Waco Midway Offensive Co Gerald Perry to Mineral Wells

[mwrams]

, the Mineral Wells ISD Board of Trustees announced their decision to hire Waco Midway's Co-Offensive Coordinator Gerald Perry as the new Athletic Director and head football coach of Mineral Wells High School.

[S3rg72]

Is that a good hire or not ? I hope so but if we look at his record as a head coach are better now or the same. His kid is qb and a freshman that played JV in midway so did we hire him for his kid or him?


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[Rabid Cougar]

Is that a good hire or not ? I hope so but if we look at his record as a head coach are better now or the same. His kid is qb and a freshman that played JV in midway so did we hire him for his kid or him?


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Perry was the running back coach.
Hired for the son? No. Midway has a pretty good starting QB and his son was not going to play until he was a senior. Not to say the kid isn't good though. Perry had a lot of talent to work with at Midway. They are pretty good at cherry picking the WISD high schools.

[S3rg72]

So it a good hire or not? If he can do what they said he can do I'm happy but I've heard it before


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[Rabid Cougar]

So it a good hire or not? If he can do what they said he can do I'm happy but I've heard it before


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I have no idea.

[mwrams]

I have no idea.

Mineral Wells has a freshman QB that can flat out play. They only lost one game last year and that was by 6 to powerhouse Aledo's sophmore team. He will have some athletes to work with...But time will tell as the Rams are going in a new direction.

[S3rg72]

We lost by a lot more than 6 points to them and do agree they have some players.


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[mwrams]

We lost by a lot more than 6 points to them and do agree they have some players.


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You are correct they did lose by more than six. I was given wrong info. But, they do have some very good athletes coming up. I would look for them to begin to make noise.

[dog40]

Just curious, does anyone know why he left Bastrop to go and be a RB coach at midway? What was his record there?

[Ernest T Bass]

Yes, it's a great hire. Way better than Miserable Smells deserves. Hopefully they've learned their lesson and will treat this one right.
Rabid, Midway isn't WISD, it's Midway ISD.
He left Bastrop because the talent was dropping completely off the map, and Midway is a great program. I figured he'd wait until his kid graduated to get another HC gig, but I guess he felt the itch earlier.

[S3rg72]

Why do you all ways call it Miserable Smells and have ever been there?


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[Ernest T Bass]

I call it that b/c it rhymes with Mineral Wells, and b/c it's a rathole of a town. Yes, Ive been there many times; and after the way that community has treated coaches in the past, they should consider themselves fortunate that anyone even applies there anymore.

[S3rg72]

Compared to what town? Which coaches are referring too?


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[mwrams]

Compared to what town? Which coaches are referring too?


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He only calls it a rathole because someone he knows that coached there was let go! Its a very fine town that has fallen on a lot of hard times due to political reasons. You could bash any town for that matter. I dont see you bashing the Ville back when the KKK was parading though town all the time....
We welcome Coach Perry and wish him only the best as he begins his new job.

[Ernest T Bass]

Let's see; I saw the entire Miserable Smells crowd cheer when Kelly West's son tore his ACL, and the supt even said that that moment was the reason Kelly was let go(even though he was the first HC to lead them to the playoffs in decades).
I then have heard first hand how Bourquin retired early just to get out of that town after the way he was treated.
Then Chuck Lawrence, who is very well respected among coaching ranks and also managed to lead that program to the playoffs, and is a hometown boy as well, was also let go for reasons that were never disclosed to him.
I call it a rathole b/c the town is basically one big trailer park; and it's that way because it's a very trashy community. However, there are many trashy towns in Texas. My disdain for it comes from the way that my professional counterparts have been treated there.