Dark Horse78

Not good. If they don't get a coach in before school lets out...then this season is already lost. IMO

Yup...agree with many points. Society's downfall has more to do with parents and their acceptance of their kids behavior far more than sports. I see parents who are best friends with their little Johnny...I wasnt "friends" with my dad (nothing wrong with loving the old man, but "buddies" we were not! LOL), I had a healthy fear of what would happen if I back talked my Mom, teacher, coach, neighbor...etc and the good Lord knows he never took my side when a phone call came home about my behavior. Sports, if anything, teaches the opposite. Regardless of how many games you play. With that, an 0-10 will not win a first round game...just ain't gonna happen. This ain't Hollywood and these aren't actors. 0-10=0-11. Simple math. I do think though, the extra week is a good opportunity for the coaches and players to do some fun stuff and make a tough season finish with some good memories and start building on the off-season, because there is no pressure for them to go win and they all know the outcome. Just my 2 cents.

Ive seen Indiana's system and while every system is flawed, their system is exciting. Play who you want for 8 games allows you to not concern yourself with traveling to a "district" game for a 5 hour round trip affair and build local rivals...BUT...the one thing that is a lot of fun is the blind draw. They televise it and it gets GREAT ratings. Creates an NCAA basketball type of feeling. Imagine, you and your team gathered around the TV at school, waiting for the draw and who you will play. I dont know...just seems like it would be a lot of fun!

Very well coached team and will have another solid season!

That's a shame...Bill is a good guy and a great ball coach. I hope he is on a sideline next season...would love to catch a few Friday nights and watch his teams play!

:laugh: Sense a bit of sarcasm??

Not so fast my friend. Glasgow will return a top 10 rusher (Trig?) and will have a solid group to replace the seniors they lose (they will win 7-8 regular season games and probably push for the region title). Let's face it.. ITS GLASGOW!!! They will be VERY solid, coach Wood always has a physical team. With that said, call etown what you want...but the last time they were winning football games was with Barnett and they beat a bunch of "physical" teams on the way to the turf! Physical is term used when a team isn't very good (for many reasons other than how physical they are). They were a very physical team when Burnett was there (so were his Ft. Knox teams)...those kids would knock your tail feathers loose. I think we confuse "physical" or lack of when a team chooses to throw the ball. Reality is in 2003 they scored 543 points and gave up just over 200 in 15 games. You don't put up those numbers and have a finesse mentality. You don't play that well on defense and get called finesse! Coach Brown usually has good balance (which is often mistaken as 50-50 run-pass, when it simply means being able to do both when you want to). I remember watching his 96 team...Gabe Stone (if my memory serves me) could throw a football 50 yds and knock a tick off a dogs tail! We can call it what we want, but Etown's issues have been a mentality problem deeper than being "physical"...apathy is more like it. When coach brown gets rid of the apathy (on every level), it won't matter what he does...they will be successful!

Correct...age out as a junior, have also heard the same thing.

How does this answer the question?

Im sure someone on here would know if Marty would even have an interest leaving Trigg?? Would be a name hire that could get kids out of the hallways I would think.

Yes and no. I agree that if you are losing, then kids may not play regardless of what you do. However, I have seen programs that were VERY successful but the skill kids, basketball types, didn't want to go out and stalk block for 2 hours. Doesn't mean that will be the case at Etown though.

LOL....I will leave it up to the reader

In reference to 5th region, I love the fact that Jaggers is committed to staying through the downslide. SOOOOO many times a coach jumps ship when talent pool appears to be dropping off. Look at the coaches who "got out" of the 5th region schools as soon as they KNEW the talent was starting to fall for a "foreseeable" future. I won't name names, but they tend to disappear for a spell, then reappear at the same school or a new school when talent is on the upswing. The thing about Marty Jaggers is if he goes back to Lincoln I could see him seeing this through until its going well again and hand the reigns over while talent is still very high. He would be a GREAT hire for a rebuild! IMO.

If Marty goes back to Lincoln this will be a fun area to watch some knock down drag outs!! Perry at GC, Chuck Norris at Boyle (one of my favorite threads), Jaggers at Lincoln, Peach at Anderson, French at SW (I know, that one might be a stretch). What do they have in common?? We might see a lot of tight ends and 3 backs!! LOL...throw back football and everyone is home by 9:30! LOVE IT!

The panthers have made a splash of a hire in Brown. I look for them to win 8-9 games and make a deep playoff run for the next two years. They have a ton of kids coming back and the new wing-t look will get the kids off the hardwood and on the turf! Gonna be a good run for the panthers!

You are probably right Harry. There are some former coaches in some local counties/school systems who are probably chomping at the bit to be in Jaggers' shoes and be the "savior" of a program. EVERY county school goes through cycles and the 5th region has seen it's share of county schools go up and down in all sports. That's just part of the small community life and ALL small/county schools have their ups and downs. Campbellsville was mentioned earlier and they are getting ready to come out of one of those cycles. Look for the Eagles to have a BIG year! LaRue's super isn't going anywhere. His dad was a previous super at LC and the board is on his sied...little Red will pick when he leaves and I don't foresee that being anytime soon. Man makes one poor choice, and the sky is falling. Everyone gets a second chance. Jaggers won't leave LC for "any" job...it would have to be a good one on a lake somewhere in the western coal feilds to lure him away.

You know the old saying, sometimes it's hard to go home.

Downside to the hedges...when they are mature and a couple die, hard to replace them. I am a fan of the look though. Does Wayne Co. have them as well?

I almost spit out coke when you said "donkey stomp"! LOL.

STUD!! Have seen him flick 70 yds on a line!! Fun to watch.

My 2 cents...which may actually be worth less. We've gotten to a point, I think, with athletics where we think we must outwork EVERYONE for 360 days of the year (5 days off for random circumstances). When infact we are burning out our kids and creating selfish monsters. You look at athletics in the 80's-90's...etc and the talent level hasn't changed. I agree there is more parity, or is it because social media and scouting services are recognizing more kids??? I would wager it's more the exposer now than it is the development (or overdevelopment). I was at the baseball feilds the other day helping coach my son's team and I heard an 8 year old tell his dad he wasn't having fun anymore. He's 8...why aren't sports fun for kids anymore??? I will tell you why. Parents now see sports as the payday for college rather than the fun, social developing, life lesson learning faction it was meant to be in society. Rather than encouraging our kids to have fun and promote effort, we are hung up on HOW JUNIOR DID. DID THAT SCOUT SEE HIM? So when my 6 year old wanted to get in the batting cage today after a elementary 5K fundraiser where he finished 4th in age group, baseball game immediately following, and then a soccer game directly after that...I said NO...Let's go to Ghatti's and celebrate a day of hardwork and good effort (all this before 1pm). Remember...evey kid just wants an ice creme-or pizza-for playing hard and sacrificing cartoons. Can we just go back to having some fun with the little kids...the high school coaches can take the fun out it for us Meanwhile, let's recognize the kids who are not playing video games...regardless of the scholarship offers to 6 year olds.

Girls soccer is why that stadium was built, nice for football no doubt, but girls soccer owns that stadium. This was a good hire for Etown, Coach Brown was also smart enought to leave John when he knew there was a downslide coming. He's no idiot...but grooming his son will be something different, not saying he's not the coaching choice of the future, but there is a huge difference in father and son with those 2. Not a bad thing, but the chicken has not hatched there yet. Etown will do well, they are LOADED for the next 2 years...if a few local kids who do not live in district can be pursuaded to attend...then it will only get better. Be interesting to see how they fare against the new 3A in a year. PT, Caldwell, Boyle, Lex Cath...will all be in their playoff future. Good luck, let's see if John and Etown get the rivalry started again!!

Correct...was a done deal last night. Good luck to the panthers.

30% is robbery!! If they use them through the course of their career they get 100% pay correct??...but I guess this is for another thread!

Hoss you guys run that thing as well as anyone, and I played in the offense so am also very familiar. Yes, they want to go back to the wing-t and they wanna be about 70-30 run-pass. Big change from what they have been accustomed to for nearly a decade. Not sure how the kids and fans will react if the results are not on par with what they have been. However, defense should improve with Mattingly being the former DC at Meade.