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I want to congratulate Telly Lockette. He's getting an opportunity that great high school football icons such as Walt Frazier and Billy Rolle were never afforded. Lockette is the first African-American coach from a Miami-area high school to land a job with a major college program. On Monday, University of South Florida Bulls head coach Willie Taggart added Lockette to his staff as running backs coach, according to CBS Sports reporter Bruce Feldman.

The 37-year-old Miami Northwestern alum has an impeccable football resumé. During his four-and-half-year run as the head coach at Miami Central Senior High, Lockette was the first coach in Miami-Dade history to take his team to three consecutive state title game appearances, winning two championships. No team from Miami-Dade or Broward has beaten Lockette's Rockets since 2009, when the Miami Northwestern Bulls beat Central.

Throughout his career, Lockette has coached some of the best running backs to come out of Miami-Dade, from Antwain Easterling to Devonta Freeman to Joseph Yearby and Dalvin Cook. During his tenure at Miami Central, roughly 70 of his players have signed scholarships to big-name programs, from Florida State to Oklahoma to Syracuse to Clemson.

I was hoping the University of Miami would hire Lockette following a long tradition of bringing in high school coaches that began under Howard Schnellenberger. In the 1980s, he hired Joe Brodsky, then-head coach at Hialeah-Miami Lakes, to be the running backs coach. Brodsky went on to coach the tailbacks for the Dallas Cowboys under Jimmy Johnson. Dennis Erickson continued the tradition by hiring Don Soldinger as running backs coach.

But, for whatever reason, the Hurricanes passed on Lockette, allowing Taggert to swoop in. No question, the USF coach made a big power move.

Lockette will recruit any kid from South Florida he wants. For instance, Lockette grew up with the parents of the student athletes who are playing high school football. That makes him valuable. And all the high school football head coaches will rally around Lockette. Seeing him land an NCAA coaching gig gives them hope other universities will come knocking on their doors.

A lot of high school coaches aspire to get to a college coaching job. But universities in Florida have a problem hiring high school coaches from Miami-Dade. It's not like Texas, a state that has established a tradition of elevating high school coaches to the collegiate level.

If Lockette succeeds in getting the top players from South Florida, he'll give the Bulls a leg up on every other college. That's why the high school coaches will want Lockette to do great.

I hope his success will get other universities in the Sunshine State, from FSU to UM, to jump on the high school head coaches bandwagon.
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IHATETHISPLACE said:
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2013/03/telly_lockette_leaving_miami_c.php

I want to congratulate Telly Lockette. He's getting an opportunity that great high school football icons such as Walt Frazier and Billy Rolle were never afforded. Lockette is the first African-American coach from a Miami-area high school to land a job with a major college program. On Monday, University of South Florida Bulls head coach Willie Taggart added Lockette to his staff as running backs coach, according to CBS Sports reporter Bruce Feldman.

The 37-year-old Miami Northwestern alum has an impeccable football resumé. During his four-and-half-year run as the head coach at Miami Central Senior High, Lockette was the first coach in Miami-Dade history to take his team to three consecutive state title game appearances, winning two championships. No team from Miami-Dade or Broward has beaten Lockette's Rockets since 2009, when the Miami Northwestern Bulls beat Central.

Throughout his career, Lockette has coached some of the best running backs to come out of Miami-Dade, from Antwain Easterling to Devonta Freeman to Joseph Yearby and Dalvin Cook. During his tenure at Miami Central, roughly 70 of his players have signed scholarships to big-name programs, from Florida State to Oklahoma to Syracuse to Clemson.

I was hoping the University of Miami would hire Lockette following a long tradition of bringing in high school coaches that began under Howard Schnellenberger. In the 1980s, he hired Joe Brodsky, then-head coach at Hialeah-Miami Lakes, to be the running backs coach. Brodsky went on to coach the tailbacks for the Dallas Cowboys under Jimmy Johnson. Dennis Erickson continued the tradition by hiring Don Soldinger as running backs coach.

But, for whatever reason, the Hurricanes passed on Lockette, allowing Taggert to swoop in. No question, the USF coach made a big power move.

Lockette will recruit any kid from South Florida he wants. For instance, Lockette grew up with the parents of the student athletes who are playing high school football. That makes him valuable. And all the high school football head coaches will rally around Lockette. Seeing him land an NCAA coaching gig gives them hope other universities will come knocking on their doors.

A lot of high school coaches aspire to get to a college coaching job. But universities in Florida have a problem hiring high school coaches from Miami-Dade. It's not like Texas, a state that has established a tradition of elevating high school coaches to the collegiate level.

If Lockette succeeds in getting the top players from South Florida, he'll give the Bulls a leg up on every other college. That's why the high school coaches will want Lockette to do great.

I hope his success will get other universities in the Sunshine State, from FSU to UM, to jump on the high school head coaches bandwagon.
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Lol lets give everyone and their mom a job according to him. He wants Miami to hire only hs guys regardless of experience and take every Miami hs player regardless of how good he is
 
hoops156 said:
Lol lets give everyone and their mom a job according to him. He wants Miami to hire only hs guys regardless of experience and take every Miami hs player regardless of how good he is
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The man is delusional he probably thinks Golden should hire him as the next DC of Miami
 
So he wanted us to be loyal to a HS guy then be loyal to someone whop graduated from the University? Got it.
 
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Lockette will recruit any kid from South Florida he wants. For instance, Lockette grew up with the parents of the student athletes who are playing high school football. That makes him valuable. And all the high school football head coaches will rally around Lockette. Seeing him land an NCAA coaching gig gives them hope other universities will come knocking on their doors.
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Gee, we might as well give up recruiting any good kids if Lockette will get anyone he wants.

Lulz
 
Apparently Luke forgot about Miami giving Ice a job. And apparently Ice forgot about getting us whatever players we wanted.
 
I loled @ "big power move." This guy is delusional. Outside of their little bubble, nobody really cares about a group of HS corches.
 
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weownfsu said:
I loled @ "big power move." This guy is delusional. Outside of their little bubble, nobody really cares about a group of HS corches.
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big power move for USF.

They just lost their South Florida recruiter...they picked one up...for USF, its a big move.
 
As retarded and racist as Luke is, there might be some truth to what he's saying. Some coaches down here might think Lockette's success can influence other schools to start hiring more coaches from SFL high schools. Thus helping him succeed by steering kids in his direction.

I still don't see USF beating any of the big 3 for recruits, but it will help them when recruiting against Louisville, WV, NC State.....
 
Didn't every HS coach get butthurt about Ice Harris getting a gig from RS, but now they are supposed to rally around Lockette?
 
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bathtubgin said:
Didn't every HS coach get butthurt about Ice Harris getting a gig from RS, but now they are supposed to rally around Lockette?
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Just wait until USF decides not to recruit some bum that some idiot HS corch down here thinks is worth a USF scholarship.
 
PUNCICANE said:
As retarded and racist as Luke is, there might be some truth to what he's saying. Some coaches down here might think Lockette's success can influence other schools to start hiring more coaches from SFL high schools. Thus helping him succeed by steering kids in his direction.

I still don't see USF beating any of the big 3 for recruits, but it will help them when recruiting against Louisville, WV, NC State.....
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USF has beaten the big three for recruits before. Not many...but they have.
 
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Larry said:
PUNCICANE said:
As retarded and racist as Luke is, there might be some truth to what he's saying. Some coaches down here might think Lockette's success can influence other schools to start hiring more coaches from SFL high schools. Thus helping him succeed by steering kids in his direction.

I still don't see USF beating any of the big 3 for recruits, but it will help them when recruiting against Louisville, WV, NC State.....
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USF has beaten the big three for recruits before. Not many...but they have.
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Barrington and Webster come to mind.
 
Larry said:
PUNCICANE said:
As retarded and racist as Luke is, there might be some truth to what he's saying. Some coaches down here might think Lockette's success can influence other schools to start hiring more coaches from SFL high schools. Thus helping him succeed by steering kids in his direction.

I still don't see USF beating any of the big 3 for recruits, but it will help them when recruiting against Louisville, WV, NC State.....
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USF has beaten the big three for recruits before. Not many...but they have.
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True, Sean Price and I remember a Kayvon Webster in 2009, and honestly Randy pretty much retired from recruiting after that 2008 class. And I think there was a receiver around 2006-7 but can't remember his name
 
Larry said:
weownfsu said:
I loled @ "big power move." This guy is delusional. Outside of their little bubble, nobody really cares about a group of HS corches.
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big power move for USF.

They just lost their South Florida recruiter...they picked one up...for USF, its a big move.
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You said it. For USF (and Lockette), it's a big move.
 
PUNCICANE said:
As retarded and racist as Luke is, there might be some truth to what he's saying. Some coaches down here might think Lockette's success can influence other schools to start hiring more coaches from SFL high schools. Thus helping him succeed by steering kids in his direction.

I still don't see USF beating any of the big 3 for recruits, but it will help them when recruiting against Louisville, WV, NC State.....
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I don't see this ending with a colleges coming down and stealing HS coaches from down here. Telly getting that job is much deserved however the quality of coaches (and men) down there is really starting to turn. I know of college who despise recruiting south florida because of this mentality.
 
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