In Defense of the Coach — Your Coach

https://medium.com/@tony_chapman76/in-defense-of-the-coach-your-coach-20aadaba90d9

(Tony Chapman medium.com  Please click on the link for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

In the spring of 1991, my favorite football coach at my high school was fired. Not from teaching social studies, or history or, heck, even coaching the girls basketball team. He was still good enough for that.

Just football. That’s it.

Earlier that fall, he’d gone through an awful season. One win. Eight losses. Lost some close games his young team should have won. He started a majority of underclassmen, only three seniors were on the team.

Those in our little town had forgot about the fall before that when our boys were 7–1. Or the fall before that when they were 7–3 and made the state football playoffs. Memories are short, I guess.

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