[HAIL PIKEVILLE!]

It doesn't matter if the kids like the coach. That obviously has no bearing on the decision. I don't know a single kid that played under Coach McNamee that wanted him to leave or didn't respect him. Like-ability doesn't determine who the coach will be. But it was the administrations feeling that Pikeville needed a new direction that led to him going back to Pike Central.

I believe that even more so than they did at that period of time, they want this program to go in a different direction again.

I too am one of the ones who want this program to change directions as far as getting it back to where it used to be. I also think that we here at Pikeville are in the desirable position of going in a different direction and having a coach who already knows these kids and has these kids respect. Just becuase Copley coached under Jackson doesnt mean they have the same coaching philosophies (the opposite is true in this case.) Copely is an old school type of coach in a young mans body and that is IMO exactly what this program needs. Another thing is we need a coach who will stay around for a while and not bolt out of here after a few years. Copelys has had plent of oppurtunities to leave over the past 3 years for good HC postion but has turned all of them down because he wants to stay here.