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re: What happened to Ruston football?
Posted on 12/9/18 at 12:02 am to windshieldman
Posted on 12/9/18 at 12:02 am to windshieldman
Ruston has a clique of good ole boy boosters who run off any coach that doesnt kowtow to them. Nobody decent wants to coach there under those conditions.
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Posted on 12/9/18 at 7:56 am to windshieldman
Coach Baugh will get them back.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 8:03 am to GirthBrooks62
North LA will start claiming Eunice as theirs to maintain relevance.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 8:13 am to CheniereTiger108
The question is, why isn't Ouachita better? They have access to the athletes. They are the sleeping giant in my opinion, waiting on the right coach and the right system to turn them into a juggernaut.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 9:20 am to WMTigerFAN
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The question is, why isn't Ouachita better?
Richwood took the thoroughbreads after Vallery left for Kilgore in 95. Granted that’s been 23 years ago, but the athletes are now split all around the Monroe area. Sterlington is now reaping the benefits of a good bit of population shift away from the Eastern side of Ouachita Parish.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 9:22 am to windshieldman
The people who ran those programs are dead and gone, Shows, Brown, Childress.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 9:29 am to windshieldman
quote:Various schools cracked the code of strength and conditioning.
No idea why football in N La has gone downhill.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 9:47 am to 4LSU2
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Coach Baw will get them back.
FIFY
Posted on 12/9/18 at 10:19 am to yaboidarrell
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less athletic demographics compared to south LA
I always said, per capita, North Louisiana was better, but I left West Monroe in 2005, so I don't know how it is today?
Posted on 12/9/18 at 10:22 am to lsujag
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Ruston has an enrollment somewhere around 1300. West Monroe has about a 800 more students. I don’t know how but they do
West Monroe has always drawn their students from the parish, not just the city. There was 2000 students at WMHS when I was there in the late 80s and that was before West Ouachita was built.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 10:24 am to WMTigerFAN
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The question is, why isn't Ouachita better?
Building the new Richwood High School killed them.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 11:01 am to xiv
quote:don't forget hold backs...
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No idea why football in N La has gone downhill.
Various schools cracked the code of strength and conditioning.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 11:03 am to chalmetteowl
quote:The socio economic demographics that made ruston great(along with a great stable staff) has changed in Ruston and Lincoln parish as a whole - much like what has gone on in some other areas.... and the people left are playing less football......
pened to Ruston football?
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True, but Ruston use to have some damn good athletes back in the day. The kinda stuff you aren’t teaching in high school football. They have a few guys here and there that play college but not in the #s they use to. You’d figure even with inferior coaching they’d still push out some really good athletes, the area use to produce, now it doesn’t. I’m speaking strictly Ruston, not WM
I think football changed and some of those programs didn't...
Posted on 12/9/18 at 11:28 am to Jim Rockford
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Ruston has a clique of good ole boy boosters who run off any coach that doesnt kowtow to them. Nobody decent wants to coach there under those conditions.
I’ve been told this by a few people but never knew how true it was. I’ve heard some of the best athletes were backups to other kids whose parents had money. Or some of the best athletes in the school are not playing football. I just never knew if that was true
Posted on 12/9/18 at 11:30 am to windshieldman
A buddy of mine who played for 1990 RHS team said Childress would roam the halls getting track stars and big mofos who didn’t wanna play, he’d talk them all into playing and didn’t care about booster club members. But I wasn’t sure that the coaches since him weren’t the same way or not.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 11:32 am to windshieldman
Steroids with the corn fed population, as well as holding kids back, isn’t as cool as it used to be.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 1:01 pm to windshieldman
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I’ve been told this by a few people but never knew how true it was. I’ve heard some of the best athletes were backups to other kids whose parents had money. Or some of the best athletes in the school are not playing football. I just never knew if that was true
Case in point. This happened to one of the coaches between Childress and the guy they have now. It was understood that the coach got to keep the revenue from the coke machines in the gym as an under the table bonus. Shady, but it had been going on since Childress. Well, the new coach pissed somebody off and they threatened to go to the school board about it. He said frick this and resigned. He had won a state championship at another school and would have done well at Ruston.
This post was edited on 12/9/18 at 1:09 pm
Posted on 12/9/18 at 1:25 pm to windshieldman
Ruston and Neville used to be the premier rivalry in the state
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