University of Tennessee at Chattanooga defensive back coach David Bibee talks to Brandon Golder in the game against Western Carolina at Finley Stadium on Saturday.The texts have appeared on Central High School football coach Cortney Braswell’s cellphone every Saturday morning this season after a Friday night game.
Though sent from his former Baylor School coach, David Bibee, who has always been a stickler for details, the texts have little to do with the technical aspects of the Purple Pounders’ performance from the previous night.
“It’s almost never about what we did wrong or right,” Braswell said this week as he prepared his team to host Sullivan South in a first-round playoff game tonight at 7. “It’s usually just something to encourage us. Not changing something – just an idea about doing what we do a little better.”
As he spoke, the second-year Central head coach pulled his phone from his pocket and reread Bibee’s message from last Saturday, less than 12 hours after the Pounders’ regular season concluded with a tough loss to Tyner.
“He sent it at 8:16 in the morning,” Braswell said. “It reads: ‘Forget it. Drive on. Your great year doesn’t have to end.'”