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About 90 minutes...and no distance is not a factor for Byrnes. They've played in Lousiana and Tennessee the past two seasons.
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rebelfan71
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OSUGRAD21,
Thanks for all the kind words. I'll try to answer some of the questions raised. Yes, Byrnes is a public school. Our enrollment is around 1900 kids. The school is located in the small town of Duncan, but draws from several communities. Our county is divided into seven independent districts. Byrnes is the high school in District 5. We have two middle schools (that run our offense and defense), even the local little league teams run a basic version of our "O" and "D". Before someone can coach in the little league, they have to go through a clinic run by the high school coaches, to learn the system.
Bobby Bentley, an ’86 graduate of Byrnes is the head coach, he just finished his eleventh year as HC. He gets a lot of criticism because of his “system”; his teams..our kids.. aren’t that good; they are just products of the “system”. Two of the last three winners of the South Carolina “Mr. Football” were Rebels. This past year, Prince Miller, a Georgia commitment won the award. The 2003 award winner was Byrnes QB Trey Elder. Now at Appalachian State, where as backup he led his team past Furman in the national semis this year and had a good showing in the finals before talking his coach into giving injured starter Richie Williams the opportunity to try in the second half of the finals of the Division IAA game.
The odds on favorite for the 2006 award is Willy Korn our rising senior and Clemson commitment QB. Willy by the way is a native of Ohio, who moved to SC as a small child. OSU was his second choice to Clemson.
[FONT="]We’ve been told we’ll play Moeller on Saturday at noon in the classic. It’s in the works for us to travel to Centerville on ’07.
We have tried to schedule Independence (NC), to no avail. We did play them in a two quarter jamboree last fall and beat them fairly handily. They will play us in a scrimmage in early August, so that should be fun, but won't endanger their "Streak". Any more question, just ask.
Here is a link to our TD Club Website:
http://eteamz.active.com/rebeltdclub/
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Thanks for all the kind words. I'll try to answer some of the questions raised. Yes, Byrnes is a public school. Our enrollment is around 1900 kids. The school is located in the small town of Duncan, but draws from several communities. Our county is divided into seven independent districts. Byrnes is the high school in District 5. We have two middle schools (that run our offense and defense), even the local little league teams run a basic version of our "O" and "D". Before someone can coach in the little league, they have to go through a clinic run by the high school coaches, to learn the system.
Bobby Bentley, an ’86 graduate of Byrnes is the head coach, he just finished his eleventh year as HC. He gets a lot of criticism because of his “system”; his teams..our kids.. aren’t that good; they are just products of the “system”. Two of the last three winners of the South Carolina “Mr. Football” were Rebels. This past year, Prince Miller, a Georgia commitment won the award. The 2003 award winner was Byrnes QB Trey Elder. Now at Appalachian State, where as backup he led his team past Furman in the national semis this year and had a good showing in the finals before talking his coach into giving injured starter Richie Williams the opportunity to try in the second half of the finals of the Division IAA game.
The odds on favorite for the 2006 award is Willy Korn our rising senior and Clemson commitment QB. Willy by the way is a native of Ohio, who moved to SC as a small child. OSU was his second choice to Clemson.
[FONT="]We’ve been told we’ll play Moeller on Saturday at noon in the classic. It’s in the works for us to travel to Centerville on ’07.
We have tried to schedule Independence (NC), to no avail. We did play them in a two quarter jamboree last fall and beat them fairly handily. They will play us in a scrimmage in early August, so that should be fun, but won't endanger their "Streak". Any more question, just ask.
Here is a link to our TD Club Website:
http://eteamz.active.com/rebeltdclub/
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Independence here in Charlotte does have a remarkable winning streak and is the elite team in NC. Having said that and having watched 3+ seasons of football here in NC, it is without a doubt that their winning streak would end if they played in Ohio. Just more schools and competition in Ohio plus better teams to face in the playoffs. Independence is starting to lose their dominance over the last year and they may even lose a game next year. They have had some amazing talent the last few years, Chris Leak (Florida) the sophomore SE at Georgia (Massaquoi), but the talent level of the other area schools, recent coaching changes the last few years and a recent conference change for them may finally catch up with them. Cannot comment on the SC school as i have never seen them in person or on tape.
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tedginn05
Legend
To name a couple teams that would beat them...
2005 Stubenville and 2004 Colerain
I believe that Colerain team would beat them by 3 tds, if not more. They were incredible. Won the 2004 Division 1 State Championship 50-10. I think 18 starters off of that team went on to play DI Football, with full scholarships.
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HabaneroBuck
Non-Nike Design
...and the Beechcroft swim team.
Hope you enjoy Byrne's visit to Ohio for the Herbstreit classic, rebel fan. You should have a great time playing with all of those other elite football teams. What an opportunity....and ya'll will probably handle Moeller pretty well. Moeller has sent a few Buckeyes our way, most recently Ryan Hamby, tight end. Renowned school with a great tradition, but they haven't been world-beaters lately.
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Bentley's words drive title run by Rebels
By Bart Wright
SPORTS EDITOR
[email protected]
Bentley corrected his speech then discovered the meaning of team.
They come by with increasing frequency these days, most of them wanting to watch game tape. Some of them ask for diagrams of plays, as if there's a secret hidden in there somewhere, some special way to line up or make a cut.
They want to see the little details, presumably so they can put the small pieces together and build their own champions.
What most of the high school coaches miss when they stop by to see Byrnes High School coach Bobby Bentley is the big picture.
They see the trees from all different angles, but they miss the forest.
Most of them don't talk to their football teams the way Bentley talks to his team, and after his second year as head coach, he thought he might lose that opportunity.
"I had won two games (in his first year, 1995), and then one game (his second season at Byrnes), and then I got a phone call from the principal," Bentley said.
Three wins in two years is probably not what any employer might desire from its football coach, but the message Bentley heard wasn't about his record; it was about the way he talked.
"Basically," Bentley said, "I was told I couldn't speak, that my subject-verb agreements were all wrong, I was using a lot of double negatives, things like that. I didn't realize it was that bad, but I promise you, it got my attention."
Bentley admits to being a little sensitive about his record, and hearing a principal tell him his job was being affected by the way he spoke "really woke me up."
These days, Bentley, whose team has won the last four state Class AAAA Division II football championships with a 57-2 record, has a lot of speaking engagements for a high school football coach. He has addressed the Nike Coach of the Year clinic in Orlando, Fla., the South Carolina coaches association; another group in Oregon flew him out for a speech, and he always has some well-chosen words for his football team.
That's where the forest comes in.
There were 67 players out for speed drills on the track last week prior to the time set aside for weight lifting. They gathered as groups of three in the stands before hitting the weights. As he looked up at them, Bentley was moved to rearrange what he saw.
"We got three black guys over here; we got three white guys over here," he said. "Let's get that fixed."
He called players by their first names, moving them into interracial groupings. Nobody grumbled or complained; everyone seemed to understand. He learned how to construct better sentences after that meeting in the principal's office years ago, and since then he's learned a special way of communicating with his team.
"It is at least as important as everything else we do, and it's probably more important than most things we do," Bentley said of the team-building concept he started in 1998. "There has to be a bond that goes beyond just being on the same team; everyone has that. The bond has to be deeper, and you can't get that when all the white guys hang together and all the black guys hang together.
"It's not just racial," he said. "I might throw a guy from a well-to-do family in with a guy from a family that doesn't have it so good; I'll put a quiet, reserved kid in with a loud, boisterous guy. The better you are able to understand these people on your team, the better chance everyone has of being your best buddy.
"That's the guy you'll stand up and fight for," Bentley said, "and that's what we want to be about."
When he started teaching himself how to break his old speech patterns ó "I used to say stuff like, 'I seen him at the mall,' or 'He's not nobody'" ó Bentley began listening to tapes of Dr. Martin Luther King and others. He asked friends for advice and started paying attention to how and what he said.
"I got fired up about it," he said. "It motivated me to do better; there's no question about that. When you've won three games in two years and you hear your job's on the line because you can't speak, you start making changes."
As he sought to gain a verbal advantage in his professional capacity, Bentley honed in on the meaning of team, on the changes that needed to be made in that area; so now, when the people come by to watch tape, he's accommodating, as always.
"We're all coaches; we're all involved with Xs and Os," Bentley said. "But this thing we're doing here, it isn't about the plays, man, it's about the team. You better do some things to bring these kids together, to build that family bond, because if you want to know what we're about, that's what we're about."
On Aug. 23, installation of the 45-foot tall, $325,000 Jumbotron scoreboard is due to be completed, three days before Byrnes hosts Glades Central (Fla.) High School in a game broadcast nationally on cable television, a game that will kick off the team's attempt to win a fifth consecutive state championship.
It's not just high school football, it's what you make of it; so the TV game will include an F-18 flyover and a Black Hawk helicopter dropping the game ball.
"It keeps getting better," Bentley said. "After we won two (state championships), we set a goal of becoming a national program, and we feel like we're accomplishing that. (The TV game) just takes it to the next level, and that's the fun part.
"What will it look like? What will it feel like?" he said. "Can we keep it up? If we do, what else is out there for us? I can only see it getting better."
Well said, coach.
http://vh10504.moc.gbahn.net/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=BS&Date=20060528&Category=COLUMNISTS05&ArtNo=605280329&Ref=AR&Profile=1002&MaxW=315
Bentley's words drive title run by Rebels
By Bart Wright
SPORTS EDITOR
[email protected]
Bentley corrected his speech then discovered the meaning of team.
They come by with increasing frequency these days, most of them wanting to watch game tape. Some of them ask for diagrams of plays, as if there's a secret hidden in there somewhere, some special way to line up or make a cut.
They want to see the little details, presumably so they can put the small pieces together and build their own champions.
What most of the high school coaches miss when they stop by to see Byrnes High School coach Bobby Bentley is the big picture.
They see the trees from all different angles, but they miss the forest.
Most of them don't talk to their football teams the way Bentley talks to his team, and after his second year as head coach, he thought he might lose that opportunity.
"I had won two games (in his first year, 1995), and then one game (his second season at Byrnes), and then I got a phone call from the principal," Bentley said.
Three wins in two years is probably not what any employer might desire from its football coach, but the message Bentley heard wasn't about his record; it was about the way he talked.
"Basically," Bentley said, "I was told I couldn't speak, that my subject-verb agreements were all wrong, I was using a lot of double negatives, things like that. I didn't realize it was that bad, but I promise you, it got my attention."
Bentley admits to being a little sensitive about his record, and hearing a principal tell him his job was being affected by the way he spoke "really woke me up."
These days, Bentley, whose team has won the last four state Class AAAA Division II football championships with a 57-2 record, has a lot of speaking engagements for a high school football coach. He has addressed the Nike Coach of the Year clinic in Orlando, Fla., the South Carolina coaches association; another group in Oregon flew him out for a speech, and he always has some well-chosen words for his football team.
That's where the forest comes in.
There were 67 players out for speed drills on the track last week prior to the time set aside for weight lifting. They gathered as groups of three in the stands before hitting the weights. As he looked up at them, Bentley was moved to rearrange what he saw.
"We got three black guys over here; we got three white guys over here," he said. "Let's get that fixed."
He called players by their first names, moving them into interracial groupings. Nobody grumbled or complained; everyone seemed to understand. He learned how to construct better sentences after that meeting in the principal's office years ago, and since then he's learned a special way of communicating with his team.
"It is at least as important as everything else we do, and it's probably more important than most things we do," Bentley said of the team-building concept he started in 1998. "There has to be a bond that goes beyond just being on the same team; everyone has that. The bond has to be deeper, and you can't get that when all the white guys hang together and all the black guys hang together.
"It's not just racial," he said. "I might throw a guy from a well-to-do family in with a guy from a family that doesn't have it so good; I'll put a quiet, reserved kid in with a loud, boisterous guy. The better you are able to understand these people on your team, the better chance everyone has of being your best buddy.
"That's the guy you'll stand up and fight for," Bentley said, "and that's what we want to be about."
When he started teaching himself how to break his old speech patterns ó "I used to say stuff like, 'I seen him at the mall,' or 'He's not nobody'" ó Bentley began listening to tapes of Dr. Martin Luther King and others. He asked friends for advice and started paying attention to how and what he said.
"I got fired up about it," he said. "It motivated me to do better; there's no question about that. When you've won three games in two years and you hear your job's on the line because you can't speak, you start making changes."
As he sought to gain a verbal advantage in his professional capacity, Bentley honed in on the meaning of team, on the changes that needed to be made in that area; so now, when the people come by to watch tape, he's accommodating, as always.
"We're all coaches; we're all involved with Xs and Os," Bentley said. "But this thing we're doing here, it isn't about the plays, man, it's about the team. You better do some things to bring these kids together, to build that family bond, because if you want to know what we're about, that's what we're about."
On Aug. 23, installation of the 45-foot tall, $325,000 Jumbotron scoreboard is due to be completed, three days before Byrnes hosts Glades Central (Fla.) High School in a game broadcast nationally on cable television, a game that will kick off the team's attempt to win a fifth consecutive state championship.
It's not just high school football, it's what you make of it; so the TV game will include an F-18 flyover and a Black Hawk helicopter dropping the game ball.
"It keeps getting better," Bentley said. "After we won two (state championships), we set a goal of becoming a national program, and we feel like we're accomplishing that. (The TV game) just takes it to the next level, and that's the fun part.
"What will it look like? What will it feel like?" he said. "Can we keep it up? If we do, what else is out there for us? I can only see it getting better."
Well said, coach.
http://vh10504.moc.gbahn.net/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=BS&Date=20060528&Category=COLUMNISTS05&ArtNo=605280329&Ref=AR&Profile=1002&MaxW=315
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Now that will be one heck of a high school football game - Byrnes vs. Glades Central. Love to see two solid programs go head to head. There will be some great athletes matching up.
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Running_Rebel
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Byrnes "Machine"
Just found this site and registered after I read the glowing review from "osugrad21". I've lived in Spartanburg, SC the last 16 years and am an OSU 1983 grad and attended many St Ignatius/St Joes games in the 70's/80's.
I agree with osugrad21; I've never seen a team play like the Byrnes Rebels. The play execution is amazing. Byrnes is not a big team and definitely do not play the OSU "smash mouth" football so common in the Buckeye state. They simply run around opponents and beat them with execution and speed.
Anyone interested in a preview needs to see the live ESPN game on 8/26 where Byrnes plays Glades Central (FL). I'll be there and it will be a great game! You'll be able to see it in Ohio.
In Duncan, where the Byrnes HS is located, all the grade schools and middle schools have football programs. All the kids wear the same silver/blue uniforms as the HS. Byrnes coach, Bobby Bentley, starts the kids in 1st grade and they can only pass the ball... no runs are allowed until they get to 9th grade. Result: a deep talented group of QBs and receivers every year!
The community support is simply amazing. The school will be installing a gigantic "jumbotron" in an endzone for instant replays. A state-of-the-art sound system will be ready for the first game that will allow all ref calls to be heard real-time. And all of this is paid by local business sponsors; no money is spent from the school budget. And the budget isn't bad either, since a significant amount of the tax revenue is derived from the BMW automobile manufacturing plant down the road.
Bynres beat Mongomery Bell (MBA, Nashville, TN) in the opening game of the 2005 season 62-14 racking up 714 yards. A post from the Nashville newspaper read: "The rebels rolled Saturday night with a 62-14 win over one of Tennessee's top ranked private high schools. Montgomery Bell Academy seemed shell shocked once the scoring began. After a slow start the Rebels scored 3 times in the blink of an eye and were beginning to realize this was just another "Friday" night game." This game was played over 350 miles away and the stadium was packed with Byrnes fans!
Byrnes plays Independence (Charlotte, NC) at home in a pre-season "scrimmage" game on 8/12. Independence currently has the longest win streak in the nation, but plays a very soft schedule and will not play a top-25 national contender for fear of breaking the streak. Let me tell you, we've tried to get a real game but they will not bite. Anyway, the scrimmage should be interesting although it won't count as an official game. No special teams action (kickoffs or punts) but they will play four quarters.
The Saturday Herbstreit classic matchups will be great! Byrnes against Moeller and St. X against Lakeland. I'll be there watching both games, rooting for Byrnes in Game 1 and X in game 2. Only a six hour drive...
Just found this site and registered after I read the glowing review from "osugrad21". I've lived in Spartanburg, SC the last 16 years and am an OSU 1983 grad and attended many St Ignatius/St Joes games in the 70's/80's.
I agree with osugrad21; I've never seen a team play like the Byrnes Rebels. The play execution is amazing. Byrnes is not a big team and definitely do not play the OSU "smash mouth" football so common in the Buckeye state. They simply run around opponents and beat them with execution and speed.
Anyone interested in a preview needs to see the live ESPN game on 8/26 where Byrnes plays Glades Central (FL). I'll be there and it will be a great game! You'll be able to see it in Ohio.
In Duncan, where the Byrnes HS is located, all the grade schools and middle schools have football programs. All the kids wear the same silver/blue uniforms as the HS. Byrnes coach, Bobby Bentley, starts the kids in 1st grade and they can only pass the ball... no runs are allowed until they get to 9th grade. Result: a deep talented group of QBs and receivers every year!
The community support is simply amazing. The school will be installing a gigantic "jumbotron" in an endzone for instant replays. A state-of-the-art sound system will be ready for the first game that will allow all ref calls to be heard real-time. And all of this is paid by local business sponsors; no money is spent from the school budget. And the budget isn't bad either, since a significant amount of the tax revenue is derived from the BMW automobile manufacturing plant down the road.
Bynres beat Mongomery Bell (MBA, Nashville, TN) in the opening game of the 2005 season 62-14 racking up 714 yards. A post from the Nashville newspaper read: "The rebels rolled Saturday night with a 62-14 win over one of Tennessee's top ranked private high schools. Montgomery Bell Academy seemed shell shocked once the scoring began. After a slow start the Rebels scored 3 times in the blink of an eye and were beginning to realize this was just another "Friday" night game." This game was played over 350 miles away and the stadium was packed with Byrnes fans!
Byrnes plays Independence (Charlotte, NC) at home in a pre-season "scrimmage" game on 8/12. Independence currently has the longest win streak in the nation, but plays a very soft schedule and will not play a top-25 national contender for fear of breaking the streak. Let me tell you, we've tried to get a real game but they will not bite. Anyway, the scrimmage should be interesting although it won't count as an official game. No special teams action (kickoffs or punts) but they will play four quarters.
The Saturday Herbstreit classic matchups will be great! Byrnes against Moeller and St. X against Lakeland. I'll be there watching both games, rooting for Byrnes in Game 1 and X in game 2. Only a six hour drive...
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