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Player5622Sounds to me like you don't even know Daniel Pugh. Anyone who would make a statement like, he's cocky or dosen't play with heart, don't know him at all. He is a confident young man in what he does on the field, court or diamond. If you knew him you would change your tune. He plays hard and leaves everything he has out there. Is it his fault he's had 4 different offensive coordinaters in four years? No it isn't.
You are eager to blame him for the coaches lack of knowledge. He runs what the coach sends in the huddle. You can't blame him for his coachs' lack of experience of setting up plays that will produce yardage.
I read on another thread that the basketball team will be better off without him playing this year. Since he is the only one who can and will defend on both ends of the court . The basketball team will miss him. Any team would miss a player of his caliber.
I'd say Jamie McCarty is thrilled that he's not playing. He shut Jamie out in the distriict tourney until the last two minutes of the game when Paintsville went into the 2-3 zone. Jamie came down and drained 3 straight 3's.
These posts seem to me like there is a lot of jealousy out there, if not you wouldn't be reading about Pugh so much.
It's pretty easy to sit back and critize when you know nothing about the coaches and what they are trying to do.
I've been around this game and all the games in which he has participated in, and have seen some very talented athletes in all the sports in this county for over 40 years. Pugh is one of the best athletes to come through this school system in a long time. He plays hard and plays with more heart than most. Winning is the most important thing to him regardless what sport he's playing. He has always put the team good ahead of personal achievements.
Now, as far as records are conserned he does have a shot at Mike Minix touchdown record which is 103 TD's. Mike got all his TD's running the ball. Daniel has 102 TD's rushing and passing combined. Daniel needs 1 TD to tie and 2 to break the record. He got # 100 against JC in the apple bowl, and no he didn't get it against the second or third string. Jim brought his 1st team back into the game. That's who he got it against. I'm getting tired of reading posts about young men who really give their all to the sport they are playing from people like you who probably have never played a team sport and are really jealous of their accomplishments. By the way Mike minix is the only High School All-American that has com out of either Paintsville or Johnson Central.
He is already the all time TD leader at QB at this school and probably this county. He holds the record for TD's in one game, 10 against Evarts in the play offs last year. He holds the record for most TD's in a season 43, last year. When you play a sport, records don't enter your mind. When you get this close and someone says you need only so many TD's to surpass a great athlete like Mike Minix then the coach should be trying to figure out how to get it for him. Not all coaches can say they coached a young man that set any kind of record at any school.