He has turn my alma mater into a BIG FAT LOSER AS WELL. What is going on in Ruston????????????????????????????????????????????
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He has turn my alma mater into a BIG FAT LOSER AS WELL. What is going on in Ruston????????????????????????????????????????????
Mangham HS needs a new head coach also. JBIII might like a challenge for $25000.00 a year......or maybe not.
Now what has happened to RHS since the 80s and early 90s is a true tesiment to how much a coach means to a winning tradition. Chick was the best.
Slau,
I have heard rumblings of support for John Carr. Have you heard this?
Martie
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Originally Posted by yobrefstank
They still managed to slap around Cedar Creek Friday night. :(
Has John Carr ever been a head coach? Where is he at now? Last I heard I think he was at University of West Monroe? I hated we let pender go, he has won every where he has been but wasn't given much of a chance there. He must have made someone mad and they got him fired. (See baseball thread ie Haddox)
Gooddawg,
John has not been a head coach in the high school ranks but I would expect that to change in the near future. He is currently the OC at Neville and has really done a good job there. Also why not consider Brad laird for the head job at RHS, he is currently the DC at Northwestern State and has worked on the staff of 3 great coaches ( Collins, Goodwin and Billy Laird) Also Pender was a disappointment leading my beloved cats to an 0-9 record. Great players and no motivational skills.
Folsom
Jetstorm,
Most class-A JV teams would have slapped Cedar Creek around. If Vic Dalrymple had the talent Mangham has had for the last 4 years, he would not lose a game. John Nash and Jonathan Holland now on the Tech lineup came from those teams.
Maybe Vic would take the Tech job?
I remember playing against John Nash a few years ago. He was a BAD MAN! Even today I see him on the tube occassionally, in the line-up for Tech at linebacker (middle, I think?). He laid the lumber back then and he does the same now.Quote:
Originally Posted by yobrefstank
Whatever happened to ol' Jay Roy Mount, who took you guys to the 'Dome back in '95? I assume that Alan Ensminger guy, who used to coach at Delhi, is still at Mangham. I was never impressed with him. He did the same thing at Delhi; take teams with incredible talent and underachieve with them.
Alas, what you say about the Cougars is true. What can I say, it's a rebuilding year. But we have lost at least two games we should have won, and I think we can still finish 5-5 if we play hard, and maybe sneak into the playoffs. Probably won't do much when we get there though.
Jay Roy went to a AA school in S. LA( Pickins or Pickett?) when he left Mangham. I had heard he was in TX for a time, but I can't say for sure. The coach that took Mangham to the Dome was Moose Munyan. Jay Roy was the head coach, but he spent many hours at the retired Coach Munyan's house getting suggestions and learning.
Ensminger is the guy at Mangham now. He is happy to win just enough to keep his job(1st round of the playoffs), but refuses to put out the effort to consistantly win. Boy, that ought to sound familiar to Tech fans.
When he was at Delhi, we played him my senior year at Cedar Creek (1999) and we beat them 13-12. He had more speed and athleticism on that team than you could believe. We had maybe one offensive skill player that could've started for Delhi. We beat them because he ran the triple option and must have handed off to the fullback 40 times that game. You've got to be kidding me! Their halfback, who had cheetah speed, returned a kickoff for a touchdown, but got maybe 5 carries on offense.
When I heard Mangham hired him, I knew they were getting a lemon.
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When I heard Mangham hired him, I knew they were getting a lemon.
And lots of Dragon fans have puckered lips about now.
Big Dog28
Last I heard you were jocking the eagles and duron. Talking about how Jake was going to be the next all-american there. I didnt even think you remembered ruston high, much less cared. Guess I was wrong.
Middlebacker,
I have never said my son was going to be an all-american anywhere! I do not live in Ruston! My kids do not live in Ruston and therefore have no ties to RHS but I do. If you guys want to keep losing fine by me. When I was a Bearcat my teams lost 2 games in three years and we averaged 14 games a season. What are the Bearcats doing now?
I don't even know if Jake wants to play football!
By the way, Did RHS play ECA and WHAT HAPPENED? Something like 50-0, I believe.
Difference between WINNERS AND LOSERS is LOSERS accept losing just like what is happening in Ruston at Tech and RHS!
Reeder will be gone after this season. Unfortunately, Ruston High will never return to the glory days of the 80's no matter who replaces him because it is a coed public school that doesn't recruit. You simply can't win it any other way in Louisiana.
Not to say Evangel, West Monroe and John Curtis are doing anything wrong, they're just doing what the LHSAA's swiss cheese rules allow.
RHS won two state championships in football, one in basketball and even one in golf while I was there and I hate seeing them as also-rans as much as anybody. But I'd rather see them lose and play by and within the spirit of the rules than to have them sell their souls just to crack USA Today's Top 25.
I'm afraid BD is right- people in Ruston seem to have accepted losing and I don't see them firing Reeder but I could be wrong.
Who was HC when they played for the state championship against UWM in 98 or 99? Was it Reeder? I don't think he has been there that long has he?
That was 1999, Reeder's first or second year, Robert Peace's senior year, Jeremy Hamilton's junior year.
December 1998. Peace and Hunt were Seniors. Lost to West Monroe.Quote:
Originally Posted by zharkins
I don't know if it was Reeder's first year or not.
Martie
The last time RHS went to the DOME was 98 and that was Hunt and Peace's junior year. We also had Kerry and Jerry Goldsmith. They were Ssniors that year and one of them, I think Kerry, won the MOP for the game. Both of those kids were unbelievable. They both played both ways and returned kicks all year long. They ended up going to Northwestern State to play. RHS has to get rid of Reeder because we have way to MUCH talent to be losing like we are.
D.C., concerning West Monroe, and not saying that it has not happened in the past, but I challenge you to name players who have been "recruited" by W.M. during past two years. The reason they win is the "system" they have in place.Quote:
Originally Posted by DCDAWG
Three Jr. High feeder schools who run the same schemes as the High School.
An intensive weight and conditioning program.
A few (not as many as people think) hold back their kids in the lower grades now.
BTW, we have one young man on our Tech Team who is a redshirt freshman and is only 18. He graduated W.M. with honors at the age of 16.
I didn't realize that West Monroe was a private school. I thought it was co-ed public also.
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I'll give Ruston High this. They know when it's time to fire a coach.
I hear the top candidates are Dirtydawg's hero and Don Shows.
Wasn't Brooks on those last championship teams? Wasn't WM a doormat back then? Did Evangel even exist?
On, on ye Bearcats...
It's my understanding that Reeder was ousted not only for his inability to return RHS to its former prominance in 5A but even more so for his impropriaties as the school's athletic director. Reeder governed over the school's athletics with every other sport taking a distant back seat to his football program's priorities. He even went so far as to tear out some of the track in favor of enlarging the football team's side line area and did so without the school board's knowledge or permission.
I betcha he was fired strictly because of the performance of his football team. When the Cats are winning, stuff like that is overlooked.
Well, it wasn't like the Bearcats weren't winning. 50-24 over six seasons, that's an average of eight wins a year. But in addition to the shenanigans pulled as AD (the de-emphasis and ill treatment of other sports is just the tip of the iceberg, hearing the way some Ruston folks talk), here are three key reasons as to why Tommy Reeder was fired.
0-8 vs. West Monroe.
0-4 vs. Evangel.
ONE trip to the 'Dome in his tenure.
Now, realistic or not, right or wrong, Ruston fans are the type of fans that expect their team to be right in the thick of the state championship race every year. And they haven't been doing that. They want a championship, and Reeder was never going to be able to give that to them running the antiquated Wing-T offense.
Look for them to go after a young gun who will open up the offense a little.
That's a sweet post. Winning trumps everything, except money, which really trumps everything, including ideology. Tech is a prime example of this. They are thinking in accordance with this little axiom, but they are just stupid and don't realize the financial implications (from losing support to going back to D1-AA) of the decisions they are making.Quote:
Originally Posted by boxerdog
Unfortunately, I think you put your thumb on how it works, not just in Tech athletics but in the way of the world. I find it comical that the present administration can't even be worldly in the right way. What idiot would sell his soul for women's basketball?
Dan ReneauQuote:
Originally Posted by boxerdog
And West Monroe just got a new turf field and a $2 million fieldhouse is on the way!
Are skyboxes next? That's what they say as the "visitors" bleachers are planned to be removed and replaced with even more seats and used as the new "home" side.
It just goes to show you that people will support a WINNER. And, if you ask, they might even through in a buck or two.