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107-120 w/o title game experience. I doubt it. Still, he has a done a great job at Casey irregardless.

I don't think Danville with get anyone with a modern title game experience to come there. This has to be a brave coach who has ultra confidence and still at least somewhat youthful energy to try and gain players and alumni respect. It will either have to be someone with a lot of head coach experience where you can just see, "this guy knows what he's doing", or get a very young coach who just has an impressive personality and 'feel' about them. I still say Stonebraker is easily the best candidate who is interested currently. If Stoney did get the Danville job I wouldn't mind having Peach here.

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Goldsmith can count to 205 .. the number of passing yards he had in the 2009 state championship game! Get a grip smoke and quit smoking that gas!

The state guy counted...he just took their word for it.

You must not be a Goldsmith fan. I don't know him, but this is the only forum I've seen his name even mentioned. Although, I haven't seen many names mentioned period.

I like Goldsmith. I know who he is and a good guy. First, I knew if he saw this he might actually get a kick out of it. He coached, his first coaching job that I know of was UNDER Stonebraker. In all honestly I know he'd put his all into any coaching job. But I don't know if he has the experience to be the head guy yet. I mean Stoney tutored him at least for a year, but I know where their knowledge and experience level is in terms of running the show as opposed to being part of the show. And just thinking of STonebraker from a friendship angle, he DESERVES it. He's almost 48 and has always went to build programs and is just now getting to that point I think he wants to fully go in on a power program. I know Danville was his dream job, even back 20 years ago.

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I saw Somerset mentioned. Somerset will draw applicants from all parts of the surrounding counties. I'd say current head coaches and assistants will all apply for that position, respectfully. As far as Danville, Clevenger is a top level coach. But, the "Clevenger or else" mindset is one of the reasons that another good coach, like Coach Peach for example, had 0% chance at success at Danville. The Danville community needs to understand that maybe Clevenger just simply isn't coming back. I for one, do not expect him to come back. So, they need to be willing to support whoever is hired.

Totally agree. I see Clevenger as a very good coach, but the city made Peach the bad guy even though I know he can coach and all other coaches believe he can. But they have to get past it's Clevenger or no one. If Clevenger wants to continue coaching college then Danville is too rooted in great tradition they need to get behind one coach and support them fully.

Peach did not run the Danville program to the standards set by Sam Harp and Clay Clevenger. I know Peach is a good coach, which made all that I observed perplexing. Not what I expected to see from a coach that has taken two teams to state championship games. Not close. I won’t say it was all his fault, but he has to share the responsibility for things going as they did. 

If Clevenger wishes to coach elsewhere, Danville will accept and support the next coach so long as one of the better applicants is chosen. If the best applicants are passed over for less qualified friends of administrators Danville isn’t going to accept that at all. In fact, you probably haven’t seen anything yet if that happens. At that point the community will have lost faith in the new administration. 

Clevenger is the best candidate for the Danville job. He is Danville Football. Next man up has to do a lot of damage control fast. There isn’t another coach that could do that faster. And it would go a long way in building positive feeling in the community for the new administration. It’s just the right decision all the way around.

Well I just hope Danville gets the right man and they return to a great program. I'm a Casey guy but working at American Greetings for a few years, making all those great friends in a few years who became like close relatives I became a Danville fan in the mid 1990s. I attended games as it was closer to leave from work on a few Fridays and watch. If I can have 2 teams without being disloyal, the Admirals are my second team. I was probably as big a fan of VanCleave when he played there, and then way back to Kinte Bess when he was there (I worked with him for about 2 weeks, RIP to him), but I followed them like they were NFL stars.