The Gadsden Panthers made a great hire last week when it inked Mayfield assistant coach Jim Hite to lead the program.
Hite has plenty of head coaching experience and has coached in New Mexico and Texas. He has great knowledge of the game and his leadership will be a key.
But Gadsden has proven to be a tough place to coach in recent years. Hite is the third coach since 2004 and the program has had a hard time finding consistency .
What the program needs is a coach who will be at the school for more than two years and it needs a program that has a lot of work ethic in the offseason as well as during the regular season.
There simply is no consistent pattern of winning or coaches staying for a long time in the Gadsden program.
What hurts the program as well is that it competes against the likes of Mayfield, Las Cruces High, Onate and Alamogordo every season. Mayfield and Las Cruces High are consistent state title contenders, Onate should be better in 2008 and Alamogordo was in the state title game in 2006.
Scheduling is another factor. The Panthers need to schedule some cupcakes to help the kids gain some confidence. It seems as though in recent years that Gadsden plays a tough non-district schedule and they pay for it come district time.
Hite will try his best and if he doesn't get broken down and he stays at Gadsden for a few years, maybe he'll achieve something at Gadsden that hasn't happened in years and that's a get the program into the playoffs.
— Felix
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just make sure he practices the 5 rules of the organization himself....
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