Coach Pye
December 10, 2023
Rip PYE. I have a million stories as George tormented me daily. I wanted to play for ochs but he left and Pye took over and introduced me to the politics of sports. He made it very evident who his guys were, which is what happens in real life often and made it a point to show I was better. But on a macro level the mentor ship and guidance he provided to us was amazing bro. He saved so many people’s lives and dealt with so many wild ass parents and knuckleheads and for that I’m forever grateful. RIP Coach.
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So I’m not sure my high school football coach passed away but it seems online like he did. So I’m going to talk about my experience with George pie. George pie did not believe in quitting. And I never wanted to play football for George pie. I wanted to play for this man name coach OCHS. I had met with Coach oaks in my eighth grade year and told him that I have been waiting my entire life to play football as I was always too heavy to play as a kid.I ended up playing junior varsity as a freshman. It’s been my entire eighth grade summer on the football field. I excelled at Jason JV but I was not okay and am still not okay with losing. I will never forget we play this team some big ass white boys from Santa Rosa something de casa. They whooped our ass. And I was playing defensive and at the time and my nose guard was big as hell and was getting his ass towed up and I was getting double teamed and then chipped by a fullback and they were running up the gun on me and during halftime I remember crying cussing and I quit. Enter this was a life changing event for me. It was me choosing my passion over doing something that was expected of me to be good at. I chose and I choose hoop every day.Long story short, I got black ball from playing football for 2 years as Coach oaks left my high school to go and coach at this new high school Hercules that look like a prison. Coach pie took over the job as head coach of varsity which is where I should have been playing the next year if I played. But the coach that I quit the JV team was his buddy and told him that I shouldn’t be able to play. So Coach pie did not let me play football my sophomore or my junior year in high school.This was probably the greatest thing that happened to me as I probably save my life by not getting CTE or messing up my neck any further as I had to wear a cowboy collar because I would torpedo my body at men for fun. Enter this is probably the reason I have neck problems today.But after my junior year I got cut from the basketball team for being an eligible and just not being a person that they wanted on their basketball team because of my looks. And size.I was lost my junior year. I played no sports. I did horrible in school but last semester I was in the wait room for some reason or lingering around after school and somehow I got the opportunity to play football again. I think that’s exactly what I needed at that point in time. And Coach pie did not let up on me at all for the entire year. And for that I never really liked Coach pie. But I liked my coach coach Lambert. Angel.Coach pie was so petty to me. But I look at it mentorship which is something that I’m very into with my one of my passions today he was a hell of a mentor to a lot of boys in high school. A lot of them without fathers. And he rode for us. I remember we were four and five at the end of the season and I remember Coach pie advocating for us to go to the playoffs.Also, I remember playing next to a couple of his favorite players and at the end of the season when it came nominating people for all week all league he nominated my name. Hard work over politics all day. Let’s get it. Rip to coach pieSecond shotI didn’t really trip on how much he meant to a lot of my friends and teammates. Me and Coach Pye always bumped heads because of my mouth (say slick shit your gonna get a slick comeback back then) And I knew my daddy and I knew how a man should move from hanging with ogs my whole life and I didn’t like the way he moved back then. So he was an obstacle for me for years until we sat down and talked in his office one day my junior year and I told him what I wanted and what I thought he had done to me and from that point on there was a mutual level of respect and he realized he had judged me based on the words of another man not who I was as. I was back in business. Looking at it now Pye was like the age I was now coaching us and I’m still learning and growing as a man and to think he was leading all 50 of us is amazing one day I will do the same. RiP Coach Peezy. #saveourboys