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High School Legend Retires

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Jack Johnson announced his retirement today from CMR. Started in 1973. Enjoy retirement Jack.
 
Knew it would happen sooner or later. Will be missed GREATLY ! Hard
To think of CMR football with Coach J. Hopefully they will
Put Coach Lowry in the head of it , he's deserves it and has earn it.
Congrads Coach J you have earned the retirement enjoyment, but
Will be missed !!!!!
 
All my boys played for Coach Jack....helluva coach, demands discipline & loyalty in riding for the brand. He truly helps grow them into young men ready for the next step. Big shoes to fill.
 
Tough and disciplined. Jack never did anything fancy. Opposing teams always knew what they were getting, his teams just did it better than you thought they would. It was always a hat on a hat. Assignment sound. My favorite story is in regards to a kid they had last year. Not a terribly athletic kid. Small and slow and some learning disability issues. Very poor family. No money. Rode his bike down and up the hill for practice, even double days. Nice kid. Went out every single year. Finally made the travelling squad his senior year. Stated all the hard work was worth it to make the travelling squad. They enlarged that statement and put it on the weight room wall. Played some special teams and mop up defense. Got enough playing time to letter. When they announced his letter, not only did he get his letter, but they found a jacket and had the letter sewn on with his name. This kid would not have afforded the jacket ever. They found one so he could wear his letter with pride. Made this special young mans night if not his high school career. I have so much respect for him for that, so much more than anything he did on the field. Congratulations on your retirement. You have earned it.
 
...he never got hiz football field...
...but he's a guy that deserves...
...street/building something...
...to be named after him...

... 8-) ...
 
Great article in today's Tribune (can anybody post a link) Johnson was indeed the best H.S. coach to ever wear the whistle IMHO. Had great defenses and some great individual players over the last 41 years. He said said that Dave Dickenson was the greatest quarterback he ever coached (and knew he would be even at a young age he had some others too....Art West, John Leister, Tony Arnston (H.C. at Helena High) J.P. Eidel....I'm sure I'm leaving out a few others.....one notable QB he has coached.....RYAN LEAF....he has never uttered any public opinion on to my knowledge.....hmmmm.....wonder why :mrgreen:

Like Grizatwork says.....he was a fundamentally sound kind of coach.....nothing fancy....if he had the right QB & talented receivers he passed!!! If he had the horses for RB and OL he was a running coach....he played the cards he was dealt!!! When he had the talent he was unbeatable.....when he didn't....it took the opponents best game to beat him!!!
 
Sometime in the 90's Great Falls hosted a Little League baseball clinic & one of the speakers at the clinic happened to be Jack Johnson. Anyway during his session Jack explained how he would rate every player on every play & then would come up with a total score for each player. Jack and his coaching staff would take all day Sunday to do this. One hell of a coach! Enjoy your retirement Coach!
 
Enjoy your retirement coach! Truly one of the great coaches in Montana High School sports history. Up there with Kangas and Cheek from the hardwood. Year in and year out, CMR was a tough game on the schedule.
 
Teton Cat said:
Great article in today's Tribune (can anybody post a link) Johnson was indeed the best H.S. coach to ever wear the whistle IMHO. Had great defenses and some great individual players over the last 41 years. He said said that Dave Dickenson was the greatest quarterback he ever coached (and knew he would be even at a young age he had some others too....Art West, John Leister, Tony Arnston (H.C. at Helena High) J.P. Eidel....I'm sure I'm leaving out a few others.....one notable QB he has coached.....RYAN LEAF....he has never uttered any public opinion on to my knowledge.....hmmmm.....wonder why :mrgreen:

Like Grizatwork says.....he was a fundamentally sound kind of coach.....nothing fancy....if he had the right QB & talented receivers he passed!!! If he had the horses for RB and OL he was a running coach....he played the cards he was dealt!!! When he had the talent he was unbeatable.....when he didn't....it took the opponents best game to beat him!!!
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Dillon said:
Anyway during his session Jack explained how he would rate every player on every play & then would come up with a total score for each player. Jack and his coaching staff would take all day Sunday to do this. One hell of a coach! Enjoy your retirement Coach!
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This is true and he would hand out your grade sheet on Sunday night along with the scouting report and playbook for the next game. You were graded on 4.0 basis just like a report card and this grade was given for each play in the game and totaled to give you an average. Then of course you had to study the film. A pancake block got you a 4.0 and whiff got you a 0 and average held block would get you a 2.0-2.5 etc etc..as long as you were blocking your assignment and not someone else's assignment.
 
SAVAGE PAW said:
Dillon said:
Anyway during his session Jack explained how he would rate every player on every play & then would come up with a total score for each player. Jack and his coaching staff would take all day Sunday to do this. One hell of a coach! Enjoy your retirement Coach!
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This is true and he would hand out your grade sheet on Sunday night along with the scouting report and playbook for the next game. You were graded on 4.0 basis just like a report card and this grade was given for each play in the game and totaled to give you an average. Then of course you had to study the film. A pancake block got you a 4.0 and whiff got you a 0 and average held block would get you a 2.0-2.5 etc etc..as long as you were blocking your assignment and not someone else's assignment.
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I believe it is pretty standard for high school teams, at least in class AA, to grade each player on a weekly basis. Based on my experience playing against CMR a long time ago and watching class AA football for many years, I believe he had so much success primarily because he excelled in all aspects of coaching - smart, motivated to succeed, disciplinarian, great strategist, great off season weight and conditioning program, and worked very hard. He also had good a good talent pool.
 
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