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I intentionally waited until now to post. I was disgusted. As many of you know, I am Scott Parkey's biggest fan as a teacher and as a person. I am not and have not been his biggest fan as a high school coach. I've never understood the play calling, but I have been fair: when the team won 9 games and a district title, I still questioned the play calling.

Now I am going to do something that I never thought I would do. I am astounded to think that Tony Saylor is on this coaching staff. How can the defense be as bad as it has been with him on staff? Is he calling the defensive plays and schemes? Or is he just advising "Big Dad"? I hope he is not the d-coordinator right now.

I will give the coaches a small break because the majority of this team just does not seem to have the speed necessary to compete for a Regional or even a district title this season. We were beaten by Frankfort because we did not make the adjustments necessary and also because we did not have the speed to match up properly. Whitley County is a better team, so a loss is supposed to happen, BUT I felt like I was watching the 2000 Bourbon County or Letcher County Central teams because I actually cheered when Rock crossed the 50 yard line and it almost make me sick.

I give Corey the QB a break tonight. He played as well as anyone could but his WR's were covered all night and I don't think he missed anyone all night. He does have to learn to find a better way to get rid of the ball when he is pressured to the sidelines. On both Intentional Grounding calls a RB was in the area, but if you are running out of bounds away from defenders and you throw it directly in front of you as you are going out, you will ALWAYS get that call. Cannot lay that at the refs feet to help you out there.

Whitley County had some TD's called back but the did commit penalties on all of them. Often times when a big play happens, it is because of the illegal block or the holding call. However, it made it worse that the Colonels ran the same play at LEAST twice in a row and maybe even three times in a row and scored. Rock fans watched a 50-0 game, even though the final score was correct of the game due to committed penalties. It sure felt like a 50-0 game though.

I will continue to support this team and I will continue to support Coach Parkey while he is the leader. I think Big Tom's team might have spoiled me to a certain expectation of Rockcastle County football, and I can accept that we are not going to be Regional title contenders in this current format, but it will certainly take some getting used to.

I hope that Rock can beat Clay, I wont be able to stomach a last place finish. With that said, anything can happen. Games are played on the field, not paper. On paper, Rock might be a 4-5 win team, BUT you play to win the game and every game starts 0-0. I am pulling for the Rock and the fans are still behind everyone involved. Some of us are just sad because we know how good you can be. Prove it! Prove that the Rock is hard because the State is starting to question it. Play for pride, play for each other, play to win.