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Anyone who has followed the program would agree with that. It’s hard to compete in 5A when you have 7 or 8 kids playing both ways.

We just have some people in this particular thread offering opinions and it seems they don’t know enough about the situation to have an opinion to start with.

Interest in the program from grade school through high school has picked up and the administration wants to keep that interest going and preferably increase it.

Six weeks into the season this year, every youth team in Perry County was undefeated. Since Larkey and Cannady came from Harlan County, Perry County feeder school kids have stayed with the program instead of going to neighboring schools. Perry just took second place in the state weightlifting competition. The school has the facilities to rival any school in the area and the compensation to match.

This is not a bad job right now and the hiring officials are in a position where they don’t want to settle on something too early, but they know a new coach needs to be in fairly soon to make sure they’re ready for the season. I wouldn’t expect this to drag on much longer.

I agree with everything you said except the "settle" part. How would hiring Ovie Canady be settling? He's an experienced coach who was a huge part in Perry's turnaround, and the kids want him. Larkey had spring practice dates already set for mid April and some scrimmages worked out later with some schools when he decided he would retire.