Do all you people talking about the great talent pool, ect. know that in the history of Powell Valley highschool they had won a grand spanking total of 1 district title before Phil took over. That's one (1). Ever.
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Do all you people talking about the great talent pool, ect. know that in the history of Powell Valley highschool they had won a grand spanking total of 1 district title before Phil took over. That's one (1). Ever.
I'd say talent might have had something to do with it because if i'm not mistaken didn't Robbins coach at John Battle and wasn't his record there 15-42-3? Does that mean that he wasn't as good at Battle?
yea his comment saturday was a little uncalled for but oh well it's the past. and even if his record at battle wasnt that good look at what he has done with PV. He's only lose 17 or so LPD games in 24? years.
Coming from a Haysi guy here Phil is a good coach and there is no question about that whatsoever...is he a good person and role model? Well thats a completely different question and not for me to decide anyway. I guess everyone can draw their own conclusions.
Who has been saying Haysi is a GREAT team? I may have missed something I guess. To me GREAT is a big word.
"If you want your kid to be a good football player send him to Phil Robbins. If you want your kid to be a gracious loser send him to John Crockett "
My nomination for post of the year!
How bout this: If you want your son to be a good football player, have a good male role model and be "gracious" IF you do lose then send him to Tom Turner.
Yep, Tom Turner is one hell of a coach for sure.
Appy was on the top high school programs list of all time as well... that really speaks alot for their program.
With a school so small, that speaks even MORE.
If winning were easy, then there would be no point to playing the game.
A great quote from someone much wittier and probably richer than I'll ever be.
But, as in many things in sports, there needs to be an asterisk, an addendum, something added to an oversimplified statement; that's your actions. Everyone who has ever played an organized sport knows how to act as soon as you win: jump around, act like a little kid, thank God, your mom, and say you're going to Disneyworld. It's easy. Not everyone knows how to lose. One needs to be as gracious in defeat as they are in victory. Not everything you nor I do in life is going to be a victory, so we need to know how to handle these setbacks.
What Coach Robbins did was lash out. He lashed out his anger and he part ripped his team but moreover, he ripped his opponents, Haysi. Not having seen Haysi play this year, I don't know what they did that no one else did, except run a Cover 3 defense, but that's another story for another day. The fact is this, Robbins' true emotions showed through, he was pissed, he felt he had the better team, yet he lost, end of story.
The true "losers" are the people who may end up taking his statement to heart, the kids who fought for him on the football field, the kids who believe every word that comes out of his mouth as if they were reading it from the Bible. Not saying it will happen, but I've seen things smaller than this make kids think about themselves in a whole new light, for the worse or the better. These kids could start lashing out everytime don't succeed, everytime they don't get their way.
I think one of the truest lessons I ever learned on the football field was how to pick myself up again after we'd been beaten. You learned to take the smallest thing good in the worst defeat and have it as something to grow on. Something to build on for Tuesday's practice, next Friday's game, next year, for the rest of your life. Now as thick headed as I am, this is not a lesson I learned on my own, nor anyone on my team for that matter. It started with the coaches, then ran through us as players. I credit a lot of my success to this day to those lessons.
I'm not downing Robbins for his actions, I just think as a high school football coach there needs to be more to you than just wins and losses.
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Phil obviously just speaks his mind regardless of who hears it. We all are guilty of that.
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Including me, which is a perfect example/reason of why many people on this board have a grudge against me.
I speak my mind without being afraid to - and that's something that most people can't or just simply don't want to do.
I don't think Phil felt he had the better team...I didn't read that into his remarks at all...in fact I think he was just frustrated because he realized on Saturday that he absolutely didn't when before coming into the game he thought he probably did. I think he put down his own team without question...I think he either did one of the following to Haysi: 1) Disrespected their accomplish for beating his team or 2) Has a tremendous amount of respect for Giles more so than he has for Haysi(which disrespects both his team and Haysi indirectly)