If it's cyclical and trending in a down spiral, they just did this coach a favor.

How do BC academics and test scores compare to BE?  

If this many students are choosing BE over BC and the administration is wanting the coach fired because of low numbers then shouldn't they take a good look in the mirror at firing themselves?  Kids transferring for sports can be an issue but hundreds of students are not choosing BE because of football only.  This seems like a shady deal from the outside looking in.  When a guy has a 6 year run that's probably the best in school history and he gets canned after a 9 win, district championship, and regional appearance all I can say is good luck finding somebody to take this job unless they already have somebody and needed an excuse to get the current guy out.   

Great point.

This is not about football, because if it was Coach should get an extension.

Someone wanted him out and he’s out.

I will make this statement: In the next six years BC’s record will not be anywhere close to what the last six years have been.

This smells bad….

2 hours ago, Falcon Pride said:

Great point.

This is not about football, because if it was Coach should get an extension.

Someone wanted him out and he’s out.

I will make this statement: In the next six years BC’s record will not be anywhere close to what the last six years have been.

This smells bad….

I know nothing about this situation other than what I’ve read on this thread but I think I know everything I need to know!

a parent with of an upcoming Freshman or Sophomore player:

With $$$$$

With influence 

With admin frindship 

wants the coach to showcase his son as a QB or WR!  Needs to Modernize the Offense in order to showcase his or her son!  
AD / Principle asked or told the Former Head Coach to do this or else!

Former Head Coach said NO! I’m doing what’s best 4 this team & program   Not what showcases this persons kid!

Thus he was fired!  
 

just wait and watch as the reasons unfold! 
 

Old HB signing off!!!

I have a good relationship with most people around BC and in the community and I hear a lot from people surrounding this job and what happened to Coach Kuehn. I will try and hit the main points here and I won't get into things that have not been corroborated for the most part but people should know what is really happening at BC.

I became aware that something was off in the summer before the 2021 season. The father of one of the players had offered to help run the weight room in a volunteer role in order to spend more time around his child. This father also ran the middle school program that fed into BC which complicated things. I will leave out the name of the father out of respect for the player. Coach Kuehn agreed and at first everything seemed fine. However, one day at practice Coach Kuehn had to correct the behavior of the player and the father did not like that so he writes an email to Coach Kuehn, his staff, the Athletic Director, and the principal. The email was extremely negative in regards to Coach Kuehn, his staff, and the program and made several accusations which were baseless and clearly a result of his frustration with his child being corrected. When Coach Kuehn tried to reach out to him in regards to this email, he was ignored.

To make matters worse, a subsequent email was sent by the father where he refused to back down from his accusations and would not apologize. A meeting was called where the father, Coach Kuehn, his staff, the AD (Jason Wells), the principal, and an assistant principal were in attendance. At this meeting, the Mr. Wells controlled the conversation and adamantly defended the father to everyone present (odd since he should have been impartial). It was revealed that Mr. Wells was personal friends with the father and had coached with him in the past. Coach Kuehn was made aware that he was not allowed to dismiss the father after he had been personally attacked, as had his program and assistant coaches. Understandably, Kuehn was upset about this. 

It was later revealed that AD Wells had helped the father write the email in the first place and encouraged him to send it rather than having a conversation with Kuehn first which explained why he was so strongly in the father's corner. Since Coach Kuehn was essentially told he was not allowed to dismiss the coach and was therefor forced to keep him on his staff, he tried to move forward without much uproar since the father's son was on the team. Coach Kuehn, as a teacher and a coach is always doing what is best for kids and for his team and so the season went by and there was little more said about it despite the impression that Kuehn and Huff's relationship had soured.

Prior to the meeting, Coach Kuehn had informed Mr. Huff that he (Kuehn) would be calling the offense that year, a job which, the year before, Mr. Huff had done. Mr. Huff was very upset about this and took the opportunity after the meeting to pile on Coach Kuehn. Throughout the course of the season, my understanding is that Mr. Huff remained on staff but very rarely stayed at practice and never really coached. He was present but did not participate in any team activity, leaving Kuehn, and his 4 other assistants to do everything. That season, Kuehn and his coaches led BC to its best season ever, going 9-3, making it to the 3rd round of the playoffs, supporting a state leading rusher, etc. On top of that, the team had an excellent GPA and I rarely, if ever, heard of a football player needing disciplinary action at school. Kuehn, his coaches, and his players, were truly leaders and sources of excitement within the school.

At the conclusion of the season, Coach Kuehn met with all of his coaches. Kuehn released the father who had started everything (with permission from the district AD) and sought to release Mr. Huff on the basis that he did not fulfill the coaching duties for which he had been payed. Mr. Huff, however, continuously avoided meeting with Kuehn and AD Wells showed no interest in getting a letter of resignation from him.

Shortly into the off-season (about a month ago I think), the school became aware that Coach Kuehn had been fired. This seemed odd to students, teachers, and members of the community alike because Kuehn's reputation was nothing but glowing. The reasoning given was because of "numbers". By all accounts, the number of players coming to off-season practice were normal for the other 2 high schools in the county and normal for BC so this stuck out as odd. Then the reason changed to a "difference in vision". The reason has since changed depending on who has spoken to the principal so it is hard to tell why Kuehn was actually fired. 

Here is what I know for sure since Kuehn's firing. It came out that Mr. Huff had sent a message through a student (the son of the father who started everything) to players who will be seniors in 2022 encouraging them not to go to off-season practice so that Coach Kuehn would get fired. Mr. Huff is now an assistant AD with Bullitt Central. The other 2 head coaches from the county are also no longer in their positions (may be unrelated but odd). Coach Kuehn is obviously no longer on staff since he was fired, one other assistant coach was fired without anyone speaking to him, Jason Schum (who was to be the DC in 2022) has resigned as a coach and has not applied for the HC job, Brian Michael (who was to be the OC in 2022) has not resigned but plans to and has not applied for the HC job. Mr. Huff, who never resigned, remains on the staff payroll. As of yesterday, the off-season program has been given to Mr. Huff and the father who wrote the email to run. Both of them have close personal relationships to the principal and AD Wells.

AD Wells has also handled the job opening strangely. The job was only posted on the district website for two days and prior to its posting, he was telling people that he was conducting phone interviews with potential candidates by himself. He also strongly encouraged both assistant coaches in the building (Schum and Michael) to resign their positions which seems odd because they are both awesome, hard working, caring people. On top of that, he has been calling kids and other stakeholders into his office and telling people that Kuehn, Schum, and Michael "quit on the kids" when he is the one who forcefully made them quit or fired them.

Now for the part that I do not know for sure but definitely suspect. The most credible and widely believed theory is that Devin Huff and the father conspired with AD Wells and maybe the principal to get Kuehn fired so that Huff can be the new HC. Everything points to this being the case. All of this because Kuehn coached a player and took over play calling on Fridays. I will say this, which is just my opinion: Matt Kuehn is a fantastic teacher, coach, and co-worker. Nothing I have seen would lead me to believe otherwise. His 2 assistants that worked in the building (Schum and Michael) are also fantastic people who worked hard as teachers and coaches (and, I am sure, will be looking for other coaching opportunities). This has all definitely been dirty. Something underhanded has gone on here and it seems like it is being covered up. 

Now, that's how you make an entrance to BGP. 

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1 hour ago, KYfootballguy said:

I have a good relationship with most people around BC and in the community and I hear a lot from people surrounding this job and what happened to Coach Kuehn. I will try and hit the main points here and I won't get into things that have not been corroborated for the most part but people should know what is really happening at BC.

I became aware that something was off in the summer before the 2021 season. The father of one of the players had offered to help run the weight room in a volunteer role in order to spend more time around his child. This father also ran the middle school program that fed into BC which complicated things. I will leave out the name of the father out of respect for the player. Coach Kuehn agreed and at first everything seemed fine. However, one day at practice Coach Kuehn had to correct the behavior of the player and the father did not like that so he writes an email to Coach Kuehn, his staff, the Athletic Director, and the principal. The email was extremely negative in regards to Coach Kuehn, his staff, and the program and made several accusations which were baseless and clearly a result of his frustration with his child being corrected. When Coach Kuehn tried to reach out to him in regards to this email, he was ignored.

To make matters worse, a subsequent email was sent by the father where he refused to back down from his accusations and would not apologize. A meeting was called where the father, Coach Kuehn, his staff, the AD (Jason Wells), the principal, and an assistant principal were in attendance. At this meeting, the Mr. Wells controlled the conversation and adamantly defended the father to everyone present (odd since he should have been impartial). It was revealed that Mr. Wells was personal friends with the father and had coached with him in the past. Coach Kuehn was made aware that he was not allowed to dismiss the father after he had been personally attacked, as had his program and assistant coaches. Understandably, Kuehn was upset about this. 

It was later revealed that AD Wells had helped the father write the email in the first place and encouraged him to send it rather than having a conversation with Kuehn first which explained why he was so strongly in the father's corner. Since Coach Kuehn was essentially told he was not allowed to dismiss the coach and was therefor forced to keep him on his staff, he tried to move forward without much uproar since the father's son was on the team. Coach Kuehn, as a teacher and a coach is always doing what is best for kids and for his team and so the season went by and there was little more said about it despite the impression that Kuehn and Huff's relationship had soured.

Prior to the meeting, Coach Kuehn had informed Mr. Huff that he (Kuehn) would be calling the offense that year, a job which, the year before, Mr. Huff had done. Mr. Huff was very upset about this and took the opportunity after the meeting to pile on Coach Kuehn. Throughout the course of the season, my understanding is that Mr. Huff remained on staff but very rarely stayed at practice and never really coached. He was present but did not participate in any team activity, leaving Kuehn, and his 4 other assistants to do everything. That season, Kuehn and his coaches led BC to its best season ever, going 9-3, making it to the 3rd round of the playoffs, supporting a state leading rusher, etc. On top of that, the team had an excellent GPA and I rarely, if ever, heard of a football player needing disciplinary action at school. Kuehn, his coaches, and his players, were truly leaders and sources of excitement within the school.

At the conclusion of the season, Coach Kuehn met with all of his coaches. Kuehn released the father who had started everything (with permission from the district AD) and sought to release Mr. Huff on the basis that he did not fulfill the coaching duties for which he had been payed. Mr. Huff, however, continuously avoided meeting with Kuehn and AD Wells showed no interest in getting a letter of resignation from him.

Shortly into the off-season (about a month ago I think), the school became aware that Coach Kuehn had been fired. This seemed odd to students, teachers, and members of the community alike because Kuehn's reputation was nothing but glowing. The reasoning given was because of "numbers". By all accounts, the number of players coming to off-season practice were normal for the other 2 high schools in the county and normal for BC so this stuck out as odd. Then the reason changed to a "difference in vision". The reason has since changed depending on who has spoken to the principal so it is hard to tell why Kuehn was actually fired. 

Here is what I know for sure since Kuehn's firing. It came out that Mr. Huff had sent a message through a student (the son of the father who started everything) to players who will be seniors in 2022 encouraging them not to go to off-season practice so that Coach Kuehn would get fired. Mr. Huff is now an assistant AD with Bullitt Central. The other 2 head coaches from the county are also no longer in their positions (may be unrelated but odd). Coach Kuehn is obviously no longer on staff since he was fired, one other assistant coach was fired without anyone speaking to him, Jason Schum (who was to be the DC in 2022) has resigned as a coach and has not applied for the HC job, Brian Michael (who was to be the OC in 2022) has not resigned but plans to and has not applied for the HC job. Mr. Huff, who never resigned, remains on the staff payroll. As of yesterday, the off-season program has been given to Mr. Huff and the father who wrote the email to run. Both of them have close personal relationships to the principal and AD Wells.

AD Wells has also handled the job opening strangely. The job was only posted on the district website for two days and prior to its posting, he was telling people that he was conducting phone interviews with potential candidates by himself. He also strongly encouraged both assistant coaches in the building (Schum and Michael) to resign their positions which seems odd because they are both awesome, hard working, caring people. On top of that, he has been calling kids and other stakeholders into his office and telling people that Kuehn, Schum, and Michael "quit on the kids" when he is the one who forcefully made them quit or fired them.

Now for the part that I do not know for sure but definitely suspect. The most credible and widely believed theory is that Devin Huff and the father conspired with AD Wells and maybe the principal to get Kuehn fired so that Huff can be the new HC. Everything points to this being the case. All of this because Kuehn coached a player and took over play calling on Fridays. I will say this, which is just my opinion: Matt Kuehn is a fantastic teacher, coach, and co-worker. Nothing I have seen would lead me to believe otherwise. His 2 assistants that worked in the building (Schum and Michael) are also fantastic people who worked hard as teachers and coaches (and, I am sure, will be looking for other coaching opportunities). This has all definitely been dirty. Something underhanded has gone on here and it seems like it is being covered up. 

If this is true which it seems like you have credible sources then most coaches who are smart will not touch this job.  They might as well go ahead and give the job to Mr. Huff which is seems like the plan was the entire time.  Shame on the schools Admin for allowing a parent to cost a coach who seemed to me a good person and coach to lose his job.  This is the reason why good coaches get out of coaching and the real losers are the players.  No wonder BE is exploding with students.  Who would want their kids to be a part of a toxic situation like this. 

Hmm….as I said upthread NO WAY Bullitt Central is anywhere near the team they have been.

Stuff like this rarely work out and I for one will be rooting heavily for every opponent that plays BC.

Good Luck to the coaches that had the kids best interests at heart. I hope they find other coaching positions and beat the hell out of BC in the future.

13 minutes ago, Falcon Pride said:

Hmm….as I said upthread NO WAY Bullitt Central is anywhere near the team they have been.

Stuff like this rarely work out and I for one will be rooting heavily for every opponent that plays BC.

Good Luck to the coaches that had the kids best interests at heart. I hope they find other coaching positions and beat the hell out of BC in the future.

My understanding, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, is that Coach Kuehn is now an assistant at Ballard.

Coach Kuehn is now working at Ballard. He has not joined the coaching staff there. At least not yet. 

32 minutes ago, Pete W said:

Coach Kuehn is now working at Ballard. He has not joined the coaching staff there. At least not yet. 

That'll be a good get for the Bruins.

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On 3/11/2022 at 2:08 PM, KYfootballguy said:

I have a good relationship with most people around BC and in the community and I hear a lot from people surrounding this job and what happened to Coach Kuehn. I will try and hit the main points here and I won't get into things that have not been corroborated for the most part but people should know what is really happening at BC.

I became aware that something was off in the summer before the 2021 season. The father of one of the players had offered to help run the weight room in a volunteer role in order to spend more time around his child. This father also ran the middle school program that fed into BC which complicated things. I will leave out the name of the father out of respect for the player. Coach Kuehn agreed and at first everything seemed fine. However, one day at practice Coach Kuehn had to correct the behavior of the player and the father did not like that so he writes an email to Coach Kuehn, his staff, the Athletic Director, and the principal. The email was extremely negative in regards to Coach Kuehn, his staff, and the program and made several accusations which were baseless and clearly a result of his frustration with his child being corrected. When Coach Kuehn tried to reach out to him in regards to this email, he was ignored.

To make matters worse, a subsequent email was sent by the father where he refused to back down from his accusations and would not apologize. A meeting was called where the father, Coach Kuehn, his staff, the AD (Jason Wells), the principal, and an assistant principal were in attendance. At this meeting, the Mr. Wells controlled the conversation and adamantly defended the father to everyone present (odd since he should have been impartial). It was revealed that Mr. Wells was personal friends with the father and had coached with him in the past. Coach Kuehn was made aware that he was not allowed to dismiss the father after he had been personally attacked, as had his program and assistant coaches. Understandably, Kuehn was upset about this. 

It was later revealed that AD Wells had helped the father write the email in the first place and encouraged him to send it rather than having a conversation with Kuehn first which explained why he was so strongly in the father's corner. Since Coach Kuehn was essentially told he was not allowed to dismiss the coach and was therefor forced to keep him on his staff, he tried to move forward without much uproar since the father's son was on the team. Coach Kuehn, as a teacher and a coach is always doing what is best for kids and for his team and so the season went by and there was little more said about it despite the impression that Kuehn and Huff's relationship had soured.

Prior to the meeting, Coach Kuehn had informed Mr. Huff that he (Kuehn) would be calling the offense that year, a job which, the year before, Mr. Huff had done. Mr. Huff was very upset about this and took the opportunity after the meeting to pile on Coach Kuehn. Throughout the course of the season, my understanding is that Mr. Huff remained on staff but very rarely stayed at practice and never really coached. He was present but did not participate in any team activity, leaving Kuehn, and his 4 other assistants to do everything. That season, Kuehn and his coaches led BC to its best season ever, going 9-3, making it to the 3rd round of the playoffs, supporting a state leading rusher, etc. On top of that, the team had an excellent GPA and I rarely, if ever, heard of a football player needing disciplinary action at school. Kuehn, his coaches, and his players, were truly leaders and sources of excitement within the school.

At the conclusion of the season, Coach Kuehn met with all of his coaches. Kuehn released the father who had started everything (with permission from the district AD) and sought to release Mr. Huff on the basis that he did not fulfill the coaching duties for which he had been payed. Mr. Huff, however, continuously avoided meeting with Kuehn and AD Wells showed no interest in getting a letter of resignation from him.

Shortly into the off-season (about a month ago I think), the school became aware that Coach Kuehn had been fired. This seemed odd to students, teachers, and members of the community alike because Kuehn's reputation was nothing but glowing. The reasoning given was because of "numbers". By all accounts, the number of players coming to off-season practice were normal for the other 2 high schools in the county and normal for BC so this stuck out as odd. Then the reason changed to a "difference in vision". The reason has since changed depending on who has spoken to the principal so it is hard to tell why Kuehn was actually fired. 

Here is what I know for sure since Kuehn's firing. It came out that Mr. Huff had sent a message through a student (the son of the father who started everything) to players who will be seniors in 2022 encouraging them not to go to off-season practice so that Coach Kuehn would get fired. Mr. Huff is now an assistant AD with Bullitt Central. The other 2 head coaches from the county are also no longer in their positions (may be unrelated but odd). Coach Kuehn is obviously no longer on staff since he was fired, one other assistant coach was fired without anyone speaking to him, Jason Schum (who was to be the DC in 2022) has resigned as a coach and has not applied for the HC job, Brian Michael (who was to be the OC in 2022) has not resigned but plans to and has not applied for the HC job. Mr. Huff, who never resigned, remains on the staff payroll. As of yesterday, the off-season program has been given to Mr. Huff and the father who wrote the email to run. Both of them have close personal relationships to the principal and AD Wells.

AD Wells has also handled the job opening strangely. The job was only posted on the district website for two days and prior to its posting, he was telling people that he was conducting phone interviews with potential candidates by himself. He also strongly encouraged both assistant coaches in the building (Schum and Michael) to resign their positions which seems odd because they are both awesome, hard working, caring people. On top of that, he has been calling kids and other stakeholders into his office and telling people that Kuehn, Schum, and Michael "quit on the kids" when he is the one who forcefully made them quit or fired them.

Now for the part that I do not know for sure but definitely suspect. The most credible and widely believed theory is that Devin Huff and the father conspired with AD Wells and maybe the principal to get Kuehn fired so that Huff can be the new HC. Everything points to this being the case. All of this because Kuehn coached a player and took over play calling on Fridays. I will say this, which is just my opinion: Matt Kuehn is a fantastic teacher, coach, and co-worker. Nothing I have seen would lead me to believe otherwise. His 2 assistants that worked in the building (Schum and Michael) are also fantastic people who worked hard as teachers and coaches (and, I am sure, will be looking for other coaching opportunities). This has all definitely been dirty. Something underhanded has gone on here and it seems like it is being covered up. 

I don’t think you are getting the whole story if this is what you think happened. Your timeline is off and has some wrong information according to what I’ve heard from my kids who go to BC and from being close with the community myself. First of all, this “players dad” issue you speak of. What you are referring to as “child being corrected” was actually Coach Kuehn calling him vulgar names and berating him in front of the team. So, naturally I feel that any parent would be upset about this. From what I’ve heard this became normal behavior from Coach Kuehn in his last couple years at BC. He would snap on kids and humiliate them, causing some to quit (mostly freshman). There seems to be this big story that Kuehn was fired because of “low numbers” and “not the same vision” but apparently he was told plenty of other reasons by the principal and AD but just chose to run with those two to make it seem like he has no clue why he’s being fired. I’ve heard one of these reasons included was his wife who also works in the school building. From what I’ve been told, she’s a little coo coo for coco puffs and slanders a lot of administration and workers at BC which may have caused tension. 

 

Next, let’s not be blind to the fact that BC plays a watered down schedule. Yes, they had a phenomenal season and made school history. But, no they didn’t beat their bullitt country rivals and they play in one of the worst districts in 5A. Not trying to take anything away from what those kids did this year, they deserved it all. But Kuehn is 1-5 against bullitt county opponents in his last 3 years and the trajectory was not looking good for him due to his shaky relationship with the middle school program which cost the program losing a lot of kids to other schools and also the fact that districts will change again in a couple years and competition will be heightened. The combined record of BC’s opponents this year was atrocious, but again, I don’t want to take away anything from the great things those kids did this year.

 

In response to your timeline, I believe you have this meeting that took place between said parent, ad, principal, Kuehn and staff mixed up with that “conversation” with Huff about Kuehn being the OC. From what I’ve heard, this meeting between the ad/principle, staff, etc. is what started to cause tension between Kuehn and Huff. Huff stayed after to voice his concern to the ad and principal about how Kuehn had been addressing and treating players. This likely didn’t sit well with Kuehn. A few weeks later, Kuehn tells Huff he will be the OC for the upcoming year. I believe Kuehn thought and hoped Huff would quit as a result of this decision but Huff remained on staff for the duration of the season. There was no clear direction given to Huff on what Kuehn wanted his responsibilities to be from then on which is weird from a head coach. So, this may be why as you mentioned, Huff didn’t have much of a role during the season. 

 

I believe the hiring of Coach Clark a few days ago also debunks this whole theory of the AD having a personal agenda and wanting to get his boys in there. In fact, I’ve heard Huff didn’t even apply for the job. Coach Clark is a class guy who has 40+ years of coaching experience and is already a Bullitt Central legend after being an assistant at the school for around 25 years. I am excited to see what he does after getting the head coaching job that he has deserved for so long. I think Bullitt Central is in a great spot and the AD and principal did a great job in hiring the best fit for the program. With that being said, dramatic parents move on because football will be played on. Go Cougars!

I didn’t know Coach Clark was hired as the new head coach.  I coached with him at BC for a few years in 01 & 02.  Great guy & the one who taught me that as a coach, I don’t have to be smarter than the coach on the other sideline….I just have to be smarter than their players ?