Mr.Network

You guys have left out Nick Saban, the ghost of Knute Rockne, and various successful youth coaches. Otherwise, the over-inclusive group seems to have captured the likely candidates. 
 

It has been a quiet process but I’d guess we’ll  know something before the end of the month. 

1 hour ago, theguru said:

Leadership?

His post seemed to refer to financial support. 

On 2/5/2024 at 1:14 PM, BobbyKnight said:

Didn't the Middle School Basketball coach get ejected in a game at Bate and acted out of control? Didn't he almost get arrested? 

You have to support all sports. Football is / should be the revenue sport that funds other sports. There is nothing going on in Lincoln County on a Friday night, so there needs to be more support to build a football program from the bottom up. 

Serious question, what support is lacking?

Football is a huge money maker at Lincoln.

8 hours ago, BEChargers said:

My Sr. year at Boyle our biggest win that year was a huge upset of Lincoln County.  Boyle found success down the road with the right combination of Coach, administration and support.  It can be done, but you really need all three.  Lincoln never can get the right three at the same time, but it can be done.  

That was a long time ago. I’m going to guess 1986 season (if not, then 1979 or 1982).

Text of Facebook post by WPBK-FM. 
 

Two years ago today, Lincoln County High School hired Josh Jaggers as its 12th head football coach.

Per the press release below, LCHS will be looking for its next football coach.

Jaggers resigned today and told WPBK-FM, “I appreciate all the people who supported the program during my time here. I want nothing but the best for the players, both present and past.”

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Press Release:
Lincoln County Football Head Coach Josh Jaggers resigned as head coach today. “We are appreciative of the job Josh has done for us and wish him the best going forward,” said Principal Michael Godbey. The search for the next head football coach will begin immediately.

-LCAthletics-

I never understood why going for two to reach 35 was insulting. Was the six on top of 28 insulting? 
 

However, an onside kick after the running clock is initiated is insulting, in my opinion. 

On 8/18/2023 at 11:51 PM, LethalPG said:

Final.  Former standout Lincoln Co. QB and assistant coach Levi Rogers leads the Rebels in his first game as a head coach on the road to win at Death Valley. 

Levi had his team ready to play, and he make moves like a chess master, working the clock and keeping the momentum. 
 

Well done and good luck the rest of the way!

I checked with the school and there has not been a hire, yet. 

3 hours ago, Rebelstat said:

Many years ago the 12 region use to rotate the regional tournaments to all the schools.  But they have since have said that Pulaski and Lincoln are the most central of all the 12 region schools.  

Lincoln is the southern most of the two northern districts and Pulaski is the northern most of the two southern districts (if we ignore Rockcastle and Casey as outliers—Casey used to be in the both 45th and 46th at different times, and Rockcastle was in the 13th Region for a while). 

I remember when it rotated between schools, and I remember watching Harrodsburg and Mercer County played for the title at Wayne County. 
 

This current set up intends to avoid those kinds of oddities. 

I met Bret for the first time this past fall in his role as an assistant coach at Lincoln County.

As I got to know him better, I have learned that he is a true American Patriot and good citizen. He is a Marine Corps veteran who was at the Pentagon on 9/11, and he served Lancaster City for many years.
 

He will be missed as a coach at LCHS but he will be even more missed as a classroom teacher. The feedback on him as a teacher has been great. 
 

Good luck, Coach Baierlein, you have a fan in me and many others in Lincoln County. 

The Lincoln County school board  accepted the low bid for installation of turf and improvements to the running track tonight. 

It should be ready for the 2023 season.

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21 hours ago, Down4theblue said:

This is a spin off topic. It’s this just a NKY thing. I went to the a game at Cooper and Campbell. I found it odd both didn’t have a “Visitor” side. That’s cool, I get it. Don’t have enough money, poor planning whatever else. But this was the thing that struck me as odd. The home teams side line was on the far side away from the stands. Is this to prevent daddy ball? Keep fans away? I’ve been to a fair amount of places never ran across this. 
I’ll hang up and listen!

I remember at Rockcastle in 1979 that not only were the fans on one side, but both teams were on the far sideline, with each on one side of the 50 yard line. 

Impressive.

What’s the longest line of multi-generational head coaches from the same family in Kentucky high school football?

The Jaggers family has three:

Joe->Marty->Josh. 
 

Who else?

From the beginning of football classification in 1959, it made sense to the powers-that-be to classify based on school enrollment. The thought was that the more boys you have to draw from, the more competitive your football team should be.

Whether that was flawed from that start or whether the game and boys playing it have evolved over the ears, I’m not sure. But I am sure that the year-in-and-year-out competitiveness of a school’s football program is dependent on many factors, and most are clearly more important than the number of boys in the school. 
 

How am I so sure enrollment isn’t the most important factor? We can easily isolate that datapoint because it is the current criterion for football classification. One can look in the larger classes and count the number of schools that would be beaten by the best 1A or 2A schools. There are many 6A, 5A, 4A and 3A schools that would be dominated by Pikeville, Beechwood, etc. 
 

I don’t have a proposal to put forward, but I have a method for analyzing it. Just look at the usual championship suspects over the past thirty years, and reverse engineer what they have in common that the less competitive schools lack.

Low Scoring first half in Stanford…..

Boyle County 17

Lincoln County 16

20 hours ago, gchs_uk9 said:

That's the gym at the new school. Garrard still plays their games at the old gym at Garrard Middle School (the former GCHS). Should have no effect on games but certainly will affect practice schedules.

I was just told that that the Lincoln/Garrard January 10th double-header was moved to Lincoln due to the damaged floor, and that the 45th District tournament is moved to Lincoln for this year, with Garrard hosting next year instead. 

11 hours ago, Country said:

Corbin fans are delusional to think that Haddix would ever even consider coming back to Corbin. They should read the Danville paper today to find out how the Haddix family really feels about Corbin. This victory was especially sweet for their entire family.

After reading that, I would say zero chance they’re going back to Corbin. 

1 hour ago, LethalPG said:

Whoever picked LC in thread is ultimate homer.  Mismatch.  One of Lincoln’s worst defensive team in school history, and Corbin is elite. 

Wasn’t me. 

17 hours ago, gchs_uk9 said:

For what it's worth, quite often I see kids on small college rosters in Kentucky that played at Lexington Christian and Lexington Catholic and have Nicholasville addresses. Nothing nefarious, but I'm quite confident that not every good football player in Jessamine County plays at East or West.

Many, many good players have been siphoned off to Lexington privates. 

3 hours ago, theguru said:

Agree!

On the main question, in my opinion it almost has to hurt ticket sales so I disagree on that point with the very eloquent Mr. Smith. 

The school system couldn’t afford the marketing they get from being our media partner. By extending the athletic programs’ brand and increasing its fan base, the free video streaming has a positive net ticket sale effect for Lincoln County and the schools its football and basketball teams visit. We could insert a paywall, but that would be a disservice to the people of our community. 
 

We don’t sell additional ads on the video, it is a simulcast of our radio broadcasts. It is a community service for people who can’t go—those who spent many years sitting on hard bleachers watching their children and grandchildren, and who would like to watch still, but from their own couch. It’s not a money maker for us, and can’t be, as a stand-alone quality product. 

The media coverage and resulting marketing effect is a long-term process that keeps a fan base involved in the valley seasons and helps ramp up the attendance explosion in peak seasons.

While video streaming could negatively affect ticket sales for a single game, over the course of several seasons, it will increase attendance as it increases awareness and interest, and creates top of mind awareness. 

We have both robust live coverage of games and a fan base that comes to home games and travels well to away games. The two can, and in our case do, go hand-in-hand. 

42 minutes ago, RoCkMaN28 said:

According to KHSAA they have played 7 times since 2007 and Somerset has won everyone of them. Those are the only meetings between the two in the modern era or since 1998 when KHSAA put the scores up etc. Most games weren’t even competitive out of the 7 tonight made the 3rd game that was within two scores the rest have been heavily won by Somerset.

I would consider the “modern era” to start with the playoffs in 1959. There have been a lot of modern era football games played that are not reflected on the KHSAA scoreboard.

gchs_UK9 has carefully researched and compiled the Garrard sports record book. His info is official and correct. 

Brief Press Release from the district:

The Lincoln County Board of Education voted unanimously tonight to begin designs on a turf football field that can also be used for soccer, a new press box, track renovations and an addition to the football field house.

HB 678 will allow the district to utilize restricted construction funds for these projects and no general fund money will be used.

-LCSchools-

On 5/3/2022 at 8:16 AM, okie1 said:

I have always heard that Danville HS used to sit on Centre campus and Centre on Danville's campus.  They traded in back in the early 1900's.  

It's possible that Danville built Centre's stadium if this is true.  

Danville High School was originally at the corner of Walnut and College streets, where Norton Center for the Arts is today—within a rocks-throw of Centre’s stadium. 
 

There had been a Women’s College at the East Lexington Street site where DHS is today, as early as the mid 1850. Centre, of course, started in 1820 at its present site, and was playing football by 1880. Danville High School started in 1911-12. Centre College football predates Danville football by more than 30 years. The stadium was always Centre’s stadium, but the lights that were added in the 1930s apparently belonged to DHS.

The Women’s College merged with Centre in 1925, but maintained separate campuses until 1962, when they moved into the Centre campus. Danville school district then bought the former Women’s College site and built the present High School which opened in 1964. 
 

Centre bought the former DHS site adjoining its campus and converted the buildings to its use, but DHS continued using the football stadium for home games. 
 

By 1972, Centre was building its new Fine Arts Center on the former DHS site and decided that once it opened in 1973 that they could no longer allow DHS games there on Friday nights, due to scheduling, noise, parking, etc. They offered to allow games on Friday afternoons, or even Saturday afternoons when Centre football was away, but DHS said its opponents would not agree to that. A deal was finally reached for DHS to continue using Centre’s field while they built one. 

Danville purchased land from Kentucky School for the Deaf and constructed their present stadium in 1974. It was late being completed for the first two home games and Danville hosted those games at Boyle County.  The next season, they named the stadium in honor of former coach Rice Mountjoy.