This is awesome was on the Today show

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I know Gog8tors will be busting with pride about this. I know I am!!

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DALLAS, Ga. -- At Paulding County High School, Scott Hamilton is quietly helping his school become more caring and compassionate.

As the head football coach, he's creating superstars out of the special needs students and it's carrying-over to the entire student body.

At the start of the day, during a home game, Hamilton surprises at least one special needs student with a football shirt signaling the day of honor, he calls "Player of the Day" or POD.

Not only do they love it. So, does the entire school.

"They (special needs students) are like part of the team, We don't get a chance to see our kids, like the other parents. I can't believe I'm crying. It's hard to even say. It's very touching," said Marion Bishop Fowler, mom of Levi Bishop, a special needs student chosen as POD on a recent day, along with Austin Beal.

"It's really the highlight of my day. Win or lose. It's the highlight of my day. Because they have a smile on their face regardless.
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Rest of the story: http://dallas.11alive.com/news/education/452622-coach-gives-special-needs-students-chance-be-part-team
 
Then there was this in the AJC today. Maybe just maybe people will look at Paulding a little different these days. :D

Paulding County High School has advanced in the football state playoffs only one time in 40 years. Only 10 of its teams have had winning seasons. Only one player has made first-team all-state.

So it will come as a surprise to many, perhaps even to Paulding County itself, that the school is the cradle of high school football coaches in Georgia.

The school, about 30 miles northwest of Atlanta, has graduated seven current high school head coaches, six in Georgia. No other school has more than four in Georgia.

”This is very interesting,” said Paulding County graduate Adam Carter, the former Camden County defensive coordinator hired this year as head coach of Bradwell Institute in Hinesville. ”I would not say there was anything specifically about Paulding County High School that led to seven of us coaching, but I can tell you the coaches and the administration when I was there made a great influence on my life and career choice. Football and coaching young people are my passion.’’

And so it has been for six others Paulding County grads.

They include Brent Budde of Woodstock, Scott Hendrix of Cedartown, J.B. Arnold of Jefferson County, Ken Cofer of Cook and Jon Lindsey of Irwin County. A seventh Paulding graduate, Cameron Pettus, is head coach at Belleville West in Illinois.
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Rest of the story here: http://blogs.ajc.com/georgia-high-school-sports/2013/10/14/cradle-of-coaches-six-paulding-county-grads-are-georgia-head-football-coaches/
 
What a great great story! coach Hamilton you totally ROCK!! That is completely awesome!
 
Really, really cool stuff. I love it when the outlets report GOOD news about our community. Because there is a LOT of GOOD in Paulding!
 
I caught a little of it on Fox. I refuse to watch the Soviet Today Show or Good Morning Socialist Comrades in America :Ninja
 
Yes, we are proud of Coach for doing this. We really do a great group of boys in the program, and the coaches I have had contact with are good Godly men, and role models for our boys.

I just seen this. Between the end of the season stuff, the beginning of wrestling, and being sick I've been busy.
 
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