Greensboro Grimsley 20 Mt Tabor 7

PRinted!!
Thanks HP.....oldest DD is coming down(Raleigh) and we are heading up for the game. Stamey's is in the mix for sure!!
Should be a good game too!

 

Stamey's is some good eatin'. I might have to sneak over there myself, I'm not having to do the heart diet until after January.

 

once plans are finalized i will Pm ya with details and number! enjoy them holiday foods till then and hopefully we'll see you at Stameys and/or the field!

 

just heard that Mt.Tabors' head coach Bob Sapp resigned after the loss to Grimsley Friday night.

....and there is more scuttle-butt flying around. word has it that the head coach at Davie County, Doug Illing is set to make the move to Mt.Tabor and that West Rowan head coach Scott Young may be interested in the Davie County job.

 

I first knew Coach Sapp when he came to Andrews my senior year in high school (1975-76). All the players loved him and hated it when he moved on to NC State. Great caoch, wonderful man.

Mount Tabor's longtime coach says he is resigning
Sapp led Spartans to football prominence during his two tenures
By Mason Linker, Winston-Salem Journal Reporter

When Bob Sapp arrived as the coach at Mount Tabor in 1992 someone handed him a clipping from the Davie County Enterprise-Record that reported that Mount Tabor was the whipping post of Class 4-A football.

"I never forgot that," Sapp said. "One goal was certainly not to be the whipping post."

It was a goal that Sapp's Mount Tabor teams accomplished with gusto in his two stints and 12 overall seasons as head coach. And when his team lost 20-7 to Greensboro Grimsley on Friday in a quarterfinal of the Class 4-A playoffs, Sapp told his players that he was resigning.

Sapp - who also had head-coaching stints at Currituck, North Forsyth and South Brunswick, made his mark at Mount Tabor, taking a program that was 13-55 from 1985 through '91 and turning it into a state power.

Sapp's Mount Tabor teams finished 68-18 from 1992 to 1998. He resigned in the spring of 1999 and spent the next two seasons as the head coach at South Brunswick, and then returned to the Spartans in 2001 and picked up where he left off. Mount Tabor was 54-10 over the past five seasons, including 12-2 this year.

Sapp's teams were a mainstay in the playoffs and the state polls, and went to Class 4-A semifinal games three times, including 2003, when the Spartans won and played in the state championship game. They lost to Greenville Rose in the final.

Sapp said that his decision to retire had been made earlier this season, and it was rumored in coaching circles. Sapp said that after one game this season, a Reynolds player asked him, "You're not going to be back, are you?"

"People have asked me, and I just told them it would be year to year, and I told the same thing to my players when they asked," Sapp said. "But I get to thinking that I am going to be 60 in April, and 38 years of being in the school business and coaching is a pretty long time.

"I basically realized it not far into the season and I felt really tired, like I needed to recharge the batteries. I still go at it and work hard but it gets a little tougher, the legs get tired a little quicker, and so does the mind."

Sapp said that he would finish out the school year as a physical-education and weight-lifting teacher and then look at his options. He said that was "definitely" finished as a head coach, but that he might entertain offers to be an assistant coach somewhere in the area. He said that would stay in Winston-Salem to be near his sons, his grandchildren, and his 92-year-old mother.

The Spartans had one of their strongest teams under Sapp this season but couldn't navigate Grimsley's swarming defense on Friday.

Sapp said he was satisfied with his team's effort.

"Would we have loved to win, of course we would have," Sapp said. "But we played a great team and they did exactly what we thought they would do.

"Watching the effort of the kids on the field was satisfying. If you base it just on winning or losing you would have to say no. But if you play hard and you don't win; you didn't win and it's OK."

Athletics Director Steve Hayes said: "What you miss more than anything are the things he brings to the kids more than the coaching, at least in my opinion, anyway. As long as we still have that going for us the rest of the year, then he has something he can impart to the kids.

"This just happens when you get long in the tooth, you have to make some decisions. Bob wasn't going to make a commitment and not keep up his end of it, so he knew this was the time to go."

Hayes said that Principal Martha Land of Mount Tabor, who was unavailable for comment yesterday, would come up with a plan for hiring a new coach.

Sapp graduated from Gray High in Winston-Salem in 1964 and went to Furman, where he played on the offensive line. Sapp graduated from Furman in 1969, spent the next five years as an assistant football coach in Commerce, Ga., then spent one season as an assistant coach at Eastern Randolph.

Sapp was an assistant at High Point Andrews for two seasons and was on staff when the Red Raiders beat Richmond Senior to win the Class 4-A title in 1976. He spent the 1977-78 season as a graduate assistant at N.C. State, then became the head coach at Currituck, where, he said, he learned to love the coast.

In 1980, Sapp took Currituck to the Class 2-A state-championship game, where it was defeated 49-7 by Sylva-Webster. Sapp then coached North Forsyth from 1981 through '84, taking the Vikings to the Class 4-A semifinals in 1983. He left North to become the AD at East Forsyth in 1985 and stayed there until 1992, when he was hired at Mount Tabor.

Sapp said he could have never had success without the support of his wife, Jo, and the many people he has come across.

"My wife asked me this morning what I was going to do," Sapp said yesterday. "I said, "It ended last night, ask me in a couple of months.' There is so much up in the air right now I just don't really know where its going to lead yet.

"The whole key to head coaching is the people that are around you - the administration, the assistant coaches and all the players. Not only is it a team effort within the players, but within the coaches, and its a team effort within the school from the top on down. That's the way it's been here. That's the main reason Mount Tabor has been successful."

 

thanks for the article hp

 

I went to Tabor. We really sucked when I was there. I think Sapps first year was my Senior year 92/93.

I can't believe that Steve Hayes and the same principal are still there.