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Post by operator on Sept 8, 2010 8:36:26 GMT -5
If nothing else the Cogars should beat the Beavers this week.
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Post by willcall09 on Sept 8, 2010 21:09:55 GMT -5
yea gillum wouldn leave there lol price is your best option in my opinion cause he will bring in a great coaching staff and can u imagine the offense
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Post by operator on Sept 11, 2010 10:16:25 GMT -5
Well so much for beating Karns. 0-10 is likely to get Wells fired.
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Post by patriot0032 on Sept 11, 2010 12:47:12 GMT -5
I'm sure Price is a good coach, but he's at a school that is usually always winning. Ellison was hired at a school who hadn't won in several years. He was brought in as defensive coordinator and the defense completely turned around. Look at the stats, esp from last year. Then this year he took over the offense. They put up 41 against Harriman last night. Teams are having trouble keeping up with them. Before Ellison got there, they hadn't won a game in four years. Now they're ranked #12 in their class in the state. Like I said, I'm sure Price is a good coach. But he's coaching with a team that would win with almost anyone. Campbell County needs a coach who knows how to turn around a program and keep them there. I don't know if Ellison would ever leave Wartburg for Campbell County, but I do know that if Wells isn't coaching there next year, they're making a big mistake not going after him and at least making an attempt b/c somebody's gonna snatch him up. My only hope for any Cougar fans is that if Campbell County doesn't make an attempt at Ellison, he doesn't end up anywhere that plays Campbell County every year, b/c something tells me he'll make Campbell County regret that decision every year they played against him.
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Post by pressman on Sept 15, 2010 12:20:48 GMT -5
I agree patriot, you are right on all counts. I also just realized a person that did some coaching at JMS & is now OC at Cumberland Gap. Sean Jessie, maybe he would be a good candidate. I dont know him real well but Cumberland Gap has had some good years.
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Post by lothar on Sept 15, 2010 19:24:28 GMT -5
Ellison and Jessie together are quite a combo.
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Post by operator on Sept 18, 2010 10:25:56 GMT -5
Ellison seems to be the best man for this job
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Post by donniedem on Sept 20, 2010 0:38:18 GMT -5
We can't continue to lose player after player to Anderson County. It will not matter who we hire as head coach. He will not be successful in our district with just 45-50 players on the sideline! We have never been able to stop this migration south no matter how much we complain about it. Who can stop this from happening? That is the question that needs to be answered in my opinion.
Loyalty is such a beautiful word.....
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Post by operator on Sept 20, 2010 8:39:42 GMT -5
I honestly don't think anybody can and now they Migrate North too!
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Post by springsvalley on Sept 20, 2010 9:45:09 GMT -5
This is THE problem. Parents who use JMS and LMS as "farm systems" to prepare their kids for AC, the Gap, etc. The CCHS coaches try to plan for the next incoming class of freshmen and half of them leave. That trend has an obvious effect on the won-loss record and the numbers situation resulting in folks wanting the high school coach fired. Meanwhile, all the transplants provide the play-making ability needed at these surrounding schools. These additions, added to their own home-grown players provide enough material for these schools to succeed. And the same folks who call for our coach to be fired think these other coaches are brilliant. If this trend just started with Coach Wells, an argument could be made that he is the problem. However, we all know it's been happening forever- long before he arrived on the scene. Meaning? You can change the coach a thousand times and they'll all have the same identical problems Coach Wells is facing. I go back to what I originally said many posts ago...I have seen the enemy and the enemy is us. We literally slit our own throats.
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Post by disgruntledcougar on Sept 20, 2010 10:34:33 GMT -5
The only way to stop is get a coach that is energetic and also not afraid to go out in the halls and talk to the kids and go to the kids homes and persuade their parents to keep their kids in cc instead of sending them north or south. Wells doesn't do that. He thinks they should just come to them and thats not how it works. You think AC just sits back and waits for the kids to come to AC? No, they have contact with them. Thats what its gonna take for them to be successful.
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Post by springsvalley on Sept 20, 2010 11:07:23 GMT -5
That's a bunch of baloney. In several ways. Did all the other coaches that preceded Coach Wells NOT "go into the halls" or Not "go to the kids homes" or NOT try to "persuade their parents" not to send their kids to AC? Has every coach made the same mistake? Or could it be that no amount of talking, no amount of "persuading", no amount of glad-handing, politicking, and/or smoozing will prevent these kids from doing what they've ALWAYS done? These folks want promises. No self-respecting coach is gonna promise an 8th-grade kid anything but a fair shot. They want more than that evidently. You say Coach Wells hasn't asked kids to play football. I happen to know that he has. Maybe he's learned what you haven't. Most kids that have to be asked to participate end up quitting anyway.
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Post by disgruntledcougar on Sept 20, 2010 12:46:02 GMT -5
Wells may have in the past but he looks as if hes above everyone now. He has done some good, but lately he hasn't. When your a coach, you have to do whatever it takes to get kids to come out. I know he used to ask kids, but he doesn't do it now like he used to. They don't quit because they can't handle it. They quit because they don't want to play for him. You ask some parents at the middle school level if their kid is going to play at CC and half of them will probably tell you that their won't play there unless Wells is gone. It isn't the program that they don't want their kid to play for. Its the coach. I used to be a big supporter of Wells but I'm not going to support something that isn't doing all he can to help the team.
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Post by springsvalley on Sept 20, 2010 13:28:45 GMT -5
Those parents who say they support the program but not Wells are speaking out of two sides of their mouth. The head coach IS the program. It's like people who say they support the troops but not the mission so they protest and vote for political candidates who try to de-fund the war effort. The impact folks like that have on troop morale and the securing of necessary equipment, etc. is equivalent to them fighting for the enemy. The analogy is the same for these boys and the coaches out there on the field trying to win every Friday night knowing half the community is secretly rooting for them to fail.
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Post by disgruntledcougar on Sept 20, 2010 13:34:21 GMT -5
It is very easy to support the kids. Just because a person don't like the coach doensn't mean they want the program to fail. You give me one game where Wells has put the team in position to win a game this year.
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