[Old School Hound]

That's great, but what have you done for me lately? One trip to state in 12 years is okay with Corbin??

You could take any other active coach in the region and say the same thing. The twelve year cutoff is a bit arbitrary as well, go back two more years and you are looking at three of fourteen. I'll give you that one trip in twelve years or even three in fourteen probably doesn't meet the expectations of most Corbin fans, especially if you'd have told them that Knox Central would go on a run of three straight since their last one. 

A better way to put it may be like this-- I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who would definitively be a better fit AT CORBIN than Pietrowski. He played there, came up in the system, and hasn't been anywhere else for a significant amount of time. There's probably little chance that he leaves them and takes another job, especially for the next handful of years. If Corbin fans don't want him, they should take a very hard look at who they know they'll be able to get, how that might be perceived amongst other coaches in any sport that they might want to court years down the road, and what they know that they'll be able to get from whoever they bring in. Things could be worse, and if you're going to make a case for bringing in an active coach who'd be better for Corbin than he's been, then there's quite a bit of risk.

I don't know that I'd say he's the best coach in the 13th, but out of anyone named here, he and Akal are probably the best fits for the programs that they're at, meaning that I don't know that there's a considerable difference in the end result if you were to go and replace them right now with someone others might consider to be a better coach.

There's something to be said about his being active longer than any of the other coaches mentioned, but with only four active coaches having regional titles, it's hard to put any of them too far down in a ranking. If I were starting a program tomorrow, he might not be my first pick absent something fact-specific to that program's situation, but there's also fair arguments to be made for four or five names, especially if you are comparing any two of them head-to-head.

Good post.  Corbin has had some really good coaches,   Woods,  Hicks, Deaton, Pietrowski. Are you kidding me?  It would be hard to find another school that has had four better coaches in succession.

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Note: When I rank my 13th region coaches, I'm simply using the criteria of in-game, x's and O's guy. As someone else mentioned, there are other factors that go into being a good coach but when I make my list I'm  just going by what I see on the sidelines when I watch games.  Gray is a good coach, imo, by my criteria. He may have shortcomings in other areas like player development. I wouldn't really know that. By my criteria, there are not five better than Glenn. Maybe four, but not five.   I also think Gray and the kids he coaches represent their school very well.