lee_fan

Why is the position going to be open? Is the current coach quitting?

Goodman is an excellent coach.

actually, I believe "55" was a current player who was killed over the summer; would have been a senior this year and made all-state last year.

You have to use psychology to coach any team on any level. In high school, if a coach doesn't ever yell, he or she sends a message that what they are doing isn't important. I mean if a player makes a mistake in a game, and it has been drilled over and over in practice, and the coach isn't upset about it, then the player will get the message that its o.k. Coaches have to yell at times to send the message that this isn't a club, or study hall, or even a class. I'm not saying sports are more important than academics, just that they are different. Yelling is a way of saying, " lets get serious about this, or the other team is going to embarrass you in front of a stadium full of people", and yelling is also a way of weeding out those players that don't really care. Having said all of that, some coaches can and do take yelling (and cussing) too far, although I feel they are rare, and what is more common is parents and players using a little yelling as an excuse.

Even if the coach made that comment, I took it that he was complimenting Richlands. By saying "if" they have a weakness implies that they don't have one, and "if" the defense is their weakness, its only because even a good defense looks like a weakness when compared to their offense. But, since I havn't seen them play, I'll leave it to everyone else to decide which is better, the offense or the defense. If its the offense, then quit crying about someone being either misquoted or trying to compliment your team.

Was losing 20 players a good thing or a bad thing? Did they quit because they were yelled at?

A story being posted on the lpd sports forum says the coach took his starters out after the outcome was decided, and the starters took their pads and helmets off. The coach told them to put them back on and get up off the bench and stand with their teammates, and some of the players cursed the coach. If I was the coach, I would have been upset and yelled at them too. The story goes on to say that the parents of the players being yelled at went to the school board over it. I'm just repeating what was said. I have no direct knowledge of what happened, and couldn't pick their coach out of a line-up.

Lee has plenty of candidates for the job. I remember one in particular years ago that knew everything about everything. When current Chicago Bears running back Thomas Jones was a senior at Powell Valley, on the first play of the game against Lee, Jones had a sixty yard run. One of our fans jumped to his feet and started yelling at our coach for allowing the sixty yard run, and then said to everyone in the stands: " I would have had someone waiting on him at the line of scrimmage and popped him if I was the coach". I thought, what a genius this fan was. Jones had rushed for something like a gozillian yards as a junior, and all any defense had to do to stop him was just have someone wait on him at the line of scrimmage and pop him.

Lee High has named Bobby Sanders, former head coach at Coeburn and current assistant at Appalachia. He becomes the eighth new coach since the school opened in 1989.

starnes, without a doubt. once he was calling a game where a certain scott county team was playing, and a foul was called on the offensive team away from the ball right as a shot went in the basket, and he came over to the scorers table and said, " that's two points for our team, and the other team will shoot one and one."

Lastest article in today's paper has it passing but with Ervinton staying in the cumberland.

The first year the vhsl went to six divisions, the schools were divided on a state wide level. That year, an 0-10 team made the playoffs, because there were only four teams in their region that were classified in their division. So, the vhsl started dividing the schools by region. Because of the current format, it will be harder and harder for schools in region IV and region D to win a state title, because the larger schools in this area are smaller than the larger schools in the other regions. This is due mostly to schools in the other parts of the state are getting bigger, and schools in this area are getting smaller.

I don't see the point in constantly putting down the Highlands District football teams. You are insulting a group of high school kids. There are many sports that many Southwest District schools don't do nearly as well as the Highlands District Schools. There are other sports that the Southwest District can't compete with the Piedmont District in. The Southwest District is better than the Highlands in football. Whoooptie friggin doooo! Everybody knows it, so why keep insulting these kids. I challenge someone to tell me one sport other than football that the Southwest District is better at than both the Highlands and Piedmont.

Well, I havn't seen a game in years, but keep up with things by reading the paper, talking to others, and reading the opinions of self-proclaimed experts on sites such as this one. Since you asked, "what does Lee have", I have to say that I don't really know because everything is relative to what the other schools have. But, I still think Lee will win the Highlands, based on the fact that they have a lot of returning players, decent size, some depth, and great balance.

I don't see how it is trying to "slip one by us" when it won't take effect for a year and a half. As for Lee, at one point Lee was almost down to single A numbers, and I argued then that they should be allowed to play down, based on geography, SOLs, and the fact that the vhsl was discriminating against Lee due to other schools with less travel time and more of a discrepancy in numbers were allowed to play down in the past. HOWEVER, now that Lee's numbers are way above the single A threshold, it would be embarrassing for them to be classified as single A. The vhsl never ceases to amaze me. Still, forcing Lee into the Southwest would be an economic, logistic, and academic nightmare. This new proposal by the vhsl is mostly an attempt to even up the number of schools in c and d and III and IV.