I'll say this, Phil is able to win most of the time as a coach. That being said, PV with the talent/numbers there would win with most of us coaching as much or nearly as much, as long as we had good assistant staff.

Phil is arrogant, we've all watched or most all of us have watched Varsity Blues, Phil is Kilmer. He wins. He gets titles, but the problem is he loses touch and is more worried about him than he is the players, what people actually think of him or anything 'life related'.

I mean sure ok, if he thinks that Haysi will lose to Giles by 14, hey more power to him, but if you want your players to be anything near classy, as a coach, you have to be something near classy. I have no problem with him saying that, as I've heard other coaches say 'off the record etc etc", but to just blurt it out, shows that he doesn't respect anybody. It would be different if this was the first time he had done that, I mean you're right, nobody is perfect, sometimes heat of the moment, anybody can slip but with Phil its a reoccuring theme. Anytime that things don't go his way, Phil whines. It's the field, it's the travel, its any number of excuses. The rumor that I heard was this, that before the year or maybe even in the past couple years, it was talked about scheduling the playoff games at UVA-Wise. The 2 biggest opponents to this, PV and GC. Now why would that be the case? Because most of the time, they're the ones who get the home field advantage, so they're the ones losing that home field advantage (more often than not), so what happenes, one of them, this time PV doesn't get it, and the first thing they want is another team to give up their home field advantage. I don't know if thats true, but it really makes sense and I could set it being valid discussion.

I know a lot of people from PV area like Phil, I know a lot don't. Heck I respect what the PV program can do and has done, but I don't have a lot of respect for Phil. Phil is the type who would be your best friend when he needs your assistance on something and would sell you out 10 minutes later if it benefited him, not PV, but him or his legend. If Phil made the comments he makes and PV didn't win, he would be ran out of town on a rail, the only reason he isn't is because they win more often than not.

It always has disappointed me that Phil and Mack Shupe didn't get to square off in sports more. They both are very similar. They both are smart, they both are good coaches who had very good pools of talent, and who was able to win but forgot that a coach is only as good as the talent on the field. We all know that, we've seen incredible coaches unable to win at one place, another place they turn into world beaters. Bill Belichick, choked in big games in Cleveland, in New England, he's a genius. Mike Holmgren (sp) was great in Green Bay with Favre but in Seattle, has yet to win (Might win some more this year, but they took alot of his power away in the off-season as well).

The talent/players make the coach, the coach makes decent talent/good talent into winners. No talent, your best coach can make them look fair at best. That's something I think Phil forgets. Hey if Giles can beat Haysi by 14, they can beat them by 14, and that will be bad for Haysi, but obviously Haysi was better than PV. I'd love for someone to say well coach does that mean they would beat you by 17 since Haysi beat you. When he makes his smart comment, fire one back, but the problem is the media has the class to not ask that question to Phil.