NO HARD FEELINGS IF WARREN BOLTS
By mark rogers
December 17, 2010
What else can the guy do?
He's won a state championship.
He's been to the playoffs 12 straight years. Before Warren AHS hadn't been to the playoffs since the 50s. They were a laughing stock. A punch line.
He's the winningest coach in AHS's storied history.
He's the longest tenured coach in AHS's storied history.
He's won more than 75% of his games.
I would guess about 5% of all high school coaches could rattle of stats like that...maybe less.
OK...we get it. The guy is a brilliant coach, leader, developer, thinker, you name it.
If he leaves to take a coaching job at a Division II school, where he went to school, to take on another great challenge of turning a program around, we should all applaud him and wish him the best.
He absolutely deserves nothing less.
He put Abilene High on a national stage. Made the football program relevant. Beat the best. Became the best.
I'm pulling for him to get the ASU job. I have no idea what Coach Warren's career aspirations are, whether he wants to coach at a big-time FBS school or coach in the NFL or be the coach at AHS until he retires, but whatever they are, he should be encouraged and supported in following them with everything he's got.
And if the past is any indication, whatever Coach Warren aspires to do, he'll do.
Interesting note - another one of the finalists named yesterday, Pierce Holt, played with Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, and Roger Craig on those great 49er teams. He made the Pro Bowl once. His brother, Ed, is an OB/GYN right here in Abilene and looks like a former NFL player himself.
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