Brown new MJ offensive coordinator - Lebanon Democrat

It’s the dead of winter, but area football programs are scrambling to put coaches in place for the 2015 season that is many months away. Nearly 30 years after first coming to Lebanon to be the first coach of the Wilson County co-op Blue Raider football program, the winningest coach in Blue Devil history has been hired by Wilson County Schools to facilitate a revival of the program. Hatched as an idea by then-Lebanon coach Ed Sheley, Medley coached the first Wilson County program in 1986 before replacing Sheley as the Blue Devil coach the following year, the first of a seven-year run in which LHS went 64-18 with a playoff... The co-op team merged players from Southside, Tuckers Crossroads and Carroll-Oakland schools, all LHS feeders at the time. The team played and practiced at LHS. But the three rural schools, rivals in basketball and in other sports as middle school athletics have grown, may have shared players, but many of them lacked reliable transportation and the program often had problem drawing and keeping players. It was so bad the program went on a one-year hiatus in the late 1990s. When Friendship Christian middle school coach Darran Neal went to Tuckers Crossroads in the early 2000s, he started a program at that school, leaving Southside and... Source: www.lebanondemocrat.com