[walterwhite]

Great points!!!! Give a head coach what he needs and ask for. What would he need, when I say this some of you will put your principal hat on or your KY principal hat on and say #$%^^^ #@@^ #$%&& making excuse after excuse not to do what he ask for. Take that hat off and put on a southern principal hat for a min because this is what you need at SL if you want to have success and you can IF you will give a proven coach some things to come there. Keep in mind the post by SLHS Cards about the previous 5 coaches you have had and their head coaching records or lack of.
1. Weight lifting class offered every period of the day!
A. This will get more kids out because they will not have to stay after school everyday
B. It will also let him and kids see that your admin is taking football seriously. Which I think could be part of your problem there bc it is looked at as a school that doesn't take football seriously.
2. Give him a good schedule.
A. Don't give him all those bullcrap duties(dance,parking, hall, homeroom etc...), let him coach ball BC if you get the right guy he will out work everybody at the school and the BOE!
3. Let him bring in his staff!!!!
A. Yes this would be a must, he needs to bring in 2 or 3 (if not more)of his own guys and yes this means having them jobs in the building not at the elementary schools. Your coaches need to be recruiting the hallways all day long!!!! And they cant recruit the hallways if they aint in the building!!!!!
4. Pay
A. Yes you need to pay him and his coaches. Better than people you play pay their coaches. This will attract and keep coaches. Will it happen NO BC they would have to do it for NL and that is one of the bad things about a 2 or more county high school system.
B. Boosters should come up with some cash for him and his staff. Happens all the time in the south.
Just a few of the things they should do for the new head coach. Will they? Of course not and in 10 years after the next 3 or 4 head coaches have come and gone the message boards will be lighting up about what needs to be done at SL! Now I know there will be some getting all puffed up huffing and puffing "it is about education not sports". Well do away with athletics then if you are not going to do it right. WHY HALF ASS SOMETHING? WHY WHY WHY???? So many school systems do and they get the results they pay for.

Great ideas but if you think all these things are going to happen at South all I can say is good luck with that. The money crunch most school districts are going through will certainly have a bearing on any spending. As far as boosters "coming up with cash for the coach and staff", I know it happens but technically is illegal by Redbook guidelines. In southeastern Kentucky school district jobs are like hens teeth in many cases. It's very difficult to bring in people and give them jobs when there's a stack of applicants that are from the area. I would love to see all the things you suggest take place, but I just don't see it. Untill something changes, schools have to truely do their homework and try to get the best coaches possible with what they have to work with. Not an easy task.