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That explains the open job at Bath County.

Minor played basketball at Colerain High School & North College Hill High School and then at NKU. He replaced Kevin Listerman as head coach at Bellevue starting in the 2003-04 basketball season and left Bellevue after 2 seasons to take over at Finneytown in Cincinnati. He was head coach at North College Hill over in Cincinnati for the past 11 years and stepped down in March.

From the Grant County: Open Job thread... I feel like there have to be a small handful, but how many other schools are there in the state that have never had any other schools in the same county with football programs? How many schools are there in Kentucky that have never had any other schools in the same county with football programs?

I feel like there have to be a small handful, but how many other schools are there in the state that have never had any other schools in the same county with football programs?

The current consolidated Grant County High School opened in 1954, right in the midst of all the "county" consolidation school openings around the state. Crittenden High School (1911-1953), Dry Ridge High School (1912-1953), Corinth High School (1918-1953), and Mason High School (1921-1953) all closed to consolidate into GCHS. Williamstown High School, est. 1878, was originally a private school that was established from the older Grant Seminary/Williamstown Seminary school. I believe it switched over to being a public school in 1891, and it remained open as part of Williamstown Independent Schools when consolidation took place around the rest of the county in 1954. Like I mentioned earlier in the thread, Grant County High School started their JV-only football program in the 1990 season and then moved up to the varsity level beginning in the 1992 season, so the upcoming season will be their 34th season with a football program. Williamstown High School has never had a football program. Corinth, Dry Ridge and Crittenden high schools all had football teams for a decade or so prior to consolidation taking place, but I don't believe Mason High School ever had a football program. Regardless, since its opening, Grant County High School has never had any other school in the county to contend with for football players, and their football program is now in the middle of its 3rd decade on the scene and is STILL hunting for its first-ever playoff win. Seems like an awful long time coming.

Cov Cath first hired a strength and training coach back in early 2022. Like @Sycamores57 said, the basketball program pretty quickly decided to go back to ASAP for training. I believe ASAP moved its primary operations to the Western Sports Mall in Cincinnati but kept the facility open down on Russell Street in Covington, and as far as I know of the basketball team is still going to ASAP in Covington, but I could be wrong. Football decided after the 2023 season that they weren't going to use the school's strength and training coach and went back to handling strength and training themselves. The school's strength and training coach left after the end of the 2023-24 school year and they hired a new coach for the school, Ben Patenaude. Patenaude is an Illinois native who played football at DuPage and at Georgetown and has been the WR coach and assistant OC at Cov Cath since 2015. The football team announced in January of this year that they made a deal with Jordan Nevels to have him handle the speed and agility training for the football team, and Patenaude is still running the team's strength program. As far as I know of there aren't any lifting, fitness, or athletic training courses available at Cov Cath, but I believe they may allow students to work out during study hall periods if they have them, but again, I could be mistaken about that.

7 playoff appearances and 0 playoff wins in their 33 year varsity program history.

Monty Joe Lovell started the program in the 1990 season playing JV only, and then they moved up to varsity in 1992. 1992 Monty Joe Lovell 0-8 1993 Monty Joe Lovell 1-8 1994 Monty Joe Lovell 1-8 1995 Monty Joe Lovell 2-7 1996 Monty Joe Lovell 3-7 1997 Mike Croley 5-5 1998 Mike Croley 2-8 1999 Mike Croley 3-7 2000 Mike Croley 3-7 2001 Mike Bowlin 3-8 2002 Mike Bowlin 1-9 2003 Mike Bowlin 2-8 2004 Mike Bowlin 5-5 2005 Mike Davis 4-7 2006 Mike Davis 3-8 2007 Mike Davis 6-4 2008 Mike Davis 7-4 2009 Mike Davis 3-7 2010 Mike Davis 2-8 2011 David Arvin 3-7 2012 Kevin Siple 3-7 2013 Kevin Siple 1-9 2014 Kevin Siple 1-8-1 2015 Kevin Siple 4-7 2016 Jamey Dalzell 3-8 2017 Jamey Dalzell 0-10 2018 Jacob Morris 3-7 2019 Jacob Morris 4-6 2020 Jacob Morris 3-5 2021 Jacob Morris 1-9 2022 Jacob Morris 0-10 2023 Josh Cole 3-8 2024 Josh Cole 6-5

So Coach Sullivan teaching at Scott?

I was talking about this with a former Cov Cath coach (non-basketball) and he made an interesting point. I don't know how relevant it necessarily is at the end of the day, but omitting Coach Ruthsatz as well as Coach Mosher who coached the cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track teams to their recent state championships, there are still 3 coaches who coached teams to state titles and are not in the hall of fame: (1.) Fr. John McDermott, who started the Cov Cath swim team and won the first-ever state championship trophy for the school with the swim team in 1962, (2.) Tony Lanham who was the second varsity football coach at Cov Cath and also coached the golf team to win the school's second-ever state championship trophy in 1969, and (3.) Josh McCoy who has been a faculty member for 19 years and coached the track team to its first state title in 2009.

We were back up to 5 open jobs pending Holmes' announcement of their interim hire, but with that hire made for the season, we're at 4 open jobs now: 1.) Berea (Open since Mar 17) 2.) Grant County (Open since May 16) 3.) Pleasure Ridge Park (Open since Mar 14) 4.) Western (Open since Apr 29)

Any word on this one? I'm not finding it on the JCPS list at this point.

I just saw the article from LinkNKY. Dennison reported that the job is going to be posted as an interim position and they expect to be making an interim hire for the '25 season. I'm assuming that Jonathan Hopkins is acting head coach until they determine who the interim coach will be, so I'm going to re-title the thread, based on that.