[BUFFALO]

It’s interesting to look at Scott’s record versus Chris’s record. They’re literally almost identical, you can say Chris has tougher road because of Pulaski and southwestern but there’s tough teams you have to get past in 3A if you want to make it to the third round of the playoffs, which is something Scott couldn’t do. Chris record might become better than Scott’s just because you automatically get into the playoffs in that district.

 But when he’s hired they are going to essentially be betting on a 5A coach who has more male students to pull talent from to go to a 3A school with less male students to pull talent from and perform better, and to me that’s a big gamble. Chris doesn’t even have a winning record against teams who are classed below 5A. Not saying it’s the wrong hire and I want everyone to succeed but it is just a puzzling logic. 

Also as someone who’s close to coach Blair, I would give it a 10% chance he would leave Madison Central for anything other than a head coaching position, that’s what he wants and he definitely qualified for and ready to be again. 

I don’t know Larkey but he’s perpetually underperformed with the talent he’s had available to him at North Laurel.  Only know Coach Blair by reputation which is that he’s a very good coach…Mark Payne DC from Southwestern and GJ Wooldridge from Pulaski Co could also do well imo, could do really well as a tandem or as the lone head man.  Never thought I’d see Parkey step down at Rock but it’s hard to follow a legend…

Parkey was asked to step down or he would’ve been fired. The problem with that job will always be you have one middle school and one high school for the county and all the other powerhouse 3A teams don’t have that problem. Whoever gets the job will get time, but consistently getting to the third round will be tough. Even the great Tom Larkey didn’t do that over his 27 years there.

 Tom did not coach at Rockcastle for 27 years. He went to Harlan Co., then Perry Central. He did go to the state championship game twice while at ROCK.