[cchsfan4life]

About this time last year I posted a thread about Clay County basketball and it basically turned into a Glenn Gray bashing thread. I will give some people credit for forecasting a year ago how bad it would be this season. You were right about that. However, I think its time for those who are closer to the situation than I am to man up and speak straight. 

All we've heard from those "in the know" is  bashing the current coach as someone who can't coach his way out of a paper bag. Someone even said his teenage daughter could do a better job than Gray.  Also, all we've heard this past year is people speaking in some kind of damn Manchester code instead of telling us the story straight. We don't get names other than some guy named Sexton(I guess he's the SOCCS) and some mysterious cabal that have conspired use its political influence to eff up Clay County athletics.

I've made the case in another thread that Gray, given enough talent, can beat good teams. He's beaten the best of the best coaches in the region as well as some really good teams statewide.  The fact is, Gray has never had the Richie Farmer , Russ Farmer, Russ Chadwell, Shannon Hoskins  level of talent that Keith and even Marcum had to work with. 

Coaching can't be the biggest problem with CC basketball. There's got to be a lot more to it than "Glenn Gray owns a newspaper and Sexton is from Knox County."  Come one people, tell us straight out why Clay County is now on par with Red Bird, rather than the elite teams of the 13th.

Quit speaking in code and suggesting there's some mysterious group of people whose agenda it is to piss on Keith's legacy and destroy a once proud program.   Could it be that the talent is just not there like it used to be? Socioeconomic factors?  Joe Biden?

Let's hear a State of the Tiger program address from someone who actually knows what the hell is going on over there and can actually give names of the offending parties.

Clay County gave notoriety to the 13th region all across the state with those good teams from the seventies and eighties. The region is stronger today because Clay County was so good for so long.  Clay has won nearly a third of all 13th region titles in history. Clay and Corbin, in fact, have won nearly half of all the 13th region titles.

I want answers!!!!   Not rumor, innuendo, personal grudges against Gray, subtle references to a BOE cabal that cares less about the program's legacy.  Someone dish the facts... JUST THE FACTS!!!  Why has it gotten this grotesque in  what used to be the center of basketball Nirvana in eastern Kentucky.

No matter what we say you defend coach Gray.  He is a terrible coach no matter what you or anyone says.  He is a grade school coach not a high school coach.  He wanted the job......the board of education worked behind the scenes to vote out 2 board members and get rid of the previous superintendent Amon Couch.  They got the board members in to appoint Sexton as superintendent and then ran off Marcum.........Yes he resigned but it was situation kind of like Patterson at Knox....he resigned but the people there had enough sense to realize they couldn't let him walk.  Clay's administration got what they wanted.  They brought in Gray with a group of talented kids who were young and had won a middle school title.  We see the results he got with them.......I'm the one who said my teenage daughter could have gotten better results because there is no way she could have gotten any worse.  Another example.........when Anthony Hibbard and his wife were at Clay and she was in charge of the pep section....the pep section was thriving and now going to a Clay game is like walking into a funeral.  Until changes is made in both the boys and girls basketball program this is what you will have.  Until people in Manchester mad up and get these fools out of office at the board and get new leadership in.......changes will not be made.