[Gitback Coach]

Rosco Perkins any body ever heard of him?

I never saw him play, but I do remember when he came back to be an assistant coach at Middlesboro after he left the Dolphins. My older brother was a freshman on that MHS team (1967) and he still talks about Roscoe's "intense demonstrations" on the practice field, lol. He was an assistant for the Jackets through the mid-70s (coached Kenny Roark at MHS) and then became HC at "old" Bell County HS for a few years before joining the staff at Somerset. He had a couple sons who played for the Jumpers in the early 80s.

He came back to Middlesboro as HC after Ed VanHoose left (1985) and then took over as HC at Mercer County in the late 80s. I think he got out of coaching after that. He must be living in Somerset now, because I saw him last fall at the Middlesboro-Somerset playoff game. Great player (I'm told) and great coach.

If you haven't read the book "The Thin Thirty" about Charlie Bradshaw's first UK team, give it a look. Both Roscoe and Russell Miracle appear in it pretty prominently.