We keep getting everyone else’s rejects. If they’d look for a coach that hasn’t been fired, we might stand a chance. Akers has already coached one Wythe County team and ran off after 1 season. There will never be another Coach James. They should have fought to keep him.
Akers record at Rural Retreat 5-6 and 8-4, whether or not he is a good coach, problems at fort started when a certain principal making a bad hire in April of 2014. That was the start. The problem with that hire was also that it was hard to get anyone to coach for him. So you had to bring some assistants in that had to help that are still there and maybe shouldn’t be. I doubt that a coach that was just hired will be let go unless he wants to be gone. I will say again first game of the season on offense 4 sophomores starting on o-line, one junior and 3 wr’s that didn’t play football last year and still won. 8 players that didn’t play on varsity year before and jv has been pretty much non-existent since 2013. I think the principal now is trying to solve these issues. It was the 4th year before James started turning things around.
Watched some film on rye cove running single wing, if they had a game under their belt like they should have had. I think rye cove will be better than last year
Watched fort chiswell, zero seniors starting on offense and 11 players not starting their position from last year(some not even playing football last year) and winning with 4 starters on each side out until this week. Only 4 returning starters on defense.
On 8/24/2019 at 8:50 PM, grandpaw trojan said:
Going way out but I think Abingdon may be too confident an Battles defence is very stingy, I think Battle 24, Abingdon 21, an yes fingers an toes are crossed.
saw them play Fort, Fort only 3 starters returning on offense and defense. Only 3 seniors and 2 didn't play last year. I agree JB has a very good defense though.
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11/01/2019 Updates
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Akers record at Rural Retreat 5-6 and 8-4, whether or not he is a good coach, problems at fort started when a certain principal making a bad hire in April of 2014. That was the start. The problem with that hire was also that it was hard to get anyone to coach for him. So you had to bring some assistants in that had to help that are still there and maybe shouldn’t be. I doubt that a coach that was just hired will be let go unless he wants to be gone. I will say again first game of the season on offense 4 sophomores starting on o-line, one junior and 3 wr’s that didn’t play football last year and still won. 8 players that didn’t play on varsity year before and jv has been pretty much non-existent since 2013. I think the principal now is trying to solve these issues. It was the 4th year before James started turning things around.