[CoachJ]

I really hope your info is speculation. I hope they don't hire someone who doesn't care about the program and gives up on them for a while. What if this guy decides to add on to his house in the middle of the season and just quits for a little while like he did before. This would not be good at all.

I am VERY sorry that my listing in a previous post of how I tried to keep members of the former staff here led some to think Coach Salyer said he couldn't join on in '06 ONLY because of the situation with his house (something that was COMPLETELY beyond his control).

Nobody that loves football the way he does would've said they couldn't coach ONLY because of that. There WERE other factors that played into his decision that were of more of a personal nature to him...out of respect to him, I mentioned only the one that was LEAST personal to make my point and help show that an inaccuracy had been posted about me. (And by the way, I NEVER said he'd ever QUIT on us after joining on as is implied above.)

3Cat, I appreciate you for having the decency to retract some of the inaccuracies you'd said earlier about my record. You and I will have to agree to disagree about some things in terms of the direction I tried to take/improve this program. But with all due respect, unless you were here to actually see the DAY-IN, DAY-OUT state of the little league program (not terrible, but not as good as it should've been for a program of this stature), the weight program (not terrible, but not as good as it should've been for a program of this stature), and the state of JV/Frosh/Jr High football feeders (something I tried HARD to change in a way that would've resulted in varsity kids more-prepared for TOUGH, close games but got little support for from young kids' parents), it's tough to know why things were done the way they were.

...it's also tough to know what the POSITIVE results of such changes in direction will be until they've had TIME to take hold. THAT'S part of why I'm such a supporter for continuity. The kinds of changes I tried to implement here took Oldham Co. to a totally different level of competition (from 0 playoff wins in 13 years to beating teams like CovCath and Manual and LexCath in the playoffs), but it took a period of SEVERAL years for those changes to take hold. I wish I could be here to see it all through, but family concerns come first. It WILL happen here too eventually if those three key areas CONTINUE to be improved, but it'll take someone to carry them through.