[UK96HOF]

These comments are very interesting and at the same time very misinformed. Being one of parkeys very first players that he ever coached at Roundstone Elementary as a basketball and football player and knowing him even before that I can say he does care about his kids. But he was never going to have success as the HC of the Rock. He's what I would call a dreamer. Big ideas with no foundation to build those ideas on. Rock football has and always will be about toughness. He wanted to play a finesse type of way. That would never work here. It's no coincidence Larkey comes in and his 2nd yr they have a better team than Parkey ever had. It's a traditional based mentality that makes this program what it is. Larkey will continue to be very successful. He knows what the community needs to produce kids that can play the game. His dad understood that and yes he had a dynasty here. You can't look at numbers, wins, losses and judge what a dynasty is. By that logic only 3A dynasty is Boyle during that time. That's just not true. During that time Bell, Boyle, Rock, all had created dynasty programs in their respective communities. Dynasties are judged on the impact that is made on the sport and community supporting them. There was no 3A school during Larkeys time that wanted to see the Rock on their path to the state finals.

The fact no one has mentioned the legend Tony Saylor is disrespectful. His absence from the program is what made parkey unable to be successful. Now that Chris has taken the job he's back around the program putting that energy back into the kids. Tom gets all the credit from those yrs he was here but to my knowledge he was never offered by almost every D1 college in the state to take a job. Tony was. He was the brains of the defense that nobody wanted to play against. He was one of the most brilliant defensive minds in the history of Ky HS football. That man put in more film hrs than anyone in the state and I'd bet my life on that. Every kid that played for him would say the same thing. Every kid that played for those 2 men would say they would do it again and never say they were mistreated. It was football in the 90s, early 2000s. It was different. Kids didn't need to be coddled like today. They made men and did a very good job of it. Respectfully all anyone can say about parkey is he's a nice guy. In this area it takes the personality that Chris has to be successful. He's fair with the kids, he treats them respectfully but at the same time he's not trying to be their friend, he's that throwback tough coach you have to have in this area to take less talent and get the absolute most out of it. They should have changed HC a long time ago. There's just something about how Chris and his dad approach the game that makes them be able to be successful in this area that doesn't work anywhere else but here it's exactly what is needed. It's having guys around them like Josh Martin that grew up with Tom, and Tony coaching him and being able to instill that toughness he was taught into the kids today. Keep your eyes out for the Rock. It's on its way back up.