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Maybe they should talk to the AD!

BMR is a great coach and he did well as football coach last year, not only in results, but in getting the players out. But he has had a time controlling the players on the Tiger Basketball team, or so it would appear. I can't blame him for not coaching football and basketball this year because you can't do both justice as I said before when he decided to become football coach for last year. He is very good at both, but it is hard to do both, at least now days. This is especially true when you are trying to groom a very talented basketball team and get them to Rupp. As for Pugh, he is a great athlete, both in basketball and football (and baseball). But for whatever reason, there was friction between some of the players last year on the basketball team, Pugh included. If he doesn't play basketball, and I am not saying he shouldn't, it may end up being for the best or it may not. Whether he plays or not, the basketball team has got to have chemistry, cooperation, and team work to win. And the players need to be fully committed to their roles and the team concept. If they don't then they will not get their trip to Rupp.

As for some players not playing football, you can't blame them if they choose not to play or to just play one sport. But if there is something else going on, then that needs to be looked at. But anyway, all football teams have their down times, and Paintsville will be okay.

Ego and personality problems are what have caused a lot of the football problems this year, along with the Matney factor(and I am not talking about Apple Bowl scores). I dont think that Bill Mike fully realized the consequences that the football program would pay for when he pulled a power play to get the football job last year and deny Chuke the job. And lets be honest,that what it was all about. Anything just to keep his arch enemy out of control of the football program.

Bill Mike might be a great football coach, we may never know that for sure because he had a team loaded with talent last year that major coaching ability didn't play that great of a factor in to begin with. And now he is done with that. It would have been interesting to see what he really could do as far as developing players year after year, then we would have had a real idea on what kind of a football coach he is or could have been. Shoot all we heard when BMR took the football job was that that it had always always been his dream job, not basketball. Besides, all he has said, each and every year, for the last 3 years when he has stated that he wasn't coming back and concerning the current class and the possibility of another regional championship was "Been there, done that."