[Hoot Gibson]

I think if Chuke would have gotten the job after Coach LeMaster stepped down, it would have been a different story. But that's just my opinion.

At least Chuke had previous head coaching experience with a winning program, and football was the only head coaching job that he was interested in filling. However, as long as Johnson Central has a good head football coach like Matney, Paintsville needs to keep them off the schedule.

I think many Paintsville fans had been spoiled by schools domination of Johnson Central in the years before Bill Musick and the three years between Musick and Matney. Coach Lemaster (or Chuke Williams) would have kept Paintsville competitive with the top 1A teams in eastern Kentucky, but nobody is going to make them competitive with Johnson Central as long as Matney is there - the enrollment disparity is just too large.