Jimmy Just has left Jeff to become the new coach at Manual. Has some great young talent. Can he be the guy to get them to Lexington over the next few years, and now where does he rank among coaches in his region?

Jimmy Just has left Jeff to become the new coach at Manual. Has some great young talent. Can he be the guy to get them to Lexington over the next few years, and now where does he rank among coaches in his region?

Coach just will do a great job there. If he can take Iroquois to the state tournament, he can get Manual there. However, the 7th region is one of the toughest in the state to get out of.

Courier Journal Story below:

 

Jimmy Just to coach Manual basketball

By Jason Frakes

The Courier-Journal

 

Jimmy Just is coming back to coach basketball on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River.

 

Just, who had a successful nine-season stint at Iroquois High School before spending the past two years at Indiana’s Jeffersonville, has been named the new boys’ basketball coach at Manual.

 

Manual athletic director David Zuberer confirmed the hiring in an e-mail this morning.

 

“We were looking for someone who matched three criteria: unquestioned personal character, proven success in the postseason and a fit for our school, both acacemically and athletically,” Zuberer wrote.

 

Just went 31-16 in two seasons at Jeff, winning a Class 4-A sectional title and finishing as a regional runner-up in 2006.

 

He won two regional championships at Iroquois - in 2000 and ’03 - and was named The Courier-Journal’s Coach of the Year in 2000.

 

Just replaces Curtis Turley, who went 18-10 in his only season. The Crimsons will return three starters from that team, including highly regarded sophomore Jacob Jenkins. Also expected back is freshman Aaron Cosby, who was the team’s sixth man last season.