[Old School Hound]

Clay needs a winner, not a nice guy or good business man.  Also, it only takes 2-3 a$$ clowns to keep a coach in Clay Co apparently.

A$$clowns are not exclusive to Manchester. Believe me, we have a sh!tload of them here as well.  Pretty good topic for debate--- if one had to choose between a coach who is an exceptionally nice guy but mediocre as far as a winning coach vs. a real a$$hole who wins 30 games every season, who would you choose? I think most in towns like Manchester and Corbin(or anywhere, for that matter) would want the a$$hole who wins.  Winning, in today's society, seems to be , not the most important thing but THE ONLY thing that matters. Corbin has a pretty good basketball coach who, by most accounts, is also a pretty good guy.  Coach Gray, though I don't know him, seems like a pretty good guy as well. I guess where I differ from some others is that I think he's a pretty good coach also. Obviously , this season was a titanic struggle , though. 

I do think Clay will be back winning games again . I think a lot of it has to do with the losing of local talent to other schools. I wish Clay the best. I really enjoyed watching some of those great Clay teams. I recently watched the '87 LIT ,  '87 State Championship, and '88 State Championship, all games pitting Clay County against Ballard. Man, were those teams good!!! Clay won two of the three and , in the one they lost, Richie put up a 50-burger on the Bruins. I would encourage every fan of HS basketball to go onto you tube and watch those three epic Clay Co.-Ballard games. Tremendous basketball.  Clay County is the reason the 13th region is stronger now than it was decades ago. In order to compete with Clay, schools HAD to get better or suffer a beat down. I'm rooting for Coach Gray to get things turned around, at least to where Clay is competitive again. I think it will happen eventually.