7th Time could Be The Charm

All coaches have their own style. There is no where written down in the book which says this is the way you coach.

Six years ago in desperation Rocky Mount found B W Holt. It has become a match made in heaven.

B W to me is a tell it how it really is kind of coach. I heard him tell the team more than once last week we were better than East Alamance. Then he would say "BUT that doesn't mean we are going to win".

He takes kids from across the tracks and gives them something to be proud of. He doesn't mind calling out the superstar by name if he needs a kick in the rump.

There is something about this man that has Dean Smith qualities. He has a family attitude for all his players.

Starmount the place he coached for 19 years will have a throng of folks here hoping he finally gets over that hump. He is so beloved at Starmount they had a B W Holt night there a couple on years ago on a Friday night when we had our off night long after he had left Starmount.

Long after he is gone from Rocky Mount which I hope is no time soon others will be compared to him.

When sixty four year old B W Holt decides he rather sit on the porch and look at the mountains than coach football the coach that follows him will be following a giant of a man.

Rocky Mount will have as much trouble as Carolina had until Roy Williams finally replaced Dean Smith.

Regardless of what the next man does it won't be enough.

Friday night B W Holt will try to get his first team ever to the state finals. Six times he has been in the regional finals and six times the season ended in defeat.

Every team that is still playing deserves their shot at winning this weeks game but half the field will not survive Friday night. The losers will feel that their seasons have been ruined when in no way will a loss dampen the greatness that every team left has had this year.

The pregame show last Friday night Wes Bradshaw asked B W to tell us whether this team was the best that he has ever had.

B W was very hesitant to say and I believe the reason was this years team still has a whole season to play.

Right now this team has done no more than any of six other teams that Holt has coached that made it to the finals.

Two more games and his opinion may change. Two more games and this years team may be talked about like the 63 and 64 teams are today forty five from now.

There is something about winning a championship just one that elevates players and coaches to a different level.

Brett Farve won one super bowl but was he a better quarterback than Dan Marino who never won? I really doubt it.

Is Coach Holt a Terrible coach because he is 0-6 in regional finals?

There is a saying in NASCAR if you run up front enough you are going to cross the line first once in a while.

B W Holt is running up front again this year and the finish line is in sight.