Noone has asked the right questions regarding the Tigers' impending future. I am itching for the ball to drop...

As nice as it sounds “Beechwood is set to win State” please let the season play out.  There are several teams at the top, such as Lexington Christian Academy, they will be a really good team and the potential match up between both Beechwood and Lexington Christian Academy come early December could be epic.  A lot of things have to happen post season to even have a chance at another State Title.  Let’s cross that path if and when Beechwood gets there.

 

I wouldn’t write in Beechwood either. Coach Watkins is 1/1 so far and I think one of the best offensive minds in the state. Nash Whalen is also a DUDE. 

1 hour ago, The_Bull44 said:

As nice as it sounds “Beechwood is set to win State” please let the season play out.  There are several teams at the top, such as Lexington Christian Academy, they will be a really good team and the potential match up between both Beechwood and Lexington Christian Academy come early December could be epic.  A lot of things have to happen post season to even have a chance at another State Title.  Let’s cross that path if and when Beechwood gets there.

16 minutes ago, DearToday said:

I wouldn’t write in Beechwood either. Coach Watkins is 1/1 so far and I think one of the best offensive minds in the state. Nash Whalen is also a DUDE. 

I think LCA is number one to start the season, Beechwood maybe at two or three. 

19 hours ago, futurecoach said:

Coach Volker tweeted this out tonight in response to the rumors, sharing his direct communication that he sent to the program and district. So at least for this season, he looks to still be the coach at Beechwood. Which makes sense considering what they have coming back, as he should have a great chance to win state title number 2 in his four years at Beechwood.
 

After this season though, I would be surprised if there is not a change and both parties agree to move on from each other. 
 

 

After reading all of the comments in this thread and reading Coach Volker's tweet I feel like most of what Volker is saying only confirms what was said in this thread. His statement that he had that conversation with the players and the district does not address any of the concerns that his players or the district may have with his decision to teach in another school, though. Supporting your family better financially is certainly an understandable concern for anyone and it's hard to challenge him for making that decision for himself, but I'm guessing that the district is probably asking among themselves whether or not having a coach who is absent from their classrooms and hallways is truly the best case scenario for "pushing players to become the best versions of themselves on and off the field," most notably off the field. Thinking about this from the district perspective, is the best case scenario to have their marquee athletic program and one of the marquee athletic programs in the state led by a coach who is present at their school during the school day and is teaching in their own classrooms, or is the best case scenario to have that program led by a coach who is not present during the school day and is teaching elsewhere before commutes to their school and arrives for practice?

I have no knowledge about where Coach Volker lives but if you are evaluating his statement critically, you also have to wonder how much truth there is to his second bullet point. If he is still going to continue maintaining the same amount of presence at Beechwood's football practices, games, and at all their offseason training and conditioning while teaching in another school he then he will presumably be having to leave his new job and commute directly to Beechwood for all of those duties, and then he will be commuting back home the same way that he has done for the past few seasons. So in effect wouldn't his only real time savings here be coming from an implied shorter morning commute to his new school rather than the commute he has been making to Beechwood? How much more presence at home does that really equate to? The only scenario I can really see for that point holding much water would be if he is leaving a full time teaching position at Beechwood for a part time position at another school wherein he won't have to spend nearly as much time at his new job as he does currently. If that is the case and a part time job in another school district is truly paying better than a full time job at Beechwood then that seems like quite a statement about the payscale at Beechwood, which draws its funding from a city with one of the highest property tax rates in Kentucky.

The fact that Coach Volker is coming out publicly in any way to explain his decision at all seems like a sort of defense for making the decision, and if that's the case then who is he defending it to and why? It would seem to me that if all was truly well then Coach Volker would not feel compelled to make any kind of public statement like that. Reading between the lines, is it possible that his decision has upset some parties at Beechwood and now he is trying to reduce the blowback by attempting to make his decision look more understandable to those parties? And if there are upset parties at Beechwood, who are they? Are they players, parents, administrators, or some combination of all of those?

What is known as fact is that Coach Volker made choice to teach elsewhere next year while hoping that he could continue on as head football coach at Beechwood. What I'm left questioning is whether, after being informed about his decision, now Beechwood administrators are questioning whether or not they should be letting that scenario play out or if they should try to find a new coach. Is Beechwood satisfied with the new employment scenario for Coach Volker? That does not appear to be addressed in Coach Volker's statement.

12 minutes ago, Cincinnati Cobra said:

I have no knowledge about where Coach Volker lives but if you are evaluating his statement critically, you also have to wonder how much truth there is to his second bullet point. If he is still going to continue maintaining the same amount of presence at Beechwood's football practices, games, and at all their offseason training and conditioning while teaching in another school he then he will presumably be having to leave his new job and commute directly to Beechwood for all of those duties, and then he will be commuting back home the same way that he has done for the past few seasons. So in effect wouldn't his only real time savings here be coming from an implied shorter morning commute to his new school rather than the commute he has been making to Beechwood? How much more presence at home does that really equate to?

Well, in the past Coach Volker commuted to and from Beechwood.  Now it will be to Kings, then to Beechwood, then back home.  Unless Coach Volker has moved that is additional travel time.  With that said, his morning should be much more flexible and maybe that makes a big difference. 

27 minutes ago, theguru said:

Well, in the past Coach Volker commuted to and from Beechwood.  Now it will be to Kings, then to Beechwood, then back home.  Unless Coach Volker has moved that is additional travel time.  With that said, his morning should be much more flexible and maybe that makes a big difference. 

That would obviously be some time savings for his morning commute. If Kings is the nearest school to his home and that job change wipes his commute down to an essential nil, then he would have what you could safely is the better part of an hour cut out of his morning commute. I have never known any primary or secondary school teachers who haven't been out the door in the morning by a quarter till 7 at latest. With that in mind, if I was a dissatisfied Beechwood administrator the question I have after reading the "be more present for my family" point in Coach Volker's statement would be what his family plans are in his newly established home hour between 5:45AM and 6:45AM. Also if I were in the role of a dissatisfied Beechwood administrator, I would probably point out the fact that according to Kings Local Schools' website, Kings High School starts at 7:25AM while and Beechwood's website lists Beechwood High School starting at 8:00AM.

I am being told by multiple sources that Coach Volker is out and Coach Rash is coming back as head football coach.

Anyone?

22 hours ago, Glider said:

Patience people...stay tuned.

What are you hearing now?

On 5/16/2026 at 10:19 AM, TIGERball said:

And that would be what? 

That Coach Volker is out.  What are you hearing @TIGERball?

Ding ding ding. We have a winner. Good things come to those who wait. Rash will be back on the sidelines in the red & white this season. 

Did coach Volker end up with a head coaching job in Cincinnati now? I wonder why the change, when it looked like at least for this year that they were going to let it play out. 

3 minutes ago, futurecoach said:

Did coach Volker end up with a head coaching job in Cincinnati now? I wonder why the change, when it looked like at least for this year that they were going to let it play out. 

I don't know on a new job.  And I am sure there will be different versions of what happened.  I am told so far that this will be packaged as a mutual decision but in reality it was more of a quit or be fired decision.  That is all hearsay. 

35 minutes ago, theguru said:

That Coach Volker is out.  What are you hearing @TIGERball?

Heard the same.