Graham in search of football coach

[tatermommy]

Timmons moves on and the Graham job is open. Assistant coach Hynus is the interim until a coach is hired. The story of Graham is what should have been. George Heckman fielded some great teams during the 50' and 60's then handed the reins to Bobby Boswell who was about to be the Jimmy Johnson of NC high school football. Well his contract was open during consolidation in the late 60's and he was scooped up by Andrews then he moved on to Kannapolis. Three of his players from graham, Billy Whiteman- Burton Cates-Gary Moser, moved on to stellar coaching careers. Super Bowl champion Bill Cower was Gary Mosers student teacher at Chapel Hill and has said he learned lessons from Moser that he instilled on all of his teams. Burton Cates has never moved from Graham and Whiteman followed Boswell. Ron Massey, Gary Merrill and Pat Moser graduated from Graham and have appeared in state championship games. The disappearance of Moser from Graham rivals the escape of the Anglin brothers from Alcatraz and the Graham boosters club have been as successful in finding his replacement as the FBI has been in finding those bay swimmers. Good luck to the next coach, he may be the last.

 

[rambbq]

it's a real shame to see how far the Graham program has fallen just in a few years////they were a real force back in my playing days at Reidsville (65-67)............

 

[Frank Lost Password]

Those late 90s/early 2000 teams were a handful. Chris Gammon was a great QB, and they had a pretty good NT if I remember.

 

[1052]

Well the 'principle' (sp intended) stated in the local paper that the team was (standing) on the right (railroad) track and they were looking for a coach to take them to the next level. So riddle me this Batman, suppose the captain of the Titanic said 'there is an iceberg starboard side so speed up and get closer so's some movie producer can make money of us all getting kilt'. Graham was looking for a winner after 20 years of losing when Pat Moser was hired and had 6 years of white hot teams. Then he was somehow let go, sorta like the Red Sox unloading Babe Ruth to the Yankees. And with the same championship results. Moser went to Orange and they are thinking of carving his face on Eno Mountain. The track that Graham is on is to enhance the other teams winning percentage or maybe that track in Mebane where them folks cant understand why they keep getting 'runned over by the d@##$d ol' train'. Now Graham and Cummings are scheduled to close while the mayor creates a book club and calls his friends in Chapel Hill for advice and the police chief fiddles about 'transparency' and other psycho babble. This is while roving gangs of deadbeat dads wearing sideways hats drive Honda cars with loud mufflers up and down Church Street and shoot at each other over misdemeanor grades of mariwanner. And the answer is to bus these schools students to Eastern and Western High Schools. Those parents regard this as Alamance Counties version of the Mariel boatlift from the 1980's. Remember the movie 'Scarface'.

 

[egfan]

What happened to Timmons?

 

[1052]

Uh well he left to spend time with any family, he suspended his campaign but still believes in believing, he decided to pursue educational opportunities by mail, he had the full confidence of management aka George Steinbrenner/Billy Martin, he was released from the Federal Witness Program, he's got Hillary's emails in his trunk, some judge told him it was jail time or coach at Graham and if he would have taken the jail time he would have been out by now. The scene of him leaving and being reunited with his family in the parking lot reminds me of the Vietnam POW's getting off the plane. He got another coaching opportunity in Wake County and we wish him good luck. He was a fine fellow and he deserved another chance.

 

[Deana_King]

He got Knightdale coaching job.

 

[joseywales1]

Graham will hire a coach who will diagram a brand newer super duper never been tried before version of the spread offense and the defense will feature several adjectives (flex, dog, monster, Hilary e-mail) then 4-3-4 to students that basically cant read. Meanwhile players who should be filling these spots are at home standing in the yard staring at cars riding by. The new coach should tell the staff gimme 8 fat kids and anyone else that runs a sub 4.9 40 yard dash. Then put the fat kids in the squat rack, put a football in the fast kids hands, and draw the defense from the in school suspension room. In study hall the teacher should wear a Donald Trump wig while teaching elementary readin', writin', rithmatic' and tell em' if they fail a grade the whole family will be registered as a Republican. Limit practice to two hours, give em a BP&J sammich with a bag of chips, and tell the parent its a new gubbermint after school program. Its the NBA style of management. Load the team and have a coach that gets out of their way.

 

[Diddydontplay]

Graham? Are we talking about Billy Graham?

 

[tatermommy]

Well they had a man who resurrected, gathered great throngs, inspired others to the pinnacle, and who Graham has been searching for since he left. But he did leave and spent about 40 months in the wilderness mowing grass and being tempted by other AD's. Then he looked out into Orange County at the great unwashed and women of hairy legs, who were committing all acts of deprivation south of I-40, and blowed his great whistle as he walked down Hillsboro Mountain like Charlton Heston , trailing hot dog wrappers and eschewing pork rinds, and upon approach the Eno River parted, revealing about a million bucks in cans, he flung his playbook at them, which they could not read, then he spoke in tongues and the throngs in their rainbow thongs cried out, 'Moses' (nope), Mozem (getting close), dat former fat guy fum Graham Moser (correct!). And every day as the feral cats take up residence under Graham High those faithful look east from their new third world county of Gramistan backlit by the evening sun setting behind Eno Mountain, they gaze upon his likeness carved into the abandoned pile of concrete curbs, as a single beam of light reflects from Jim Toms latest likker still and hits the trophy case in Graham. The Red Devil boosters say 'boy were we stupid' as the low rider Honda cars with beer can mufflers roar from the Dollar Store to Walmart on Graham Hopedale Road.

 

[Diddydontplay]

Thou hast converted me......................I'm now officially a Graham Cracka.