[Redneck]

Landon Slone grew up either around or actually on Beaver creek and if I'm not mistaken he went to middle school at MCA in Martin, so that would be the only reason I can think of for him to be interested in the FC job, but he bleeds Paintsville blue so HC at Paintsville is likely his dream job. Floyd County BOE politics is terrible at the moment, so I would be surprised if he #1 leaves Paintsville, and #2 takes ANY job in Floyd county. If he resigns then I would wager that it's not because he wants to. If Paintsville forces him out then it would be just another brick in the wall of catastrophic errors in judgment by the AD at Paintsville. All of their athletic programs are trending downhill right now except for basketball, and that's mainly because Landon Slone is an excellent coach.

What are you talking about other than the girls basketball coach deal that happened last year? The baseball team was young last year, and is still gonna be young this year, and they’re good. No one knows how football will turn out, just like no one knew Pburg would have the season they had.

Football program is in bad shape, man. Granted, Pburg was too before last year, but there’s no guarantees with a new coach. Pburg made an amazing hire, we will see if Paintsville did too, but it’s not common to resurrect a program in a year or two. I believe It’ll recover at some point, with somebody, but you have to admit that the fall was shockingly precipitous. Just think- State champs in ‘20, now in ‘25 they’ll be lucky to finish 2nd in their district for possibly a good 5-6 years, at least, with Hazard on the rise and pikeville being pikeville. You mentioned the girls coach last year, so I won’t. Baseball will be ok, I guess. If they force Landon Slone out it’ll be catastrophic for that program, I think… My main focus is the football program though. Replacing Chirico with Hoskins worked out just about as well (better, granted) as Pburg replacing Derossett with Brewer. Paintsville worked out the bad hire faster than Pburg did, but there’s still a reason that I don’t know yet behind why they’ve lost so much talent through transfers the last couple of years. Possible that it was Hoskins, but it could be bigger than that. If Slone isn’t coaching at Paintsville next year then I’ll be convinced that Hoskins wasn’t the reason.

I’m not sure where “forcing Slone out” came from, but I know that ain’t happening. As for Slone taking the Floyd Central job like some have mentioned in the thread, that has been a rumor all year long. I’ve been hearing it since the beginning of the school year. I’d still have to see it to believe it. I can answer one thing though, no one is trying to run Slone off at Paintsville.