North Hardin 35

Central Hardin 0

Trojans 41

Bruins 0

Trojans 48

Bruins 0

Final.

North Hardin 48

Central Hardin 0

Can a team go o-10 and not score a point on the season? This certainly seems possible with this team. Epically bad. How do you get this team ready to play CAL?

Edited September 12Sep 12 by Hardin County Preps

Where are those 4 wins you spoke of earlier this year for Central Hardin?

Yeah, I must have bumped my head. This was the messaging coming from players/coaches before the season began.

LOL. I get that too. I have done that several times myself.

Central Hardin needs to focus on Daviess County and Meade County. Those are district games against teams that are young and rebuilding as well. Those two and North Bullitt are the only games they have a remote chance of competing in.

Tough sledding for the Bruins for sure. My question is what happened between the retirement of Mattingly until now? Was it Stockdale? Was it the coup d'etat to get rid of Stockdale? Was it parents? Was it general apathy for football?

Central Hardin may not ever be perennial contenders for a state title, but they should be competitive in games. Have winning seasons. Win a few playoff games here and there. I think those are reasonable expectations.

From what I have been told you can't coach what isn't there. Mattingly was able to see that the talent was about to run dry and that's why he left when he did. The situation with Stockdale didn't help things but parents and unrealistic expectations don't either!

They made a run to the region finals in 24 with Stockdale and had a solid group of Seniors returning for 25 that should have won 6-8 games and made another run to the region finals. Then Stockdale was dismissed and the wheels fell off. It took a long time to hire Gregory, the team missed a considerable chunk of the off season, they were into the 3rd system and coaching staff in 3 years, and the talent level in the lower classes fell off drastically. That is a recipe for what you are getting now. The middle school hasn't been very good and the youth system is a ok rec league, but it isn't designed to build a competitive 6A program. Add in the parental issues and I don't see them getting better any time soon.