[Hoot Gibson]

It’s going to be interesting to see how they run this head coaching search. Johnson Central has been lucky to have three great coaches in the three major sports. JC hasn’t had to worry about coaching searches because Jim Matney, Tommy McKenzie, and Shawn Hall have been so successful for the past fifteen years. This is going to be one of the most consequential hires in school history and who ever it is will have a massive task in stepping into Jim Matney’s shoes.

2 of the 3 are in house hires and it took 40 plus years to hire a successful coach after bad hire after bad hire in all 3 sports. No one can ever fill Matneys shoes but Johnson Central can’t become political and not make a great hire just to keep things in house.

Bill Musick was a successful coach. Others, including Matney, may have been able to bring the program further faster but Coach Music was very involved in elevating the quality of Johnson Central's feeder system and people should not forget that he was the first coach that managed not to resign or be fired after a short tenure because of politics. Nobody before Musick was around long enough to do any program building.