[TheTigersEye]

As normal as can be expected I guess. How's the July schedule looking? Any competitions going to be held at tiger stadium? Did we have the youth nights for the elementary students to learn the offense again this year or is that July to? I would like to see all elementary schools lined up in the spread this year.

[LandoGriffin]

Got tickled at the quote in the paper today. "We let the game against Rowan County slip away from us last year." Anytime you give up 500+ on the ground and get a running clock put on you that usually happens haha. If that's the case then all of our losses slipped away last year. Hoping to see a much improved Tiger team on the field this fall, anything less than 8 wins and putting a few running clocks on people is a disappointing season in my opinion.

[64SUR]

I hope to see Clay County posters backing the football program like they do basketball program. Go Tigers. :Cheerlead

[TheTigersEye]

I hope to see Clay County posters backing the football program like they do basketball program. Go Tigers. :Cheerlead

Clay County Football gets as much support locally as any sport here and there for awhile was more popular in the county than basketball until this run of moderate success we've had the last few years on the court. It's like anything else, the more success you have the more support you will get, these last few years have been rough and we have lost some of the fair weather fans. During the last coaching hire we had a bunch of posters on here talking about football, now it seems most of them have just disappeared or have nothing to say. There is absolutely no reason for us to not have a successful football team year in year out but it seems we can't get out of our own way in order to accomplish that.

[TheTigersEye]

"We let the game against Rowan County slip away from us last year."

I haven't read it yet but We didn't have a single defensive stop against Rowan last year.

[TheTigersEye]

Anybody have a 7 on 7 schedule for July?

[LandoGriffin]

I heard clay county is going to the option this year with sexton. Any truth to this? I haven't seen anything as far as a summer schedule. Who are we scrimmaging?

[TheTigersEye]

I heard today that we have nearly 70 kids out for football. If that's the case anything below 8-9 wins this season should be a disappointing season. If we can't win with this many kids out then we may as well scrap the program and start kicking around soccer balls in the fall. There might not be a team on our schedule with those kind of numbers.

[Oldschoolplayer]

I'm just curious TigersEye. If you are in charge. What do you run? (Offense, defense) if not head coach who would you hire?

Instead of saying something postive about having 70 kids out. You start saying our season will be disappointing if we don't have 8 or 9 wins. Again, I think you never played a down for Clay County but have gotten butt hurt over something in the past.

[TheTigersEye]

I'm just curious TigersEye. If you are in charge. What do you run? (Offense, defense) if not head coach who would you hire?

Instead of saying something postive about having 70 kids out. You start saying our season will be disappointing if we don't have 8 or 9 wins. Again, I think you never played a down for Clay County but have gotten butt hurt over something in the past.

What are you even talking about? I am positive in almost everything I say on here. Is it wrong to expect success with those kind of numbers out? That's more kids than a lot of schools that are winning 8-9 a season. I'd run an old school smash mouth offense and a hard nose defense like the tigers of old. Granted I didn't think the last coaching staff should have been let go but that's besides the point. I sincerely apologize if I have offended you in any way it was not my intent. I play quite a few downs in my time but that's been years ago now.

[insideinfo]

I heard today that we have nearly 70 kids out for football. If that's the case anything below 8-9 wins this season should be a disappointing season. If we can't win with this many kids out then we may as well scrap the program and start kicking around soccer balls in the fall. There might not be a team on our schedule with those kind of numbers.

Having 70 kids out is great, but that alone will not equal 8 or 9 wins. You better hope for a 500 season and building for the future. That would be the best thing for Clay Co. Football.

[TheTigersEye]

Having 70 kids out is great, but that alone will not equal 8 or 9 wins. You better hope for a 500 season and building for the future. That would be the best thing for Clay Co. Football.

I think a .500 season can be expected this year. Arnetts last year in 2010 we won a lot of games with a little over 40 or so and Stepp was turning out winning seasons yearly with even less. I read somewhere that this years team would be more physical than any in the past. I think we will be fine when it's all said and done.

[Oldschoolplayer]

You didn't offend me. Maybe, I took it wrong.

Regardless who is coaching and was let go. That program has to get better. We have won 5 ball games in 5 or 6 years. Laughing stock of the mountains and state.

Arnett's last year we had 15 or 17 seniors that could flat out play and a slew of support from the younger guys.

I think combs can do it but he will need the community to back him.

They did great in passing league at breathit. That is a start!

[Oldschoolplayer]

If you win two or three ball games and a lot of negative rumblings from the community. I don't there is any other choice but to let someone go.

[Oldschoolplayer]

Arnett had a great staff. Nearly everyone on that staff played. Young staff. Kids loved them.

[TheTigersEye]

How'd we look at UPike?

[walterwhite]

Good to hear that numbers are up. That means interest is building. Don't know if that will translate into wins, but it does show renewed interest in the program. A definite move in the right direction. I just hope that fans understand that this years team could be much improved from last year and still not have more wins.

[TheTigersEye]

With those numbers out I do see us beating the teams we beat last year then maybe beating Rowan, East, South, and possibly another. A six game winning season shouldn't be too far fetched.

[TheTigersEye]

If you win two or three ball games and a lot of negative rumblings from the community. I don't there is any other choice but to let someone go.

I agree, and I do expect the rumblings to get worse this year if we don't win more than 3 especially the way we are builing it up with so many kids out and the period of coach or no coach we had this summer. However, if that many kids are suiting up I think we will win some games and have some excitement this fall.

[UKCC]

I'm as big of a Tiger supporter as any and I'm glad more kids are coming out but that does not automatically correlate to winning more games. It comes down to the talent of whatever 11+ you put out there. You can have 90 kids on a roster but if only 6 can play at a solid level... I notice people keep mentioning 2010, that team was filled with seniors that could go and get it. In fact, several played college football. On top of that you had several sophomores contributing as starters. I'm all about the kids but at the end of the day, it's difficult to win if you don't have the "athletes", I hope some of these boys are that.

[TheTigersEye]

I'm as big of a Tiger supporter as any and I'm glad more kids are coming out but that does not automatically correlate to winning more games. It comes down to the talent of whatever 11+ you put out there. You can have 90 kids on a roster but if only 6 can play at a solid level... I notice people keep mentioning 2010, that team was filled with seniors that could go and get it. In fact, several played college football. On top of that you had several sophomores contributing as starters. I'm all about the kids but at the end of the day, it's difficult to win if you don't have the "athletes", I hope some of these boys are that.

I am just of the opinion that if we can pull 70 kids out of the halls at Clay, which to my knowledge we have never had that many consistently, then SURELY 11 of them can play. If not, then that's a bad sign of the quality of athletes that are in the school or bad coaching because looking at the schedule there will be several of those schools that share extremely similiar demographics as us on there and they will be lucky enough to pull out 30 kids on their roster. If we are pulling out twice as many kids as some of the competition and are still losing then is it likely that their 30 is better than our 70? If so, I would assume that is a bad sign for sports across the board at the highschool, because I know a couple of the kids play basketball and other sports as well so could we possibly see a downturn there? Either way, I think Combs and company get it done in year 2 and we are all drinking black and gold kool-aid come November.

[walterwhite]

The in-coming freshmen and how much they're ready to help at the varsity level will be critical to the number of wins this year. I wish the coaches and players lots of luck on the oncoming season. I believe they'll git 'er done!

[UKCC]

I am just of the opinion that if we can pull 70 kids out of the halls at Clay, which to my knowledge we have never had that many consistently, then SURELY 11 of them can play. If not, then that's a bad sign of the quality of athletes that are in the school or bad coaching because looking at the schedule there will be several of those schools that share extremely similiar demographics as us on there and they will be lucky enough to pull out 30 kids on their roster. If we are pulling out twice as many kids as some of the competition and are still losing then is it likely that their 30 is better than our 70? If so, I would assume that is a bad sign for sports across the board at the highschool, because I know a couple of the kids play basketball and other sports as well so could we possibly see a downturn there? Either way, I think Combs and company get it done in year 2 and we are all drinking black and gold kool-aid come November.

Like I said, I love Clay County but I think you just answered where I'm coming from. I won't sit here and say I played but I'm a pretty knowledgable sports person and all of friends were athletes, we grew up during a time when grade school sports were huge. Not a time when you had 2-3 okay athletes across the county. We've lost two elementary schools in the last 12 years or so and have several hundred less kids at the high school. When I was in high school I think the football team went something like 25-20, not great but on average a winning season each year. We had over 1,000 students and were 5A. If we want to get back to respectability, it starts at the lowest level. When you start seeing 10 or so 11-12 year olds make you say, "Okay, that was nice.." or "Wow!" like then, I think we'll get back. I hope the boys come out and have a really great year, I'm a fan of all of them.

[TheTigersEye]

The in-coming freshmen and how much they're ready to help at the varsity level will be critical to the number of wins this year. I wish the coaches and players lots of luck on the oncoming season. I believe they'll git 'er done!

Are any of the incoming guys varsity ready? With 70 kids out hopefully the freshmen don't have to play much varsity this season or next season and can work so they will be stronger for their junior and senior seasons.

[walterwhite]

Are any of the incoming guys varsity ready? With 70 kids out hopefully the freshmen don't have to play much varsity this season or next season and can work so they will be stronger for their junior and senior seasons.

Some have the size and strength to help, plus THEY have played a lot of football. I don't know who is among the new players that make up the 70 that are out, but I'd be surprised if there's a lot of help. Hope I'm wrong, but I just don't see it.

[Oldschoolplayer]

If we are thinking freshman is going to help us at the variety level this year. It will be a long year.

I think this year will be another rebuilding situation and the year after we might start to turn the corner.

[LandoGriffin]

If we are thinking freshman is going to help us at the variety level this year. It will be a long year.

I think this year will be another rebuilding situation and the year after we might start to turn the corner.

I think we are in for another long one with the way it looks. How long does a rebuild usually last, seems like it's been a rebuilding season for the better part of a decade now without ever getting anything built. If we are depending on freshmen that's going to put us another 2-3 years behind.

[CCFOOTBALL1]

Who are the grade school coaches? That is an issue!!!

If we have 70 kids out. We should at least go 500.

[TheTigersEye]

I agree with you on the numbers. If 70 kids are playing football then there's no excuse not to be over .500. Hard to fathom pulling 70 boys out of the halls and not being able to compete in a few football games. I have us beating Rowan, Russell County, and West Jessamine this season regardless. If numbers are that great I believe we should also be throwing in wins over South Laurel, East Jessamine, and Rockcastle.

[TheTigersEye]

What'd you guys think at the 7 on 7 today?