[david5164]

ThinBlueLine - I am a Huge Coach McGlone fan and what he did for Russell Football. I just believe that he was nearing retirement. He was close to 40 years of coaching and Russell was trying to make a change that would benefit the football team for the future. Coach McGlone was nearing 80 and 40 years of coaching and he knew he had only 1 or 2 more years left in coaching. Russell knew Raceland had 3 or 4 coaches that was ready to take over as head coaching in Kentucky high school football and they wanted to grab Coach Maynard before another school grabbed him. I believe it was an outstanding move and we will see in years to come that it will be a huge move that we got Coach Maynard to Russell. Give him a chance since it has only been 3 years and this will is starting his 4th season at Russell. If you look at Belfry since 2002 they are 175-28 .862 winning percent and Belfry is 6-5 in State Championship Games. That is Belfry that has went to the State Championship game 11 times in 15years and going 6-5. That is 6 State Championships since 2002. What this adds up to is not many teams beating Belfry over last 15 years no matter who the Head Coach is at Russell High School!