Should Wells Be Fired at the end of the year

[disgruntledcougar]

Now that we are toward the end of the year and bulldogcoach can't say it is still to early to tell. Should Wells be fired as coach?

[nobody]

Past time for someone new. We have two good middle school teams both with players ready to move up. If we want any of these player at Campbell County they better have a new head coach.

[dwayn25]

As bad as I hate to say it. You are probably right nobody.

[Cougs]

There hasn't really been any need to comment on the past games. They all speak for themselves. It's nothing less than embarrassing. It's just hard to believe that common sense don't even play into the calls being made. I do know from a lot of parents that they will be taking their kids somewhere else if the coaching stays the same. It doesn't matter how good of feeder schools we have. They come to the high school and the records show they will have a losing season. It has nothing to do with the kids. In over 30 yrs of football and only 3 almost winning seasons. The odds aren't tooo great!

[operator]

I have a feeling AC and the Gap are gonna get alot of good players next year.

[pressman]

Of course he should..................2 years ago

[disgruntledcougar]

Then people better start voicing their opinions to Robbie Heatherly and those people that has control and also who they want. Which on here it looks like Justin Price is who people want.

[bulldogcoach]

Im just gonna say this. If the principals listen to the "people" then who in the world would want that job. Lets say someone takes it goes 0-10 & the "people" go to the principal & get him fired. If he gets fired it can't be based on what the "people" want.

Im not taking up for Wells I have no dog in the fight. I just don't think that "people" should be able to influence the decisions being made.

[disgruntledcougar]

Well lets put it like this. The people is what pays his salary. If people aren't showing up at the games then that means the school is losing money. Now if you haven't noticed their ain't been as many people showing up. This means people aren't supporting him. In my opinion that would be influencing the decision. You can always do something so people won't forget what he did. It is time for a coach to go when I see ten kids that I think could contribute to the team and I ask them would they play football if Wells wasn't coach and 7 of the 10 tell me ya they would. Now with that being said if someone tells me Wells should stay then you are an idiot.

[lothar]

Price is a traitor he has no place here.

[springsvalley]

The Campbell County High School Athletic department is set up to fail. It takes money to field competitive programs. Campbell County spends less on its head coaches than ANY of the schools in their districts (irrespective of the sport). Campbell County pays fewer assistant positions than ANY of the schools in their districts (again, irrespective of the sport). That is why Coach Wells has had to fundraise just to pay some of his assistants- because the school system and the athletic department haven't made the commitment to produce winning programs. Furthermore, the CCHS athletic departments keeps all gate receipts and farms out the home concessions to various clubs and minor sports (non revenue-producing sports like track, cross country, etc.) So, the mechanisms other schools provide their revenue-producing sports like football and basketball to make money and be competitive are not available at CCHS. Money that football and basketball earns is distributed to other sports and who knows what else and turns the major sports into beggars for their basic needs. CCHS gives its major sport coaches absolutely no tools with which to work...while showering the minor sports with money they didn't earn. All the names in the world thrown around for discussion won't solve the basic problem which is that the leadership of this county doesn't CARE if CCHS sports succeed. If they did, they'd try something DIFFERENT after 30 years and study how other school systems with similar demographics do it. Instead, we set up one coach after another for failure and then hope for the best with the next "new coach" to come along. The commitment to winning starts at the top.

[pressman]

well well springsvalley to the rescue haha if the cougars cant beat a winless halls friday then they should fire wells on the spot...right on the 50 yard line.

[springsvalley]

Let's say you all get your way and Coach Wells leaves and CCHS hires a new football coach. Will all the middle school football players suddenly start going to CCHS? Will football then get to keep their gate and concessions? Will the block schedule- complete with a 4th period weight training class for football players be restored? Will the school system pay for this new football coach to hire competent assistants? Will the school system pay to attract a top-tier candidate...one who won't use CCHS as a stepping-stone to a better job? Will the school system give the new coach a teaching schedule that allows him to do what he was hired to do- produce a winning football program (he certainly won't be hired to teach a wonderful economics class)? Will the school system give the high school football coach complete jurisdiction over the middle school programs- including hiring and firing decisions, offensive and defensive systems, etc. I'll save you all the trouble as you stumble around searching for more reasons to scapegoat Coach Wells. The answer to all these questions is a resounding "NO!" So you see, coaches come and go but the problems they face continue on as before. And all the people scream for new blood without giving any thought to the possibility that perhaps the problem isn't the myriad of coaches CCHS has had over the years- the problem is the system. A system run by folks who don't know what they don't know.

[disgruntledcougar]

Your right springvalley, it won't fix all the problems, but when a kid says he is not playing or isn't coming to CC because they don't want to play for Coach Wells then thats a problem. No we aren't gonna get top coaches, but we can be more competitive with a different coach. Thaat little article in the paper was probably a sign that Wells is feeling the heat and he wanted to put a feel good story in their for people to try and persuade people to feel for him. You don't think the next coach wouldn't put faith in the program as well? Come on man.

[lothar]

I'd say the Halls win saved his job.