Tattnall and a few other things

I do not profess to be an expert on Calvary Day, the team who will try to  end Tattnall Squares undefeated season.
I know they are undefeated also
I know that Rick Tomberlin is one of the best coaches in the state
I know that they are run oriented
And I am fairly sure that they will end the season friday night
You see Tattnall is a team of destiny this year
and you just cannot mess with a good destiny story

Here is why I think it is a destiny issue
First of all last years coach decides to ditch Tattnall tradition and run the spread offense. He didn't decide this at the beginning of the year, he decided it in the middle of the year.
I was not around Tattnall much, but I am sure that went over well (no)
So that coach decides to leave or realizes he better leave and Tattnall hires a young guy, who will run the wing-t, a more Tattnall like offense. Chance Jones had the experience at a major private school, Prince Avenue, and was ready to be a head coach.
Tattnall was smart enough to go after him.
Now here is where the destiny to the story comes in.
Ronnie Jones retired I think right before Chance got the job. You know Ronnie Jones, the guy who won so many football games running this little offense and winning with whoever he had running the football. I mean the man has  329 wins.
You know Ronnie Jones, he is also Chances dad.
One can only imagine how that phone call went
Chance "Hey dad you know I got the Tattnall job and I was wondering if you wanted to be on my staff ?
Ronnie "Well you know, this is your show now and I am sure you don't need me hanging around and getting in your way. Plus I have all these other plans so I just don't know about it.
Chance: "Please "
Ronnie "I don't own anything but green shirts Chance, but if you really want me to , ok I will do it.

So Chance locks Ronnie down.
Then the craziness starts. Bryan Way retires as the WRHS football coach and he has his time in in the public school system. I have known Bryan Way since high school  and I know he is 54 years old, just like me. Yes WRHS class of 1980. So what do men do when they "retire" at 54 ?
According to my wife, they get another job that maybe doesn't have as much pressure as the one before. So Tattnall gets Bryan Way, a former offensive lineman, to coach the offensive line and teach at the school. So lets add another 92 wins as a football coach to the staff.
Jim Massey gets fired for not being able to win basketball games at Mount de Sales, which was a tall order to do because MDS has been on a downward trend athletically, but look what happens here. Jim Massey looks around and rings Tattnall's phone. Jim Massey, probably the best AP history teacher in town,(both my kids attest to that) and maybe the best assistant coach around here, ends up at
you guessed it, Tattnall.
I have known Jim for 25 or so years. He once called me on a Saturday morning and asked me to go to a UGA-Auburn game at Auburn and I said sure. So we get to Columbus and I am driving and I am like where do we go now? Jim is a very smart man and he said I have no clue but follow that car with the Auburn flags on it, he is probably going to the game. So  we followed that car for 50 or so miles into the  dark night of Alabama until that car pulled into their driveway. Not a good thing for us, but we eventually found Auburn Alabama.
John Garrett Abernathy is a MDS graduate that I know well and he adds that youthful enthusiasm to the staff as well as someone who just ended his college career.
And he ends up as another piece of the magical Tattnall pie.
Ahmad Barron , what can I say. In the spread , he would have been just another player. In the wing T, he is the miracle man. Vasco, Zion, Jimmy, Antoine, Destin, Miles and that offensive line will produce more success Friday night.
The holdover from the last staff, Travis Absher, has a defense with Christian, and Sean and Dayton and Calvin and so many others that have stopped folks when they have to.
A bunch of seniors not quite ready to play a last high school football game ?
Its destiny I'm telling you
Tattnall 23
Calvary 16
My hat is off to Stratford for giving Tattnall all they could handle last week. I truly believe the Eagles are a top 5 team in the state and just ran into a very difficult matchup. Macon football is so much better this year than it has been in a long time, and it is time for everyone to support the one school that is left from our town