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So the guy who three-peated wasn't good enough?? What exactly is good enough??

 

Ponder isn't some no name Coach...he's got a solid record, has led a team to a title and led 3 other teams to the quarter-finals...and the job he did at a perennial loser is pretty dang good...he won't get enough credit for what he did at Bells but take a look:

Bells prior to Ponder

2005: 0-10

2006: 2-8

2007: 1-9

2008: 0-10

2009: 4-6

2010: 6-5

2011: 1-9

2012: 0-10

2013: 1-9

 

Ponder arrives

2014: 8-4

2015: 5-6

2016: 7-4

2017: 8-3

2018: 4-7 (moving up to 3A from 2A)

 

 

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10 minutes ago, MattStepp said:

So the guy who three-peated wasn't good enough?? What exactly is good enough??

 

Ponder isn't some no name Coach...he's got a solid record, has led a team to a title and led 3 other teams to the quarter-finals...and the job he did at a perennial loser is pretty dang good...he won't get enough credit for what he did at Bells but take a look:

Bells prior to Ponder

2005: 0-10

2006: 2-8

2007: 1-9

2008: 0-10

2009: 4-6

2010: 6-5

2011: 1-9

2012: 0-10

2013: 1-9

 

Ponder arrives

2014: 8-4

2015: 5-6

2016: 7-4

2017: 8-3

2018: 4-7 (moving up to 3A from 2A)

 

 

They were shutout seven times in 2012. Had scored only 32 points that season.

Sounds like coach Ponder really turn that team around from the start.

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32 minutes ago, MattStepp said:

So the guy who three-peated wasn't good enough?? What exactly is good enough??

 

Ponder isn't some no name Coach...he's got a solid record, has led a team to a title and led 3 other teams to the quarter-finals...and the job he did at a perennial loser is pretty dang good...he won't get enough credit for what he did at Bells but take a look:

Bells prior to Ponder

2005: 0-10

2006: 2-8

2007: 1-9

2008: 0-10

2009: 4-6

2010: 6-5

2011: 1-9

2012: 0-10

2013: 1-9

 

Ponder arrives

2014: 8-4

2015: 5-6

2016: 7-4

2017: 8-3

2018: 4-7 (moving up to 3A from 2A)

 

 

Well that's encouraging. Sounds like a good hire

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1 hour ago, trueblue82 said:

He didn’t meet Center’s standards. 

Not all of us in Center. I for one I'm excited about the hiring of Scott Ponder as the new AD/HFC. Every coach that the Board had decided on through out the years, I try to always be optimistic. A few whiners don't reflect on how others in our community feels. I hope the majority of the Center community, maybe even other communities in this county, will get behind our new coach, and support him in every way that we can. If y'all, (the Center community), want success to come to our football program, then get behind your coach. He's not going to be perfect, he's going to make mistakes. But who don't on their job. And be realistic about your expectation from coach Ponder. GO RIDERS!!  

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7 hours ago, Crawford said:

Not all of us in Center. I for one I'm excited about the hiring of Scott Ponder as the new AD/HFC. Every coach that the Board had decided on through out the years, I try to always be optimistic. A few whiners don't reflect on how others in our community feels. I hope the majority of the Center community, maybe even other communities in this county, will get behind our new coach, and support him in every way that we can. If y'all, (the Center community), want success to come to our football program, then get behind your coach. He's not going to be perfect, he's going to make mistakes. But who don't on their job. And be realistic about your expectation from coach Ponder. GO RIDERS!!  

I think they made a great hire. I agree with you that the community needs to get behind the program. He has a proven record of putting up big offensive numbers, so that should provide a lot of “fun to watch” games for all the football experts in Center. 

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Every situation is a little different because all the human dynamics are different in each location.

Will be interesting to see what and how he chooses to deal with these dynamics.

Regardless, I wish him well on his new adventure.

 

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