KingB

Excellent insight....however, if few players from southestern Kentucky have an opportunity to play professional baseball and/or Div I, don't you think a coach owes it to himself, his players, and his community to "teach" pride, loyalty and dicipline so his kids eventually become good citizens in the community in which they reside? Maybe a coach like Sawyers who helped build a facility second to none and required his players to be men of character should be considered a GREAT coach! Maybe a coach like Jeff Garmon who maintains that facility and continues in that tradition should be considered a good coach........or maybe they should go to more clinics, watch more video and add to the record books......Most people in society rank success on plasma TV's and cars that parallel park on their own (scoreboard watchers) Hopefully, I have communicated my point that "Success is defined by leaving the world a better place" (facilities; citezens; community).....I think Emerson looked that up in KHSAA!

A good baseball coach is......a person who would be a good basketball, football or under water basket weaving coach........he/she is a teacher....someone who can say the same thing a thousand different ways....someone who can identify/relate to a thousand different kinds of kid. Most people (those who rank coaches based on W's) watch a hitting video and suddenly become the next Casey Stengel. Or they keep records on who beat who and what have you done for me lately and suddenly they know who can coach and who can't. Question.......in the past decade, has there been any players from souteastern Kentucky play professionally?.......have their been any play Division one?......if so, who did they play for......maybe those coach's should be considered.

Criteria for a good coach......."people development" not player development, not records........not great facilities. For those of you who don't know much about coaching and need to define success based on data.....begin with researching or collecting "scores and records" of young men from this area, who have played professionally....Division 1.....or at any college level for that matter.......secondly, collect "scores and records" on those coaches have helped produce college graduates and successful careers/families......Probably won't take the time to do that......because "sports" reflects the society we live in......which by the way defines success by your salary, house, car, clothes etc. I guess you can define a good coach by.....record, regional championships, or "what have you done lately"...... and I guess success in life can be defined by....whether or not you have the newest/latest plasma T.V. and/or the car that parallel parks on it's own?..........however, I define good coaching and a quality life by love, trust, discipline, committment and several other "corny" things! But that's just me.....what do I know.

Good replies, but still too vague for me.....baseball is unlike football and basketball.......the best talent doesn't always win. And, just because a poorly talented team advances to a region, doesn't necessarily equate to good coaching. Too much emphasis placed on wins/losses and advancement. Someone who is knowledgable enough to rank coaches in Southeastern Kentucky, should be knowledgable enough to at least give a brief description of what it is their ranking, don't you think? And, what about assistant coaches......how do you rank them?

What criteria or credentials should one consider in determining a coach's ability?? And, how would this process be applicable to assistant coaches?