Give the folks at Harrells Christian Academy credit - they are dedicated to football.
I’m sure there are many public schools from our area that would love to have the coaching tree they’re building at HCA. For a private school that just started playing 11-man football again a few season ago, its quite impressive.
Three seasons ago they shocked everyone by hiring Bob Lewis and his five state championships to be their coach. He promptly won another title with the Crusaders and escorted them from 8-man back into the 11-man game.
Lewis left for Whiteville High last month, but apparently Harrells Christian wasn’t going to settle for a lesser coach.
Instead, they went out and hired the winningest coach in North Carolina history. Amazing.
Jack Holley is the new head coach at HCA – the announcement made official at an afternoon press conference. His resume speaks for itself: 39 Coach of the Year awards, 380 wins with 89 losses, 24 conference championships, and 5 state championship game appearances. And now he’s at tiny little Harrell’s Christian Academy.
I’m not a fool – its pretty obvious that money is a key factor here. They must have paid Bob Lewis a boat-load to get him there in the first place, and then more cash again to bring in Holley. When I got to the school today for the press conference there was a sign out front about raising $2 million for school improvements - and they were almost there. So I’m guessing they aren’t hurting for cash.
But if Harrells wants to make a splash in football (and it appears they do) – good for them for getting the best coaches available. I wish some of the public schools cared as much.
kevin
Click on the WECT logo to see today’s story on the Holley hiring 
