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As a Coach, as a student of the game of football, as a fierce competitor, as an egotistical and sometimes arrogant, I hope you can believe me in the fact that in 24 years of coaching; I haven't met even one coach, that doesn't put his players FIRST. It is as hard to put each kid into the correct position to give that individual a chance to be successful so that the team can ultimately have the best chance to be successful as I would imagine it would be as a parent to divvy up your time evenly or equally to each child. We, as coaches, are typically graded by our W-L loss record. Being curious, I went back and looked at how many teams in this decade ending this year had been "winners" based on this scale. Only 43% of the teams ended the decade with overall winning records. Only 11% of the teams won more than 70% of their games. Teams that go 7 wins per year consistently are often tabbed with the moniker of "can't win the big one". Coaching is as thankless a job as is parenting. Even though we get paid very little for coaching, do you know that you get paid less to parent? My point is that I hope that at some point you put your surveys away and understand that we are trying to do as right by your children as you are. Please believe me that we all have players and ex-players who might not ever touch the field on Friday night or might never play the position that they'd like to play. Know that we value those kids just as much as the superstar son that gets every head line. How can we not value the kid who, at Senior Night, announces the position he plays as "Where ever Coach asked me to play". Or the kid I talked into being a manager because he was just too small and frail only to have the kid beg in tears to be let back on the official roster because he just wanted to be a part of it. You'd better believe that I had tears in my eyes when that young man caught the first ball of his career(practice included) on Senior night in his final game. So while we all want the "W", know that each kid who graduates from a football program; wins. Put your surveys away. We need your support.

I was more impressed with this kid than any other at the State Finals. I hope he gets to go where HE wants. He's earned that choice... ...:and for the record, Stanford and Oregon are the 'east' coast of Hawaii, China or Japan.:ohbrother:

Gallatin County's coaching staff under Tim Browning's leadership, will NEVER give up on a game, a play, a kid...any kid; especially when a kid might give up on himself.

Don't know Coach Kettler but wish him more luck than any other coach in the state. He's now in charge of a program, that according to some/many, was about to shut down football. As far as this state has come in the past twenty years, football-wise; it would be about sinful to let a program close. So congratulations to Coach Kettler for stepping up and taking on this challenge and thank you for keeping football alive in one nook of the Commonwealth.

"non-factor"? whew, have to disagree with that statement. John Hardin has taken teams to the mat; including Coach Griff's Grape Defense. JHHS didn't win; so you win the bet (25 cents at most)...but definitely a factor, or turnover away from Papa Johns'.

Coach Rogers' came from Nelson County and their Wing T was orchestrated by Coach Mark Brown. I'm not sure if there is a direct tutelage from him to Coach Rogers but the legacy is there, I think. Nelson County's best years were with Coach Brown's Wing T. Can it still win today in the age of the spread? Look at the phenomenol success John Hardin High School has attained under Coach Brown's Wing T. Warren Central and John Hardin are very similar programs, as was Nelson County's.

Find a way to keep Coach Smart.

There are two MUSTS in football that are needed to win. You MUST have the players first. Without them, the best coach is not winning and GREAT players have made coaches appear 'great'. Second, you MUST have the coaches. They can develop the great to be greater, the good to great, the average to good, the poor to contributers. The Head Coach cannot do it all himself. Anything and everything else is a bonus. Heck, we used to put rocks in milk cartons and used them to play football everyday before school and at lunch time. We've used towels to run the option drill. We even used babydoll heads to; oh wait, we played baseball with those!!!:jump:

1)So how does one of the lowly, or above, underdog teams in the state knock off one of the big dogs in the 2nd round? What's it take? 2)Is there a potential of this happening in any of the matchups this weekend???

Gallatin 33-Bellevue 28. There are, AT LEAST, 21 young men (from Gallatin County) that LOVE the current playoff system.

Johnny Poynter wants to get back close to the mountains, it has seemed. Smart, successful, knowledgeable...throw his name in the mix and you can't go wrong.

EXTREMELY competitive game in '95, though. WC played with GREAT pride vying to avoid losing to the upstart Gator...agreed? ...and the kickoff game plan that Coach Hood used that year,...I don't know that it's ever been matched. And since you are an historian of WC football...how are Coaches Hood, Wood and Norm doing???

C'mon FF4, Grayson's Coach Smart was the OC at Greenwood in their upset of your dragons in 1995 giving the Gator their first win over Central and putting the Gator in the playoffs for the first time in school history. Jump on his bandwagon!!! oh, and to be fair, Hoptown crushed Greenwood in the first round.

Lloyd vs. Holmes Scott County vs. Greenwood any others not on KHSAA yet!

Ed Smart-Grayson County-runner up in District first time in a long time. wins even when they shouldn't. Winning seasons in a very tough district and tough place to win.