WHILE WE HAVE THE AX OUT--Lets get the RHS COACH TOO!

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10-24-2003, 03:30 PM
Gooddawg

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?
10-24-2003, 03:37 PM
zharkins

That was 1999, Reeder's first or second year, Robert Peace's senior year, Jeremy Hamilton's junior year.
10-24-2003, 04:03 PM
OmahaDawg

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Originally Posted by zharkins

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.

I don't know if it was Reeder's first year or not.

Martie
10-24-2003, 05:22 PM
bdub

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.
10-24-2003, 07:30 PM
PawDawg

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Originally Posted by DCDAWG

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.

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.

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.
10-24-2003, 08:52 PM
Dirtydawg

I didn't realize that West Monroe was a private school. I thought it was co-ed public also.
12-04-2003, 06:33 PM
Jetstorm

bump
12-04-2003, 06:34 PM
Jetstorm

http://www.thenewsstar.com/newsupdat...D6840775.shtml

I'll give Ruston High this. They know when it's time to fire a coach.
12-04-2003, 06:42 PM
PawDawg

I hear the top candidates are Dirtydawg's hero and Don Shows.
12-04-2003, 08:32 PM
american

Wasn't Brooks on those last championship teams? Wasn't WM a doormat back then? Did Evangel even exist?

On, on ye Bearcats...
12-04-2003, 10:12 PM
Bone_afide_Dawg

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.
12-04-2003, 10:43 PM
boxerdog

I betcha he was fired strictly because of the performance of his football team. When the Cats are winning, stuff like that is overlooked.
12-05-2003, 12:09 AM
Jetstorm

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.
12-05-2003, 03:01 AM
beef

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Originally Posted by boxerdog

I betcha he was fired strictly because of the performance of his football team. When the Cats are winning, stuff like that is overlooked.

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.
12-05-2003, 10:06 AM
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?

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