As Tony Welch walks down the concrete steps from the Claxton High School weight room, he wipes the sweat from his brow in the 95 degree heat May brings for the last spring practice before his first game as the Tigers new head football coach. On his way to the grassy lot across from the main parking lot at the school, a white Toyota Corolla pulls up in the street. Out of it steps an old friend and teammate of Welch’s off Claxton’s 1978 football team which still holds the school record for wins in a season at 14 and remains the only Tiger squad to reach the state title game in the programs 94 year history.