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I wonder if he will do as well as he did at Winnfield a few years back. I believe he coached the only team in the history of that program that didn't win a game.

He went 0-10 at Winnfield, beat Jonesboro-Hodge and had to forfeit the game due to having an ineligible player. Pissed off the team, parents, fans, and administration in less than half a season. In fairness he didn't have any talent to work with that year at all, but his horrible attitude made it much worse. His system is complex and he would not change it to meet his lack of personnel. Personally I was a fan of the scheme he ran in 2006, just not so much his persona. He teaches his Qbs to have a funky throwing motion he did it at both Winnfield and Central. He does a lot of 4-5 wide, with motion and screens, that if ran correctly can be very exciting.

He will get player participation initially, I thought he did a wonderful job of that. The question will be has he learned from past mistakes? With the athletes available in Abbeville and his system he could do big things, but only if he isnt his own worst enemy.

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Posted by FreeState

Member since Jun 2012

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Posted on 1/15/13 at 11:12 pm to winntiger

He alienated everyone in Winnfield, in particular those who pushed to hire him and tried to support him. He would not listen to supporters, school administrators; he lashed out at those trying to offer support, he was not always truthful, and simply put, was a total bust at Winnfield, a pretty storied program for a small, backwoods sawmill town. He tried to do things Winnfield had no capablility of doing with the talent and personnel they had. No one was sad to see him leave, no one. After burning every bridge he crossed and many before he crossed them, he found reason to blame everyone but himself.

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Posted by lbradysu

The Great Northwest

Member since Mar 2008

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Posted on 1/16/13 at 10:49 am to winntiger

I have known Towery for a long time, he is a good guy and would give you the shirt off his back! I'll bet most of you negative posters have never even met him, just going off what someone told you or whatever. He'll be the first one to admit the mistakes he has made, especially at Winnfield. The honesty and lies thing is totally false, he's just the opposite honest to a fault, tells it like he see's it. As far as the funky motion thing, that's inaccurate too, he works with several QB's in the Baton Rouge area, including the last three starters from Central, the two possible starters for Central next year, the starter at Catholic and several others in the Baton Rouge area. The Briscoe kid would be the starter at McNeese right now if it wasn't for all the knee injuries. They came to him for some reason? You figure it out. Why get on here and trash the man for something that happened 6 years ago? He know's the things he did wrong and he accepts that he made mistakes. Leave it alone!

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