New Football Coach hired for WS

Coach Payne is a good football name.

Oh I can already see the Major Payne/T Pain analogies coming

Major Payne in the house…Just his last name it Payne might keep 5/6 kids at WS from coming out for football!! Lol

I talked to a kid this morning who said he has been to town and met last week. He didnt go into many details but told me coach said his priority for this year is to build a good relationship with the players and work on the team more than x's and o's. So I'm taking it he's going by that old saying it's not the x's and o's but the jimmy's and joe's. That may be the right step to get kids interested and going again imo.

Here's what I like best about this hire though I've not met him yet. I wanted a fresh face from out of the area for a fresh start and didn't think we could pull that off. That can also be scary because you don't know what you are getting. I had another friend in another town tell me that the SCA itself could use some new faces and after some thoughts I agree. I believe this will give us the best chance to get going again. I aint saying that things will happen this way but the last time we hired a coach with 10 yrs experience but never had a head coaching job we won 3 SCA titles and that guy is now in Mtn. Home. So I'm in hopes history will repeat itself in due time, lol.

MGHS I agree I don't see a red carpet rolled out for him and unfortunately some folks may not invest in the program after feeling burnt from last year. As for me though I'm going to buy in what I can. It's not fair for the pasts to be taken out on the new guy and he needs all the welcome he can get. So far he's gotten that from the social media end of things so may that bode well for this summer/fall. California Pintos have had a lot of successes except for a couple years they didnt win a game. This guy came along and helped get them going again the last 3 years. Their jv record is pretty solid as well. I been told he helped start their wrestling program up there so this tells me he should be about conditioning. As far as predictions I'll wait and see how we are doing on numbers and such, but believe the SCA is won in week 3 (Grove v Ava/ SCA week 1) and after that who knows from top to bottom.

I can't wait for the "Little Engine that Could" references. Going to have to watch Major Payne again.. its been a while.
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Didn't mean it that way. But a lot of schools do hire within. While I can't blame them for that it may help shake up the conference when a new face comes in, hopefully for the better. If not then I stand corrected. 

Hiring is dictated by the quality of outside applicants…we hired Johnson outside and he was good…Stucky was horrible and the assistants carried the program…Atkins was so-so and not vested long term. Liberty hired outside and the guy never made it and Liberty hired a former assistant and the program has kept rolling. As I said hiring outside is all good and well if you can find a quality candidate.