Thomasville Football
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Nothing would totally surprise me about Thomasville City Schools these days. But I don’t have any reason to think that will happen. The disciplinary issues are real. I would hope that the win/loss record wouldn’t be a reason to take any action this soon.
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A lack of discipline certainly contributed to his departure. But it had nothing to do with the kids’ discipline.
Sloppy game and penalties killed them. Played into the Rville plan running up the middle and off tackle too much against that big DL. Waited until Rville had a long scoring drive to adjust to the B gap dive and off tackle run. Did not use their speed and cannot complete a pass to save their lives.
that's bad inexperienced clueless coaching for you. Brown or Gillespie and his staff could have taken that same team and had a winning season.
If that were true one of them would still be coaching. Shouldn't have burnt bridges with Benjie since you love the Browns so much.
Benjie was going to come back a few years ago but the school board messed that up. If you think that this flag football coach is that right guy for the job, you are clueless.
You’re mostly right about Benjie. But it was another board, not the school board, that nixed the opportunity. While I very much wanted Benjie at that point, I believe he would have followed through with his retirement plans and would only have coached for two years. So maybe not the best long term solution.
What the school board did screw up was the failure to consider Benjie for superintendent because he didn’t have central office experience and then hired the principal from Page…..who had no central office experience. That was expensive and started the non-stop process of revolving door superintendents.
That's why I said "shouldn't have burned bridges with Benjie."
Didn't say he was but I want stability. Looking for coaches every two-three years wont fix anything. For the most part fix the offense and the team is fine. Defense was solid for the most part. If we go 4-7 again I'll on the fire the coach bandwagon. If you think coach George is a flag football coach then that shows how clueless you are. It also says alot about our opponents coaches considering many barely beat us.
Only two teams that you say barley beat us Andrews and north rowan. What coaching experience dose George have and how much since you seem to like the way this guy called plays.
imma say it again. dude was hired a week before the season practices started! Anyone who has played high school football knows that every other team already has had their offense installed for months at that point! You know how deep we were into our offensive playbook by the time camp started in 04? We started in January with weights and then by march we were all on running different plays, not to mention his system had already been around forever!! Anybody who expected a team that lost as much players as they lost to graduation and hired a coach that late to have a grand season needs to reevaluate their own expectations. Me personally looking at that timeframe didnt expect them to win a game personally! I have people that will tell you i said he wouldnt win a game just like i'd been on record saying even before Gillespie left that this season would not be one of our best seasons. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the defense. Im interested to see how it all comes together after having a full offseason.
WD, and Lexington too. I couldn't make it to the WD but from the game tracker it was tied 0-0 at half. WD only scored a TDs late in the 3rd and forth quarter. Think we lost our QB week before in the Salisbury game, that might have played a part in the offense. We were up 20-10 on Lexington. Players got frustrated after they scored 17 then the kick return that kid should have let go flipped the whole game. Could have had the ball on the 40 yard line and ran the clock out, scored, or pined them on the 20 yard line or better. Keep in mind both Lexington and WD had the best teams they had in a while.
I like our defense from the coaches so far, offense is horrible but it wasn't that much better in 2023. Still, I hope George and staff open up the offense. Good teams load the box and dare us to throw.
1. Don’t try to install a new system if you’re getting that late of a start, especially if you are familiar with the one from the previous year. Not his fault for the late start, it is his fault for deciding to install a new system.
2. His only head coaching experience is 7v7 flag football in Florida, that’s not hard to look up.
3. The fact that we’re saying West Davidson barely beat us should speak volumes.
2. His only head coaching experience is 7v7 flag football in Florida, that’s not hard to look up.
3. The fact that we’re saying West Davidson barely beat us should speak volumes.
Prior to the season, the coach sought the advice of a well respected coach and was told that his offense wouldn’t work. That he would be too one dimensional and any decent defensive coach would shut it down. He apparently ignored the advice.
Once again, HR, the board and the admin team are responsible for what has happened. They had a window of several months to hire someone but sat on it and got what they got. Now time will tell if the Dogs can turn it back to winning after leaving the current CCC. Football is not the only sport that is or will be on the struggle bus due to the loss of entire coaching staffs and good teachers.
I agree. I believe the paid staff was implementing decisions made by the school board.
Ran into some random THS students at a store and asked them how school was going and one of them an honor student and athlete said, "it is a mess as usual".
Yeah, he should have kept the same system, hopefully he corrects it.
I mean, if he is actually a flag football coach that only proves my point about our opponents coaches. I had no reason to look it up, nor did I care. It is funny though. 🤷♂️😂
We already lost to East Davidson at home 4 times the last couple years, that should speak more. Anyways, West Davidson finished 6-5, not a great team but not the usual 0-10, 2-8, 3-8, 4-8 teams they normally field. That's not hard to look up.
Thomasville is 23-4 all time against East Davidson. Unfortunately, those four losses came in the last ten years. Three of those four were with coaches who should not have been hired.
On the other hand, Thomasville is 29-1 against West Davidson, with the only loss coming this year.
On the other hand, Thomasville is 29-1 against West Davidson, with the only loss coming this year.
