[wannacat]

As a tax paying, board member electing, citizen of Breathitt County, I would like to apologize to the current, past, or could of been, members of the current BHS girls basketball program for being a part of the electorate that placed the current board of education in place. This board hired or allowed to be hired a coach with no playing or coaching experience. This move probably caused the transfer of their best player, the quiting of their two best remaining players, and the stunting of the development of their remaining players. There is only a small handful of remaining players that actually attend BHS. The squad is mostly made up of Sebastian Middle School students. For the sake of the remaining members of the squad, this coach should be immediately fired and replaced with someone who knows the game and can salvage something of this season by teaching strictly fundamentals for the rest of the season and undoing the harm already caused by this coach. Being taught how to do things the wrong way is worse than not being taught at all. The downfall of this program is not entirely on this coach. This started with the hiring of Wallace Bates which lead to numerous players within the Breathitt School District either attending other schools from the start or transferring out.