[Old School Hound]

Word is the QB position was already promised to someone else by Salmons. And the person it was promised to lives in the same house as Salmons. This is all hearsay coming from Corbin Wellness center by people who are dialed in. I’m not and don’t claim to be.

I know all about promises. Promises, promises. Promises are meant to be broken. Sure, I know all about the promise. When Salmons was hired, the deal was, Elam mans the QB ship the first year and then it"s Mason's job for the next two. But... I say if a UK commit comes along and wants to quarterback your team to two straight titles , you break some promises and deal with family discontent. Trophies trump family.   Can you imagine if DJ Hunter did contact Corbin, wanting to be a Redhound and was told the job is already taken by the coach's son and he winds up in the hands of your old coach , who mentors DJ into the state's best player leading the state's best team to two more trophies? It would be the end of Salmons here. Angry townsfolk would run him out of town like they did the 200 black folks they forced on to freight trains back on Halloween night in 1919. 


Read my lips and my previous post. Ain't no youngster with a non-ivory white face quarterbacking the Corbin Redhounds in the new "House that Cox Built" on the banks of the beautiful Lynn Camp Creek. A tremendous black athlete named Jeff Kyle tried it back 43 years ago, and was told to go back home to Middlesboro ...and " do not drink from our water fountain on the way out the door." Fortunately, a lot of those  influential old racists have died and, hopefully, gone to hell. A few more still need to go before progress can be made. 

I'm gonna hang out in a few barber shops and massage parlors this week and see if I can get the lowdown on our QB situation and whether DJ Hunter's people really did contact Corbin about playing here or if that's just an old ex-wives' tale coming from the Wellness Center.  My guess is that a couple of the Corbin School Board members got wind that the stud's services were up for the highest bidder and they went over to East Tennessee to try to work a deal to Bring DJ to Corbin . You know, the same two Board members who made the trip over to Danville to try and buy Haddix' services.  Yes, that's against KHSAA rules but who cares about rules when trophies are at stake... right?

The way I understood it, it was a done deal. This is sounding more and more like Twitter handles trying to pick UK's next basketball transfer. Not many people truly know. Still an interesting thing to keep up with for the next couple months.

What's a done deal???