An amazing sight....

Good post, Rock. I agree with you. If everyone remembers back in the beginning of the season, folks critized Phil, Jimbo, and Roger Austin.

and Rick Mullins too...all the coaches that made the playoffs were questioned, so you know others will as well

Pound is just what it is, its one of the smaller schools. Sometimes they'll have good skill people, sometimes good big guys, sometimes neither, sometimes all.

I really and truthfully believe that one thing that kills Pound is the over emphasis on their youth programs. Over the past few years, almost regularly, Pound and one of their youth programs has been at the center of a controversy. This carries over. Kids become uncoachable. Parents are convinced that their child is all world at a position because they used to be great, etc.

Pound needs to see the leak in the boat and fix the leak, not constantly think they need a new boat.

5 D1 prospects, get real this whole region may have 3-5 a year actuall D1 players. Having a kid that hit their growth spurt early and is able to run all over the other kids in p-nut and jv a D1 does not make. By the time they get to be juniors and seniors evryone else has caught up to them and they are just another good player, but like Rock said by this time they and their parents are so blowed up over it they can't see reality.
This happens everywhere not just Pound.

Regardless of the reasons why the Pound folks want new coaching staff, it doesn't change the fact that they have aired their grievances with the current coaches in a very public way.

At this point, it doesn't matter who is right or wrong. If you are coaching a team and the players don't to play on your team, the parents don't want you there, and even the community wants you gone so bad that they are circulating a petition to get rid of you, what possible reason would you have to stay?

We can say the problem is with the attitude of the parents, but I'm reminded of a former co-worker once said, "you can change peoples actions, you can even censor what they say, but you will never, ever, ever change people's attitudes."

Pound has had these kinds of problems for a long time. They can't establish a program if they keep changing coaches every time they are displeased.

Instead of dragging him out in public with a stupid petition that folks who have never went to a game will sign, why not have had a meeting with him instead to air these grievences? Heck, he may have resigned there.

Pound is not the only school that has had problems with coaching staff, but I don't remember other petitions being circulated recently.

As far as being "established," Pound has had an established football team for a long team, they just haven't had the success of some other teams. I don't know that a change in coaching staff would make the program more successful, though some seem to think there have been some incompetencies.

What I do know for certain is that no coach no matter how well he may do his job can have a good program, if the team, parents, and community doesn't want him there.

This is ridiculous, I remember when Jimbo first started in 98 of course he went to state his first year and then after that had two or three (3-7) seasons in a row and everybody was calling for his head. They stuck it out and look what kind of program he has built. There will be lean years again, but you can't just go get rid of coach after one or two bad seasons, he has to have time to establish himself and get the right coaches in to fit his system, etc.

What has been Pound's records in the last few years, I don't recall them being all that bad.

B.I. has had to deal with this too to a lesser degree. The schools around here don't have 10,000 students, so there are cycles. Talent comes and goes. When B.I. took the reins at Kelly, the cupboard was bare. We are starting to see some talent and hence the win total is increasing. Sometimes you have to play the cards you are dealt. There have been times I have scratched my head at play calls from our high school coaches, but it is easy to be an armchair coach.

Powell Valley also had some problems early in the basketball season last year. There were some who called for Jon Crockett to resign, and he did even though PV did well in the district overall.

Fans get very brutal when it comes to losing.