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Post by spudbeaver on Aug 21, 2021 20:37:15 GMT -8
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Post by ochobeavo on Aug 23, 2021 7:30:28 GMT -8
Meanwhile, about 3 1/2 miles north at Sheldon HS, while their website doesn’t list any rosters, their posted team photos show a 49 player varsity squad, a 26 player JV squad and a 38 player freshman squad. Sheldon’s enrollment is about the same as South at 1429. Needless to say a very interesting contrast between two similarly sized, similar demographic, public high schools in the same school district. Kids in Eugene have been jumping around based on sports forever. All the stud wrestlers used to magically appear at Churchill - those days are long gone and now they are all at Thurston and Thurston's roster triples any other school in the area. Sheldon has been the football powerhouse for a while now w/N. Eugene and S. Eugene barely fielding competitive teams. |
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Post by rangenerd on Aug 23, 2021 18:49:51 GMT -8
My money is on it being more of a crappy coach situation. Kids aren't going to play for a dirtbag.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Aug 24, 2021 14:15:26 GMT -8
My money is on it being more of a crappy coach situation. Kids aren't going to play for a dirtbag. It is the perfect storm of lack of recent success and coach turnover. In the past 15 years, South Eugene had two winning seasons. Their last coach just quit after coaching for two years to become an assistant coach over at Willamette. The coach before is now the head coach at Willamette, coaching South Eugene to single winning season. Chris Miller coached for a single season before that. Miller actually was the last head coach to be able to coach South Eugene to continuous success back in his first stint in the early and mid '00s, making it to the playoffs in four years out of five. Miller quit after the 2006 season to become an assistant coach in the NFL for a couple of years. That means that the oldest kids at South Eugene were two the last time that South Eugene had any kind of sustained success in football. |
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