Per the open job thread.

Here is the open job thread for the Casey County job, which is now vacant:
 

 

Amazing hire for Adair. They are used to getting guys with no head coaching experience,  where stonebraker has had success at a school like Casey which is comparable to Adair. 

He also brings an offense that will really excite the community. 

First and foremost: he can flat coach. A dang good one at that, and to be honest, I’m not so sure that those in and around the ‘blue bloods’ of the state don’t realize just how hard it is to win any at all throughout the state at rural-county schools. Some of the best coaching in the state goes on at these places. You better believe he does just that. You said it with your first post  

It always mind boggles me when head coaching jobs come open and records get brought up about current head coaches that are either interested in the position or maybe their name gets thrown out there purely on speculation that don’t have winning records. Coaches with good jobs (chance at winning/competing for district-region titles and more year in year out) don’t leave for other good jobs. They’ll leave for great jobs (if those aren’t hired from within, which is the case many times and who can blame them- if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it). Coaches at state championship winning jobs very seldom leave for one of the same. So, back to an aforementioned point about coaches at some of these places being able to win any at all at their previous or current school- if you get a guy like him that wants to come to your place? You hire him. Casey did that. The man can coach his tail off and then some  

 

But, I’ve never understood this way of thinking “a style that will get the community excited.”  I guarantee communities like Belfry (flexbone), Lawrence County (flexbone), Johnson Central (wishbone), Bell County (three back fun from the Wishbone, Power I, I-Wing), Scott County (Wing T), Southwestern (Wishbone + some spread looks), CAL (full on pro style with multiple personnel packages, both under center and gun), Elizabethtown (wing t), McLean County (wing t), Union County (see Southwestern), Hart County (wing T), etc. with their success this year and another one coming, etc are just as excited in their communities during the fall as anybody.

 

Good players usually make any type of offense exciting, good offenses usually make things exciting because it mostly leads to winning.    Not every school or even half of them across the state are built to win a state title or even compete for one. I don’t care if Nick Saban, Kirby Smart and Lane Kiffin were to all three walk through the door on the same staff. 

 

Being 4 and 5 wide and throwing it all over the yard isn’t the only style that’s exciting for the community.  For every program that has success doing it that way, there are just as many and truth be told, probably more that don’t have any kind of success. 

 

Conversely, it always seems like “old school” approaches lack of success seem to be magnified.  I’d even say that programs who have success being throwback styles always seem to have a shadow around them when it comes to putting up the same amount of numbers and wins compared to those that are deemed ‘wide open’.

Don't know him, or his style, but A++ on the name.   Great name for a football player or coach.

Coach Chuck Smith had some good insights on Coach Steve Stonebraker going to Adair County HS. You can listen here:

https://www.spreaker.com/user/frankfortbroadcast/coaches-office-offseason-1