A Vanishing Breed!!!!!

[Buddy Rich]

Talking about old style coaches that seem to be disappearing. Examples: Jack Gaster and Toby Webb at Albemarle, The 2 Browns at Thomasville , Tom Brown At Maiden, Jack Holley at WRH, David Gentry at Murphy and countless others. At Albemarle I'm sure I will never see another Webb or Gaster. Also I will never see another TA Mclendon or Tyler Lewis. One of the last games Gaster coached a guy standing beside me who I didn't know said to me. Look at your coach "He is a vanishing breed'' ' He may have been right".

 

[Dogs9]

I'll add another old style coach to your list but he's still coaching. He is a former Bulldog player who applied for the head coaching job at Albemarle but was told he was too young.He went on to win a state championship at West Charlotte and several at Independence and has won one at Dutch Fork in South Carolina. I'm talking about Tom Knotts who will probably coach for another 10 years or more.

 

[Buddy Rich]

My bad Dogs9. How in the world did I forget him. Great coach!!!

 

[Earnhardt Forever]

I think society has changed considerably the past 25 years. What was acceptable a generation ago is not acceptable today. There's a desperate need for discipline that does not exist and is not tolerated today. I would add that many administrators simply refuse to support teachers and coaches which is why we are seeing our public schools deteriorate.

 

[Dogs9]

I think society has changed considerably the past 25 years. What was acceptable a generation ago is not acceptable today. There's a desperate need for discipline that does not exist and is not tolerated today. I would add that many administrators simply refuse to support teachers and coaches which is why we are seeing our public schools deteriorate.

You are 100% right in your post.

 

[Ladge]

Throw in Paroli and Oddo. Interesting side note. These two played together at NCSU and then between them have something like 700 wins in NC.

 

[Earnhardt Forever]

Oddo reminds me of Earl Weaver. Very profane but very loving and loyal to the game.

 

[Sleehrat84]

I think society has changed considerably the past 25 years. What was acceptable a generation ago is not acceptable today. There's a desperate need for discipline that does not exist and is not tolerated today. I would add that many administrators simply refuse to support teachers and coaches which is why we are seeing our public schools deteriorate.

Sad but true... Twenty years ago, we worried about the players trying to talk to the cheerleaders at halftime. Fifteen years ago, we worried about title 9 and hoped a female wouldn't challenge the sport by trying out because we weren't sure how to accommodate locker room situations. Five years ago we worried that the cheerleaders and players would be confused on game night because kids were getting softer. Today we worry that the cheerleader in the restroom is really a girl and not another corrupted mind given a free pass by our government to prey.

 

[Earnhardt Forever]

Sad but true... Twenty years ago, we worried about the players trying to talk to the cheerleaders at halftime. Fifteen years ago, we worried about title 9 and hoped a female wouldn't challenge the sport by trying out because we weren't sure how to accommodate locker room situations. Five years ago we worried that the cheerleaders and players would be confused on game night because kids were getting softer. Today we worry that the cheerleader in the restroom is really a girl and not another corrupted mind given a free pass by our government to prey.

...and what was not acceptable 25 years ago is acceptable today.

 

[ocdavis31]

School administrators are more worried about graduation rates and test scores and less worried about character education. Last time I checked, the latter will sustain you for a lifetime and the former may or may not help you through life.

 

[btango]

There are still some hard core get with it type of coaches. In Charlotte, Barry Shuford (East Meck), Brian Hales (Butler), Scott Young (Indy), Mike Palmeiri (Mallard Creek) are some of the ones that dig into the kids. It is a different world today and as society has changed the inhabitants change. We do business different, we communicate different, we think different although the younger person thinks more differently than an older generation as they grew up with a different view to the world.

 

[Darkhorse#34]

We still got a good one in Clinton in Bob Lewis

 

[Earnhardt Forever]

We still got a good one in Clinton in Bob Lewis

Coach Lewis is one of the best in the state. Although he's been around for 40+ years he has been able to change and thrive with the changing of time. He's an old-schooler that shows the importance of adapting to the times. Great man.

 

[sway1532]

School administrators are more worried about graduation rates and test scores and less worried about character education. Last time I checked, the latter will sustain you for a lifetime and the former may or may not help you through life.

Graduation rates and test scores is what keeps the funding coming and a paychecks in the bank....honestly.

 

[ocdavis31]

Graduation rates and test scores is what keeps the funding coming and a paychecks in the bank....honestly.

I hear you, Sway. But it's not too hard to have higher graduation rates if kids get passed along from grade to grade, regardless of their performance or effort. Or if administrators are reluctant to suspend or expel a kid who constantly disrupts the learning process or is violent. Or worse, if athletes are kept in school regardless of their actions because "without sports, they would drop out".
It says a lot about valuing appearance over results that the state just dropped the level for "passing" from 60 to 55.