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I am so thankful that I no longer have to pretend that I approve of the coach whose name shall not be mentioned as our head coach and that I am off of train.
I hope our fans will just ignore him on Sept 19, but I’m sure they won’t. That would heap coals of fire on his head. He is craving for the attention.
I am in Nashville. When Cam Tankersley was a junior in high school, I was at Greystone in Dickson, TN with a team for a high school tournament. He was next to our team on the range. A few of our kids were in awe watching him stripe balls on the range. It was impressive. He wasn’t playing in the tournament that day, he was just on his home course practicing. When he committed to Ole Miss, I was excited. He has lived up to the expectations.
Go Rebels!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!
