[Fly Like a Duck]

Would this be considered a hire they just settled for? again i dont know anything bout Grizzle.

I've said this before, but the days of coaches and their families packing up and moving for high school head football jobs in this state are getting slimmer and slimmer.

You go and look at all of the openings over the last several years (average of 40-45 a year) and coaches aren't bouncing around much, unless:

1) They don't have to move (see Dixon from Hazard to Perry)
2) They are retired, kids are grown and they just still really enjoy it (French from Southwestern to Middlesboro, then see Tom Larkey who fits #1 above. French also never moved when he left Lincoln for Boyle then to Southwestern. He obviously did when he left Meade for Lincoln in 04. Holcomb when he went from Breathitt to Letcher- kids grown- didn't actually move, had an apartment in Whitesburg he'd stay in during the week some).
3) They are from there and/or have already coached at the school before (David Buchanan leaving Mason for Mercer, Stonebraker going back to Casey County, Dudley back to Bell- while Dudley also falling into category #2 also).

The wish lists that people talk about and expect compared to reality are usually two different things.

I think this is a very good hire. Sometimes its not about titles, but what have you done at a place(s) doing more with less. I think he did that.