Booker T. Washington football coach leaves post
Normally, we don't write about coaches from outside our area, but this is a unique circumstance. During each of the past five football seasons, Tim Harris, football coach at Miami Booker T. Washington, has faced a Hillsborough County team in the state semifinals. Because of that, his name has become fairly well known to those in these parts who follow prep football.
On Saturday, Harris announced that he was stepping down at Washington to accept an administrative position with the Miami Hurricanes, where his son will be a freshman in the fall. The USA Today National Coach of the Year after leading the Tornadoes to the Class 4A state title and a 14-0 record, Harris will work in a non-coaching capacity, the Miami Herald reported (story HERE). While at Washington, he went 57-7.
Incredibly, four of those losses came to Hillsborough County teams (three to Armwood; one to Plant).
--KEITH NIEBUHR
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any now we see why his son went to Miami? I guess you have to offer the dad a job to get the kid.
Posted by: | May 05, 2008 at 08:29 AM
I thought that was illegal! You can't recruit the parent. And yet no one sees anything wrong with it? Sheesh!
Posted by: | May 05, 2008 at 02:30 PM
good for him
and plant and armwood and largo and wharton...
Posted by: THE stampede | May 05, 2008 at 07:44 PM
Damn ICF Y U LEFt US Like Dat The Tornadoes MIZZ u
Posted by: Leandre09 | July 20, 2008 at 02:58 AM