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Defensively the Flyer should look a lot different this year, they have brought in another defensive line coach, along with Nick Sheriton to help. I have seen some of their practices and the line looks a lot better. I do not think you will see some hole fillers this year. The new Defensive line coach has been there before, it is Coach Dennis Ledford. With his ability and Coach Nick Sheridan I think you will see a whole different defense this year.

Ledford will make the defense better.

ledford is a good coach, FC has all the pieces to win state, it's just a matter of executing now.

FC should have been in the finals last season. Also should be in the finals this season. I attend several of their games last season. The defense never was very good.

Good news is Ledford is back and will fix the defense. I look for a very good defense to be molded this season. With that High scoring offense we SHOULD see the Flyers in Bowling Green.

We will have to see what happens, there are a lot of good teams this year, Coaching is a big part of every team, but you also have to have the players, and the bench to go far in this state. I would like to see Franklin County go far, but it is a long season. Franklin County under Coach Tracy and company have really turned this program around and it seems to be getting better every year. Good luck to everyone! I am ready for this season to begin!!!

The parts are there but getting there is another story, the kids gotta buy in, what about leadership? I know ledford is working with existing staff on defense, how much does he do with it?? Will the coaches do what is right to make it work? a lot of if and or buts, but still this team is guaranteed to make some noise in 5a.

This argument is constantly being thrown around on BGR so let's look at the facts. Since 1999 a team from the flyers region has been state champion 7 times, runner-up 2 times (9 out of 13 years). Six of those years they have been knocked out by Boyle, Highlands, or Lex. Cath. Only four other schools in 5A this year have ever won a state championship since 1959; Bowling Green (twice) 1995 & 2012, Shelby Co. 1987 (before Collins), Conner 1983, and Christian Co. 1982. Outside of Bowling Green this thing is wide open.

Good luck to the flyers, Coach Ledford is a fine coach I wish he would have got to do more at Mercer while there or been back for another year or even the head guy, but he will be a good addition, my son and I thought a lot of him.

Franklin County has had some great teams that came up short along with some that have had some bad luck, add in a few that over acheived through those years. Usually the team that puts them out ends up in the finals more years than not. but hey I will also agree they deserve all the negative talk they can get for the egg they layed against conner last year. Hopefully the kids and coaches have a taste in their mouth that makes them work and get better.

Wow, didn't relize this would get to be a debate over Franklin County football, I just thought this would be more of a celabration about a very good player and athlete getting reconized and getting offers for college. This kid has worked hard to get where he is at and we should all be talking about that, instead of speculating on what Franklin County will do or has done. Couldn't we start another thread about Franklin County football and discuss all of this there and let Mr. Timmons enjoy his spotlight for now, but chances are good that he hasn't even seen this because that is not the type of player he is.

As you can see, most of the replies in this thread became about Franklin Co football. Sorry.

No question that Timmons is a super player.