime the other team makes a 3 pointer and in baseball say we are about to lose everytime the other team gets a hit.
High school sports in the Nashville metro area are out of whack. It is likely the same across the nation. There are regularly middle school kids here who take to social media announcing which school they will attend in high school. I know it is the time we live in, but part of the fun of coaching high school football from 1983 to 2018 was the challenge of taking the deck you were dealt (your student body) and arranging the cards in place to put the best possible team on the field. Recruiting for us was convincing the kids already in your hallway to play. Outside recruiting was something for the college coaches to worry about.
In my opinion, high school athletics should not be so important that a family will pack up and move, many multiple times, across the nation for the next big opportunity. Coaches and schools bear a lot of responsibility in this.
I wouldn’t trade the 36 years I spent coaching for anything, but if it had been like this when I started, I would likely have ended up being a Farm Bureau Insurance agent. It is a great time to be an ex high school coach.My son and I try to make it down for a late home basketball game/baseball weekend series each year. This is the weekend. When South Carolina hit that 3, I told him that shot pretty much summed up the entire season.
Oh well, we have a baseball game tomorrow, supper at Taylor Grocery tonight and time spent together. Being in Oxford is always one of my happy places.
Hotty Toddy!The articles are great. I’m hopeful the forum will eventually take off. I was most active on General Chat on the other forum. A lot of good online friends have left in the last 11 months.
I coached high school football and track in Middle Tennessee for 36 years. When I told my AD I was hanging up my whistle, he talked me into taking an assistant golf coach opening, so I’ve been doing that for the last 7 years. That’s been a great fit in my older years.
I’m retiring from teaching at the end of May, so after that, I should have time to be on the forum more.
In the meantime, I’ll do a lot of lurking.
Go Rebels!
Nashville had significant ice, but nothing like North Mississippi. We lost power this morning. There are a lot of downed trees and power lines. I’ve got a big branch over my shed and 2 more over my neighbors new fence. We’re luckier than many in our area.
My daughter lives 25 miles southeast and has power so we drove to her house this afternoon. Once we got to I-24, we were okay, but there were about a dozen times before getting there that I was second guessing making that drive.
I did order a good 4000 watt power station from Costco and a dual fuel generator that I can use to keep it charged. So in the future, I’ll be able to keep a room warm and the fridge going.
Y’all stay warm and be careful. I hope Oxford recovers from this as quickly as possible.
Shoutout to all of the linemen across the south who are doing hard stuff. They are heroes.I have a very good friend from SC who is a Clemson season ticket holder. He’s been texting me about how Dabo is going to fight back on this. Today, he sent me a text about “Poaching Pete”. I am ignoring the text. No reason to tell him what I think and lose a friend over something I have zero control.
I’m thrilled to have Pete and hope he is here a long time.
