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There has been rumors spreading that a recruiting clinic for 14th region coaches is in the works. It is to help the lowly schools that try to compete with homegrown talent developed through their feeder programs, get into the 21st Century. Developing talent is a thing of the past. Recruiting is all the rave. A RUMORED tentative line-up has been discussed, but nothing is set in stone. It is suppose to cover both boys and girls basketball coaches.

(All speakers listed are just rumored, nothing factual)

On the Boys Side:

Keynote Speaker: John Calipari discussing recruiting at the collegiate level in Big Blue Nation and fighting to keep them off probation.

Other possible speakers and their topics:

Roderick Rhodes: How to get kids from the hoods to the backwoods.

Allan Hatcher: How recruiting can be a father/son bonding experience.

Randy Napier: How to take your neighbors talent when your feeder programs has gone to the dogs.

It is rumored that a lifetime achievement award is being presented to Hazard High School. It is titled "Sixty years of successful recruiting and still going strong".


It is rumored that training sessions will include such topics as:

1. How to skirt KHSAA rules through deception and/or political connections.

2. How to get your picture made with the big hunk, Julian Tackett.

3. Job Search - Using and finding jobs for possible recruits parents.

4. Foreign Exchange - How to establish a foreign exchange program overnight.

5. F to an A - How to turn a failing student into an honor student in 24 hours.

6. Physical Education Nation - Rumored that unnamed Representatives from the Breathitt County school district will discuss how you can have poor athletes attend 5 to 6 PE classes a day and keep their GPA up and graduate. This is tentative depending if school officials can be released from house arrest.

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