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Anybody know the scoop on Irby's stepping down from the head coach position at HHS?
He is tagged as making inappropriate statements to the girls and they replace him with David Wolf, who ain't exactly Mr. Rogers.
And, will Houston FINALLY play CBHS now that he is no longer at the helm?
i had coach Irby for Government...we would take notes for ten mins and then sleep the rest of the class...it was fun.
Go Tigers!!!
Drew
not sure, maybe he could go to germantown and get them back on track.
i got a pretty good source on this one which states that the bottom line is that Wolff wanted to take the girls job and let Irby do boys only. Irby didnt want to do that and so Wolff gets pissed and starts basically forming an alliance with some of the girls and their parents. Basically then it becomes half the girls and their parents are for Irby and the other half is for Wolff. After a Houston girls loss one of the girls wrote Irby a text that basically asked what practice was gonna be like since they lost and Irby basically put that yall are gonna run your asses off! And then this message got in the hands of Wolff supporters, then they in turn took it to Aitkens and the rest is history.
I have a source that tells me the Houston folks take their soccer teams VERY seriously...it's amazing how crazy some parents can get when potential college scholarships are on the line.
GermantownTiger Wrote:I have a source that tells me the Houston folks take their soccer teams VERY seriously...it's amazing how crazy some parents can get when potential college scholarships are on the line.
High school soccer has nothing to do with most college scholarships.
The only college coach I have seen at a high school game is Jim Allen from Delta State. He is building a program from scratch.
Irby's success (as is that of most high school coaches) is directly related to the large number of club players he has, which is why he has refused to play CBHS for 10 or 11 years--they have more.
On the girls' side it may be a little different because the money is there, but most college coaches consider Tennessee high school soccer barely a step up from rec.
I can't watch it, personally.
When germantown won the National Championship in girls soccer when I was in school, (95) we had 4 or 5 girls who got college scholorships. i will say that for the boys, it is more important on what club team you are playing for than high school.
gomemphistigers1 Wrote:i had coach Irby for Government...we would take notes for ten mins and then sleep the rest of the class...it was fun.
Go Tigers!!!
Drew
I can pretty much confirm that. I had him for economics or as he called it irbonomics. It was an absolute joke.
Speaking of High School soccer in Memphis, I had Amy Dietrich for several classes in the College of Education.
Here son (David) was the coach somewhere and her daughter-in-law (Dawn, I think? David's wife) was boys' coach at Kirby (I think). Are they still coaching? I remember a CA article about the husband/wife matchup when they played each other but that was a while back.
I will never forget the day we (collierville) beat houston for the first time. Since they were were the reason we were on probation the year before, it made that win and knocking them out of the playoffs that much sweeter.
newtiger Wrote:When germantown won the National Championship in girls soccer when I was in school, (95) we had 4 or 5 girls who got college scholorships. i will say that for the boys, it is more important on what club team you are playing for than high school.
So you were there when Parlow was there.
I am thinking that if she didn't have a few club players around her, she wouldn't have played.
She was training every day back then, so much so that her club coach (who is a Bob Knight type) told her to back off--she didn't.
I don't want to burst your bubble, but high school soccer national championships are muddled. Doesn't matter though, it's the system we have. With girls, 25 states play when we do, with very few in the south. With boys, only 12 states play, and none are soccer states. TN soccer is a$$-backwards.
MemTGRS Wrote:Speaking of High School soccer in Memphis, I had Amy Dietrich for several classes in the College of Education.
Here son (David) was the coach somewhere and her daughter-in-law (Dawn, I think? David's wife) was boys' coach at Kirby (I think). Are they still coaching? I remember a CA article about the husband/wife matchup when they played each other but that was a while back.
David is a psych professor at Lambuth University. He also is goalkeeping coach for both the men's and women's teams there. He hasn't been married to Dawn for a very long time. He is married to another professor at Lambuth.
TigerEagle Wrote:David is a psych professor at Lambuth University. He also is goalkeeping coach for both the men's and women's teams there. He hasn't been married to Dawn for a very long time. He is married to another professor at Lambuth.
OK, thanks. I was unaware.
Interesting that he's coaching at Lambuth because that's where coach Grant was. I'm from Jackson TN originally and very familiar ... a fine school.
MemTGRS Wrote:TigerEagle Wrote:David is a psych professor at Lambuth University. He also is goalkeeping coach for both the men's and women's teams there. He hasn't been married to Dawn for a very long time. He is married to another professor at Lambuth.
OK, thanks. I was unaware.
Interesting that he's coaching at Lambuth because that's where coach Grant was. I'm from Jackson TN originally and very familiar ... a fine school.
It is a fine school (I have my undergrad from there). I played for Coach Grant my senior year. He's a great guy and a good coach.
You mentioned having classes under Dr. Amy Dietrich. She was my advisor in grad school and is one of my all-time favorite people. She's great. I still see her from time to time here in Jackson (she moved here after she retired).
Now that Irby is out, CBHS and Houston will play for the first time since Irby refused to schedule CBHS ten years or so ago.
Houston will probably win---and could have won a lot of the games before. The CBHS players cannot stand the coach.
I am certainly no longer on the "in" with Memphis HS Soccer, but I had heard that before about the Brothers situation. You would think that CBHS could get a coach that players would like, unlike many of the public schools, who sinply fill the position with unqualified teachers.