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I wouldn't be to sure about that. At the end of the day I think it was Jagger's win-lose record that got him fired. I'm sure they could have found some coaches better or as good as Jagger's to apply. But it could have been rumblings that he wanted to come home and the adminstration at Larue went after him. And reading his bio on the EKU football website he has a 7 and 5 year old sons. So it's a great chance to comeback home and raise his kids. It's probably close to impossible to raise a family while coaching college football.

And with the amount of talent returning I assume it will be some very good coaches to apply.

So is it thr Engstrand guy that was mentioned earlier in the post? Didn't he just come off a 2 win season at Green co?

As major success are you talking about state championship?

I thought you mention in an earlier post Jaggers has as many playoff wins as this guy.

Who is this coach you speak of?

That also brings in to question that maybe the higher powers at LaRue may already have a replacement in mind. Considering how teacher positions can be hard to find, and knowing that Jagger's will be there taking up a teaching position for a possible coach. Also for those close to the program will the other assistant coaches stay on?

Knowing the talent or lack thereof that was behind at LaRue and he was offered the Henderson job and turned it down to stay he either A. Must have thought the talent at LaRue was much better than it it was B. Must haves thought he could coach them up if he knew how bad the talent behind the first team he had C. Really like the area for he and his family and wanted to show loyalty to the school who gave him his first HC job. Also I seen mentioned in another post is that he will keep his teaching position, is there any truth to that?

The problem is as someone else stated no matter how bad a player is mom and dad think hes a D1 athlete. Then add on top of that they may win a few games in middle school and little against teams they don't play in high school, such as Central, Bell, Wayne, and Corbin. Josh has a name and regardless of his record as Head coach I'm sure he will get another shot, Heck it seemed that the Henderson job was his for the taking without any head coaching experience. If the majority of the people in the community still wanted him as head coach, yet the higher ups didn't want him that's a shame. As it would be if the higher ups decided to keep a coach the community wanted gone. And your right SEVERAL good coaches started their coaching career with awful records. Some go one to be a Mack Brown, Art Briles, or Sam Harp. Some also never get another chance to be a head coach. i'm hoping that Josh gets that chance to be a HC again.

It's a tough situation and Jagger's 3 year record was 8-26 which isn't anything special. But some on here have said it's due to lack of talent, which I'm not close to that program so I don't have the inside info just going to numbers. Just from the outside looking in I just believe the folks of LaRue co. might have expected bigger things in the drop down to 3A. Also looking that Jagger's won 6 games and a playoff game his first year, and fallowed that up with a win less season. Then this past year only won 2. I hate it for him because he seemed to be a VERY hot name before even becoming a head coach and his named was mentioned for several jobs. I hope this doesn't prevent him from getting looks as he continues his coaching career.

LaRue in the late 1990's and early 2000's played 2A ball in and was VERY successful. Then we it went to a 6 class system they jumped all the way to 4A, which seemed strange. The change in district will help as they should have more numbers than those teams, with the exception of maybe ETown. Jagger's had chances to leave so i can't see him wanting to leave, but maybe the people in charge feel it's best to head in a different direction.

As someone also stated Welcome to Jefferson co. brother!! I've never played in, coached, or watched a game in Jefferson Co. were the away team was giving anything CLOSE to a fair game.

Going with DeSales 21-17, hard to bet against DeSales this time of the year,

Not just a good man a GREAT man will be missed by many

Agree with the above post, after losing to Casey Co. don't think Adair can travel to PT and keep it close. I would predict a running clock.

Although some will say this doesn't matter but the teams Campbellsbville have beat have a combined record of 25-52. Add on top Campbellsville have to travel all the way to Hazard. Running Clock!!!

Hazard running clock

Well LCA had a kid rush for 317 yards against THIS year's Danville team.

For the sake of keeping this post going last year against Danville Green Co. Evan Jaggers had 186 yards 4 Td's, 76 recieving yards and a TD. I agree Young is a very good football player and wish him nothing but the best

What were his numbers vs Danville?

Danville, Boyle, and Mercer (Harrordsburg) are on a different level for the fact they have won and/or played in multiple state championships. Green is working on a 2 win season and back to back losing seasons under this new coach. LaRue has a good tradition and excellent facilities, but they are looking at 2 wins in the past 2 seasons. Adair is better right now, but 2010 was the last time they played Adair beat Taylor 20-19 for Adair's only win. As for CKY I was talking about schools such as Adair, Campbellsville, Green, Hart, Metcalfe, LaRue, Casey, and Edmonson. As you get into Lexington and Hardin Co. schools you are dealing with a total different demographic of the student population.

In most cases it's not the kids fault, it's the coaches and parent have a disagreement and the kid is forced to move. In most cases the kid would rather stay with his friends he's grew up around.

Maybe they will build one of Dale Estes up there at Campbellsville WHEN he gets a win noteworthy! thought they would beat green got smacked, thought they could stay with Danville got smacked.

Much like UK going to LSU and getting stomped we all know it will be growing pains. Much like UK Taylor has improved since Dudley came. And Marion Co. was 4-1 when Taylor beat them, so I believe Marion is a solid ball club. If they played 10 times yes Marion Co. would win most of the games I have no doubt about that. Taylor is improved just to be able to get lucky enough to stay close to Catholic no matter where the game was played. I don't know rather is hate for Dudley or love for coach Graves that keeps you from refusing to to give Dudley and Taylor co. any credit. In central KY area close to Taylor co. besides the Hardin co. schools which jobs would you consider that much better than Taylor? Green, Adair, Campbellsville, casey, LaRue?

You don't think winning a district championship at Taylor Co. would be an accomplishment? As for the stats NOBODY is in denial of the fact that Taylor Co. has sucked I think everyone knows that. The point is that Taylor Co. can be turned around IF Dudley decides to stay they can turn into a good program. And with Boyle and Catholic leaving only helps them as the 2 dominate teams in that district are leaving.