Greenville

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Just now, TheAnswer said:

Well of course he’s going to do better than any coach before him… easy to do when a school has had almost 30 coaches since 1971.

Again, he got a team of juniors that nearly won 4a state as sophomores, then added D1 caliber players from Greenville, Yazoo City and Memphis. How could he not succeed?

 

He may well be a decent coach, but these two seasons are not indicative of if he is or isn't.

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On 11/8/2021 at 10:14 PM, lumberlayer said:

You can take Cleveland as the example, though we don’t have the same number of schools public or private. We had two public, one private in a town of 10,000. Now we have one public, one private in the same size town, possibly a little smaller. The area private schools (Bayou and NSA) still recruit our talent, but they’re mostly only successful with the white students from Cleveland. The black kids that they recruit come from other areas, like Rosedale or Shaw, who may not be able to move to Cleveland but can find a way to get to Bayou daily. We had a pretty decent quarterback who was coming up from junior high to high school who suddenly transferred to Bayou Academy recently with no explanation that I’m aware of. 
 

Now I gave all that info for this reason: what kind of success have you seen in Cleveland schools? The basketball teams have won some games, track has won a relay championship (maybe 2, not sure), and football was good that first year of consolidation. The team is fair this year at 6-4 but they didn’t beat anyone of note. There have also been 3 different head football coaches in the short 5 years of the program, so that is contributing to some of the lack of success surely. We were much more successful athletically before we consolidated, though neither school would’ve been considered a powerhouse, per se.  
 

Our boys played Greenville High last Friday and the number of fans on their side was shocking. The total lack of depth on their sideline was noticeable as well. I’ve never been there and knew nothing about their program but it would seem that somebody could get that thing going in the right direction. The OL/DL bodies are there, skill players look decent enough for them to do better than 1-7 or 1-8 or whatever they were. There seem to be bigger problems in Greenville public than meet the eye, but I hope they can get it turned around in a hurry or else that town will dry up like all of the rest of the Delta towns. 

The City of Greenville did not get into their current situation in a hurry and like most any struggling city the public school system is going to be in the exact same boat. There are almost no exceptions. Look around you both statewide and nationally. That said, don't expect Greenville Public to get it turned around in a hurry, or if ever, honestly and sadly.