Class A Early Top Ten

Winning coaches are leaving programs. New winning programs (locust grove) and the most recent state champ (afton) find themselves looking for coaches. Perennial Powerhouse means something different in 2018, than it did in 1950. Coaches no longer mold winning programs and remain on to coach 20 years. Once they win, they are gone. No fault to any coach for bettering his stance in life as it is a different coaching world in 2018.

If a team can:
-average 10 wins/year over 6 seasons
-make the playoffs every year
-send players to college
-have players consistently recognized on -post season award lists,
then in the modern era they should be considered a powerhouse. Championships at the smaller levels are aberrations of a senior class and the dynasty is usually short lived.

Okeene (‘06 ‘07), Wayne (‘11), and Woodland (‘10) once ruled Class A. A mere ten years later are all slated to finish in the lower half of their districts according to vype. This is meant as no disrespect to the teams’ upcoming season as I wish them all good luck. The example of past champions is to show “perennial powerhouse” placed on a team solely due to state championships is a gross oversight. I choose to weigh heavily on the “perennial” portion of the nickname. To me consistent winning creates the lockerroom chatter, ie.“they always beat us” and “they just keep winning every year no matter who graduates.”

I appreciate that my view is not shared by all and that thoughtful discussion is present in this forum. I bid each of you a great upcoming season. If we should cross paths, the first dr pepper from the concession stand is on me.

I submit my preseason Top Ten list for correction and hot stove talk.

Commerce
Ringling
Hobart
Wynnewood
Cashion
Morrison
Rejoice Christian
Minco
Hooker
Hominy

Freighttrain:

I agree. NB that I don't think we can just overthrow the meaning of a term (perennial, in this case) on a whim; or, at least, I don't think it a good idea because it spells the advent of the liberal ideology, which is not a good thing in my estimation, but that is just me.

Not to get political in a HS sports forum, but everything is political when you boil it all down. Someone called me a "hypocrite" awhile back, based on the fact that my father allowed me to obtain a driver's license at 16 years-old, whereas I make my own kids wait another year (at least). I of course laughed at the accusation, citing the fact(s) that (1),this is now and that was then, (2) I am not my father, nor my kids me; (3) what I did as a half-wit adolescent is only relevant in the case inasmuch as I am trying to prevent their making some of the same mistakes I made as a dumb*ss adolescent.

My overall point in all of this is that, by long standing definition, a "hypocrite" is someone who feigns righteousness or otherwise passes himself off to be what he is not. In calling me a hypocrite, my interlocutor failed to understand any of that and applied the label arbitrarily. In my view, this is essentially what is happening with the "perennial" part of "perennial powerhouse." I have no problem with acknowledging any team as a "powerhouse" if that team so deserves the appelation; my only problem is with the "perennial" part, which means, boiled down, "long standing."

OUmatt: Ditto.

I have, for the last several years (ever since I saw your boys play Savanna @ Savanna in the 1st rnd of the playoffs a few years back, when your son was the premier kicker in the state in class A) wanted to personally meet and shake hands with several of the Rejoice faithful, you included. I will definitely let you know if I have a chance this year to finally make good on the desire...

Lol. Okeene has made the playoffs 17 times out of the last 18. I wouldn’t necessarily call them a power right now. They do have one of the best traditions in Class A football. With that said I agree. What is the deal with Coaches not staying. What happened to the Bruce Hendrickson’s, Jeff Wardlaws, Gandys’s, Alvarez, Cornelsons, all the good coaches who stayed at one program for decades. You don’t see that anymore.