[AtlPirateFan]

I never liked the teaching/coaching rule anyways. It sets up failure in the classroom in most cases, especially at “sports” schools. You’re basically giving a good coach a job to teach and in some cases they’re just filling in a seat and taking up someone else’s job. I’ve seen it. Now I’ve seen great coaches that do a great job teaching, and that’s fine, let them do it. But I’d say there is better teachers out there than Haywood, haddix, Hilton, etc.... but there isn’t many better coaches. Let the coaches coach, and teachers teach, if they WANT to do both, great, the school will save a little money. But don’t require it.

Unless things have changed Coach Haywood's role has been as a guidance counselor at Belfry, a job he takes very seriously. He was a pretty good one to me, I never played for him but never felt he anything but my best interest at heart, even after I had a "confrontation" with him and the principal at the time over state testing and my refusal to take it as a senior. He never treated me unfairly and even helped me get a scholarship after the state testing disagreement. He may have been a teacher in the past at P-Burg but for as long as I can remember he's been a guidance counselor for Belfry, so he's not "wasting" a space in a classroom.