Open Job: Mayfield

[RMRed]

I'm not sure.  I'm just guessing here, a long long time ago.  

[Tracy House]

I do not think it would happen, nor do I know if he would take it, but Steve Lovelace would be an excellent choice.

[Voice of Reason]

11 hours ago, Astro Domino said:

If I was to guess Hatchell will get the head coaching job. But there is a wrench to throw in there. Hatchell has been the assistant principal the past few years and the superintendent just retired also and the current principal got that job, so what I am getting at is Hatchell is also definitely in the running for principal which I would guess pays more than head football coach. In my understanding you cannot be principal and head coach. So in that case, which do you choose if you have both options? The legacy as head football coach at Mayfield? (who has only had 3 different head coaches in the past 54 years) or do you take the better paying job as principal? I have been told Dew does not want the head job (don’t know whether that is true or not). Other candidates in my mind would be Jay Burgett who was a senior on the undefeated 2002 state championship team who was head coach at Madisonville-NH and is currently a principal in Paducah or maybe Nick Kemp who was in the same graduating class on the 2002 team who is the former head coach at Graves County. Any way I look at it I think they keep the head coaching job in house whether it be a current member of the coaching staff or a former player with head coaching experience elsewhere. No matter which way they go it will be a new era as they transition from a head coach who had been there 25 years!

Does Hatchell want the principal job? Maybe he would prefer assistant Principal and football head coach?

[BEChargers]

300-56 over 25 years.  Geez, what a legacy. 

[Astro Domino]

46 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

Does Hatchell want the principal job? Maybe he would prefer assistant Principal and football head coach?

I honestly don’t know. I would think he would rather be head coach and assistant principal. Time will tell. Sooner than later.

[Astro Domino]

3 hours ago, Bac2369 said:

When was the last time Mayfield didn’t hire within on a football coach?

Not sure. Wayyy before my time. Mayfield has only had 3 coaches over the last 55 years. Their combined record is 627-118-2 since 1969. Over an 84% winning percentage amongst the three. 

[TimeWillTell]

29 minutes ago, Astro Domino said:

Not sure. Wayyy before my time. Mayfield has only had 3 coaches over the last 55 years. Their combined record is 627-118-2 since 1969. Over an 84% winning percentage amongst the three. 

Ranked 3rd or 4th in ALL TIME WINS in the NATION. 

[16thBBall Fan]

Morris was 300-56 in 25 years at Mayfield. He also had 7 State Titles. That is some true legend numbers!

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

3 hours ago, Astro Domino said:

Not sure. Wayyy before my time. Mayfield has only had 3 coaches over the last 55 years. Their combined record is 627-118-2 since 1969. Over an 84% winning percentage amongst the three. 

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
 

[snakesnot_2000]

Leahy had a runnerup to Middlesboro in 1998.

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

1 minute ago, snakesnot_2000 said:

Leahy had a runnerup to Middlesboro in 1998.

Good catch, you're right.

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

10 hours ago, Bac2369 said:

When was the last time Mayfield didn’t hire within on a football coach?

9 hours ago, RMRed said:

I'm not sure.  I'm just guessing here, a long long time ago.  

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.

[RMRed]

I was thinking that about Jack but didn’t have the facts. That’s good stuff. Thanks. Whomever takes the reigns understands that they are about to be part of something that a lot of high coaches dream of. It’s a football school in a football town. 

[theguru]

Is Coach Morris still the Athletic Director and/or is he stepping down from that position too?

[Tracy House]

Another name that keeps coming up in the circles that I run with is Tony Franklin.