[Old School Hound]

After strolling around town for a week , being a little nosey(actually a lot nosey), visiting a lot of business establishments (i.e., restaurants and such) asking a lot of questions, talking to my contacts, and taking a lot of notes, I came away with the impression that many feel like that those who are critical of the leadership at Corbin is either a bitter old fool, has some kind of axe to grind, is obsessed with sniffing Justin Haddix' butthole, or maybe most importantly, has no "Corbin pride."

The no Corbin pride comment was a common theme I encountered among people I talked to. They apparently think the people on message boards who roast the superintendent, the head coach, the beloved RVC(which, btw, hasn't updated its website since 2018), and others who have made Corbin football what it is today are just angry old men who are butthurt that they can't play football anymore and are relegated to the position of being just a keyboard warrior.  

Apparently, from what I've gathered is that we who are critical  are thought of by some "close" to the program as having no pride in Corbin or it's "rich football tradition."  We are traitors, of sort, on here praising Boyle County and it's elite young coach.

Case in point, look at the posts in the Corbin/LexCath thread.   Talk turns to Corbin/ Boyle. Intelligent football watchers like Bull and Hound have a list of contenders in 4A with a wide gap between Boyle and Corbin. When I read some of these posts, I have to admit that even I get depressed. Even though in some polls we are the 4th best team in the state regardless of class,  I read that Boyle and all of its SPEED,SPEED,SPEED are at least 15-18 points better than we are. I want to end this 40-year drought as much as anyone but, it seems, that Big Bad Boyle gives us little chance of quenching our thirsts.  This graphic doesn't sit well with some in Corbin:


1. Boyle
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2. Corbin





It seems to some in town that a handful of Corbinites(people like myself, Bull, Hound, Viz, etc,,,) are upset that their Dear Coach and MeLady Haddix was run out of town so now their gonna heap praise on the former coach and his juggernaut three-time state champions. It seems to some that we are obsessed with the talents of one, Justin Haddix , and his speedsters from Danville. I mean , look at how we gush with awe and admiration in our posts about Haddix and his invincible Rebels. Obviously, I'm as guilty as any on here, I guess. Are we wrong in being so critical? I mean, Greer is something like 35-4 since taking over the reigns from the football savant that now resides in the county of Boyle?  And hasn't Corbin has been pretty much a fixture in the top 2 or 3  in 4A  for pretty much all of Tom's tenure? 

Are we just traitors for being so hyper-critical in a public forum? Are we ungrateful for the leadership that we have in Greer and Cox ?  Have we no "Corbin pride" like many seem to think?

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