[Hoot Gibson]

You take that same 1-9 or 0-10 coach and give him trinity talent or highlands and yes he will win football games. Your argument is not just. Kentucky has pockets of good football. Making the playoffs is not going to make it any better. Some of those teams are just wanting the season over and you are making them endure one more week to get beat down. Thought that's what spring football was for. What is there 36 + teams per class? And 32 make the playoffs? C'mon basically everyone is making the playoffs. So when someone wins a state title they are the best of 36 teams. Pretty weak if you ask me. Need to go back to 4 classes and top two from district make the playoffs.

You take a bad coach, give him a good team, and the same schedule as his predecessor, and the program will immediately decline. Yes, that bad coach may win a few games in his first season but by the second season he will be lucky to win a game or two. I saw it happen first hand at Johnson Central. Bill Musick's last team posted an perfect 10-0 regular season record. Over the next three seasons and two head coaches, Johnson Central won a total of 5 games. Along came Jim Matney, and his first JC team won 7 games. I witnessed the same kind of turn around in Greenwood, Indiana when the school hired one of the top coaches in the state. Good football programs just do not happen without competent coaches making it happen.

Another great example is what Dudley Hilton did at Bourbon County. He took over at a school that had never come close to a state championship and led the team to their first and only state title in his first season as their coach. He later returned to Bell County, and Bourbon County's program soon hit rock bottom again.

A football team that is just looking forward to the end of the season is poorly coached. Period. That kind of attitude begins at the top of a program and filters down to parents and players - and the attitude can wreck a good football program over the course of a single season.

Tinkering with the playoff system will not fix bad coaching and that is the reason that Kentucky has so many awful football teams that get blown out of games in the first quarter of the first round of the playoffs.