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I can't help but wonder if the prospect of a potential third-straight season with zero home games might be playing a significant impact on the kids deciding whether or not to go out for the football team at Newport, as well as Coach Hahn. Additional Reading: Newport Football Stadium Has Been Condemned (Posted April 21, 2022) Will Newport have any home games in 2023? (Posted April 11, 2023) Will Newport have any home games in 2024? (Posted February 11, 2024)

Well if you want to be technical about it, Jack Morris wasn't an "inside hire". He had previously been an assistant at Mayfield under Virgil Rains from 1960-1967 but then he left to join the Ralph Colby's coaching staff at Paducah-Tilghman for the 1968 season before being hired to succeed Rains at Mayfield. So he was hired from Paducah-Tilghman, but came with a primarily Mayfield resume. Virgil Rains was a complete outside hire back in April of 1958. Rains was a 26 year old Tennessee native and was head coach at Dyersburg High School the year prior. He had three years football coaching experience, total, when he was hired as head coach at Mayfield. Two years as an assistant at DuPont Manual, and then one year as head coach at Dyerburg. Prior to Rains, Bill Tucker was head coach for a year, 1957. He came from the head coaching job at Corbin along with his fellow UK football teammate Duke Curnette as assistant coach. Tucker, who had previously become a Major in the Army during WWII, resigned at Mayfield after a 3-5-2 season and took take a job AD and football coach at Mitchell Air Force Base in New York. James "Jess" Crawford also coached for one season, 1956. He was an assistant for 4 years under the previous coach, Ray Mills, so he was an inside hire. Crawford and his staff were all dismissed after they finished the season with a 4-6 record and ending it with a 26-7 loss in their rivalry game against Paducah Tilghman. Ray Mills coached for 5 seasons, 1951-1955. Mills was an assistant coach for one year under the previous coach, Red Herndon. So that makes Mills another inside hire. Red Herndon was an outside hire. He coached at Mayfield from 1947-1950. He was hired in August of 1947...was introduced to his team on August 28th, so it was late-August, at that. He was the head coach at Georgetown College the year prior, and had been head coach at Frankfort HS from 1942-1946, head coach at Cumberland HS from 1938-1942, and was an assistant at Loyall High School from 1934-1937. Henry Cochran (see below). Dick Bacon was an outside hire for his 1944-1945 tenure. He had coached at Owensboro High School and was head coach at Union College before being hired on at Mayfield. After head coach Ual Killebrew stepped down, Mayfield initially named Grove High School (TN) head coach Kenneth Sidwell as their new coach, but then after learning that he would have to potentially compete with Henry Cochran for the job once Cochran got back from his term in the Navy, Sidwell accepted the head coaching job at Glasgow High School instead, leaving the door open for Bacon. Ual Killebrew was an inside hire. He was an assistant for a season and a half under Henry Cochran and was promoted towards the end of the 1942 season when Cochran was called up to the Navy, and stayed on to coach the following season. He had previously been head football coach at Fulton High School (while simultaneously serving as an assistant basketball coach at Mayfield) for several seasons, and returned there in 1944 to finish out his teaching and coaching career. Henry Cochran had two stints as Mayfield's head coach, but originally came in as an outside hire. He was head coach from 1939-1942, then he was drafted into the Navy during WWII, and came back to serve as head coach again. Cochran was given an indefinite leave of absence in 1942 after being drafted, and then returned to reassume the job for one more season in 1946. When he was initially hired in 1939, he was a 25 year old who had played fullback at Paducah High School and then fullback and quarterback at the University of Alabama. He had one year of football coaching experience when he came to Mayfield, having previously been head coach at Huntersville High School in Alabama. Ray Ross was an outside hire. He had been the AD and football coach at Owensboro High School for four years prior to being hired to replace Carlisle Cutchin. Ross coached Mayfield from 1925-1938. Carlisle Cutchin was head coach of Mayfield from 1919-1924. Outside hire. He had taught and been an assistant football and basketball coach at Murray High School before being hired at Mayfield, and then would head to Murray State to run their athletic department in addition to serving as head coach of their football, basketball, and baseball teams. I can't, for the life of me, find any information on who served as head coach prior to Carlisle Cutchin for any of the seasons between 1911 and 1918.

Good catch, you're right.

Carlisle Cutchin: 1919-1923 Ray Ross: 1925-1938 Henry Cochran: 1939-1942 Ual Killebrew: 1943 Dick Bacon: 1944-1945 Henry Cochran: 1946 Raymond "Red" Herndon: 1947-50 Ray Mills: 1951-1955 James "Jess" Crawford: 1956 Bill Tucker: 1957 Virgil Rains: 1958-1968 Jack Morris: 1969-1992 (254-50-2) Head Coaching Record (4) State Titles: 1977, 1978, 1985, 1986 (5) State Runners-Up: 1976, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992 Paul Leahy: 1993-1998 (73-12) Head Coaching Record (2) State Titles: 1993, 1995 (1) State Runners-Up: 1998 Joe Morris: 1999-2024 (300-56) Head Coaching Record (7) State Titles: 2002, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2023 (7) State Runners-Up: 2005, 2009, 2011, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022

...plus he has a 4.14 GPA and is in the NHS.

6'1" and 225 pounds. 4.9 in the 40 and 4.46 shuttle. 315 bench, 455 squat, 235 clean.

I know Coach Hahn had sent out emails looking for assistants on several occasions during the offseason. Could his departure be related to not having enough help with the job? Is he headed elsewhere? Just a change of career path?

Lex Cath has to find a replacement for QB Jackson Wasik, who will be playing at Centre College this season. Wasik threw all but 7 of the team's 289 pass attempts last season, and he was only 52 rushing yards behind the team's top rusher, Joaquin Pereira, who returns for his junior year along with second-best rusher Alex Rayyan who returns as a senior. With a talented receiving corps, as usual, Lex Cath will have #1 receiver Jackson Kreutzer, #2 receiver Matthew Kern and #5 receiver Kaylib Nelson all returning as seniors. The trio accounted for 99 receptions, 1,567 yards receiving, and 19 touchdowns last season - that's a quarter of the team's 2023 touchdowns. On defense, Brady Wasik led the team in tackles last year as a sophomore linebacker, and he will be back as a junior this year. Linebacker John Moses was second in tackles and will return for his senior year, along with DB Matthew Kern who was fourth in tackles, LB Aiden Pflunger who was sixth.

2023 Results: Aug 18 vs. Highlands (Loss) 34-27 Aug 26 at Madison Central (Win) 47-0 Sep 1 vs. Corbin (Loss) 30-10 Sep 8 vs. Great Crossing (Win) 36-15 Sep 15 at Lexington Christian Academy (Loss) 49-42 Sep 22 at Boyle County (Loss) 56-21 Oct 6 at Bourbon County (Win) 48-0 Oct 13 at Lloyd Memorial (Win) 41-0 Oct 20 vs. Pendleton County (Win) 72-0 Oct 27 win Scott County (Win) 21-20 Nov 3 vs. West Carter (Win) 51-0 (3A Playoffs) Nov 10 vs. Russell (Win) 48-0 (3A Playoffs) Nov 17 at Rockcastle County (Win) 43-7 (3A Playoffs) Nov 24 at Christian Academy Louisville (Loss) 43-8 (3A Playoffs)

Aug 9 vs. Simon Kenton (Scrimmage) Aug 16 vs. Bardstown (Scrimmage) Aug 23 at Highlands Aug 30 vs. Madison Central Sep 6 at Corbin Sep 13 at Great Crossing Sep 20 vs. Lexington Christian Academy Sep 27 vs. Boyle County Oct 4 - BYE Oct 11 vs. Bourbon County (District) Oct 18 vs. Lloyd Memorial (District) Oct 25 at Pendleton County (District) Nov 1 at Scott County

I'd have to assume that Elam would be one of the definite top candidates. He is the OC at Corbin, yes. Spent over a decade as head coach at Pineville. Also has a few years of college coaching mixed in there from Cumberlands and Union College, I believe. Jim Black is the Associate Head Coach too. Also coached at Cumberlands. He was head coach at Williamsburg and Whitley County, and was DC for North Laurel before he ended up at Corbin. Also heard Corbin assistant coach Jody Mouser's name mentioned.

If not, you oughta be on the lookout for a phone call, coach.

Lafayette Froshmore Football: Aug 26 vs. Shelby County Sep 2 vs. Henry Clay Sep 9 vs. Western Hills Sep 16 at Paul Laurence Dunbar Sep 23 at Franklin County Sep 30 at George Rogers Clark Oct 7 vs. Lexington Catholic Oct 14 at East Jessamine Oct 21 vs. Tates Creek Oct 26 - Central Kentucky Froshmore League Championship

Paul Laurence Dunbar Froshmore Football: Aug 26 at Tates Creek Sep 2 at Franklin County Sep 9 vs. Shelby County Sep 16 at Lafayette Sep 23 vs. Western Hills Sep 30 at Henry Clay Oct 7 vs. George Rogers Clark Oct 10 at Lexington Catholic Oct 21 vs. East Jessamine Oct 26 - Central Kentucky Froshmore League Championship