[Blue12]

Blue12, I don't know you but this is John Luttrell and I am not sure what you have against my coaching ability or leadership ability. However, I would like to know as well as know who you are. I will tell anyone up front that I am not a win at all cost person, I don't believe that is my primary purpose as a Head Coach. I do believe that making young men of character is a primary purpose, to teach them to do the right thing for the right reasons and live by core values. In my opinion, if you do this, winning and losing will take care of itself and you will be successful even if not on the scoreboard.
John Luttrell

Nothing aginst you personally, but we're talking about the need of a coach to not only dig the M'boro program out of the rut that it has been run into but then lead the program back to the level that it had in the past. Once again my issue is that IF this program is to even come close to what it once was we need to bring in a coach that has a track record of running a big program and a history of winning against quality competition. Maybe a simple example of where I'm coming from is look at UK. UK basketball would not hire a coach that wasn't proven as a winner in Division 1 basketball or maybe the NBA. If the administration went to the high school or NAIA for a coach, they would be run out of the state. But when it comes to UK football UK has not had very many coaches that came to UK with winning records and now we have one with no record at all. (Joker). Well when it comes to M'boro football its our UK basketball. The administrators allowed it in the recent past to become more like UK football. They have had several hires that had little to no winning records against quality competition or they had no real HC experience. And what has it got the program? Myself and others would like to see the football returned to the days when M'boro was respected. Its not today. We would like to see a return to the period when M'boro scheduled and beat schools from Knoxville, Louisville, Lexington, etc. Once again nothing personnel and your statements about treating the kids good and working them hard are great! But very few coaches in the SEKY area today can claim to have a trackrecord that would suggest they could get M'boro football back to respectibility. I hope you all the luck in the world, but when it comes to this hire I want to see the administration to hire the Coach Calipari not Coach Gillispie or Mumme. I'm not saying you are anything like either of the last two, I'm saying I want a proven winner with a record of playing at a higher level of competition than what is normally found in SEKY.

All that said, I honestly don't expect the administration to go get a top level coach with a proven record as we so dearly need. (But I can dream) I really expect they will hire someone that's not a budget buster and hope he runs a program that doesn't stir up problems for them irreguardless of wins. One statement you made was you wanted to know who I was? I'm the former player at M'boro who wants to see the Yellow Jackets win, not run from local teams, provide unity and pride in the community and receive respect from other top programs throughout the state. That's who I am.