Who is the most animated coach on the sidelines ?

[WIFAN-22]

Jack Trainer was it for me. Dude really worried me sometimes. Looked like he was having a seizure a few times. For all the antics I really don't know how much he was accomplishing, cuz surely no one was able to understand him...

[CharlieHustle]

The stomping antics of Trent Harrop a few years ago at Western was something else to watch.

[86Tiger]

Persin and LaFon would be my top two picks. Sometimes I think LaFon is gonna have a stroke right there on the side line.

[cant stop this]

From what I have seen or heard for that matter i'd go with Lafon, Norm, and Barrick probably in that order maybe flip flop Norm and Tom.

[swamisez]

1. Norm Persin
2. Howie Caldwell





3. Mark LaFon


Everyone else

[on a mission]

Coach Large old school Rock Hill.

[ManitouDan]

got to bump this thread to enter a new contestant .... girls coach at Piketon is just a tad animated ......

[MRI13]

I cant stand to look at Matt Combs anymore...his faces....its like hes got bad stomach pains, constipation or something all the time. And the Remy kid is doing it now too!

Greenfield's coach is pretty animated....

LOUD? Watch Coach Alley at ZT when his team isnt playing well....that "GET OVER HERE!!!" and that look

[wipala]

Coach has gotta have the passion!!

[kram]

You have to throw Brett Coreno in there somewhere.

[NewEra]

Wheelersburg junior high boy's coach Rodney Holden really gets animated and passionate on the sidelines, a great coach and fun to watch.

[CharlieHustle]

Wheelersburg junior high boy's coach Rodney Holden really gets animated and passionate on the sidelines, a great coach and fun to watch.

What happened to Verba as HC?

[Ironman92]

You have to throw Brett Coreno in there somewhere.

Coreno is great....is he the Piketon girls coach?

[vctransplant]

I cant stand to look at Matt Combs anymore...his faces....its like hes got bad stomach pains, constipation or something all the time. And the Remy kid is doing it now too!

Greenfield's coach is pretty animated....

LOUD? Watch Coach Alley at ZT when his team isnt playing well....that "GET OVER HERE!!!" and that look

That is funny! I was wondering if anyone was going to make mention of the many faces of our awesome Coach Combs. And you think it is contagous??!!! That is funny!!! I think Combs is the most animated. And his JV coach is right up there too. Shout out to Coach Hale...Okaaaaaaay

[Ironman92]

Yeah....Travis is a good watch as well.

[kram]

You have to throw Brett Coreno in there somewhere.

Coreno is great....is he the Piketon girls coach?

Yes he is

[the_yuma_kid]

Back in the hayday of the TVC there was a coach from Nelsonville-york by the name of Virgil Grandy. I think he went to Trimble schools.
Coach Grandy was animated when it was not in style, but the fans loved it. he made it as much a part of the game as the game itself! He was awesome at firing up the entire crowd; in Buchtel or Nelsonville or especially on the road. He was a classic! He was a great coach, and a coach that NY opponents loved to hate.
I saw him get into verbal scrapes with the home teams student section and fans who sat directly behind the Buckeyes bench when the Buckeyes were on the road many times. The best time was in the "NEST" at Belpre.
He had an array of shenamigams he would use to motivate his team and antagonize the opposing team and fans during the game.
Maybe in-a-way Howie Caldwell is from that mold? What I have seen of Howie is, "a war could be happening behind him, and he would not know it."
Coaching and a coaches behavior and antics are a hugh part of the atmosphere of high school basketball everywhere.

[jottings]

Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Bob Sheskey of Nelsonville was an outstanding coach. He was not wild, etc, but just the opposite. Bob would calmly call time out and slowly tell his players what they needed to. He'd then sit down and begin eating his bag of pop corn.