There are a couple of items in this post that need to be addressed. First of all, the schools you are mentioning west of Asheville can't stand to hire someone, "not from around here" and put themselves in a box with the parents, who truly run everything. Tuscola hit a home run hire with Donnie Kiefer and arguably again with Pursley. Truth is, even in Waynesville, most parents do not want a coach that they can't control and is not from "insert county" which the school is located. The coaches, head and assistants, at schools such as ACR and Asheville know the dirty truth. Everything West of Asheville is a joke athletically. It is not 1975 anymore and even the good programs are very below average when you get off the mountain. I don't want all the Smoky Mountain Conference 1A schools coming on here, because they play no one with a heartbeat when they get in the playoffs. I was very happy for Cherokee and Kent Briggs, that was an awesome story, but athletically if they played Reynolds they would get beat by 40. WNC has nothing for 2A ball and up because of the demographics and dying industry and communities. They are a retirement Oasis now that all the industry has relocated. I will give the people in Canton credit, they believe they are still relevant, because it is 1970 every day in Canton. Those people live in a time warp, not saying it is a bad thing, but it is truly a throwback community. A least until the paper mill leaves, then they will be Andrews, right before the developers come into town and turn it into Hendersonville west.
