[Blackcat 4 Life]

I'm a complete outsider to Prestonsburg football, I did play with Jeremy Caudill a little in college, but other than that I'm only familiar with the history and not the ins and outs.

What I do know is that if they couldn't outbid GRC for Jordan Ray then the "Money" everyone is speaking of isn't talking. I love Jordan, he's a great guy a great OC and Line coach and will be a good HC one day, but I know a little about the coaching budgets around the state and if Pburg wanted Jordan bad enough they could and would have outbid GRC's OC stipend and school pay.  You can't have Champagne taste on a Steel Reserve budget. It sounds to me like Pburg should take a chance with a no name up and comer and pray they hit lighting in a bottle.

They didn't offer Jordan Ray the same package as they did Sullivan. I feel like they were too confident in Ray taking the job and they tried to get him at a lesser cost. This ended up biting them in the end, when GRC offered him a new position and raise. If they would have offered Ray the money up front, I feel like it would have been hard to turn down. Also, Ray wanted things outside of money that Prestonsburg couldn't guarantee. They went all in on Sullivan, and if it wasn't for his family wanting to stay at Pikeville, he would be the coach at Prestonsburg as we speak. There are more important things than money, and Sullivan like most others put his family first. I don't know where they are going to go from here. Letton is interested, but he is wanting too much money. He would be taking a significant pay cut if he came back. You can't blame him. Burchett would be willing to help coach while he is here, but he can't commit to anything with him looking for other coaching jobs. I can't see any of the other names that have been mentioned on here being serious candidates. I know they are looking at a couple of assistant coaches which have coached under the best to ever do it in the state of Kentucky. They may not have gotten who they wanted to get initially, but I believe they will get it right in the end. Hail Blackcats!