TylerDurden

Right now I wouldn't take the Danville job if you paid me a million bucks a year. Especially with the baseball coach calling shots around the school and arranging for the administration to show Clevenger the door. My question has always been, which makes the school and athletic department more money: baseball games or football games?

Count me as one who would like to see South Warren schedule more teams outside of the Western Coalfields and Mississippi Plateau. They have seen some decent teams in the Rafferty's Bowl here and there and they've had Central on the schedule for a few years now. I was pretty pleased to see the addition of Gibson Southern but that didn't pan out to be any kind of a game last year. Just spitballing some opponents I'd love to see them work into the schedule...Owensboro, Male, X, Trinity, Manual, Ballard, Douglass, Boyle, LexCath, CovCath, Ryle, Brentwood, or basically any of the big dogs from Indy or Cincy.

Tell me you aren't trying to say that the coaches at Douglass work harder to promote their players and devote more time to making their players/team the best they can be than most other coaches do in the state...

This. Let the kids transfer. There are 250+ KHSAA member schools in the state and if 25 kids from every grade in every school play sports that makes 25,000+ kids playing KHSAA sports in the state. And how many kids try to transfer in any given year that will actually result in any real change to day to day win-loss records of a school? 100? 200? Even if there were 200 bigtime transfers in a year, and I don't think there are or would be nearly that many, that's only 0.8% of the total students competing in the state. This is a lot of arguing over an overall small portion. Let them transfer when they want, where they want.

Specifically running track? Or any track and field events?

And this is the kind of information I come to BGP to read. Wow!

If consolidating schools without consolidating campuses is a fair thing to do, then I think Fayette County should announce they've merged all of their high schools into one super high school of like 10K students that holds its classes at 6 different campuses. They'll stomp a mudhole in every team they play in every sport they play. Except swimming. St. X will still win swimming.

So if the new school isn't going to be built yet and they can't hold classes at the new school, how is there a new school? Why not keep everything as Hoptown and Christian Co until the new place is actually ready?

I'm all for the world to have thicker skin. That notwithstanding, Atchley's blowups were taking place repeatedly in the classroom, so the fact that he is a coach is irrelevant. And there had been enough prior incidents of Atchley blowing up at kids that he was placed on probation by the school. And even after being placed on probation, as a grown man, he was unable to control himself well enough to keep from screaming and cussing at kids. That is a problem.

Except Jones had spent 18 years as a head coach at Trigg, another year or two as linebackers coach at Hoptown under Clayton, then a year as head coach at Madisonville before he became head coach at Hoptown. Jones had all the experience in the world when he was given the keys to the program, and Clark was literally a first year head coach when he took over from Jones. That's a major difference to me if you're going to directly compare the two to one another.

Dixie Jones didn't impress at Hoptown. He took over a team that had it's only loss in 2004 in the AAA semis and then then basically led it on a steady decline. Jones' Hoptown teams went 9-4, 7-6, 4-7, 7-5, 3-8, and 3-7. He started off with a good program and then ended up with a program that optimists could maybe get away with calling "not far off from being competitive." I guess I look at Clark's first year at Hopkinsville, which was also his first time ever being a head coach, as an uphill battle because he was taking over a team that had been on a downward projection for 6 straight seasons under Jones. Kids were jumping ship from Jones' teams and heading for greener pastures at Christian County. It's no coincidence that Lovelace took Christian to the state finals in Jones' last year at Hoptown. He did it with the assistance of all the kids who opted for Christian instead of Hoptown.

I think Clayton is definitely leaving the program in a significantly better position than it was when Clark took it over from Dixie Jones back in like 2010 or 2011.

Lol I still don't think we're going to see overly inflated sack numbers in high school drop. Not from some schools, anyway.

Is this where Marc Clark is gonna land?

Word around the water cooler in my neck of the woods was that the school was getting complaints about Atchley having meltdowns in class while he was teaching and parents were complaining about profanity laced tirades their kids were being subjected to. Was told he was placed on probation and the blowups continued so he was let get as a teacher which resulted in his dismissal as a coach. I've heard that from a couple of different people and they both have good reason for the info to be reliable. If that's truly the case should that make a guy un-hirable? I don't know if I'd go that far. Would it possibly make it harder for someone to find a job in the immediate after being dismissed mid year for something like that? Seems possible. Pretty embarrassing by Fayette Co Schools that this wasn't all sorted out before they announced the hire. Last I heard asking for references is a standard operating procedure in most situations when you're hiring new personnel. I'm curious what administrator was like, "Oh, you were teaching and coaching in October and now it's 3 months later and the same school year and you're unemployed. That doesn't seem curious at all. Definitely not worth me making a phone call to your old school to look into the situation."

WKYFootball nailed it. What makes anyone want to go for a job where they're guaranteed to have to compete against another candidate to keep the job in a year? Hoptown and Christian Co are both in a crap position making lame duck hires. I don't think they'll get a good coach with head coach experience for this job, or for the Christian Co job. Only chance I see either of these two jobs having any kind of qualified, experienced head coach get hired is if that head coach is looking at retiring.

Morris is a AD there and has legacy clout on top of his own achievements. Plus football is king at Mayfield so within reason he gets a long leash to do what he wants. I don't think there is a delay. The job is posted, so they're accepting applications, and they're probably starting with some initial interviews. The only delay is the announcement from Morris. And I've been told the same stuff about him retiring, wait wait no, going and taking a college job, wait wait no, retiring and taking a job in Tennessee. Not sure which is true there but he apparently wants to handle this as a passing of the torch instead of a regular old retirement, hiring search and then new hire. He's handling the new hire anyway.

Hallock posted on the KHSAA open job page on 1-8 looking for a DC and then the school listed the HC job on the KHSAA on 1-25. Surely Jackson County didn't fire him right?

Mentioned in the Christian Co thread, there's a Clarksville HS assistant who's interested in one of the two jobs open in the district.

Everything I've heard is that the Joe Morris days at Mayfield are done.

There's apparently an assistant coach from Clarksville HS who is interested in getting one of the two Christian Co jobs.

So is Morris done then?

About the fact that he will not be the Mayfield head football coach any longer.

I have someone reliable who told me Morris is waiting on the opportunity to talk to his players about his retirement. Hasn't been able to get because of all the complications from the tornadoes. The job was posted so the hire could be finalized asap.

Lol "It's the brain pain coach."