WarDaddy

Chip Bilderback’s wife, Missy, just took the head women’s basketball job at Southern Miss. Great hire! If Chip comes home to take back over the football program, Columbia will be the BIG winner here!

I agree with you all; the posts on this topic today are spot on. I believe there are 25 schools in 7A. I can think of 4 off the top of my head where the AD/HFC positions are combined, and 2 are in Rankin County. Old habits are hard to break, for some. At the higher classifications, at least, the positions should be separate. A 7A HFC cannot effectively fulfill the requirements of both positions, especially in the Fall, without a lot of assistance/dependence on an assistant AD (or two) and/or without taking a toll on his personal well-being. It’s worthy of note that combining the positions of HFC/AD gives the principal of the school absolute and total control of the athletics program, to go along with his (already) inherent control of the educational program. HFC walks, out walks the AD in the same pair of shoes. Principal makes the hire; total control (pending Board approval, of course). Combining the two positions also effectively eliminates females from the pool of AD candidates. Finally, combining the positions of HFC/AD is not in the best interest of the school’s overall athletics program. Separation of the HFC/AD positions lends itself to overall athletics program stability, consistency and performance in our ever-changing, revolving-door modern world of head football coaches.