Certainly most Thomasville fans are unrealistic in their expectations. If state championships are your only measuring stick, the vast majority of Thomasville’s seasons have been failures. My personal expectation is to win more than sixty percent of the games and be in the running for a conference championship. At least the 1A portion.
Doug Robertson won sixty seven percent of his games after taking over a team in disarray. Kevin Gillespie took the next step, and after a 3-3 COVID year, won seventy-six percent of his games. If the new coaching staff can attain either of those marks, I’ll be the first to congratulate them.
The biggest challenge for Thomasville in the last fifteen years has been numbers. Trying to be competitive with a varsity roster in the low to mid-twenties is very difficult. That is a direct product of the exodus of many families from TCS since Keith Tobin retired. Over the past fifty years, Thomasville High School has gone from 1,000 students to less than 600 with the same district lines. The current school board is only exacerbating the issues that created that. Discipline issues, teacher turnover and perceptions of an unsafe campus are mainly to blame.
For me, a successful season this year is a 6-4 regular season. To do that, we will likely have to beat Lexington and West Davidson, even if we lose to NR. We’ll see.
