Jmatt

Coach Mullins is a well regarded math teacher at GCHS. I am sure that played a part in this opportunity and working out a position in Lexington to teach and to coach. I figure he will see a rise in his compensation vs. GCHS in both positions. With him being young (mid 30's) and having a young family, i would think that would be a factor. He is a good hire for Dunbar as a teacher and a coach.

These are the names i have heard (East), others may be able to add names: L. Bradley from Raceland, K. Cochran from Greenup County Perry from Lawrence County Thurman, Mustard, Stamm, Orcutt and J. Davis from Lewis County Isaacs and at least 3 others at from Boyd County 3 or so kids from Russell, Hoback is one, not sure on the other names Yates from East Carter Smith and King from Fairview At least one player from Ashland Low 20's total number of kids

Greenup has no seniors right? Amazing run so far for such a young team.

Drew Johnston - LB - Greenup County - University of Pikeville Kyle Cochran - WR/LB - Greenup County - University of Pikeville Both signed at UPike this morning

This was actually another no win season also. These seniors lost like 23 in a row before winning a varsity game last year as juniors. Several of them had to start varsity as freshman. A couple of really tough years but the program is getting better and headed the right way now.

GC will play Cov. Catholic at their place two weeks from now (on Saturday i think)

Copley was the head coach at GC then

Greenup County has to have QB Hunt and OL/NG Johnston back for this game to be competitive. They are already thin and not having them last week was a difference maker, especially Hunt leading the offense. Things were very out of sync on offense last week and GC was especially one dimensional.

Injuries also hurt how they were able to finish up last season. Byrd missed the last 5 games with the knee injury and was the leading rusher by far at the time. Cochran and Wells both missed the last 4 games with an mcl injury and a concussion. Those were 3 significant losses on a fairly thin, young roster last year. They lost 2 or 3 close games in the second half of the season even without those three.

I have heard TJ Quillen is also back and playing as a senior. Will be a factor on defense covering receivers which has been a huge weakness for GC the past several years. When you look at GC last year, they were 2-9 but they were "in" every game with the exception of Raceland, Ashland and Johnson Central. Having been 0 and 22 the previous 2 seasons, a lot of those games were lost in crunch time. They return all of their skill people and have the most balance in the classes in at least the last 7 or 8 years. I look for them to take another step forward this year and win several more.

Kyle Skaggs, he's a senior this year. I think he has started for Russell since 7th grade. His father is Steve Skaggs that played at Greenup County and Ohio U in the 70's. Very nice shooter and crafty, heady player. Think he had around 30 last night. The 16th region imo is down considerably this year and teams are VERY young overall. Both these teams along with Fleming County and Ashland will be in the mix but compared to the state overall, its a weak region right now that will get alot better over the next few years.

Sounds good. I was just curious about that. I had forgot GC hosted back to back games a couple years ago.

Greenup played at Raceland this year. Are they playing at Raceland again next year? Thats a big gate that would nice to have at Greenup.

The current senior football class at GC as freshman didn't have enough kids come out for the team to even have a freshman team (i think there was 5 or 6 of them out of a class with 250 or so kids so at least 120 boys). I don't think there was much emphasis put on these kids at that time.

I think they'll have 2 more chances this season potentially at pulling one off if they do not win this weekend. It will take a game where they don't make unforced crazy mistakes (4 untouched pick 6's in 3 games so far) and play some even decent pass defense but if it comes together all in one game, they have a chance in a couple of these.