Colonels_Wear_Blue

Just saw that Kristy Orem is stepping down as AD and girls hoops coach at Pikeville. She's been their AD since 2016, if I'm not mistaken. It will be interesting to see who they hire to replace her, and whether or not there is any attempt to change anything at Pikeville or if the new AD just steps in and keeps things rolling as they have been.

Matthew Taylor has headed to take the boys job at Shelby Valley after 4 years in charge of the Cougars boys program. Letcher Central is now open.

Per WYMT. Was head coach at Letcher County Central for the past 4 seasons.

Still at 51 jobs that have come open, and down to 4 jobs that remain to be filled. 1.) Harlan 2.) McCracken County 3.) Nelson County 4.) Pike County Central

Eric Perry resigned on October 30th. So that's 188 days without a head football coach. That's over half of a freakin' year. Bonkers.

Smith is a 2005 Frankfort grad, and played tight end at Johnson C. Smith University for 2 years before exiting football and finishing out his college career at Western. He served a stint in the Army before joining the football coaching ranks. I believe he has generally worked in the IT department for school districts, which is an interesting alternative to having someone who's "in the classroom". Per @J. Peterman in the open job thread: "Joshua Smith was an assistant at Sayre this past season. He has had couple of stints at Frankfort as Def. Cord. Was at Shelby during their last semi-final run. Had a short stint at KSU with Coach John L. Smith Played college football at school in North Carolina. Played for Foley at Frankfort."

From the renderings and reporting I saw, they're building the new school between the Unseld Learning Academy and Thomas Jefferson Middle School off of Poplar Level Road. Three story classroom wing, and then a separate wing for what appears to be two gymnasiums. I didn't see any plot plans, so I'm not sure what the plans are for an athletic stadium, but it appears that they are building the school on the current site of the (very dilapidated) baseball and football fields for Thomas Jefferson Middle School.

Approaching 40 open jobs.

He was the girls head coach at East Ridge for a few seasons before joining the assistant coaching staff on the boys team for the last season or two. He will also be joined by former George Rogers Clark and Alice Lloyd College basketball standout Blaine Keathley who will be the head assistant coach, per the D&D Sports Network.