[Hound05]

I'm not sure many outside of Casey and Corbin knows how the Casey vs Corbin game went, the last 2 meetings, actually. Last year was a surprise to me, if I'm honest, that we were that close, after losing so much talent the year before. But going into the 4th quarter vs Corbin, tied at 14-14, and still tied with 9 or 10 minutes left in the game...Corbin did such an exceptional job of field position the 4th quarter though, having a short field all quarter, and eventually getting up 2 scores and locking down on Casey's offense with their great defense. Casey couldn't really gain more than 4th down and 3 or 4, and Corbin started rolling. One last TD with a few seconds remaining by Corbin may have made the score look "respectable" to those outside that stadium. Haddix basically claimed his guys were asleep. I don't like Haddix. If he woke up and the hair on his *** were somehow stuffed down his throat I'd be perfectly satisfied...However, I've nothing against the kids there. Nothing I'm saying here is relative to this matchup Friday night. I fully expect to take a woodshed beating, just missing too many pieces, too many kids that could have helped our team this year decided video games was better than football. And this isn't an average Corbin team the past 3 years, arguably this is one of their best teams in their history, yet, in 3 years they haven't had a running clock on us, and in the last 2 it was Corbin only up on Casey by 3 at the half (District championship game 2 years ago we were down by 3 going into the 4th)...We have 45 kids, probably, to Corbin's 90...In some ways I can live with that. If we just make some plays, don't get anyone hurt, and put up at least a little fight I'll take that as a positive. We added no one to our roster, outside of our school, no "talent", no kid from Tennessee, or kid from down the road. Saying that, had one been available, or 2, or 3, I'd have taken them in a HEARTBEAT! I will say, some kids in our county are out there, super athletic kids, and if we ever tap into that reserve somehow, we will be contenders, at the very least prospects in 3A football. As they say, When you see that, you'll definitely know it...:-)

You know in the past I’ve gave a lot of props to stonebreaker and the job he’s done there. It is amazing. But when you think about it. Him and haddix aren’t so different. When haddix took over we were coming out of the jewel days when we’d win 8 games a year and lose in or after the region and towards the end it was worse than that. We were very stale and DOWN. Both coaches have turned the programs around into winners again. Now Casey’s is more amazing to me because they didn’t have the history or the tradition and support like we did. But they aren’t so different. I love haddix, obviously. But not just because he knows how to win. Because he pushes kids and makes them work harder than they ever have. And 99% of the kids love him. He don’t play politics. That’s a main reason Corbin has so many kids and has 22 starters with rotations instead of 11 or so. Now your reason may be justified in not liking him. But I will day aside from coaching he’s a great man.