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Come on. You call support from the administration playing in a dust bowl with no locker rooms and porta-potties. Matney spent 20 years there and built the wrestling program into a power as well.
Haney and the administration did not support Matney.
As for Blackburn, he inherited a mess. The system has had a good ol' boy system for years, and maybe some of the people living high off the hog is actually having to work.
A little work never hurt no one.
Declining enrollment is the reason for combining the schools. Look at their middle school football team this year. Didn't they run the table and win the conference?
When this happens, I hope Blackburn opens a Martin County High School and rids the county of all the Inez and Warfield crap.
That starts with a basketball coach from outside the area.
Hager is from Belfry. They are doing fine.
Jim Matney was from outside the area. He was a winner.
Sam Sparks was from Lawrence County. He was a winner.
See the trend.
Blackburn is doing the right thing.
What's right is right. It may not be popular but it is right.