Pound Defensive Coaching staff

Some random thoughts.

There has been a history of difficult relationships between some of the Pound coaches and the community. Both sides have been at fault.
A lot of people have taken issue with some elements of strategy this year and I feel that some are justified, some are not.
The basic problem Pound has this year is numbers. The JV team has the bare minimum of kids to function. I do feel that the JV situation is more a case of numbers than coaching.
Kids are not going out for football at Pound. There are several reasons for this, but the main one to me is the inability to make the playoffs- especially last year. Pound needs to stimulate turnout by developing a program that has some playoff appearances. How is this to be done? I fear the situation will be aggravated by the drop of Haysi, etc. to Division 1 status.
I have not heard good things about next years schedule and fear the newly scheduled teams- with one exception- will make things worse.

Mack Shupe was mentioned in a previous post and while he may have left Wise on his own- I do not believe he was a happy camper.

I know very little about the game and all the rules, but I feel quite superior to some of those who have a bigger mouth than heart.
And were you a xcoach?

Who's Pound playing next year?

Heard they have added Letcher Central, Patrick Henry, John Battle, and Twin Valley. Don't know who the fifth opponent willl be. The first three schools are much bigger and should be on the upswing next year. I think Pound can be competitive against Twin Valley. Don't know what happened to the Cumberland schools. Heard several were upset about the Coeburn-Ervinton vote in redistricting. Will be interesting to see how many end up on LPD schedules next year.

Pound could actually win 3 of those games. IMO, they can compete with PH, TV, and Battle. When will next year's schedules be officially released.

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Pound could actually win 3 of those games. IMO, they can compete with PH, TV, and Battle.

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I don't see Pound beating PH or John Battle next year unless they improve significantly from this year to the next. The reason I say this is because PH drilled J.J. Kelly (who beat Pound) and Battle blew out PH. Battle and PH will both return a lot of key players from this year so they should be above average next year and they are much largers schools than Pound which always helps.

sorta like when PV destroyed GC last year then was shelled by Burton, then GC shelled Burton. Cant compare teams unless its head up.


Here is the biggets thing, maybe, just maybe, all these teams whose coaches "suck" maybe, the team just isnt good.

I agree with most of that.

But another thing for all the people blaming the coaches it isn't all the coaches fault yeah I mean they may not be the best but they aren't terrible either you have to give them credit. Only maybe 4 of the football boys actually care and try to make something happen on Friday nights but the rest could care less and that IMO is the biggest problem.

they just arent very good. period. they had a much better line last year, they have guys playing out of position this year as they didint the previous year. They lost a lot. It happens.

Well I mean you can't really do anything without any blocking.Yes I know our line sucks I do agree.