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Damefan wrote:i am confident he will land on his feet and do very well whatever he choose’s to do. He has a beautiful grandchild that I am sure he will want to spend time with. Coaching takes away a lot from the family. Best wishes to Greenwood and reaching the dreams you have for your team!
Hold up...wait a minute. My team??? It would be your team too since you from Greenwood..right? Or you disowning Greenwood now?
There was some talk about Emerald becoming a junior high, which would certainly increase the level of talent at GHS if both schools combine for a varsity squad.
A lot of kids would be without an opportunity though and Emerald has sent it's fair share of overlooked talent to college programs all over the country.
Sure, your Luke Deals and Gage Cervenkas would make Greenwood more competitive all around, but you'd also be taking opportunities away from quite a few lesser athletes that have a chance at Emerald.
The problem at both schools is the coaching and that's apparent. Gene Cathcart won at Greenwood while Emerald was around. They fell off when he left and downgraded their coaching staff.
Emerald cannot and will not compete with Tim McMahon (an average coach that only took that job because he lost out on the Greenwood job to Cathcart in the first place). And as long as Chris Deal is puppeteering everything over there at Emerald, they'll underachieve while poaching Greenwood's leftovers.
They need an overhaul in the worst way. McMahon has consistently ran good, young coaches away from his program and replaced them with like-minds (his own son coaches and teaches at Emerald!) that are OK with the status quo of being AVERAGE.
Shocks me that a change wasnt made at Emerald after last year. Had as much, or more, talent as anyone in 3A. Should have been a serious contender to go to Columbia. Yet the barely made it into the playoffs.
No Fly Zone wrote:There was some talk about Emerald becoming a junior high, which would certainly increase the level of talent at GHS if both schools combine for a varsity squad.
A lot of kids would be without an opportunity though and Emerald has sent it's fair share of overlooked talent to college programs all over the country.
Sure, your Luke Deals and Gage Cervenkas would make Greenwood more competitive all around, but you'd also be taking opportunities away from quite a few lesser athletes that have a chance at Emerald.
The problem at both schools is the coaching and that's apparent. Gene Cathcart won at Greenwood while Emerald was around. They fell off when he left and downgraded their coaching staff.
Emerald cannot and will not compete with Tim McMahon (an average coach that only took that job because he lost out on the Greenwood job to Cathcart in the first place). And as long as Chris Deal is puppeteering everything over there at Emerald, they'll underachieve while poaching Greenwood's leftovers.
They need an overhaul in the worst way. McMahon has consistently ran good, young coaches away from his program and replaced them with like-minds (his own son coaches and teaches at Emerald!) that are OK with the status quo of being AVERAGE.
Damefan wrote:Curious, how much do y’all respect Shell Dula and his opinion still in Greenwood?
He is respected and proven. If things didn't work they were creative. He always put the best players on the field even if they played both ways. The theory was, the playmakers need time touch the ball as much as possible. He got older and decided to retire. His coordinators called the plays. He seemed to be more of the team motivator.
I'm sure this goes for just about every city in the country, but a lot of Greenwood's best athletes aren't playing for Emerald or Greenwood.
A lot of them are running in the streets. Arguably the best two skill players to come through Emerald in the past decade quit and are off doing god knows what. I'm sure that's happening at Greenwood High too.
"The best that never were"
Some of the better skill players in town are playing for the Greenwood Raptors AAU team which plays in a home-school league. It's a shame to see that talent go unnoticed.
It's a town in despair right now -- gang violence and drugs are running rampant and taking away opportunities for talented athletes.
