Happenings in Rabbitland?

[mrclean69]

Coaching really seems like an awful profession. Pick up and move your family. Play a very tough schedule taking over a team that's been in decline for years. 1 year to turn it around, pick up and move your family again.

[17SUPERKAT]

No matter what the talent is, when you have to Freshmen and Sophomores against Juniors and Seniors it usually doesn’t work out well.  In 2 or 3 years someone will be deemed a great coach that resurrected Atlanta football.  Could have, should have been Plunk.  But hey, that’s the business he is in.  Parents and board members decide the fate of coach and program 

[DeKlabBeers]

How am I just now finding out that there actually is a town called ATLANTA in Texas? SMH

[Racer55]

Miles was given one year contracts in each of his 11 years at White Oak. He’s fond of the Bum Phillips quote that posits, “There are only two kinds of coaches in Texas: those who have been fired and those who are going to be.”

“And since I hadn’t been fired,” Miles adds, “it was pretty easy to figure out which category I was going to be in.”
 

 

Quote from Hall of fame coach Cotton Miles. 

[AtlantaFan04]

21 hours ago, RogerDorn said:

always pulled for Atlanta but I I hope this bites them in the TobinFrost . He was ran outta town make no mistake about it . 

Yea! That'll teach those kids who had nothing to do with it a lesson! 

[RogerDorn]

2 hours ago, AtlantaFan04 said:

Yea! That'll teach those kids who had nothing to do with it a lesson! 

4-6, 2-9 with previous coach and 0-10 this year . A lot of those kids didn’t give a dang and haven’t since they got in Hs they didn’t have the character of a lot of Atlanta teams in the past buddy. Is that coach prob ? Some what yes you have to change the culture he wasn’t even given the chance. You would think administration would know that by now. Throw in the fact he had family issues that are much more important than football but he was still there .

[tomlandry]

2 hours ago, AtlantaFan04 said:

Yea! That'll teach those kids who had nothing to do with it a lesson! 

Did Pine Tree hire Plunk after release?

[mrclean69]

3 hours ago, AtlantaFan04 said:

Yea! That'll teach those kids who had nothing to do with it a lesson! 

The coach had a kid too. What lesson did Atlanta teach him? 

[Jerryhawk111]

bad job....atl isn't as far from qc as they like to think

[BEARDEDGOAT]

On 12/6/2021 at 2:19 PM, dillonpanthers said:

Going to PG?

Word on the street is most of the Linden kids are going back to Linden since they dropped to 2Ad2

[AtlantaFan04]

3 hours ago, Jerryhawk111 said:

bad job....atl isn't as far from qc as they like to think

We are. In more than just football, too.

[AtlantaFan04]

Aint none of yall give a dang about Plunk or the kids or Atl. Most of yall have an axe to grind or are a hater...either you had "friends on staff" or youre a LK/QC supporter just looking to throw stones.

Mad at Atlanta for rushing to judgement and letting Plunk go after going 0-10 but yall all rushing to judghment labeling Atl as a bad job or loser program after a couple bad seasons.

[RogerDorn]

3 hours ago, AtlantaFan04 said:

Aint none of yall give a dang about Plunk or the kids or Atl. Most of yall have an axe to grind or are a hater...either you had "friends on staff" or youre a LK/QC supporter just looking to throw stones.

Mad at Atlanta for rushing to judgement and letting Plunk go after going 0-10 but yall all rushing to judghment labeling Atl as a bad job or loser program after a couple bad 

[Retiredfan30]

After 1 season, this is hard to imagine.  I guess it just wasn’t the right fit for the Rabbits.  Atlanta needs to go outside the box and hire it’s first Black HC/AD.  

[tomlandry]

Robert Shaw will be in the mix. Gainesville guy

[Rowebot]

Shame..... ATL should feel like trash.... 

Moving forward.... If anyone wants to reach out and touch this with a 10ft pole right now..... Atlanta needs a Culture guy, maybe not necessarily a guy who has racked up a million wins because now they would be CRAZY to think this job is attractive. 

Seems like the biggest issue is that they aren't proud to be the Atlanta Rabbs anymore, need someone to come in and really create a culture, rebuild that feeling when people were a ACTUALLY worried about putting them on the schedule. Wouldn't have to look far or hard if they were smart.

[dillonpanthers]

12 hours ago, Retiredfan30 said:

After 1 season, this is hard to imagine.  I guess it just wasn’t the right fit for the Rabbits.  Atlanta needs to go outside the box and hire it’s first Black HC/AD.  

Could have hired Abron last year. He was in the mix. 

[Valhalla]

22 minutes ago, dillonpanthers said:

Could have hired Abron last year. He was in the mix. 

That might have been a one year thing anyways too.

[BEARDEDGOAT]

3 minutes ago, Valhalla said:

That might have been a one year thing anyways too.

yeah he is going home

 

[dillonpanthers]

Who else was in the final few applicants last year?

[Truthseeker96]

There is so many layers to this whole situation. Don’t judge a book by its cover. Atlanta isn’t a bad job moving forward. The person who comes in needs to change culture and discipline quickly. Your talent picks back up sophomores and freshman classes.  Plunk is a very good coach and wonderful family but it just wasn’t a good fit. 

[TIMRIGGINS]

16 hours ago, Dadgoat said:

There is so many layers to this whole situation. Don’t judge a book by its cover. Atlanta isn’t a bad job moving forward. The person who comes in needs to change culture and discipline quickly. Your talent picks back up sophomores and freshman classes.  Plunk is a very good coach and wonderful family but it just wasn’t a good fit. 

That stuff don't change quickly unless you get rid of the problems...Usually if you get rid of the problem you lose some of your talent. Its a balancing act. 

[H3llR4z0r]

I have to ask: Did any of the people tearing into Atlanta for their decision, even go to an Atlanta game this year? 

[H3llR4z0r]

Or the past 2-3 years for that matter. 

[RogerDorn]

yep.