[SmashMouth17]

Dudley > Larkey as much as some of the Rock fans where hoping differently, this is the reality right now….and I don’t see it changing anytime soon….

I have to disagree with you on that one hound. The entire culture has already been changing. The support is their. Cars are back parking all the way to the save a lot across the street which if you have ever been there it takes a lot off people to do that. The stands are shoulder to shoulder every home game and the crowds are every larger for the away games then before. The JV is 5-0. Hasn’t happen in a long time. Elementary and Middle school programs are well over 100 little one’s that have came out this year which is more than double the Parkey era. He has the support of the Athletic director and ample time to turn things around. People forget this will take time to achieve it will not happen over night. We all want success right now and every week but the program was in shambles when he took over. Rock football will come back and it won’t take all that long all the pieces are here and let’s face it Chris Larkey has his dad Tom and Coach Saylor at every game and practice supporting everything he does which coach Saylor has always been around he only left because him and the old coach Parkey couldn’t get along. Let’s not forget Tom Larkey at Rockcastle County had a winning record against Bell no reason to believe his son won’t due the same thing especially considering he already did beat Bell last year with a NL program who was ahead of schedule.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, I didn’t say that Larkey didn’t have the Rock fan base energized, I’d already heard there where kids coming out that had never played before.  Listen it’s not easy for me to say, I’m no Dudley fan at all, I mean AT ALL however the results speak for themselves, he’s already had Bell back to the title game since he returned.  Chris Larkey just isn’t the coach that Dudley Hilton is as it stands, can he change that perception? possibly but he’s gonna have to pack his lunch, barley beating Dudley with a more talented North Laurel squad is not nearly as impressive as a win will be Friday night, good luck Rockets…

I get what your saying and I respect your opinion. But just as you said everyone does have an opinion and that’s whats so great about living in America we can respectfully agree to disagree. I never said Chris is a better coach than Dudley especially at the moment but Dudley has been coaching for nearly as long as Chris has been alive that’s once again like comparing apples to oranges however I do think Chris will be a great coach and he is abosutely a great fit for Rockcastle football. Like he said on day 1 he will rebuild Rockcastle football back to where we used to be and like he told the team Rock football will be rebuilt with or without them and has shown tough love and hard work within the entire team. Some couldn’t handle it and didn’t make the team others are stepping up and trying to be what they need to be. The state of the program was ran down when he took over in 15 years never made it out of the second round of the playoffs and for some reason that was considered successful while the entire fan base disagreed entirely. It is a rebuild period one that many could say will end of being from the ashes approach and we fully support him and stand behind him 100% the fans wanted him hired here before but with strong politics and an athletic director who wanted nothing good to happen with the football team stood in the way. All the resources were going to other athletics and football wasn’t a priority like it was for Tom back in the day. Now that has changed along with everything else and like I said all the pieces are in place and now Chris will have to put them all together for the final product. When football is good/great around the region ie Corbin Bell Boyle Rock all Somerset schools NL etc it’s better for high school football in general and I believe we will be back. Let’s be honest if we hadn’t lost our QB early in the game against Wayne we wouldn’t be 3-3 and most would be saying we’re heading in the right direction and as it stands right now we should be getting him back before the season is over and if we do we are still capable of winning several more games. Besides he is only a junior and him along with Christian Larkey our leading RB will both be back next year.