Onion Rings - I can't express enough how uncomfortable this hire makes me. I think; unless I am mistaken; Coach Collins use to coach at W. A. Hough High in Cornelius, NC. That school would have been new when he was there, but I think he took them to the playoffs.
What makes me nervous is how much he is jumping around. Hough High School was ranked either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd most of the year in NC. They beat last year's state champion, Chambers High school in the regular season before losing to them in the playoffs a somewhat surprise. In short, they had and continue to have really good talent at that school
Lancaster is about like a Gaffney, Orangeburg-Wilkinson, Hartsville - i.e. the only show in town and no shortage of athletes! The same story for Marlboro County and the support is like nothing else.
I would even say MC probably has more fan support than South Pointe. Comparable in the number of athletes going through its system. So as a fan; "he worries me because he has had some ideal situations and has not exactly lit it up"!
Like I said, the year he had those two dynamic RB's at Lancaster I thought they should have done much more! We were in their way; but still they played us as close as anybody that year!
Praying he isn't closed-minded to the coaches who have gained the player's confidence as they came up through the ranks! They will get them to buy into what he wants to do; when he can't! It would be dumb of him not to listen to them; but track record isn't indicating I don't need to be worried about that!