[BlackcatAlum]

Hoskins is the best candidate for the job and it’s who they should hire. He’s a quality play caller and he can develop QBs. He’ll be good for Mays and if they can keep Buck at FC with Cotton, they can be pretty dangerous on the outside if Mays can develop. He’s very raw. Jags will have to basically replace their entire offensive line. That’s a HUGE issue any incoming coach needs to be aware of. Defensively, FC was bad. Might’ve had the worst defense in 2A. Now, you return a a good DL in Ethan Curry. If he’s giving effort, he’s really good. Bailey Evans stood out at times to me also for the Jags on defense. Elijah Little is a kid that could have a good year also for FC. Outside of those few, guys need to build confidence and put in the work necessary. Otherwise, there’s going to be a TON of holes and weaknesses in that defense again.

Now I wish nothing but success for the Jaguars. I like a lot of folks from down there, but Leslie County is entering our district. Knott returns the bulk of their team, Martin Co loses the bulk of their team, but they return Maynard, and Prestonsburg could have one of their best teams since early 2010s. So I’d say Floyd Central will enter the season predicted to finish last in district play and if that’s how it plays out, they’ll miss the playoffs.

Whether it’s Hoskins or someone else, they’ll have their work cut out for them. Going to need a tight knit and solid group of assistants who buy in. Most definitely need a quality group of men to coach the feeder program and the next coach likely needs to be hands on to get that up and running correctly.

Most importantly, you’ve gotta convince the basketball and baseball players that football will never be a quality product at that school until they start putting on the pads too and going through the two a days. I don’t care if Nick Saban was the coach, if you don’t have the jimmy’s and joes, you cannot win the games that matter.

Best of luck to whomever gets the job.