I'm the Ringgold guy here
the questions you asked are the same questions I ask myself every Friday in the fall since 2018, how could they possibly be this bad? it completely defies logic, over the last few years they were losing games by 6 touchdowns... by the end of the first quarter!!!
one theory I have is they lost kids to neighboring districts like Thomas Jefferson and Belle Vernon, but still it has been 30 years since they had a D1 football player, that doesn't make sense considering the size and demographics of the district
they had the 3rd ranked in the nation cross country runner last year, I don't understand being that fast and running cross country instead of playing football but guess I can't blame him, probably more fun to dominate cross country than get mercy ruled every Friday
Ringgold definitely needs a young hungry guy like you, I think one problem with the AD is they probably are cheap with them just like they are with the teachers which are among the lowest paid around... you get what you pay for
they just aren't committed to it for whatever reason, I mean we had Matt Humbert as head coach and they let him leave because they didn't give him a full time teaching position, they also had the Peters head coach TJ Plack as an assistant and he was planning to leave coaching forever when he left Ringgold
also it's not in the south hills, it's located in Washington County pretty much in the middle of nowhere so you can argue that hurts it too
yes it's true Montana didn't want to come back unless he was paid
oh and two state titles is actually pretty good as most schools have none, but yeah for the most part they really aren't competitive at all in most sports, when they are competitive they aren't exactly contenders
I wonder why all the time but I would say they never had a true program builder in any sport or they were never given the time or resources to build anything
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