A Sea Of Red

we've actually been talking about this for a while over at UNCA forums...Found out last night that the coaches would be leaving... But the official announcement was made this afternoon that the baseball coaches are 'resigning'. Assistant coach Tommy Smith who has been a high school coach in Asheville for around 20 years is expected to be offered the job. Tommy has coached such players as Camerin Maybin, and Darren Holmes and has developed numerous top (I believe 4 top 5 rounders?) picks at the high school level. Obviously he lacks much college experience (2 years) but he has a lot of ex big league connections (i.e. lots of potential donors) and he knows western north carolina and its high school coaches better than anyway. Asheville has to start keeping local kids and not losing them to schools from outside the region (or even Western). Not my first choicem but considering the budget issues and the state of the program...a guy like Tommy could turn asheville into an above average big south program.

So I'm assuming he was the head guy at Roberson a few years back? That team was really really good.

SuperJon wrote:So I'm assuming he was the head guy at Roberson a few years back? That team was really really good.

Yes, his son Kenny played at UNCW for 4 years (one was a redshirt year) then transfered to WCU and Tommy "retired" from Roberson so he could travel and watch Kenny play....Kenny got drafted and played a year or two of pro ball.

Then tommy volunteered at Asheville, then this year he was the 2nd assistant...But I guess he did 90% of the recruiting for next years class....So it does kinda make sense they'd look to him. Players like him, respect him (unlike the other two)...and like i said he knows the community. And yes, he had GREAT teams at Roberson. Which is a lot different from at the college level...but still, 3 big leagues (Holmes, Narveson, Maybin) and i think a few dozen other drafted kids or kids playing pro-ball... Not bad for a High School.... More than UNCA has

Completely off topic, but we played at Owen in 2005 (Hensley's senior year) in the Western Finals of the playoffs and asked Owen's coach how good Maybin was. He said that he was good but wasn't all that everyone was making him out to be. I still laugh at that.

SuperJon wrote:Completely off topic, ....................

It's OK, you're allowed to go off topic. It's only the other posters on this board that are not allowed to do that.

Lets see if UNCA getting a high school BB coach works better for them then PC getting a high school FB coach.

Their high school baseball coach has at least been coaching in college for two years.