[Cowboy42]

Can't put this on the now former coach.  This one falls on the vocal minority that got the program to this point.  Anyone paying attention to what was going on outside the Corbin Football bubble for the last 30+ years knew what was about to happen.  Corbin had a chance to go get a guy but took a gamble on some safe odds.  At this point in the game it's going to be nearly impossible to find someone willing to leave their team unless a unicorn appears and gets to name their deal.  This will be the hire that sets the tone for the future of the program.  If they don't get this one right, it could be a long painful rebuilding process.

 Corbin's hire will not be a long-term hire. Too late in the game for that.  It will be the interim route , imo.

Wonder if Steve Jewell can bring Matt in to be interim Head Coach for just this one season?

Rhymer?  I honestly don't know what legit coach is going to agree to a one season job.  It will just be someone to hold the fort down.

Matt Jewell

[Son of the Alamo]

I’ve heard from a few sources that Corbin is looking at the Upike quarterbacks coach Jalil el-Amin who is the quarterback coach at upike he is a young coach. He could bring relate with players better.

No way in hell!!!   That name wouldn't go over well in my little redneck village.

Anyone that knows the history.......funny(and sad) as hell!

 That named would be just fine with me and the parents of players I know and anyone ignorant enough to be bothered by it are welcome to not come to games and watch our kids play. the seats will still be full with the Gen. X and millennials that are not close minded. we have a saying when we come across ignorant, irrelevant older generation individual that think their opinions matter, its "boomer going to boom" and it is sadly true in every community.

[Old School Hound]

I’ve heard from a few sources that Corbin is looking at the Upike quarterbacks coach Jalil el-Amin who is the quarterback coach at upike he is a young coach. He could bring relate with players better.

No way in hell!!!   That name wouldn't go over well in my little redneck village.

Anyone that knows the history.......funny(and sad) as hell!

 That named would be just fine with me and the parents of players I know and anyone ignorant enough to be bothered by it are welcome to not come to games and watch our kids play. the seats will still be full with the Gen. X and millennials that are not close minded. we have a saying when we come across ignorant, irrelevant older generation individual that think their opinions matter, its "boomer going to boom" and it is sadly true in every community.

Would be fine with me , too,  but Corbin is not the most progressively-minded little hamlet. Too many bigoted boomers running things. They would run him off.

[Bull got out!]

Jewell is soon to be irrelevant.  Domino #2  about to fall...

Yes.. Jewel has announced his retirement. Lots of people celebrating that decision.

I heard Facebook had so many shares and comments that Corbin was about to have a civil war downtown lol...Great rainy day to be a Board Member lol.

[Bull got out!]

I’ve heard from a few sources that Corbin is looking at the Upike quarterbacks coach Jalil el-Amin who is the quarterback coach at upike he is a young coach. He could bring relate with players better.

What is his experience? I don't know him. Tell me more about this person.

[Old School Hound]

Jewell is soon to be irrelevant.  Domino #2  about to fall...

Yes.. Jewel has announced his retirement. Lots of people celebrating that decision.

It was time. Shame it wasn't a year earlier.

[hchs fan]

has this been released or named or announced yet if Jewell is really retiring or just a rumor

[Old School Hound]

has this been released or named or announced yet if Jewell is really retiring or just a rumor

I say  He gone.  


Spent the day having a healthy meal of nuggets, fries and frosty at Wendys.  Froze my ass off in there. Went to get a hot stone massage to warm up and then to the clip joint for a little hair shortening. Lot going on in town. The football vacancy is big talk around town.

I'm gonna say that  M. Southern Coach Mark Payne will be announced as Corbin coach before the week's over. But I've been wrong before. Could be again. If not him, likely will be someone already on staff. Also, wouldn't shock me to see Steve Bird in town for a year or two. He might want to come back here and retire.

[Bull got out!]

has this been released or named or announced yet if Jewell is really retiring or just a rumor

Rumor is that he is retiring. No official names have been announced yet I don't recon. But Id say it wont be long.

[hchs fan]

have they announced or released or put in public writing he officially retiring

[Bull got out!]

have they announced or released or put in public writing he officially retiring

I can't officially answer that. 

[Old School Hound]

I don't know shit from apple butter about any coaching searches but I'm gonna predict that Corbin will have had three different head coaches within a period of about 240 days, give or take a day or two.


Take it with a grain of salt if you will. Lot's wife would have probably taken me with a grain of salt, much to her chagrin. Some have called me Jimmy the Geek. Others have disparagingly called me Nostradumbass. Pick your poison.

[Old School Hound]

It has been more than 48 hours since a new Corbin thread appeared so I thought it was time for another. I started to title this thread "IS Corbin Still an Elite Football Program ? "  but I think we can all agree that when you haven't won a damn thing in 42 years you are most definitely NOT elite. So, let's start from there. 

I'm gonna make the case in this thread that the reason Corbin has fallen from the ranks of ELITE programs is due to a system failure. That's right, Corbin's problem is systemic.  Corbin's problem has never been lack of talent. Corbin has always has plenty of talent. They have never lacked in that department. Also, as some have suggested, bad luck ,  curses, voodoo dolls , etc... also has nothing to do with Corbin no longer being elite.

Corbin is no longer elite because it has allowed people that are even older than Old School to have a say so in things involving Corbin football. I'm talking about people that sit in their comfy leather chairs on Saturday evening watching reruns of Lawrence Welk and thumbing through old Corbin High School yearbooks from the 60's and 70's .  These are people that are so old and impotent that their seminal fluids are no longer  fluids. Their thinking is so backward thinking and antiquated that even the ol' Ground & Pound Williard Farris is rolling over in his grave.

Corbin needs a house cleaning. Corbin needs a program that is run by younger, more imaginative, more progressive thinkers. You know, people that are not afraid of bold change. We need people that resist bigoted, backward thinking  1950's -60's era , good ol' boy politics , scratch my back and I'll tickle your balls type of stuff. 

Cox and Greer are just symptoms of a much more serious and insidious disease that pervades Corbin society. It's a sick, sick place run by sick , sick people , from the Mayor and Commissioners right on down to the BORED of Education, who allowed Cox and his merry band of Cox Suckers to rig the last hiring process in favor of Home Boy Greer over the much better candidate, Eddie James.

In fact, the Boring Board kept enabling Cox by handing him out A+ grades , all the while he was in the process of doing irreparable harm to the Corbin football program by allowing the best young coach in the state to leave and win championships at the rival school. It has already cost Corbin three or four state championships. How do you give superlative marks to someone who singlehandedly sabotaged the school's prospects for winning titles in the future by installing his butt buddy and super prick  as coach. Corbin citizens, quit electing these losers, unless you want to keep losing for another 42 years.

Politics in Corbin stinks to high heaven and it has stunk for a long, long  time. The reason Corbin is not elite is not lack of talent. It's not even because of bad coaching. Corbin is not elite because of its failure to break away from an old, antiquated , backward thinking way of doing business. 

I'm mean, you can tell me I'm wrong but your retorts will ring hollow and will fall mostly on deaf ears , because the proof is in the Gee Dee pudding!!!  Here we sit here two weeks from June, fourteen short weeks from a real football game, and the Corbin Redhounds have no head coach!!!   Digest that for a minute sports fans !!!   Try to explain it away as just bad fortune if you want. But it doesn't hold water. 

All schools have their share of good luck and bad luck. But the elite programs still find a way to win championships.  Can you imagine Trinity going 42 years without a title?  How about Mayfield? Can you see them suffering a 42 year title drought? When I think elite I think of schools like Trinity , Mayfield , Boyle , Bowling Green, Pikeville, Beechwood. Schools that win championships year after year after freaking year. The chances of any of those schools going 42 years without a title is infinitely close to ZERO!!!!

Yes, last year Corbin had one of the top two teams in all of Kentucky. They even brought two defensive studs from Connecticut, of all places, and still couldn't get it done.  WHY ?   More retrograde thinking on the part of old bast@rds like Cox , Jewell , Greer,  Burley Foley , and other old has beens who semen has long turned to sawdust. Word has it that they  thought it would be "cool" to schedule Hazard for our centennial season, because Hazard was one of our frequent opponents back in the "Glory Days." Well, scheduling Hazard cost them a state title.  They could have played  North Laurel or another decent 5A school instead of the Pukes of Hazard and would have finished with a higher RPI than Boyle. I think we all know how that third round game would have turned out if it had been played at Campbell Field. That's what I mean by backward, dumb thinking.

Cox and his Suckers have all but cemented their legacy of doing more damage to the Corbin football program than anyone else in the history of the school. I strongly suspect that before he leaves his position, Super Dave will try to secure a top notch coach(likely Haddix) who can come in and win six or eight titles and help erase many of the past failures from the minds of the people that pay his  150+K /yr salary. It's really the only way that Cox can secure any kind of positive legacy when it comes to the Corbin football program. He needs to hire a coach that will come in and win multiple titles. 

42 years...   That's a helluva long time. Crosby, Stills & Nash were "Wasted on the Way" back in '82 .   I had a full head of hair, a 30 inch waistline , a libido that would have made Wilt Chamberlain proud back then.   Today, the hair has thinned, the waistline has ballooned ,  the libido is that of Archie Powers' corpse , and I'm just wasted. 

I would like to think that I will see another Corbin state title in my lifetime but betting money is that no adult reading this thread will be alive when the Hounds next cross the finish line. Keith Richards might be alive when Corbin win again but I doubt I will be.If Corbin's program was "Elite," we'd be seeing titles at the frequency of other elite programs, like the ones I referenced above. I wish it were different. I love my school. I love my team. I DON'T love the way things are done in this hick town. It's an antiquated, unimaginative, backward thinking little town. Yes,  there are a good number of millennials  and Gen Z'ers that would like things to change. They want more progressive way of thinking. The old farts are resisting. There's a battle going on for the the control and direction of , not only the football program,  but for the whole of Corbin.  

One last thing, I was at the Douglass game last season. Just a fantastic atmosphere. I stayed for about an hour after the game. I As I looked out on the field at the sea of people that remained, talking, laughing, hugging. That sea of people included both black and white people, something that my eyes would have never witnessed back when I was a student in the Corbin school system in the 60's and 70's . It was a beautiful sight... a welcomed sight.

  But, as I was basking in the delight of that image of black and white on Campbell Field celebrating with one another, I caught sight of a couple old dudes, familiar old geezers , with a bit of a scowl perched upon their lips of ignorance. I could sense the seething frustration , hidden just below the surface and masked by the satisfaction of beating those big, bad Lexingtonians.

 Corbin has to change. Much of Corbin WANTS to change. Corbin is being held back by an influential,  but vocal,  minority that clings to their imagined "Glory Days" of mythical state titles , "three yards and a cloud of dust ," and Jim Crow.  No, lack of talent is not the problem.  Bad luck is not the problem. Even coaching is not the real problem(although it would be nice to have a coach before August).   Corbin's problem is a systemic failure. Corbin's inability to win a title for over four decades is a result a backward way of thinking by people that should have been tossed in the dustpan of history decades ago.  

Tom Greer, Dave Cox, Steve Jewell and Burley Foley and others  are just symptoms of a diseased program and community. I want to see my school win again before I die but there has to be a full frontal assault on the diseased minds that drive the action and politics in Corbin. Until then , it's gonna be the same old sh!t we've seen for over four decades.  Corbin's drought, and subsequent fall from grace and eliteness, is rooted in  egotism, delusion , power politics, apathy, and stoic resignation. 

In 1982, the last year Corbin won anything of significance, Kenny Rogers had a hit with "Through the Years."  I just wonder how many times through the years since then have Corbinites stopped to think of the real reasons why they have not tasted ultimate success since Ronald Reagan was president. I've tried to outline here what I think those reasons are.  Someone tell me I'm wrong.

Oh, you know what else happened in 1982 ???  The Corbin Varsity Club was founded.  The Hounds haven't won a state title since that formation. Coincidence?

And so it goes ...

[Cowboy42]

It has been more than 48 hours since a new Corbin thread appeared so I thought it was time for another. I started to title this thread "IS Corbin Still an Elite Football Program ? "  but I think we can all agree that when you haven't won a damn thing in 42 years you are most definitely NOT elite. So, let's start from there. 

I'm gonna make the case in this thread that the reason Corbin has fallen from the ranks of ELITE programs is due to a system failure. That's right, Corbin's problem is systemic.  Corbin's problem has never been lack of talent. Corbin has always has plenty of talent. They have never lacked in that department. Also, as some have suggested, bad luck ,  curses, voodoo dolls , etc... also has nothing to do with Corbin no longer being elite.

Corbin is no longer elite because it has allowed people that are even older than Old School to have a say so in things involving Corbin football. I'm talking about people that sit in their comfy leather chairs on Saturday evening watching reruns of Lawrence Welk and thumbing through old Corbin High School yearbooks from the 60's and 70's .  These are people that are so old and impotent that their seminal fluids are no longer  fluids. Their thinking is so backward thinking and antiquated that even the ol' Ground & Pound Williard Farris is rolling over in his grave.

Corbin needs a house cleaning. Corbin needs a program that is run by younger, more imaginative, more progressive thinkers. You know, people that are not afraid of bold change. We need people that resist bigoted, backward thinking  1950's -60's era , good ol' boy politics , scratch my back and I'll tickle your balls type of stuff. 

Cox and Greer are just symptoms of a much more serious and insidious disease that pervades Corbin society. It's a sick, sick place run by sick , sick people , from the Mayor and Commissioners right on down to the BORED of Education, who allowed Cox and his merry band of Cox Suckers to rig the last hiring process in favor of Home Boy Greer over the much better candidate, Eddie James.

In fact, the Boring Board kept enabling Cox by handing him out A+ grades , all the while he was in the process of doing irreparable harm to the Corbin football program by allowing the best young coach in the state to leave and win championships at the rival school. It has already cost Corbin three or four state championships. How do you give superlative marks to someone who singlehandedly sabotaged the school's prospects for winning titles in the future by installing his butt buddy and super prick  as coach. Corbin citizens, quit electing these losers, unless you want to keep losing for another 42 years.

Politics in Corbin stinks to high heaven and it has stunk for a long, long  time. The reason Corbin is not elite is not lack of talent. It's not even because of bad coaching. Corbin is not elite because of its failure to break away from an old, antiquated , backward thinking way of doing business. 

I'm mean, you can tell me I'm wrong but your retorts will ring hollow and will fall mostly on deaf ears , because the proof is in the Gee Dee pudding!!!  Here we sit here two weeks from June, fourteen short weeks from a real football game, and the Corbin Redhounds have no head coach!!!   Digest that for a minute sports fans !!!   Try to explain it away as just bad fortune if you want. But it doesn't hold water. 

All schools have their share of good luck and bad luck. But the elite programs still find a way to win championships.  Can you imagine Trinity going 42 years without a title?  How about Mayfield? Can you see them suffering a 42 year title drought? When I think elite I think of schools like Trinity , Mayfield , Boyle , Bowling Green, Pikeville, Beechwood. Schools that win championships year after year after freaking year. The chances of any of those schools going 42 years without a title is infinitely close to ZERO!!!!

Yes, last year Corbin had one of the top two teams in all of Kentucky. They even brought two defensive studs from Connecticut, of all places, and still couldn't get it done.  WHY ?   More retrograde thinking on the part of old bast@rds like Cox , Jewell , Greer,  Burley Foley , and other old has beens who semen has long turned to sawdust. Word has it that they  thought it would be "cool" to schedule Hazard for our centennial season, because Hazard was one of our frequent opponents back in the "Glory Days." Well, scheduling Hazard cost them a state title.  They could have played  North Laurel or another decent 5A school instead of the Pukes of Hazard and would have finished with a higher RPI than Boyle. I think we all know how that third round game would have turned out if it had been played at Campbell Field. That's what I mean by backward, dumb thinking.

Cox and his Suckers have all but cemented their legacy of doing more damage to the Corbin football program than anyone else in the history of the school. I strongly suspect that before he leaves his position, Super Dave will try to secure a top notch coach(likely Haddix) who can come in and win six or eight titles and help erase many of the past failures from the minds of the people that pay his  150+K /yr salary. It's really the only way that Cox can secure any kind of positive legacy when it comes to the Corbin football program. He needs to hire a coach that will come in and win multiple titles. 

42 years...   That's a helluva long time. Crosby, Stills & Nash were "Wasted on the Way" back in '82 .   I had a full head of hair, a 30 inch waistline , a libido that would have made Wilt Chamberlain proud back then.   Today, the hair has thinned, the waistline has ballooned ,  the libido is that of Archie Powers' corpse , and I'm just wasted. 

I would like to think that I will see another Corbin state title in my lifetime but betting money is that no adult reading this thread will be alive when the Hounds next cross the finish line. Keith Richards might be alive when Corbin win again but I doubt I will be.If Corbin's program was "Elite," we'd be seeing titles at the frequency of other elite programs, like the ones I referenced above. I wish it were different. I love my school. I love my team. I DON'T love the way things are done in this hick town. It's an antiquated, unimaginative, backward thinking little town. Yes,  there are a good number of millennials  and Gen Z'ers that would like things to change. They want more progressive way of thinking. The old farts are resisting. There's a battle going on for the the control and direction of , not only the football program,  but for the whole of Corbin.  

One last thing, I was at the Douglass game last season. Just a fantastic atmosphere. I stayed for about an hour after the game. I As I looked out on the field at the sea of people that remained, talking, laughing, hugging. That sea of people included both black and white people, something that my eyes would have never witnessed back when I was a student in the Corbin school system in the 60's and 70's . It was a beautiful sight... a welcomed sight.

  But, as I was basking in the delight of that image of black and white on Campbell Field celebrating with one another, I caught sight of a couple old dudes, familiar old geezers , with a bit of a scowl perched upon their lips of ignorance. I could sense the seething frustration , hidden just below the surface and masked by the satisfaction of beating those big, bad Lexingtonians.

 Corbin has to change. Much of Corbin WANTS to change. Corbin is being held back by an influential,  but vocal,  minority that clings to their imagined "Glory Days" of mythical state titles , "three yards and a cloud of dust ," and Jim Crow.  No, lack of talent is not the problem.  Bad luck is not the problem. Even coaching is not the real problem(although it would be nice to have a coach before August).   Corbin's problem is a systemic failure. Corbin's inability to win a title for over four decades is a result a backward way of thinking by people that should have been tossed in the dustpan of history decades ago.  

Tom Greer, Dave Cox, Steve Jewell and Burley Foley and others  are just symptoms of a diseased program and community. I want to see my school win again before I die but there has to be a full frontal assault on the diseased minds that drive the action and politics in Corbin. Until then , it's gonna be the same old sh!t we've seen for over four decades.  Corbin's drought, and subsequent fall from grace and eliteness, is rooted in  egotism, delusion , power politics, apathy, and stoic resignation. 

In 1982, the last year Corbin won anything of significance, Kenny Rogers had a hit with "Through the Years."  I just wonder how many times through the years since then have Corbinites stopped to think of the real reasons why they have not tasted ultimate success since Ronald Reagan was president. I've tried to outline here what I think those reasons are.  Someone tell me I'm wrong.

Oh, you know what else happened in 1982 ???  The Corbin Varsity Club was founded.  The Hounds haven't won a state title since that formation. Coincidence?

And so it goes ...

Wow, I’m feeling pretty educated about now.. Hellava post about seminal fluid and sawdust semen…Can one of the moderators please promote OSH beyond “Hall of Fame”?

[Bull got out!]

 There is only one OSH in the world. BGR's finest. He is a Hall of Famer in my book. Die hardest fan I ever seen.

[jetpilot]

 There is only one OSH in the world. BGR's finest. He is a Hall of Famer in my book. Die hardest fan I ever seen.

Hold my beer.

[Old School Hound]

Not So Fun Fact:   Corbin has not won a state title in the internet age.   (The "birth" of the Internet is generally regarded as Jan. 1, 1983).

Another one:   At the time Corbin won its last title, few, if anyone owned, or had even heard of, a CD player(CD players were introduced in the US in March of 1983) .

That's right, BGR friends, you couldn't browse the internet or listen to CD's the last time Corbin won a title because THE DAMN THINGS WEREN'T AVAILABLE YET !!!!


Look, I say these things,  not because I hate Corbin. I LOVE my school. I LOVE my team. I LOVE the memories I made as a kid at CHS.  I HATE the way G.O.B politics have compromised my school's chances of winning multiple titles over the years. With the talent and numbers and all the other advantages Corbin has, we should have at least six or eight titles in a span of 40+ years , instead of NONE.  Corbin is in need of dire change. It might take people dying before the change occurs. Maybe when the old farts begin to die off, change can occur and state trophies can return.

Only one school below has NOT won a state title since the invention of the internet:

A.  Hazard

B.  Middlesboro

C.  Somerset

D.  Bell County

E.  Pulaski County

F.  Corbin 


Did you answer the school beside the letter "F" ?  Of course, you did.     F= Failure  ,   F=  F'd up .  

Again, almost June, and no head coach!!!  Thank you, Tomcat. Thank you, Davey boy. Thank you , RVC(formed in 1982).  Thank you. Thank you. Thank you...

EMBARRASSING!!!!

Corbin can be Elite once again. Hopefully, 2025 ushers in the genesis of the change that is needed , as well as a top tier coach from outside the area that will be given the autonomy to run things the way he see fit.

[Grannyshot]

The Redhounds are the Dallas Cowboys of high school football..

[Old School Hound]

The Redhounds are the Dallas Cowboys of high school football..

Not a bad analogy. Both have fallen from the ranks of Elite status. However, the Cowboys have won three Superbowls in the Internet Age to Corbin's ZERO!!!

[Bull got out!]

The Redhounds are the Dallas Cowboys of high school football..

Not a bad analogy. Both have fallen from the ranks of Elite status. However, the Cowboys have won three Superbowls in the Internet Age to Corbin's ZERO!!!

Im a ole Raiders fan, I still got my Bo Jackson Cards too. Talking about a long time to not win, my Raiders have hit some down times..

[Old School Hound]

The Redhounds are the Dallas Cowboys of high school football..

Not a bad analogy. Both have fallen from the ranks of Elite status. However, the Cowboys have won three Superbowls in the Internet Age to Corbin's ZERO!!!

Im a ole Raiders fan, I still got my Bo Jackson Cards too. Talking about a long time to not win, my Raiders have hit some down times..

Hey, another thing we have in common. The Raiders were my first football love, right there with the Hounds. I was passionate about my Raiders.  Daryle Lamonica, George Blanda, Jim Otto , Cliff Branch , Raymond Chester, Fred Biletnikoff, Gene Upshaw, Ray Guy and , of course, Corbin's very own Rodger Bird, who played in the defensive backfield for the Raiders(had 8 INT) and returned punts(over 1,000 yds in returns).  He was named 2nd Team All-AFL twice with the Raiders.  







 I LOVED my Raiders. Still remember those big rivalry games with Hank Stram's Chiefs. I HATED the Chiefs!!!  STILL DO!!!  Can still hear Curt Gowdy saying, at break,  "National Football league action will continue from Oakland- Alameda County Coliseum . "   I'm a Bengals fan now  but the Raiders still hold a special place in my heart. They were my first love. You never forget your first love. 

Most successful football player in the history of Corbin Redhound football.  Ex-Hound, ex-UK Wildcat, ex-Oakland Raider... Rodger Bird.


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[Bull got out!]

Yes sir!!
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Bo+Jackson+Card+with+bat&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&ghc=1&lq=0&sm=u&pq=bo+jackson+card+with+bat&sc=10-24&sk=&cvid=98B01FB0184A4618BFDE9E2B72B68554&ghsh=0&ghacc=0&ghpl=
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I got all kinds of Bo Jackson Cards but the ones with the shoulder pads are my favoites, He is the man! Loves to bowhunt!
I always was a Madden fan and lots of oldies I like with the Silver and Black.

[Old School Hound]

Yes sir!!
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Bo+Jackson+Card+with+bat&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&ghc=1&lq=0&sm=u&pq=bo+jackson+card+with+bat&sc=10-24&sk=&cvid=98B01FB0184A4618BFDE9E2B72B68554&ghsh=0&ghacc=0&ghpl=
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I got all kinds of Bo Jackson Cards but the ones with the shoulder pads are my favoites, He is the man! Loves to bowhunt!
I always was a Madden fan and lots of oldies I like with the Silver and Black.

Maybe the greatest freak athlete of all time. If there was ever a Super Freak it was Bo.


Breaks a bat like a toothpick.





The Throw...





Spiderman Bo ...

[Bull got out!]

 Was talking one day to a guy with a Auburn shirt on here in Ky, I say, what about Bo Jackson and we began talking for a while. Well, he was telling me story after story being a local down there about him in high school. Some younger boys were listening and said, "Who is Bo Jackson" I honestly didn't know there was people who didn't know who he was. I said, well you better watch YouTube and the 30 by 30 ESPN put out about him, you will figure it out lol.

[Bull got out!]

 At one time, I could break my whiffle ball bats lol...... over my head... What good memories boys. Throwing them ole curve balls and making black tape balls when we broke our whiffle balls. Then as we got a little older, they came out with those monster bats that was hollow, talking about home run derby....

[Old School Hound]

 At one time, I could break my whiffle ball bats lol...... over my head... What good memories boys. Throwing them ole curve balls and making black tape balls when we broke our whiffle balls. Then as we got a little older, they came out with those monster bats that was hollow, talking about home run derby....

Good ol' times.  We played whiffle ball and used regular baseball bats with tennis ball. I threw a great knuckleball with the whiffle ball. With just the slightest breeze I was unhittable. lol   In baseball, I would occasionally drop down and throw sidearm. Very tough on right hand batters. Was an All-Star pitcher in my Glory days. Also, could throw from the outfield fence on a line to home plate. Also, could switch hit.

[Bull got out!]

 At one time, I could break my whiffle ball bats lol...... over my head... What good memories boys. Throwing them ole curve balls and making black tape balls when we broke our whiffle balls. Then as we got a little older, they came out with those monster bats that was hollow, talking about home run derby....

Good ol' times.  We played whiffle ball and used regular baseball bats with tennis ball. I threw a great knuckleball with the whiffle ball. With just the slightest breeze I was unhittable. lol   In baseball, I would occasionally drop down and throw sidearm. Very tough on right hand batters. Was an All-Star pitcher in my Glory days. Also, could throw from the outfield fence on a line to home plate.  Also, could  switch hit.

 I have cracked up, Im an old hind catcher by trade. I was a first baseman all my career and a power hitter and then I was transformed into a hind catcher. I did that the entire time in Senior League and High School. I got to see my fair share of pitches. Nothing like protecting the plate. I would call the pitches a lot of times depending on the batters. Then of course, had to give the calls from the coach. When I began coaching little league, I was out there catching for one of my pitchers and I wouldn't worth a dime. I was like wow, not what I used to be for sure. But no doubt enjoy teaching and giving back to others. Thats what sports is all about. Especially the kids. When it goes right, everyone is having fun. Now, I couldn't switch hit but I sure could rip one, I was a power hitter. I made All Stars every year myself. Best of times. Even became the Allstar coach. I enjoyed coaching as well as playing. Got my pins from the Kentucky State Round Robin tournament in the house somewhere. Now we didn't win it but we made it. Guess old whiffle ball paid off. One thing for sure, if you used the wind right with the whiffle balls they would flat out do some wicked stuff like you said in a light breeze. I always hated when we tore one up and then had to start finding black tape lol and if we had none then dang it made for the longest days till we could get back to the store to get another one. 

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[jetpilot]

Anybody could knock one out with the "Fat Bats" when they came out. You weren't sh!t unless you could hit one out with the original skinny yellow wiffle ball bat.

[Old School Hound]

Anybody could knock one out with the "Fat Bats" when they came out. You weren't sh!t unless you could hit one out with the original skinny yellow wiffle ball bat.

The skinny yellow one with all that black tape around the handle.

[Bull got out!]

Anybody could knock one out with the "Fat Bats" when they came out. You weren't sh!t unless you could hit one out with the original skinny yellow wiffle ball bat.

You probably loaded your bats with rocks!!!