[Watchful Eye]

I think Coach Matney has found a way to get EVERY student to the football field. What I mean is this, throughout Johnson Central's history no coach has successfully gotten all the potential football players to play football. Athletes yes, especially ones that came in from 8th grade football from one of their 5 or 6 feeder schools. No coach has seen a kid walking down the hallway and said "you need to come out for football", with no grade school experience and by the time their a senior they've became a pretty good football player. Power by numbers! It's a tactic Gen. Ulysses S. Grant used in the Civil War.
On the flip side and another sport, Paintsville's Coach Runyon has always been limited to a small number of spots on the bench. He has had the ability to take that small number and bring the BEST out in them year after year, a tactic Robert E. Lee used in the Civil War. The thing I always respected is that no matter who you are or how good your supposed to be, if you work harder in practice than anyones else you will start over the "prodigal sons". This is something in football that Matney has also done I respect greatly at Central.