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Well it has been a while because I havent been on here in a long time but I will give my 2 cents on the Tate Cox situation and season as a whole. These are my honest observations and quite accurate I think.
First of all there is a 99% chance that Tate will transfer. There is a 1% chance that he would stay but the chances of a coaching change are very remote because Joe Stepp will not leave the playing time of Clint to chance. Tate has a free ride to any school that he chooses to go to because of legal reasons that most of you probably have heard about. This is not a rumor but a legal fact. With that being said Tate like all other players on the team have strong resentment towards the Stepp family because of what they did to a special group of young athletes. When you are around the Stepp family for long it is not hard to figure out that they will sell their souls to the devil and sacrifice the other kids on the team for their own selfish goals. Tate is fed up with the lies about how this year would be different and how they were going to play better team ball and develop an insided game which was also a lie. Tate will transfer this year and it will be to either Knott or Hazard for a fact. It just depends on a few things that will make this decision for him. I think that all Tate and the other kids on the team wanted was just to play team ball and the Stepp clan made a decision to concentrate on their own personal goals instead of the goals of a team.
The person that is the most to blame in this fiasco is Joe Stepp and not the pawns that he used for coaches in Jim and Gary. Joe has sacrificed the lives of other people many times for the sake of his own selfish ambitions. The sad thing is that he is supposed to be smart and yet he was to dumb to realize that the things that he was doing to this team made Clark look terrible at times and made people resent Clark when all he was doing is what he was told. Clark has commented a number of times that he just wished that he could play team ball and not worry about basketball 24 hours a day. Joe would not let that happen because it went against all the goals he had planned for Clark all his life.
It is really sad to think how good this group of kids could have been and I really feel for Garrsion,Trey,Tate,and Brent Hall especially and to all of those other kids who sat on the bench watching the game with Clark playing in the 4th quarter with a 20-40 point lead because they had not gotten him his 26 points a game average. It used to be funny when Gary would go and ask the bookkeeper how many points Clark had so they would know when to pull him. Alot of people ask why someone like Jim Stepp would coach like this and the answer if real easy....money....because Jim works for Joe as Vice President of Alc and he makes a very big salary. Gary also has a position with the institution and actually does not even teach a class but gets a big income with free housing and free food.
With all of this said I would ask that no one feel bad towards the school or the kids or even Clark because they all are just victims of the evil ways of Joe Stepp. I think that everyone has to answer for the things that we do in life and I think Joe will have to answer for the things that he has done to the lives of some very good kids. These kids that he has affected will hopefully learn a valuable life lesson that sometimes the actions of others affect the goals that you have worked so hard for and that you have to pick up the pieces and become a stronger person because there are unfortuantely alot of people like Joe out there. This is no the end for these kids but the beginning because the alot of kids on this teams will spread out to other high schools or colleges and dont be surprised when people say they have better college than high school careers because in high school most were not playing on a level field. Good luck to all these kids and to whoever wins the 14th region because I will be down at Rupp supporting the 14th region as I always do.