[TheHotSnakes]

For most schools, win and losses do not matter. If a coach runs a good program and doesn't ask for too much and keeps any issues from crossing the principal's desk, then he is good.

This is it, 100%.

If a coach at a public high school is fired over wins and losses, then it better be a public high school that can recruit players and he just hasn't performed.

The fact that these teams and coaches are ultimately up to the whim of the genetics, economics, social, cultural, and political beliefs of a specific area, leads me to believe that there is a lot more to winning and losing games than simply the job the coach is doing. A really good coach stays in the same area, but the area is hammered by an economic depression, causing people to leave. The wins stop being there. Is it because he's suddenly a bad coach? Or because the talent was part of families who had to leave to find employment?


Too many people view coaching high school as essentially the same as coaching in college or the NFL. And, that is one of the big reasons it is difficult to find quality coaches in this state.