[Red and Black]

As someone who played for Derossett, I can assure you that the alumni at Prestonsburg are grateful for everything Derossett did for us and our program. Was he perfect? No, far from it. He's a flawed man, just like all of us. But he cared deeply about every kid who ever played for him and I feel that he would have done anything for any of us, even up to this day. He's a deeply clannish, old school Appalachian man, for better and for worse. His clannishness is likely what cost him the Prestonsburg job. Hater seems to be arguing that if he gets the Magoffin job then all the good Magoffin players will leave, but for the majority of his Pburg career it was kids from Paintsville, JC and Pikeville that were coming TO Pburg to play for a good coach, not the other way around.

We're talking about Magoffin county here... the traditional whipping boy of every district they've ever been in. What do they have to lose from hiring a coach with some old school baggage who has proven that he can take a program to the highest level?