A quick chuckle for those of us in preps...

[jr/shotglass]

Hey, you already knew I was dmbu.

 

[RickStain]

Incidentally, if this is on the up-and-up, any trace of said story has been erased from the Rumford Falls Times website.

But yes, there is a Rumford Falls Times, and yes, they do cover Mountain Valley girls' volleyball ...

Well, now we have to have SportsJournalists.com Awards for the year.

 

[Batman]

Has a high school coach ever said at the beginning of the season, "I don't think we'll be very good." I guess they mask it behind the words "rebuilding year." But I wish one coach, one time, would just shoot it straight.

If a coach ever shot straight like that, about 40 parents would make his life a living heck. Even a coach that doesn't expect to win a game has to be optimistic on the record.

And there's not a good chance that he'd tell you anything different off the record for the fear that you'd go ahead and use it, anyway.

I actually have had several coaches tell me flat out, "We're just not very good right now," during losing streaks. For football preview stories I've sometimes thrown out the, "What would be a good year?" question and gotten the coach to bite and say four or five wins (usually when it's obvious to anyone they won't be very good).
Of course, like they say, everyone is 0-0 at the start of the year and everybody has optimism until opening night.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Well, now we have to have SportsJournalists.com Awards for the year.

Grrrrrr.

 

[Mark2010]

Oh, I always ask "what would you consider a good year?"

But, just once, I've love to have a coach say, on the record: "We're just not very talented this year." The closest I've ever got (well, actually, a co-worker) was a HS football coach: "You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shirt."

 

[KJIM]

The only problem with trying this around here is that every year, the name "Megan" would be spelled different.
Meegan

With two Es? I've never seen it that way.

But I do know a Meghan, which you left out.

 

[Batman]

Oh, I always ask "what would you consider a good year?"

But, just once, I've love to have a coach say, on the record: "We're just not very talented this year." The closest I've ever got (well, actually, a co-worker) was a HS football coach: "You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shirt."

One of my co-workers once got a baseball coach to say, on the record, "You can't win the Kentucky Derby with a bunch of mules."
I heard the coach got a good talking-to from his superiors for that.

 

[expendable]

The only problem with trying this around here is that every year, the name "Megan" would be spelled different.
Meegan

With two Es? I've never seen it that way.

But I do know a Meghan, which you left out.

Ill raise you a Mehgan.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

I'll raise both of you a Meighan.

 

[Mark2010]

Oh, I always ask "what would you consider a good year?"

But, just once, I've love to have a coach say, on the record: "We're just not very talented this year." The closest I've ever got (well, actually, a co-worker) was a HS football coach: "You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shirt."

One of my co-workers once got a baseball coach to say, on the record, "You can't win the Kentucky Derby with a bunch of mules."
I heard the coach got a good talking-to from his superiors for that.

I bet. Political correctness has been the death-knell for classicly funny quotes.

 

[RickStain]

Meyghan

 

[HandsomeHarley]

Don't get me started with "Kelsey," "Brittany" or "Mikayla"