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Brad Allen needs to be fired???? That's hilarious. Brad Allen has done more for that school than anybody. He isn't just a football coach to those boys, he is a friend. The things that most people don't see is that Brad Allen doesn't just stop being there after practice ends, or the season ends, like most coaches do. Brad took his entire team out into the community when they had that huge flood. Did Haywood do that? Did Chapman? He doesn't just coach football, He builds character, and prepares these kids for real life. The biggest problem that East Ridge isn't Coach Allen, it's the fact that they will not get him help. He has to coach both High School and Middle School. He has to do everything that assistant coaches are hired to do. Because the only assistants the Board approves of is volunteers. I don't think any coach would want to step into the situation that Coach Allen is in. He loves going to work, and trying to help these kids become better men. Looking at the number of kids he has sent on to college...says a whole lot about who he is as a coach, and a person. You don't get a lot of Brad Allen's, and if they would just give him some help, he would build a program. If the boys don't like a coach that will push them, then don't play football at all. If you go to Belfry you will hear coaches cussing, if you go to Pike Central, you will hear John Paul Chapman cussing. It's part of football, and if kids can't handle that now, then when they get a real job, they will just fall to the wayside then as well. Coach Allen has done a great job at East Ridge. If they get rid of him, he won't have a problem finding a new home. It would be a crime if they let Coach go.