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Post by lionbacker007 on Dec 10, 2020 21:30:02 GMT -6
What's the word on Elton? I'm hearing Chad Lavergne son will be named the new head coach.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2020 11:59:37 GMT -6
Broadmoor High looking for a HC, per LHSAA website.
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Post by kamala on Dec 11, 2020 12:36:31 GMT -6
Crutchfield was let go? Or left?
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Post by brprepfan on Dec 11, 2020 16:11:16 GMT -6
I would imagine he left. I said it on this board 2 years ago, it is basically impossible to win at numerous Baton Rouge schools. Broadmoor is one of them. Tara, Glen Oaks, Capitol.
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Post by TheFireman89 on Dec 12, 2020 16:35:24 GMT -6
I would imagine he left. I said it on this board 2 years ago, it is basically impossible to win at numerous Baton Rouge schools. Broadmoor is one of them. Tara, Glen Oaks, Capitol. I wouldn't include Capitol in that conversation. They have been competitive in recent memory and were a state runner up not all that long ago. As for the others yes. Tara hasn't been truly competitive since the 70s, Broadmoor since the 60s, and Glen Oaks since never.
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Post by magic1 on Dec 12, 2020 16:57:39 GMT -6
What's the word on Elton? I'm hearing Chad Lavergne son will be named the new head coach. I would imagine he left. I said it on this board 2 years ago, it is basically impossible to win at numerous Baton Rouge schools. Broadmoor is one of them. Tara, Glen Oaks, Capitol. I wouldn't include Capitol in that conversation. They have been competitive in recent memory and were a state runner up not all that long ago. As for the others yes. Tara hasn't been truly competitive since the 70s, Broadmoor since the 60s, and Glen Oaks since never. lionbacker ask about Elton?? What the word there?
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Post by TheFireman89 on Dec 12, 2020 18:00:59 GMT -6
What's the word on Elton? I'm hearing Chad Lavergne son will be named the new head coach. I wouldn't include Capitol in that conversation. They have been competitive in recent memory and were a state runner up not all that long ago. As for the others yes. Tara hasn't been truly competitive since the 70s, Broadmoor since the 60s, and Glen Oaks since never. lionbacker ask about Elton?? What the word there? Decline to comment on that matter right now. I've already gotten in hot water for things I've said on here before
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Post by magic1 on Dec 12, 2020 18:28:46 GMT -6
lionbacker ask about Elton?? What the word there? Decline to comment on that matter right now. I've already gotten in hot water for things I've said on here before Understandable, obviously there is something going on there.
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Post by TheFireman89 on Dec 12, 2020 19:26:14 GMT -6
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Post by lionbacker007 on Dec 14, 2020 9:04:52 GMT -6
lionbacker ask about Elton?? What the word there? Decline to comment on that matter right now. I've already gotten in hot water for things I've said on here before Fair enough. It will come out soon enough i'd imagine
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Post by thetruth on Dec 14, 2020 10:19:49 GMT -6
What's the word on Elton? I'm hearing Chad Lavergne son will be named the new head coach. Elton lost their coach? They didn't even play this year because of lack of players correct? Their best senior player is @ Kinder now. Did they lose other players to Kinder?
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Post by TheFireman89 on Dec 14, 2020 13:17:32 GMT -6
Terrence Isaac Sr. has resigned as head football coach at Green Oaks. He will become the HC at Vermilion Community College in Minnesota
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Post by kaelppanther on Dec 14, 2020 16:19:16 GMT -6
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Post by junctionboy on Dec 15, 2020 20:29:35 GMT -6
What's the word on Elton? I'm hearing Chad Lavergne son will be named the new head coach. I wouldn't include Capitol in that conversation. They have been competitive in recent memory and were a state runner up not all that long ago. As for the others yes. Tara hasn't been truly competitive since the 70s, Broadmoor since the 60s, and Glen Oaks since never. lionbacker ask about Elton?? What the word there? Broadmoor beat JC TWICE In 90s. Runner up in 92 We’re pretty formidable in 80s.
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Post by walkingturtles on Dec 16, 2020 8:16:18 GMT -6
Pineville High has parted ways with Darin Moore. Sad especially since he got them into the playoffs this year. I don’t know what Pineville expects when they have such a big enrollment due to the the Arts programs of kids who don’t play sports. They should be in 4A.
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Post by geauxjoe on Dec 16, 2020 9:45:39 GMT -6
Pineville High has parted ways with Darin Moore. Sad especially since he got them into the playoffs this year. I don’t know what Pineville expects when they have such a big enrollment due to the the Arts programs of kids who don’t play sports. They should be in 4A. This program needs more than moving down to 4A to be successful.
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Post by amirightladies on Dec 16, 2020 9:56:37 GMT -6
Pineville High has parted ways with Darin Moore. Sad especially since he got them into the playoffs this year. I don’t know what Pineville expects when they have such a big enrollment due to the the Arts programs of kids who don’t play sports. They should be in 4A. He may be a good guy, I have no idea. But he was a bogus coach. I wish him the best, maybe he just wasn't ready to be the head man.
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Post by bhossmac on Dec 16, 2020 11:23:03 GMT -6
Pineville High has parted ways with Darin Moore. Sad especially since he got them into the playoffs this year. I don’t know what Pineville expects when they have such a big enrollment due to the the Arts programs of kids who don’t play sports. They should be in 4A. He may be a good guy, I have no idea. But he was a bogus coach. I wish him the best, maybe he just wasn't ready to be the head man. Just curious if you have anything to back up your bogus opinion here, my man. Darin is one of the best offensive line coaches I've seen. He's a young guy who won about as many games as was expected of him the past two years. He got a raw deal. And I highly doubt anyone who would call someone a "bogus coach" truly wishes the best for that person.
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Post by cenlapride on Dec 16, 2020 12:22:07 GMT -6
I really hate to hear that for Coach Moore. Don’t know him personally but it has been tough on every coach that has been there since moving do 5A. It doesn’t sound like a school that places much emphasis on winning. I hope the next guy is given the resources to be successful.
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Post by junctionboy on Dec 16, 2020 12:49:04 GMT -6
He may be a good guy, I have no idea. But he was a bogus coach. I wish him the best, maybe he just wasn't ready to be the head man. Just curious if you have anything to back up your bogus opinion here, my man. Darin is one of the best offensive line coaches I've seen. He's a young guy who won about as many games as was expected of him the past two years. He got a raw deal. And I highly doubt anyone who would call someone a "bogus coach" truly wishes the best for that person. He's a solid coach.
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Post by blutoblutarsky on Dec 16, 2020 12:54:00 GMT -6
Moore was a knee-jerk reaction made based on a few supporters who liked him. And around Cenla there aren't just a ton of coaches waiting to become the head guy. I don't know Moore but he was too young and inexperienced to be handed that job. Especially with no more help than he has there.
In the big picture coaching isn't the problem at Pineville.
They have a Principal who is on the Executive Committee of the LHSAA but in truth has no interest in athletics at all. None!
He's a band director. His interests are Academics, Band, Arts, anything other than athletics.
Make no mistake. Pineville is an excellent academic school and has a lot of things to offer their students, and the Principal has done a great job getting to that point. But athletics is a non-starter at Pineville the last few years. The last decade really.
The only program there right now that is even competitive is softball. That is mainly due to hiring a head coach who is from Pineville and who knows how to win and she has great parental support. All the other sports there are non-competitive outside Cenla. Most aren't even competitive in Cenla. That isn't going to change.
Anybody who takes that Pineville football job is asking for a two year 3-17 record and a lot of blowouts and a quick exit. No decent assistants are going to come there, no matter who the new head coach is.
Great facilities. Great school. Dead end football job.
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Post by cenlapride on Dec 17, 2020 11:43:04 GMT -6
Ok, so what does Pineville do now ?Who do they go after ? Who can they convince that they have a program that can compete on the 5A level and are they willing to give that person all of the resources to be successful?
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Post by TheFireman89 on Dec 17, 2020 15:28:45 GMT -6
Washington-Marion has hired former LaGrange/Scotlandville/Hamilton Christian head coach Jules Sullen to the same position
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Post by bhossmac on Dec 17, 2020 18:50:44 GMT -6
Let me address a few of these situations that your sources want to talk about. I love unnamed sources. Here's what I know for a fact. Darin and I don't see eye to eye about Covid, and we've had some arguments about that. It doesn't surprise me that he would have people complaining about the way he handled Covid. But you know what? That entire campus has had Covid issues. To put the blame on the football program for any Covid outbreaks is flat wrong. Pineville High School has had countless issues with Covid (heck, Rapides Parish as a whole is in the top 10 in the state), but it wasn't like the football program had to continually put a pause to the program because of positive tests of players. That flat-out didn't happen. He didn't do his job in the classroom. Do you know what his job was in the classroom? It's a joke that a Class 5A head football coach is asked to teach world geography and environmental science all day and given one 7th-hour football class. A joke! It continually shows that the Pineville High School administration doesn't care one iota about football being successful. If you make your first-year Class 5A head football coach teach five classes that aren't in the gym, you just don't care. And then for his second season, you go ahead and add another subject on top of the one that he was teaching, while at the same you allow a 20-something first-time head baseball coach to coach boys PE, it just goes to show that Darin Moore was set up to fail. The administration there when it comes to football is a joke. He rubbed administration and other teachers the wrong way. I'm sure he did. Because he was a Dennis Dunn guy, and there are countless people in that school who never accepted Dennis Dunn and wanted him to fail from Day 1. You know what else? There were people who wanted the football team to fail under Robbie Martin, too. I know this is going to be shocking, but there are a lot of folks at Pineville High School who couldn't care less about athletics. They're never going to care. And it wasn't for lack of trying from Coach Moore. His first year as an assistant, he instituted a Teacher of the Week program where each week the team would vote on a Teacher of the Week and award that teacher the game ball of the week. This continued while he was the head coach. He tried to find ways to bridge the gap between the football program and the academic building. It was never going to work. People wanted him to fail. He didn't treat members of his staff the right way? Oh please. Tell me one head coach who always makes the assistants happy. Now tell me one head coach who got promoted from being an assistant with those same assistants who isn't going to have to deal with some sour gs and petty jealousies. Was Darin Moore perfect as a boss? I'm sure he wasn't. I haven't always agreed with my bosses on every single thing they've done. And it's a lot easier to gripe about the things you don't like when you aren't winning. As far as the gameday side of things, I was on the sidelines for eight of Darin Moore's games over the past two seasons. Things were not any more chaotic than any other typical sideline on a Friday night. I've never noticed that his teams have problems lining up and getting the snap off before the expiration of the play clock. The sideline seemed like a typical Friday night. There were highs. There were lows. There was teaching and coaching. I've spent plenty of Friday nights on sidelines over the past two seasons, and Pineville's was just a typical sideline. As far as player discipline goes, I've heard some whispers about some of the little things not being handled as well as they were under the previous regime. But you don't hire Darin Moore and expect to get Dennis Dunn overnight. That's just not realistic. You know what you're signing up for when you hire a 28-year-old head coach. There are going to be growing pains as he finds out how to lead and guide his own program. Being a great offensive line coach and being a great head coach are not the same thing, but being a great head coach is not something that happens overnight. It's just wrong to hire a head coach in his 20s and not give him more than two years to build the program in his own image, and improve in some of his weaknesses. The major problem with Darin Moore at Pineville High School, in my opinion, is that he wouldn't settle for doing things the way they used to be done and refused to just accept the status quo. Every major improvement that was put in place under Dennis Dunn to move that program forward -- and trust me, I was there before his arrival -- has been gutted. That's not what Pineville wants or cares about. Darin tried to bring new ideas and energy, ideas that work at successful programs throughout the state like his alma mater, Ponchatoula, only to be scoffed at because that's not the way things are done at Pineville. Well, you know what, Pineville football is an abysmal failure and will continue to be so as long as the same good ole boys are in charge and want to do it the easy way.
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Post by kamala on Dec 17, 2020 20:10:13 GMT -6
Concerning Moore being let go at Pineville: Talking to my sources down there, this didn't have a ton to do with football so much as it had to do with his overall management and oversight of the program. He sloppily handled the Covid situation, didn't do his job in the classroom, and rubbed administration and other teachers the wrong way with poor communication and organization. Also didn't treat members of his staff the right way and had no connection to the community or the feeder junior high school. Those issues were, apparently, strongly considered in this decision. On the football side of things, he was an interesting play designer but a poor play caller. His clock management is also some of the worst you will see. His gameplans were sloppy and game management was bad. Also heard that he did not do a very good job of disciplining the kids within the program and by the end of the season, the inmates were pretty much running the asylum. The way he handled the news of being let go was also very immature and pretty much confirmed that thee administration made the right decision. As someone said above, the kid is a good offensive line coach and a good football mind, but he has no business being a head coach at the 5A level, he is simply too disorganized and lacks the people skills to do the job. He needs to try to get on a quality program as an OL coach and find his niche there. Hopefully he can find his way and improve as a coach moving forward, he certainly has the knowledge of the X's and O's to be successful. Hope it works out for him at his future home, never like seeing a young coach lose his job. But that is, unfortunately, the nature of the coaching beast. Let me address a few of these situations that your sources want to talk about. I love unnamed sources. Here's what I know for a fact. Darin and I don't see eye to eye about Covid, and we've had some arguments about that. It doesn't surprise me that he would have people complaining about the way he handled Covid. But you know what? That entire campus has had Covid issues. To put the blame on the football program for any Covid outbreaks is flat wrong. Pineville High School has had countless issues with Covid (heck, Rapides Parish as a whole is in the top 10 in the state), but it wasn't like the football program had to continually put a pause to the program because of positive tests of players. That flat-out didn't happen. He didn't do his job in the classroom. Do you know what his job was in the classroom? It's a joke that a Class 5A head football coach is asked to teach world geography and environmental science all day and given one 7th-hour football class. A joke! It continually shows that the Pineville High School administration doesn't care one iota about football being successful. If you make your first-year Class 5A head football coach teach five classes that aren't in the gym, you just don't care. And then for his second season, you go ahead and add another subject on top of the one that he was teaching, while at the same you allow a 20-something first-time head baseball coach to coach boys PE, it just goes to show that Darin Moore was set up to fail. The administration there when it comes to football is a joke. He rubbed administration and other teachers the wrong way. I'm sure he did. Because he was a Dennis Dunn guy, and there are countless people in that school who never accepted Dennis Dunn and wanted him to fail from Day 1. You know what else? There were people who wanted the football team to fail under Robbie Martin, too. I know this is going to be shocking, but there are a lot of folks at Pineville High School who couldn't care less about athletics. They're never going to care. And it wasn't for lack of trying from Coach Moore. His first year as an assistant, he instituted a Teacher of the Week program where each week the team would vote on a Teacher of the Week and award that teacher the game ball of the week. This continued while he was the head coach. He tried to find ways to bridge the gap between the football program and the academic building. It was never going to work. People wanted him to fail. He didn't treat members of his staff the right way? Oh please. Tell me one head coach who always makes the assistants happy. Now tell me one head coach who got promoted from being an assistant with those same assistants who isn't going to have to deal with some sour gs and petty jealousies. Was Darin Moore perfect as a boss? I'm sure he wasn't. I haven't always agreed with my bosses on every single thing they've done. And it's a lot easier to gripe about the things you don't like when you aren't winning. As far as the gameday side of things, I was on the sidelines for eight of Darin Moore's games over the past two seasons. Things were not any more chaotic than any other typical sideline on a Friday night. I've never noticed that his teams have problems lining up and getting the snap off before the expiration of the play clock. The sideline seemed like a typical Friday night. There were highs. There were lows. There was teaching and coaching. I've spent plenty of Friday nights on sidelines over the past two seasons, and Pineville's was just a typical sideline. As far as player discipline goes, I've heard some whispers about some of the little things not being handled as well as they were under the previous regime. But you don't hire Darin Moore and expect to get Dennis Dunn overnight. That's just not realistic. You know what you're signing up for when you hire a 28-year-old head coach. There are going to be growing pains as he finds out how to lead and guide his own program. Being a great offensive line coach and being a great head coach are not the same thing, but being a great head coach is not something that happens overnight. It's just wrong to hire a head coach in his 20s and not give him more than two years to build the program in his own image, and improve in some of his weaknesses. The major problem with Darin Moore at Pineville High School, in my opinion, is that he wouldn't settle for doing things the way they used to be done and refused to just accept the status quo. Every major improvement that was put in place under Dennis Dunn to move that program forward -- and trust me, I was there before his arrival -- has been gutted. That's not what Pineville wants or cares about. Darin tried to bring new ideas and energy, ideas that work at successful programs throughout the state like his alma mater, Ponchatoula, only to be scoffed at because that's not the way things are done at Pineville. Well, you know what, Pineville football is an abysmal failure and will continue to be so as long as the same good ole boys are in charge and want to do it the easy way. Great post Bret!
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Post by original on Dec 17, 2020 21:46:49 GMT -6
Sounds like some of those assistant coaches that got passed up by Darin or who think they're qualified were under cutting him to administration. I'm tired of hearing about young coaches and supposedly their inability to be a head coach. Thats bs, that's just what old timers or lazy assistants that sit around for 6 years that think way to highly of themselves say. Some programs need young energetic head coaches that have a clear vision and want to effect change, not just do things the same way that has never worked.
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Post by unbiasedobserver on Dec 17, 2020 22:03:44 GMT -6
Sounds like some of those assistant coaches that got passed up by Darin or who think they're qualified were under cutting him to administration. I'm tired of hearing about young coaches and supposedly their inability to be a head coach. Thats bs, that's just what old timers or lazy assistants that sit around for 6 years that think way to highly of themselves say. Some programs need young energetic head coaches that have a clear vision and want to effect change, not just do things the same way that has never worked. Keep in mind that a lot of HS football coaches have some of the hugest egos of any profession in the world. And I say the same to my friends that are coaches and they agree. The dynamic with a young head coach and leftover assistants that he didn’t hire can get sideways pretty easily.
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Post by footballfanlsu on Dec 18, 2020 1:05:24 GMT -6
Sounds like some of those assistant coaches that got passed up by Darin or who think they're qualified were under cutting him to administration. I'm tired of hearing about young coaches and supposedly their inability to be a head coach. Thats bs, that's just what old timers or lazy assistants that sit around for 6 years that think way to highly of themselves say. Some programs need young energetic head coaches that have a clear vision and want to effect change, not just do things the same way that has never worked. Keep in mind that a lot of HS football coaches have some of the hugest egos of any profession in the world. And I say the same to my friends that are coaches and they agree. The dynamic with a young head coach and leftover assistants that he didn’t hire can get sideways pretty easily. While this may be the case. I have no idea this guys situation at pineville. I don’t care who the hc is you can’t build a powerhouse program untill everyone is bought in from the top down!! Has to be support from the administration from everyone involved. I read where he is in a classroom 6 straight periods thne has football 7th. This is impossible at the 5a level where he has to get entire practice schedule together have coaches prepped for practice and on same page. Plus all the time it takes for his class alone between grading prep lesson plans, making test, grading test, then being the head coach on top Of that with all the day to day just not possible I’m sorry. And if this doesn’t change not going to get a qualified guy that wants this job!!! Those kids deserve better those coaches deserve better
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Post by walkingturtles on Dec 18, 2020 10:37:45 GMT -6
Let me address a few of these situations that your sources want to talk about. I love unnamed sources. Here's what I know for a fact. Darin and I don't see eye to eye about Covid, and we've had some arguments about that. It doesn't surprise me that he would have people complaining about the way he handled Covid. But you know what? That entire campus has had Covid issues. To put the blame on the football program for any Covid outbreaks is flat wrong. Pineville High School has had countless issues with Covid (heck, Rapides Parish as a whole is in the top 10 in the state), but it wasn't like the football program had to continually put a pause to the program because of positive tests of players. That flat-out didn't happen. He didn't do his job in the classroom. Do you know what his job was in the classroom? It's a joke that a Class 5A head football coach is asked to teach world geography and environmental science all day and given one 7th-hour football class. A joke! It continually shows that the Pineville High School administration doesn't care one iota about football being successful. If you make your first-year Class 5A head football coach teach five classes that aren't in the gym, you just don't care. And then for his second season, you go ahead and add another subject on top of the one that he was teaching, while at the same you allow a 20-something first-time head baseball coach to coach boys PE, it just goes to show that Darin Moore was set up to fail. The administration there when it comes to football is a joke. He rubbed administration and other teachers the wrong way. I'm sure he did. Because he was a Dennis Dunn guy, and there are countless people in that school who never accepted Dennis Dunn and wanted him to fail from Day 1. You know what else? There were people who wanted the football team to fail under Robbie Martin, too. I know this is going to be shocking, but there are a lot of folks at Pineville High School who couldn't care less about athletics. They're never going to care. And it wasn't for lack of trying from Coach Moore. His first year as an assistant, he instituted a Teacher of the Week program where each week the team would vote on a Teacher of the Week and award that teacher the game ball of the week. This continued while he was the head coach. He tried to find ways to bridge the gap between the football program and the academic building. It was never going to work. People wanted him to fail. He didn't treat members of his staff the right way? Oh please. Tell me one head coach who always makes the assistants happy. Now tell me one head coach who got promoted from being an assistant with those same assistants who isn't going to have to deal with some sour gs and petty jealousies. Was Darin Moore perfect as a boss? I'm sure he wasn't. I haven't always agreed with my bosses on every single thing they've done. And it's a lot easier to gripe about the things you don't like when you aren't winning. As far as the gameday side of things, I was on the sidelines for eight of Darin Moore's games over the past two seasons. Things were not any more chaotic than any other typical sideline on a Friday night. I've never noticed that his teams have problems lining up and getting the snap off before the expiration of the play clock. The sideline seemed like a typical Friday night. There were highs. There were lows. There was teaching and coaching. I've spent plenty of Friday nights on sidelines over the past two seasons, and Pineville's was just a typical sideline. As far as player discipline goes, I've heard some whispers about some of the little things not being handled as well as they were under the previous regime. But you don't hire Darin Moore and expect to get Dennis Dunn overnight. That's just not realistic. You know what you're signing up for when you hire a 28-year-old head coach. There are going to be growing pains as he finds out how to lead and guide his own program. Being a great offensive line coach and being a great head coach are not the same thing, but being a great head coach is not something that happens overnight. It's just wrong to hire a head coach in his 20s and not give him more than two years to build the program in his own image, and improve in some of his weaknesses. The major problem with Darin Moore at Pineville High School, in my opinion, is that he wouldn't settle for doing things the way they used to be done and refused to just accept the status quo. Every major improvement that was put in place under Dennis Dunn to move that program forward -- and trust me, I was there before his arrival -- has been gutted. That's not what Pineville wants or cares about. Darin tried to bring new ideas and energy, ideas that work at successful programs throughout the state like his alma mater, Ponchatoula, only to be scoffed at because that's not the way things are done at Pineville. Well, you know what, Pineville football is an abysmal failure and will continue to be so as long as the same good ole boys are in charge and want to do it the easy way. Friend, Speaking of unnamed sources...whatever unnamed source told you that he was teaching 5 classes a day and only had 1 football PE is either lying or uninformed. There's no use in addressing the rest of the points you made because you clearly do not have all the facts. Another poster above mentioned him teaching 6 classes. That is also, obviously, not true. They we’re pretty close, teaching way too many classes than a Coach should. Pineville wants to be an Arts school, has a lot to overcome if it wants to win in football. And as a parent who is zoned for there with multiple boys who are coming up in the next decade, we will not be attending Pineville as it stands.
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Post by bhossmac on Dec 18, 2020 11:28:34 GMT -6
Let me address a few of these situations that your sources want to talk about. I love unnamed sources. Here's what I know for a fact. Darin and I don't see eye to eye about Covid, and we've had some arguments about that. It doesn't surprise me that he would have people complaining about the way he handled Covid. But you know what? That entire campus has had Covid issues. To put the blame on the football program for any Covid outbreaks is flat wrong. Pineville High School has had countless issues with Covid (heck, Rapides Parish as a whole is in the top 10 in the state), but it wasn't like the football program had to continually put a pause to the program because of positive tests of players. That flat-out didn't happen. He didn't do his job in the classroom. Do you know what his job was in the classroom? It's a joke that a Class 5A head football coach is asked to teach world geography and environmental science all day and given one 7th-hour football class. A joke! It continually shows that the Pineville High School administration doesn't care one iota about football being successful. If you make your first-year Class 5A head football coach teach five classes that aren't in the gym, you just don't care. And then for his second season, you go ahead and add another subject on top of the one that he was teaching, while at the same you allow a 20-something first-time head baseball coach to coach boys PE, it just goes to show that Darin Moore was set up to fail. The administration there when it comes to football is a joke. He rubbed administration and other teachers the wrong way. I'm sure he did. Because he was a Dennis Dunn guy, and there are countless people in that school who never accepted Dennis Dunn and wanted him to fail from Day 1. You know what else? There were people who wanted the football team to fail under Robbie Martin, too. I know this is going to be shocking, but there are a lot of folks at Pineville High School who couldn't care less about athletics. They're never going to care. And it wasn't for lack of trying from Coach Moore. His first year as an assistant, he instituted a Teacher of the Week program where each week the team would vote on a Teacher of the Week and award that teacher the game ball of the week. This continued while he was the head coach. He tried to find ways to bridge the gap between the football program and the academic building. It was never going to work. People wanted him to fail. He didn't treat members of his staff the right way? Oh please. Tell me one head coach who always makes the assistants happy. Now tell me one head coach who got promoted from being an assistant with those same assistants who isn't going to have to deal with some sour gs and petty jealousies. Was Darin Moore perfect as a boss? I'm sure he wasn't. I haven't always agreed with my bosses on every single thing they've done. And it's a lot easier to gripe about the things you don't like when you aren't winning. As far as the gameday side of things, I was on the sidelines for eight of Darin Moore's games over the past two seasons. Things were not any more chaotic than any other typical sideline on a Friday night. I've never noticed that his teams have problems lining up and getting the snap off before the expiration of the play clock. The sideline seemed like a typical Friday night. There were highs. There were lows. There was teaching and coaching. I've spent plenty of Friday nights on sidelines over the past two seasons, and Pineville's was just a typical sideline. As far as player discipline goes, I've heard some whispers about some of the little things not being handled as well as they were under the previous regime. But you don't hire Darin Moore and expect to get Dennis Dunn overnight. That's just not realistic. You know what you're signing up for when you hire a 28-year-old head coach. There are going to be growing pains as he finds out how to lead and guide his own program. Being a great offensive line coach and being a great head coach are not the same thing, but being a great head coach is not something that happens overnight. It's just wrong to hire a head coach in his 20s and not give him more than two years to build the program in his own image, and improve in some of his weaknesses. The major problem with Darin Moore at Pineville High School, in my opinion, is that he wouldn't settle for doing things the way they used to be done and refused to just accept the status quo. Every major improvement that was put in place under Dennis Dunn to move that program forward -- and trust me, I was there before his arrival -- has been gutted. That's not what Pineville wants or cares about. Darin tried to bring new ideas and energy, ideas that work at successful programs throughout the state like his alma mater, Ponchatoula, only to be scoffed at because that's not the way things are done at Pineville. Well, you know what, Pineville football is an abysmal failure and will continue to be so as long as the same good ole boys are in charge and want to do it the easy way. Friend, Speaking of unnamed sources...whatever unnamed source told you that he was teaching 5 classes a day and only had 1 football PE is either lying or uninformed. There's no use in addressing the rest of the points you made because you clearly do not have all the facts. Another poster above mentioned him teaching 6 classes. That is also, obviously, not true. My bad. I made a mistake. I forgot about his freshman football class during the middle of the day, which was located up by the football stadium far away from his non-existent classroom. So he was expected to teach two different classes for four hours while floating throughout the building, have one freshman football class in the middle of the day that he either had to start late or end early because he had to teach other classes, and he got a seventh-hour football PE that he fought to keep in first hour but was overruled because, well, the powers that be wanted to go back to doing things the old way. I sincerely apologize. I forgot about his freshman football class. That still doesn't change ANYTHING about my overarching point that he shouldn't have had the course load that he had as a 5A head football coach and the fact that he did shows that a priority was not placed on football there and they set him up to fail. Now that I have addressed the one error I made in my post, would you care to address any of the other points that I made that you so conveniently ignored?
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