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LANDIS — South Rowan athletics director Danny Crosby’s cozy office includes the obligatory Vince Lombardi quote in Magic Marker on the greaseboard as well as an optional poster of the Three Stooges posing with golf clubs. Sports has a serious side and a lighter side, and Crosby has balanced them pretty well for a long time. A fierce competitor in his day but quick with a joke as the years rolled by, Crosby will retire on June 30 from a school into which he’s poured heart and soul. “He’s Larry Deal-ish, one of the old school,” South principal Dr. Donald Knox said. Crosby, 57, goes back far enough at South that he was a Rebel, rather than a Raider, when he played fullback and first base for coach Lope Linder. He kept busy between football and baseball seasons by wrestling. “Graduated in 1971,” Crosby said. “The last class of Rebels.” Crosby played football at Lees-McRae when it was still a junior college. Then he went on to Carson-Newman. He began coaching at rural Wartburg Central High in the Crab Orchard Mountains of Tennessee. His next stop was coaching his brothers, Rick and Tim, as an assistant at Lees-McRae. In the late 1970s, Crosby left coaching for five years, studying turf management and working at several golf courses. He returned to the coaching ranks in the area in 1982. He served a stint at Erwin, where he was AD; another at Northwest Cabarrus. In 1991, he had a chance to return home to South as a health and P.E. teacher and to put on the red and black again. He’s helped coach football, baseball and wrestling, and he’s been a fixture at South the past two decades.