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And he had exceptional talent those years as well. There always seems to be a strong correlation involving talent and coaches that goes to state title games. Switch Haddix and Chappell this year and there probably wouldn't have been a whole lot of change in either schools record. Just using those two as example, the same could be applied to most competent coaches in those situations.

Some people like to make excuses . There is absolutely no reason that Whitley County should be a perennial loser to teams such as Bell County and Corbin. Don't even tell me that area has better athletes. The only thing they have that is different is administration and coaching.