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He told me this team plays defense exactly like he teaches them to. He says while the kids are young they are very fun to coach. By the time they are 17 years old they start getting "dinner table coaching" at home. That is never, ever a good thing.

I actually thought one of his best coaching jobs was the 82/83 team at Evarts. They pulled some monumental upsets that year to win 20 games and get to the regional semi-finals. The team probably shouldn't have won 10 games but they didn't know it.

A few of his most memorable wins that come to mind are upsetting Lexington Catholic (#3 in USA Today) in the Sweet 16 semifinals, upsetting Littlerock Central (with NBA great Joe Jackson) at the City of Palms in Florida and upsetting Huntington with Patrick Patterson and OJ Mayo in Memorial Coliseum. His great wins are too numerous to list. His 97 team I think is the only Kentucky high school team to go undefeated against Kentucky competition since the 1940s.