Tark the Shark 🦈, legendary Coach of the Running Rebels from the University of Nevada – Las Vegas Basketball team was famous for two things.
One was Coaching one of the greatest teams of All-Time in 1991 ( before Christian, Bobby and Grant took them out in the National Semi-final game. The second reason Tark was known to many is that he was constantly biting into his folded white towel. So much so that he has the towel in his mouth 👄 in the statue above.
Barnes will have his own coping mechanism on Friday nights 🌙 for the next three months after learning that his projected leading scorer, Isaiah Easter will be the starting Quarterback on the Carroll County High School football team.
It’s not uncommon for High School Student Athletes to double or triple up in regards to sports in a given year. But in the age of specialized year around Sports now, it happens a little less often.
Last season it was Bryce Smoot taking snaps for Head Coach Seth Greer and we know that Smoot left The Hill as the All-Time scoring leader in Boys Basketball.
While we know that Smoot has the All-Time scoring mark, it might be time to dust off the record book in regards to the single season mark. All signs point to Easter having that type of Senior season, especially when the group of Junior Varsity players coming up share a style of Win first, worry about who scores later.
The difference between last year and this time is Smoot was one of six in regards to players locked 🔒 into a roster spot. Easter is the centerpiece of the 2025-2026 season.
Things that Barnes can do over the next three months – Pray 🙏, get himself a Tark towel, a bottle of Tums and possibly bribe the Cafeteria staff to slide some extra meat 🍖 onto the plates 🍽 of the starting offensive lineman.
Allen Worrell is set to provide blanket coverage for the Gridiron 🏈 Cavaliers and tomorrow afternoon I get to catch up with Coach Barnes ! Maybe, we can recreate that Towel shot…
A.S.P.N on The Hill 