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Jenkins cancels football 2019 season
#31
PGL Wrote:I’m not apart of the football staff I’ll just throw that out there. JV was talked about before the schedule was made, and in hindsight it should of been the option that they went with. We have competitive teams from 5th-8th grade that are pretty competitive. The plan is to hopefully have enough kids to play a JV schedule next year and go from there.

Good luck and I think everyone in KY and especially E KY hopes the green and white Cavaliers from Jenkins put a team on the field for years to come.
#32
jetpilot Wrote:Good luck and I think everyone in KY and especially E KY hopes the green and white Cavaliers from Jenkins put a team on the field for years to come.

Our community appreciates it! We hope to be cheering for The mountains at Kroger Field week 15!
#33
PGL Wrote:I can assure everyone that we had realistic expectations! As for the kids I have spoke to a few and some have stated they would like to continue their career else where! As bad as I hate it I have to agree the decision made. We will look to play a JV season next year and hopeful compete in district in 4 years. Unless they bring back 8 man. I ask that we can have support for the kids and please keep negative conversation private.
Go Cavaliers! :Cheerlead
#34
PGL Wrote:No one never said it wasn’t dead in the water. I wasn’t going to tell those kids not to come to practice! If you have 7 kids coming to two a days and weight lifting. Then that’s 7 kids attempting to do something, that’s 7 kids for - few hours of the day that aren’t out getting high or getting into to trouble, to me that’s a win. The real lose isn’t the games, it’s what are those kids doing now that there isn’t a practice after school.

Well said and thanks for caring for the kids. it's too easy for them to get into trouble. especially when they have too much free time.
#35
jetpilot Wrote:Good luck and I think everyone in KY and especially E KY hopes the green and white Cavaliers from Jenkins put a team on the field for years to come.

I've always been a fan of the Cavaliers Smile
#36
On a side note - Don't let Prez Kranz back if you want to keep a program. I'm a firm believer Coach O'Quinn knows how to build the program. He he 100% about small town 1A football, growing up in Elkhorn City. I hope the community rally's around this issue.
#37
Ghostofjoey Wrote:How does it affect Breathitt Co's RPI???? :0

Shouldn't have scheduled them in the first place..
#38
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Bolz, ole fatpat got a tear in his eye when hearing the news. Jenky kids deserve better. When I got the call about the shut down it sure as he$$ didn't surprise this big guy. I tried to tell their concessions director this summer that the international spin on concessions wouldn't work. I said Brutha, you can't sell smoked chicken gizzards wrapped in a freakin wonton and expect success, wowza! You better be deep frying sumthin sumthin and add a lot of taters to the menu. Knott county 0-3, Rotten Potato Index is rock freakin bottom, tailgating is shaba and concessions is the holy grail!

#prioritiesmakeaprogram #yomingdontsellinjenky More mash taters please!!!
#39
Now Pikeville has three bye weeks IF they win the district. Jenkins should’ve never been put in a district.
#40
Good luck going forward Cavs. I wish you nothing but the very best!!
#41
jetpilot Wrote:Like I said I love Jenkins and I mean it. Like PHSForever said on another thread build it from little league up and play a JV schedule...but unfortunately if you only have 7 kids in the summer, football is not even close to being a viable option at Jenkins.



Exactly
if you have to wait for school to start to get players you don't have a chance to compete.
#42
HCS Wrote:Exactly
if you have to wait for school to start to get players you don't have a chance to compete.

I can’t stress how bad this breaks my soul to say this, but it’s not about being competitive at Jenkins as much as it is learning skills. And I can say with 100% certainty that it’s more about knowing where those kids are, that they are safe, among other things. I’m not trying to make Jenkins out to be the slums of Brazil or anything, but it was much better to give those kids a hope that kids will come out when school starts because they normally do. Now as a coach you have to be realistic about that hope, and you share that with your players.Our kids learned a very valuable life listen here, that with the opportunity to play football they never would have learned.
#43
Khsaa not letting teams replace games
#44
PGL Wrote:I can’t stress how bad this breaks my soul to say this, but it’s not about being competitive at Jenkins as much as it is learning skills. And I can say with 100% certainty that it’s more about knowing where those kids are, that they are safe, among other things. I’m not trying to make Jenkins out to be the slums of Brazil or anything, but it was much better to give those kids a hope that kids will come out when school starts because they normally do. Now as a coach you have to be realistic about that hope, and you share that with your players.Our kids learned a very valuable life listen here, that with the opportunity to play football they never would have learned.

I hate what they're going through. Every young man should have the opportunity to play football and to learn teamwork.

As a man with a kid brother playing currently for Prestonsburg, I worry about us going through this same awful situation.
#45
BlackcatPride32 Wrote:I hate what they're going through. Every young man should have the opportunity to play football and to learn teamwork.

As a man with a kid brother playing currently for Prestonsburg, I worry about us going through this same awful situation.

This has been happening for years. We had an 8 man team I believe in 2003. When we played with struggled with numbers. Our middle school went undefeated a few years but we would lose those kids to the county school. I think pburg will get it turned around, way to much history and prestige there!
#46
BlackcatPride32 Wrote:I hate what they're going through. Every young man should have the opportunity to play football and to learn teamwork.

As a man with a kid brother playing currently for Prestonsburg, I worry about us going through this same awful situation.



Prestonsburg is too big of a school to have that problem.
#47
What is the enrollment in 9-12?
Jenkins started over a few years back when dropping out of district play.
#48
HCS Wrote:Prestonsburg is too big of a school to have that problem.

I wish but if these freshman left like the 3 classes prior, then we would have about 18 kids with 4 injuries amongst them.

We have a great young coach who’s got to be given time to get the numbers back up.

I’ll stop talking about my Cats though. This is about Jenkins and I hate that they can’t even get 11 to come out before the school year starts. I’m not trying to mean or anything, but how does a practice go with just 8 players?
#49
HCS Wrote:What is the enrollment in 9-12?
Jenkins started over a few years back when dropping out of district play.

470 Pre-K-12. I’m not sure of just high school enrollment, a few years ago we graduated just 13 kids. We have over 100 kids in city limits that go to the county schools.
#50
Personally, this could be the best thing that could happen to this program, long term. I feel bad for the kids who have put the work in this year and in previous years, but sometimes you have to hit "rock bottom", before you can better yourself as a program. Jenkins middle and grade schools are very competitive, so they have something positive to build on for the future. Maybe, this will be a wake up call to the administration and more money can be put towards the program and the facilities. I look for Jenkins to rebound from this and put together some competitive teams in the future. Good luck to the Jenkins program.
#51
Cat Daddy Wrote:Personally, this could be the best thing that could happen to this program, long term. I feel bad for the kids who have put the work in this year and in previous years, but sometimes you have to hit "rock bottom", before you can better yourself as a program. Jenkins middle and grade schools are very competitive, so they have something positive to build on for the future. Maybe, this will be a wake up call to the administration and more money can be put towards the program and the facilities. I look for Jenkins to rebound from this and put together some competitive teams in the future. Good luck to the Jenkins program.

I doubt a district with 470 students has any extra money to put toward football facilities. Many schools much larger than Jenkins are gone.
#52
HCS Wrote:I doubt a district with 470 students has any extra money to put toward football facilities. Many schools much larger than Jenkins are gone.

We have money, but we have to raise all the money we spend. Like if we want something for football unless the money is in the boosters or school account we can’t get it until we raise the money for it. We also get zero start up money. The school will buy us meals which is great, but as far as buying equipment the teams have to fundraise for it.
#53
Didn't last seasons Jenkins' team have about 10G in the booster account that had to be paid for past expenditures in other sports? I heard that hit the Jenkins football account pretty hard.
#54
That was my point. The district isn't going to put very much money into football.
It's been a struggle for 40 years or more there. I can't think of any school that has bounced back from that.
#55
Real Badman Wrote:Didn't last seasons Jenkins' team have about 10G in the booster account that had to be paid for past expenditures in other sports? I heard that hit the Jenkins football account pretty hard.

That was 3 seasons ago and before Matt Chandler took over and he killed it getting donations to cover that cost of what was previously spent. Matt had that money back in like three months

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