Yes, after school weight lifting is optional. So is playing time and so are the types of words coaches use with recruiters. We forever will build a culture of earning in this program. “If you don’t work, you don’t eat. If you don’t grind, you don’t shine.”
#WinTheDay
Five years ago to the day... I was insulted at my Alma mater as a visiting coach like I have never been done before. I don’t know if I have recovered to this day.
#WordsHurt
There are some great people in this world and two of them are
@Cant_StopCinco
and
@CoachSBeamer
of
@GamecockFB
! Appreciate you making one of our students whole school year with this special gift and note! Thank you from all of us at Philip Simmons!
@Coach_J_Clark
@SCVarsity
Jim Baxter isn’t allowed anywhere near my program. He isn’t allowed near my kids. He is a fraud and the way he spoke to that young man today should bury his career (if it wasn’t already buried for not paying people what they were owed for working for him)
College recruiters ask head coaches 3 questions:
1. Can he play for us?
2. How are his grades/test scores?
3. What kind of kid is he?
Film....grades...character... they don’t lie. These are what matter most to the people who are looking to invest in you!
#WinTheDay
The Bendig Family made a boat purchase today. Lilly Kate can’t wait to get on the tube. Colleen can’t wait to tan on the bow. I am just waiting to get on the Redfish.
#WinTheDay
So unbelievably proud to be the head coach of this program. Wake up every day getting to do what I love with a group of people I love. I’ll miss this 2021 team but they have built something so special here in this area. Iron Horses for life that I would do anything for!
#Family
Had a great time up at Coastal Carolina
@CoastalFootball
with one of our great young men Troy Stevenson
@troystevensonn2
. First class program and place!
As I always am... and always will be, I am proud to coach these kids and work with my friends every day. Love all these guys! Win or lose it never changes. But it sure does feel good to win!! Long way to go but we will celebrate this one for a day!
#WinTheDay
#Family
#ProudCoach
Got home in enough time from practice to get some trick or treating in. I was dressed as the coach with the most losses in Philip Simmons Football’s history.
#CandyTax
Super proud of our kids and coaches on a big win. Wade Hampton is a great team that is extremely well coached. We live to play another week together and that’s an awesome feeling! Love being around these guys!
#WinTheDay
#Family
29 to 0 win on the road to start the season. We have a lot to clean up and fix, we have to be better from all angles of the program… BUT we are playing Week 0 and we walk out 1-0. We work 12 months a year to have these 10 games. We will enjoy it and build from it!
#WinTheDay
It was an absolute honor to present
@dshelton66
with the
@SCFCA1
Distinguised Service Award. What David does for our state in sports writing and his
@1team1cause
mission is a blessing to our coaches, players, and parents. Thank you David!
One of the coolest, sweetest & most heartwarming things to be a part of. Longtime Wando coach/AD Bob Hayes is battling cancer, hard. Today is his 60th birthday. What a surprise for him! Literally hundreds of cars- his friends, Wando community, rival coaches parade by his home.
Hate to lose but I’ll cherish the time I have gotten to coach this team. Love every one of them. More proud than they know. Horses are on the way up because of the work this senior class has put in.
#Family
#WinTheDay
Days like today are why we coach this great sport. 4 great student athletes signed to play football at the next level! Extremely proud of them and their families. Love doing what I do every day! Future is bright for these players signing and all of our Iron Horse Football Family!
Today we celebrated a wonderful coach and man,Coach Ashley Harvey.He has worked in this profession for a long time and he has done it the right way,caring for the kids he coaches and teaches.We will miss him every day at school!Love you coach!Enjoy retirement!
@AshleyHarveyIII
We didn’t quite have the record we were aiming for… but the goals were to have fun and want to keep playing the sport of basketball! Hope we did that! Thankful for these 5th graders for letting me be their Coach! I do probably need to stick to football though!
#Family
Been a pleasure coaching the East team OL and TE’s this week at the
@HighSchoolBlitz
Bowl! Some absolute studs that will be playing on Saturday’s soon!
Unbelievable night safely and purposefully honoring our 2020 football team and most importantly our senior class. Like they hear me say all the time “you graduate from this school, but you never graduate from the Iron Horse Football Family��� I love this team and school!
#WinTheDay
Cant wait to for tonight with this team! Hoping we earn another week together! Our players and coaches work hard and do it the right way. I’m proud to be their coach every day. Like I tell them “I love you before the game and I’ll love you after!” …. It’s showtime!
#WinTheDay
A tradition like none other! My yearly reminder that I will be denied tickets to the Masters in about a month and a half! But maybe… just maybe… this is my year!
Beyond proud of my beautiful wife Colleen.She is the Philip Simmons Elementary Teacher of the Year!She never has a bad day in the classroom.She loves her kids and loves what she does. Lilly Kate and I are proud of you and we love you so much!
Great 4 days of comp this July,”The Highway 17 7on7”(name courtesy of Coach Noonan)
@WandoHSFootball
, Lucy Beckham, and
@GeorgetownFBSC
are all well coached teams with great we focus on the Week 0 game vs the Bulldogs.Enjoy an old pic of me and Coach Noonan
Our man 21, Bryant Collins was the only choice to model our new uniform set! He is recovering from his fall brain aneurysm and continues to be our rock! Thanks to
@dixon_educates
for all he does for the students and athletes!
#WinTheDay
#Family
It’s not all our guys (missing Dan, Todd, and Todd) but great times with the coaches and spouses at the annual Iron Horse Coaches Party before we kick off the season! Blessed to have such a great group working in this program!
Didn’t have everyone with us but it was great to get most of the staff, school admin, and families together for our annual season kick off party. Lots of great food and great times! I appreciate the hard work and dedication of everyone!
#Family
#WinTheDay
Great to have the new hot spot right near school (not good for the waist line) that Coach Mingo our RB’s coach just opened up! Food is great. Place is awesome!
#Family
One of the best parts of coaching is seeing former players doing so well after they graduate. Got to see my man Simeon Hamby (class of of 22) today at Clemson. (That’s Iron Horse purple for any of my Carolina friends who were worried)
#Family
It’s a Rivalry Game Day and Lilly Kate and BE Bishops defensive coordinator
@MingoKarson
are asking you to pack the stands, wear purple, and be LOUD tonight at “The Phil”!
#WinTheDay
#BeatBE
Bob Hayes preferred not to be photographed at today's field dedication other than a few family photos
He took the first few sitting down. Then rose from his seat, moved his chair aside & stood proud with his chest out
I couldn't help but smile. Coach still has some fight in him
Happy anniversary to a wonderful wife! Colleen, I can’t thank her enough for all the support and being by my side through it all! What a wonderful life she has created for our family! Love you!
My nephew plays JV baseball for the
@beckhambengals
. We were invited to attend this evening. They are playing the green team down the road…. needless to say, the family and I are huge Bengals fans tonight.
#PaintTheTownPurple
We will miss these 13 senior players and our senior manager. This group literally built our program and have left it on a path upwards! Love all of them! Can’t wait to watch them grow over the years!
#Family
#WinTheDay
Back to school! I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe school year! First official day of practice for
@PSIronHorseFB
! Can’t wait!
#Family
#WinTheDay
Hope this is a good sign for things to come tomorrow night! A great, well coached team coming into “The Phil” tomorrow. Hope we can keep this special season going!
#Family
Most fun I have ever had coaching football. I love this group of kids. I love the coaches. I owe so much to the 13 seniors who paved the way for our program! I am forever indebted to this group, this school, and this community!
#Family
#WinTheDay
So proud of this team and this group of players and coaches. Wanted to keep working with them and not be done! We get another week together!
#WinTheDay
That's a final from "The Phil"! The Iron Horses roll in round 1 against Manning. Round 2 action next Friday night at Brookland Cayce!
#WinTheDay
#Family
Colleen surprised me with a great birthday brunch at my favorite spot
@hallschophouse
and it was an awesome time. Couldn’t have asked for a better birthday!
Happy 11th birthday to our sweet daughter Lilly Kate! She is the kindest person and we are blessed to call her ours! She is like me in a lot of ways but just to name a few…she loves to win, hates to lose, and LOVES the Iron Horses! Colleen and I couldn’t be more proud of her!
I really hope we get to have fans in the stands this year for our games. I will not have any clue that I need to “Stop running it up the middle” or that we need to “hit somebody.” The best coaching advice I get every week is from those stands. 🤡
So proud of these coaches and players! Imposed our will on offense! Defense made unreal 2nd half adjustments! Love these guys and this program!
#WinTheDay
#Family
12 years of being a dad to the best little girl we could have asked for. Love every minute watching her grow up. She is such a kind and sweet soul. We are blessed as parents to have her! Happy birthday to Lilly Kate!
My heart breaks for the class of 2020 and losing so many chances for their great memories. Students and Student-Atheltes alike. It is out of all of our control, but I know it still hurts. I speak for all of our coaches and staff when I say we love you all and are here for you.
An unbelievabley special group that gave us 4 years of effort an trust. Im going to miss them dearly. I cannot put into words how much they mean to me an the
@PSIronHorseFB
program. Now we guide them off to be the best men and people they can be! Love you all.
#Family
2015 I took my 1st job as the OC at Ashley Ridge.I emailed Coach Sam Wyche for advice and to talk ball.He called me within the hour. Below is a picture and some words about our time from that visit.Terribly sad to hear he passed and I’m praying for his family.He was the best!
WATCH: An initial vote to name the field at District 2 Stadium after
@Wando_Athletics
AD and former football coach Bob Hayes passed unanimously on Monday
Happy New Year from my family to yours! I hope it is filled with everything you dream up, work for, and earn. 2020 is going to be a great year for our family and the Iron Horse Program!
#WinTheDay
Great night celebrating this awesome coaching staff we have at
@PSIronHorseFB
! We were missing
@CoachEllington8
but we had a great time enjoying some fellowship before fall camp starts! Blessed to be the head coach of such a great group of men!
#WinTheDay
#Family
I challenge all my
@WandoHSFootball
brothers! If this ain’t the 1st Coach Hayes TShirt we got I need u to let me know!I still have this thing an I know it was from the spring of ‘00 at least.Sums up Coach Hayes and his drive for the game and life.Will miss this man so much.
Win or lose, there is no place I would rather be and no group of young men I would rather coach. Stay the course. A lot is still ahead this season for
@PSIronHorseFB
and the
#Family
.
#WinTheDay
Absolute blast of a Disney filled weekend with the crew. Not the traditional Valentine’s Day date but wouldn’t want it any other way!
#Family
#BabyYoda
Today is Lucy Beckham Day!
She helped build Mt. P into what it is today! ❤️
The best principal a student athlete could ever ask for, perhaps one of the reasons I am here teaching/coaching. Today and everyday we should always live by her motto, “Do what’s best for kids!”
So proud of our guys tonight. These coaches and players work so hard. What a win for all of them. Such a special group of people in
@PSIronHorseFB
!
#WinTheDay
#Family
Never will I claim to know about the pandemic we face.I don’t really know much outside of football.I do know that in order for us to have a chance to play sports,go to school,see our kids(return to normalcy as much as possible) is to follow the protocols. So that’s what I will do
Proud of the win last night for our boys. The
@PSIronHorseFB
team has a lot of work still to do but we will enjoy the first ever varsity win for our young program.
#WinTheDay
#Family
Lilly Kate finished up her spring tournament golf season. It was so awesome being able to caddy for her and spending that time with her! Big thanks to our amazing group of coaches at
@PSIronHorseFB
for taking the lead while I missed practice. Special group of coaches and players!
Got a chance to caddy for my daughter Lilly Kate today in her tournament with
@Op36Golf
at
@RiverTowneCC
! It was awesome to watch her play and spend time with her!
Extremely proud of our players and coaches. These aren’t easy times to navigate thru when it comes to some of the unknowns each day. But they have answered the call every day. Let’s enjoy this one and work on being 3-0 next week!
#WinTheDay
#Family
So proud of our team tonight. The
@PSIronHorseFB
team deserves the success and the coaches and players have worked hard. First region win of our young history. Proud to be able to coach these kids and work with these fine coaches.
#Family
#WinTheDay
Beyond proud of these two young men. Both of them were chosen by their teachers as
@J_Renaissance
Students of the Month! Congrats to juniors Kyle Denmark and Kiamani Denmark!
#WinTheDay
#Family