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Outsider?

Frankie Smith? You paying $80k for a guy that will literally fight the football coaches the day they make basketball players max on squats on game day?

Garland Rabbit Thompson? He fought a parent who come up in his face about playing time. Do you know how often that happens at Belfry?

Young guy out of college? Without teaching tenure he will be completely controlled by politics.

Older, successful coach? Pay is garbage and egos aren’t allowing another Alpha Male in that building.

BTW, this is NOT a football vs basketball thing.This is a school culture, school politics, selfishness thing.


Mark Thompson is a good guy and a good basketball coach that isn’t allowed to run a program the way he wants. I have watched almost every home game for Belfry since about 1975. I graduated and played there, had a son play there, and countless nephews and nieces go through there or are there now.

Coaches have been blamed since Raymond was ran out of town. We’ve had 4 and outside a couple of years with Randy Casy and last year with Thompson, basketball has been terrible.

Buddy I don’t mean to be a a hole but if you try to tell me Thompson is a good coach you don’t know much about basketball teams don’t even prepare for us anymore they may go over a press breaker but that’s about it I’ve been around Belfry Basketball since 85 and we’re light years away from where we used to be again Mark is a good guy but a head basketball coach no way let’s quit cheating the kids and getting a basketball program they can be proud of once again