Dark Horse78

Well done Coach!

Congrats! If Stoops thinks you can play...you can!

If the tax payer knew what consultants were paid to work for a school district 3-4 times per year...there would be OUTRAGE! School districts pay 100's of thousands of dollars to have a consultant come in 3-4 times per year to "train" teachers (I will use that word VERY liberally). Its an absolute fleecing!

If a band director gets a stipend to carry over what he is doing in the classroom, then he is doing his extra-curricular activity full-time. Why should coaches not get to do the same? Give them 3 classes of "athletics" that allow them to teach their players the fundamentals necessary for performance on Friday, Monday, and Thursday nights. No different than a band director teaching his kids what they will perform on Friday at halftime. Many require that students perform in pep band, marching band, and competition band and those are all outside of the classroom and after the school day. No different than any other coach. It's apples to apples...and can be applied the same way. You can have the guy teaching his players fundamental of character, sportsmanship, rules of the game...etc and even do this with his middle school as well. You can put lipstick on a pig folks, but it's still a pig. If a district wants to pay the guy full salary to coach, then so be it. I have more of an issue with a guy on road work crews holding a stop/slow sign and making 25 dollars an hour than I do a coach making 50K a year to coach full-time. Always heard the 2 most important people in a community were the preacher and the head football coach. Just saying.

Team vs team was banned for June, not inter-squad. You can still do all the non contact drills in June you've always done, unless I didn't get the memo on that one.

Very true, but that isn't the norm across our state.

In several programs I know of in KY, the Middle school coaches are just an extension of the high school staff. The high school head coach runs the whole shooting match from youth league through the HS program. The middle school coaches in those programs do the coaching, but everything else is run through the varsity head coach. In my opinion, that's how it should be done.

They have a decent group of young kids and will probably dress around 45-50 kids. I think things are on an up swing, but in that district it won't matter.

Let's face it, Etown's "football" facility was built for their girls soccer team...that's the reality! Etown doesn't get to use the locker room except for game nights...that sums it up right there!

Big time hire!

Thought I read somewhere they got Gossett from Bullitt Central?? Perhaps I just imagined that.

I have said it before, its not the head to head contact that causes a MAJORITY of concussions. Its head to ground...ANYTHING that causes your head to hit an immovable object will be your highest probability for a concussion. Heck, trampolines cause way more injuries than football!! Football just gets the pub because its the only real gladiator sport left, and it the most popular. My son plays, he's 7...my concern was NEVER head to head, heck, the neck was designed to help provide the movement to soften a blow and keep the brain from slamming into the skull. My concern has always been if he makes direct contact with the ground...in anything!

I remember a coach a few years back that kept a log of his hours from July10-June 25 and he made less than 4 dollars per hour, not including not being reimbursed on mileage related to the job, and taking kids on recruiting visits. That time includes off-season, field maintenance, lifting competitions, recruiting visits, and everything else...but how is this an acceptable way wage for anyone, and furthermore the demands are increasing with the win or you're out mentality. I would argue it's a blessing for some of these coaches to be forced into resigning when they were taking a loss in so many ways. I understand the intrinsic value of coaching young men, and knowing that if not for you the likely hood of success for some was slim to none...and you can't put a value on it. From the outside looking in, coaches are demanded to devote far more time now than 15 years ago and in most cases pay has not increased, and may have even decreased in some schools. The big issue I see with all of this...some of these jobs may not get filled by someone in a school system. Para-pro's are going to start filling the shoes of the Head Coach on a grand level. That is REALLY negative for the culture that surrounds a school and program.

BINGO!

Start setting the buyout amount for 20K and you bet your tail there won't be anyone buying out contracts. If you agree to play, then you play. Coaches that do this have also been pretty shady cats anyway. I can think of several.

Awesome, not many kids can pull off multi-sports due to the rigors of just playing one while keeping paces with academics. Congrats!

I think he's related to the basketball coach, and the basketball coach and super are pretty tight from what I have been told. Not sure that has anything to do with it.

Had heard this was coming...Josh Jaggers a candidate to return to Mercer? He would be a logical candidate that was there when they won the state title game. Just a thought.

Never heard an ill word from him or about him...GREAT man!

Don't disagree at all eagle, which begs IF (and I can only go on eye witness accounts since I was not there), then that begs a question of why he would attend, unless he knew he was done after this year regardless. Which could be the case and he attended only as a fan of his former school...or the people who thought they saw him were mistaken (could certainly be the case). Or he attended knowing he was done at the college level regardless (I know there is a lot of stress and factors that could cause a guy to wanna be out of that business or to focus on his family) and the super had an interest in brining him home since Jaggers was never his top choice anyway. Just fat to chew on. Which is all needless banter anyway since he's the new leader of the program. So with that, I wish them the best of luck. Any idea on the assistant coaches he will bring with him?

Great hire. He was a good football player in the 80's at LC and went on to have a good career at Union, where he started as a GA as well. Tony had reportedly been at several LaRue games this season even though they have no current college prospects...you can read into that something or nothing, depends on your paradigm. I am always a fan of a man returning home whenever it's possible. He's certainly getting a VERY good group of young kids. Best of luck in Hawk Country.

Wonder if this would entice John Edge to leave the Catholic system? Could be right in his wheel house.

Obviously this would be on his own since he was just in the title game right??

I saw this one coming, a conversation with Harry and I a while back. I called it Harry!

Fred going to stay on as the AD? Thought he had another year or two before retirement.