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No disrespect to you either but in your previous post you said you were an outsider looking in. To an outsider looking in yes Mcnamee had a great run while he was coaching here but the ones in the know and have been insiders in this program for many years told me these down years were coming 7-8 years ago because of how he was allowing the LL program to be run. Im not trying to say hes a bad guy or a bad coach but the complete disaray he left the JR high and Little league programs in when he left is the example of why I dont think he will get hired again. The good things that Coach J did wont be seen here for a few years but the complete reorganizing of the LL and JR high programs are the good things folks speak of. IMO Mcnamee had a good run of athletes while he was here but had John Chapman or Hillard or another coach of the same abilties had the kids that Mcnamee had we would have a few more state title banners hanging from our scoreboard right now. .

I am not to judge how one runs a program but the facts are the facts. Let me give you some of them. Pikeville's LL program now has been reorganized as to the rules and ideas the way the games are to be played. In no way are they developed into a future program for the High School. No set schemes and total disorganization for the most part concerning coaching and fundementals being taught to the 3-4 grade and the 5-6 grade teams. Who ever gets the job must institute their own ideas and run with them with the full support of using the high school staff to clinic the coaches at the mentioned levels. The people in the know as you say ,saw down years to come? The talent pikeville has had over the past 3 years has been remarkable. Show me more skill kids on any team in class 1a or 2a this year and the line was not exactly inexperienced. Historically pikeville has had a run of either great skill or good lineman. What is down about a class of 12 to 14 freshman winning a regional championship and moving on to their sophmore year with leader such as will lockhart, weston robinson, ryan maynard, tim champlin, and chase huffman etc.
Whats down about that? Coach Mcnamee has his reason for coaching the way he did as does every coach. Many factors are always left out of the equations when "people" that are on the in, speak. During Mcnamee's tenure he had an appointed LL director that was a part of his staff. Casey Lequire now a coach at Belfry was hired as LL director and had a total motivation of making the programs sucessful and for them to be a feder program for the High School. Politics got in the way and the principal at the time at the elementry assigned a female teacher to the position who inturn ran it for a short while giving the duties to kevin garris. The attempt was made, support was not. The Jr high level was not the most organized program due to the long run of a specific coach that tried but was not willing to be at meetings and involved with the varsity staff. He was removed and our DPP Mr Johnson took over the JR high program and was very suscessful. As stated before coaches have different ways and ideas for off season conditioning. For anyone to say that the 3regional championships and 2 runner up trophies were not earned in the offseason ,they were not involved in the 6:00am workouts for the basketball players doing specific basketball lifts to keep them in shape until after the season, or the 2 hour, 3 day a week work outs that also included speed work on tuesdays and or thursdays. People some seem to forget the hard work and dedication by many that it takes to be sucessful. You dont have to work out 5 times a week to be sucessful. Talking to a supporter of PHS he told me that they added a weight lifting class after Mcnamee left. Utilized properly this can be a great tool for a program. They also said in upwards of 15,000 was spent to totally renovate the weight room after he left. If anyone knows Chris these had to be things he also wanted but was not given. What all of the supporters of the PHS program I have spoken with over the past 8 years want to win and all of them have been totally in support of what coach Mac did for their program. You wont find a kid who played for him who will say he did not ask everything of them and demand his coaches and players to be upstanding community members and dedicated panthers . Long point made simple , in life if your doing the correct things you dont have to tell everyone about how hard your working or how much time your putting in. Some want to promote themselves not their team or the program the are in.