[EKUAlum05]

Winning titles seems to get Haywood from belfry a lot of awards. Not saying he doesn't deserve it, but Morris has more titles, and has coached about 25 years less. Morris has gotten less awards than Haywood in this insane run mayfield has been on since 09. Record is 98 wins 7 losses 5 state titles 2 runners up in 7 years.

To be fair he is also the State's All-Time Wins Leader, Top 7 Nationally for current coaches, a published author, and one of the faces of the FCA.

To answer 55's initial question:
- Titles help, but this is a vote conducted by peers. Respect from fellow coaches seems to matter the most as well as name notoriety. Haywood's notoriety has mostly came from respect as a mentor and just a genuinely nice guy. Chuck Smith has 4 COY awards and you can mainly tie his to respect for his achievements and putting guys to the next level and even the NFL.

- Milestones help... no surprise that Haywood has won the award mainly in years he also set a coaching milestone.

- All this doesn't explain why a guy like Morris hasn't won COY in his respective class. How they can vote Edge ahead of Morris or a Clay Clevenger really surprises me. For what I have seen of Morris he never tries to embarrass teams or run the score up, not sure why his fellow WKY coaches would vote for Edge over him.



I definitely see the mystery in it... there are very few coaches in KY I would rather have than Morris.