Joey Robinson retires

[WHC02]

Good luck to Coach in his retirement.

 

[Sportsnut17]

Mountain Heritage football coach Joey Robinson announces retirement after 23 years with Cougars

Joey Robinson, who led Mountain Heritage to two state championships and nine conference titles, is retiring, he confirmed to the Citizen Times.

www.citizen-times.com

 

[Bill28714]

Joey instilled considerable pride within the community. I wish him nothing but the best.

 

[FreedomAlum]

Coach Brewer at McDowell, Coach Carter at Alexander Central and now Coach Robinson at MH-are these guys retiring at this point in the school year to give the schools an opportunity to find their replacements or is this all a coincidence?

 

[Titanman27]

Coach Robinson basically took a program like Wake Forest or Duke and turned them into SEC Championship caliber. He built a culture of winning and responsibility.

 

[Frank Lost Password]

Joey Robinson is a dude for sure. Anyone on staff that might get the job?

 

[mhhs94]

Sad day for Heritage faithful.

 

[Bengals4life]

Sad day for yancey county, Joey great coach and man, the kids love him.

 

[Old Mountaineer]

Joey was a great coach. I thought he might, it gets to a point that after 30 years you're no longer adding to your state retirement benefits.
I've made the joke that it took a Mitchell county man to turn around Mtn Heritage football but it was also Mitchell's stupidity not to move him up the ranks to head coach after Riddle left.

 

[beamer24]

Coach Brewer at McDowell, Coach Carter at Alexander Central and now Coach Robinson at MH-are these guys retiring at this point in the school year to give the schools an opportunity to find their replacements or is this all a coincidence?

If they still want to coach in NC it gives them the opportunity to take 6 months off and take over a program late or be an assistant somewhere this fall.

 

[RoaringCreekRebel]

Joey was a great coach. I thought he might, it gets to a point that after 30 years you're no longer adding to your state retirement benefits.
I've made the joke that it took a Mitchell county man to turn around Mtn Heritage football but it was also Mitchell's stupidity not to move him up the ranks to head coach after Riddle left.

Wow. I always heard he actually took the job once upon a time, then Mitchell County took over ? Mitchell county gonna Mitchell county. Nonetheless, he’s been a heck of a coach for along time. Go Vikings. It’s all lining up boys !

 

[mhhs94]

Wow. I always heard he actually took the job once upon a time, then Mitchell County took over ? Mitchell county gonna Mitchell county. Nonetheless, he’s been a heck of a coach for along time. Go Vikings. It’s all lining up boys !

Lol

 

[roysux]

Joey Robinson is what is right with hs athletics. Now he had to work his ass off to build a program that was nothing, zero, almost fired, laughingstock of WNC. Yancey county will never be the same, he took a fledgling program and won multiple conference championships and regional championships and even state runner ups! All of this from a program that just hoped not to finish last in the conference!

 

[loveithere]

Many places would not have stuck with Coach Robinson. He struggled early on as he built his program. But he went down to the youth group and started building with 4th graders. It took him 6 years to have a winning record, but once those kids got to high school they never looked back.

 

[Deana_King]

Congrats on a great career at MH!!