he definitely has a pretty good core of athletes returning and a few pretty good ones coming up, however, he also returned his ENTIRE TEAM at his last stop after going 4-6 and managed to turn that entire team into a 2-9 team so....we shall see.
Southern Guilford is to their conference as South Davidson was to the conference that included Thomasville, Lexington, North Rowan and Salisbury. In the current Thomasville conference, the Bulldogs are either Dudley or Northern Guilford.
I see where you were going there but i strongly disagree, i'd give them west davidson at best! South is a true stretch. southern had clear potential to be 3rd or fourth in that conference. all the same things yall said about georges offense, running the predictable plays and such, if you watched any of southerns games last year you would see a lot of the same. Southern actually had a few "dogs" on that team....all of which had announced they werent returning after last season
from the sound of things, can we really give him the credit for the one winning season? As it keeps being stated, he regressed the next year because his qb transferred, so is it fair to give him complete credit for that winning season? I get it, it's hard to win without a great qb, but let's be honest, there's no Bryce Baker walking the halls over on unity street, so if there is no ability to win without Bryce, what happens now?
welp apparently according to the folks here so does Thomasville.....
I don’t think Thomasville administration is all that good so i guess he will be gone in 2yrs lol
The coach that proceeded him at walkertown has no issue winning ? 8-4 and 9-2 with no 4 star Qb
As a parent who has a kid on the team, we had no chance to finish third in that conference. If they had put us in the conference with Andrews and HPC we would have been much more competitive. We at Southern are sad to see him go. He has done a lot. We have heard that the old coach at Thomasville is a finalist for the Southern job. Maybe we can compare their records at the end of the year.
I really hope Coach George gets another shot, thomasville is not the right job for a first time head coach.
SGHS honestly I don't think yall would have faired much better. Take HPC out. Andrews ,Randleman, Central Davidson and even Lexington are no push overs. So I don't know about that. Just saying.
The Cushwa dogs are still excellent. Let just hope we get a home playoff game this year where more than 250 fans show up to eat them
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Southern has been down for a while now, however...Have you seen their conference? You're acting as though they play bums. That Smith team was talented, they loss pieces during the year due to a brawl, but Southern played them at full strength. Every team they played was a playoff team with the exception of High Point Central so I mean the record doesn't tell the full story.With a coach that went 2-9, 0-5 in conference and lost to Smith?....
I never said they played bums! What i said was he returned his ENTIRE TEAM. The same ENTIRE TEAM that bet all those same Smith players the year before. Smith was not a well coached team. Every lost Thomasville had was to a playoff team! one of which went to the semi finals, so again, how is this moving in a different direction? Because he took southern to the playoffs? The state took Southern to the playoffs, not him! they were 2-8 going into the playoffs. And im not someone thats just talking, im there watching, crazy thing is i was actually pulling for him at southern! I even attended both of his fundraisers the past two augusts in the walmart parking lot(pretty decent fish plate might i add), had attended games, can tell you about players(some of which have left the school after the season to go elsewhere). I just can't get behind the notion of him being a "program builder" and is the guy for Thomasville from what i've seen. Heck, I hope he proves me wrong but you have to be somewhere longer than two years to build a program and you cant continue to regress from year one to year two. These aren't program building points and anyone that says it is is delusional. If southern was so bad, why did he voluntarily leave the walkertown program that he supposedly built? I've seen it said that it was because of the "administration" so he leaves a bad administration, "builds another program" and then leaves them because of their administration to join another "bad administration"? make it make it make sense. Are we building programs or are we running at the first sight of adversity? I thank god that Benjie Brown said in every dang pregame speech to "overcome adversity" and unfortunately that ability to overcome it has been lost
As a long time triad football fan, Thomasville should not be a stepping stone. It should be a destination. But I have seen many an administration ruin a good program. Just that one wrong hire as principal or AD can kill it.
Yeah but many of our "bigtime fans" on the old board and at games bashed the previous coach, Gorge Bradley on his coaching ability and having a losing record his first year and improved to 6-6 this past season. Keep in mind this in a rebuild with green young talent, we lost a lot of talent after 2024. During the playoff game many fans left during the first half out of spite and the team ended up winning the game. I'm pretty much casual about expectations these days with Thomasville and Carver. I'm fine with giving coach Mills or any coach time to build despite previous job records. However, after the crap I saw at the games and read on the message board the past two years I don't want to hear any excuses. Good luck to Southern Guilford.
I would say the same about Thomasville’s conference schedule. One of the weakest conferences in the state.
ok, now compare souths schedule to thomasvilles? i know yall are infatuated with the coaches that left thomasville for south but lets be honest here, they also do not win the ccc if they were here last year. We not about to discredit the fact that 4 cccc teams played beyond round 1, one of which went to round 4 and possibly if two of them didnt play each other in round two, there wouldve been 2 teams in round 3. not to take anything from south but they had one good year aided by playing the likes of the point, bcla(who even are they?), but i get it, yall believe if they were still here it would be so much better and it shows by whats being said in the stands as i have also witnessed what bulldogjacket mentioned, that playoff game was terrible sitting where i was sitting(right beneath the press box) and listening to the arm chair coaches who have not a clue what they are even talking about! George decided to run the clock as he had the lead and these guys are yelling "HURRY UP" why? Again, i'll say it takes years to build a program but for some reason we seem to be happy with allowing our beloved tradition to just become a resume builder! firing a coach 2 years in after he has at least approved from year one to two with an extremely young team is still and will forever be mind boggling especially when we moved in the direction of a coach that was hired at the same exact time with alot of young talent on his perspective squad and proceeded to regress from year one to two(you can miss me with the conference excuses as everyone in the conference with the exception of maybe northern is beatable). But again, my anger isnt necessarily with Mills, heck, i hope he succeeds, again, I will say i was rooting for him at southern but i just dont think the admin really did there due diligence with this
I agree that SD would have been unlikely to win the CCC last year. But I do think SD’s coaches would have won the CCC last year with Thomasville’s team. It’s an opinion. Obviously we’ll never know.
was the process really that much better though? Besides the process taking place in January instead of July, I dont believe it was much better. I know who was involved in the in the process, and it doesn't change the fact not one bit.
I would love that. But he has told me he has no desire to be a high school head coach. His family is too important to him and he understands the time involved with that role.
it was going down hill prior to the current school board. I dont like the school board either, but this has been a long time coming. Those who really know me can probably tell you i've been calling this for nearly or over 10 years now and saying we would be exactly where we are today. I even said exactly what would happen if George was fired. I jokingly said the week after christmas this year before i realized that George was out that the current hire would be the coach this year because of somethings I observed at the southern/Thomasville basketball game lol. This collapse doesnt start at the high school level, it starts well below that. When the little league program collapsed years back, the writing was on the wall. These kids are getting to high school and having to learn fundementals as they aren't being properly taught prior. I know someone is going to get on here and say "well the middle school had a decent season", I encourage you to go check them out> Find you a nice saturday morning and go checkout the rec team. This isn't to put all the heat on the youth coaches either, the quality of athlete in the area is far from the same as it used to be and the ones that are really good, sometimes it's hard to get them on the field or if you do get them on the field, its hard to keep them in red, black and white. Look at some of the athletes on the surrounding schools in the 336 and even 704, some of those are thomasville kids and they left before the school board took over so to put the entire blame on the school board, admin or even a coach is a stretch.
I have been interested in the hire. I went back to watch some Southern film. Hopefully he’s bringing new staff with him. The defense was pretty bad especially the Smith game. It didn’t look like they practiced how to tackle.
