[EKUAlum05]

Credit to bucslover for the idea...thought it was too good not to open up to the masses!

Simply put.. who are the four faces that would represent your football program on your Mount Rushmore?

I'll start with Belfry:

Phillip Haywood
Rick Kestner
James Ramey
David Jones

The winningest coach in KY History and three guys who had great collegiate careers and reached the ultimate level of football.

Honorable Mention:
Doug Howard- The best High School football player to come through Belfry (two rings)

Sani Warren- Perhaps the most decorated player to come through Belfry with a Ring and three other trips to the Finals as well as All-State First team on every list

[King Leonidas]

Breathitt- Holcomb and 3 State Title QB's
Leslie- Couch and Whitaker
Perry-Lil Al, TEwayne, Tony Pennington, Keith Pray, Matt Robinson, Ryan Miller,?
Hazard-Mark Dixon, ???

[Hatz]

Boyle County

Chuck Smith

Jeff Duggins

Lamar Dawson

Jacob Tamme


Would have added some old timers and some others from the last 20 years but there's only room for four.

[Sweet Cake]

Highlands:

Homer Rice
Dale Mueller
Jim Burt (or maybe Chuck Kyle)
Jared Lorenzen

[Live Maroon]

PIKEVILLE

Hillard Howard (Head Coach - 3-time State Champ, 2-time State Runner-up)

Bill Allara (Asst Coach, Head Coach) - same as Hillard plus one more State Runner-Up)

Bobby "Snab" Phillips - 44 years as Equipment Manager, been through it all

Chris McNamee - State Championship player, All-OVC at EKU, has program back on the doorstep of another State appearance


I really hesitate to mention any players because when you start naming some, you leave others off and so many have contributed to the Pikeville tradition.

[Sweet Cake]

NCC's:

Bob Schneider
Ed Ziegler
Frank Jacobs
Jeff Brady

[oldcardfan]

Mayfield

Jack Morris-Coach
Paul Leahy -Coach
Joe Morris-Coach
Jonathon Jackson-Player

[TNT-MB1]

Ryle's young history

Mike Sanders - WR (holds almost all Recieving records and KR/PR records
Travis Elliott - RB (if hadn't been injured, more than likely would of broke numerous NKY & state records)
Vince Murry- LB (big part of the 2006 state team)
Scott Gray- RB

Notables
Kris Pridgen- DL
Conner Hempel- QB
Court Mace- LB (holds defensive records was a very special player at Ryle)

[mantax]

Can anyone give us one for Lloyd? Newport? CovCath?

[Full deck]

Give us a rockcastle one

[Ghostofjoey]

Fred Clayton, Pat Gates, Al Giordano, David Barnes Coaches Mt. Rushmore

Stewart Childress, Jerold Fuqua, Elijah Sindelar, Kerry Curling Players Mt Rushmore

[cougarpride08]

Orange give us Whitesburg. I know Coach Chandler and Charlie Wright, but that is all. So e do Fleming Neon. Don't know what his name was but he coached side saddle offense and had a lot of success.

[EKUAlum05]

PIKEVILLE

Hillard Howard (Head Coach - 3-time State Champ, 2-time State Runner-up)

Bill Allara (Asst Coach, Head Coach) - same as Hillard plus one more State Runner-Up)

Bobby "Snab" Phillips - 44 years as Equipment Manager, been through it all

Chris McNamee - State Championship player, All-OVC at EKU, has program back on the doorstep of another State appearance


I really hesitate to mention any players because when you start naming some, you leave others off and so many have contributed to the Pikeville tradition.

I'd have to put Brent Coleman on there... not only one of the All-Time Greats on the field but really upheld Pikeville well with his service overseas and laying his life down for his country.

[Sweet Cake]

Can anyone give us one for Lloyd? Newport? CovCath?

Lloyd's would only 1 really really big head.

Or if you had to have four it would be one really really big head and 3 other much smaller heads.

:biglmao:

[Big Five-0-]

Pikeville high school:

[Big Five-0-]

Pikeville High School
Hillard Howard
Greg Hackney
Bobby Deramus
Brent Coleman

At the risk of not looking over anyone, this would be my choice. I wish there were more than four heads on Mt. Rushmore lol!

[Gitback Coach]

Corbin -

Roy Kidd
Rodger Bird
Archie Powers
?????

I honestly can't make myself pick the fourth one. Many, many coaches and players deserving.

[FBALL]

Russell

Ivan McGlone
John Hillman
John Groves
Josh Gross


Honorable mention: Nate McPeek, Casey Clark

[NKYfootballfan91]

NCC's:

Bob Schneider
Ed Ziegler
Frank Jacobs
Jeff Brady

Don't know who Ziegler is, so I can't argue that one. Should kiernan be on there before him? Just asking. Other two have a great case.

I will argue Schneider all day. Being there for that many years shouldn't qualify you automatically. One title in that many years? I would put Eddie eviston on there before him. Let's do this.....

[HDE]

Orange give us Whitesburg. I know Coach Chandler and Charlie Wright, but that is all. So e do Fleming Neon. Don't know what his name was but he coached side saddle offense and had a lot of success.

Jack Hall?

[OutlawJoseyWales]

Credit to bucslover for the idea...thought it was too good not to open up to the masses!

Simply put.. who are the four faces that would represent your football program on your Mount Rushmore?

I'll start with Belfry:

Phillip Haywood
Rick Kestner
James Ramey
David Jones

The winningest coach in KY History and three guys who had great collegiate careers and reached the ultimate level of football.

Honorable Mention:
Doug Howard- The best High School football player to come through Belfry (two rings)

Sani Warren- Perhaps the most decorated player to come through Belfry with a Ring and three other trips to the Finals as well as All-State First team on every list

Hard to argue with those selections.....as all are very worthy. Strong argument could be made for Doug Howard moving up. However...I don't know if any list could be complete without including arguably the 2nd best player to every don a Belfry Pirate uniform...only behind Rick Kestner...and that would be Flem Bodad Varney. A man among boys when he played at Belfry. Earned a scholarship to Marshall and blew his knee out. Simply a beast on both sides of the ball.

[cougarpride08]

Jack Hall?

Yes that is him.

[Pulp Fiction]

Johnson Central
Bill Musick - Coach (Led JC to their first ever playoff appearance, first ever 10-0 regular season and first ever district title)
Jim Matney - Coach (Led JC to their first ever regional title and Semi-State appearance. Two 10-0 regular seasons and numerous district titles)
JJ Jude - Player (Holds the KHSAA's Career rushing record & Single game rushing record.)


The 4th spot.... I would put Tyler Pack. He currently holds the KHSAA record for the longest field goal as a sophomore and is nationally ranked as a kicker. But their are so many others that could be in that 4th spot.

[Emmit Brown]

Johnson Central
Bill Musick - Coach (Led JC to their first ever playoff appearance, first ever 10-0 regular season and first ever district title)
Jim Matney - Coach (Led JC to their first ever regional title and Semi-State appearance. Two 10-0 regular seasons and numerous district titles)
JJ Jude - Player (Holds the KHSAA's Career rushing record & Single game rushing record.)


The 4th spot.... I would put Tyler Pack. He currently holds the KHSAA record for the longest field goal as a sophomore and is nationally ranked as a kicker. But their are so many others that could be in that 4th spot.

Tyler is a special kid, but I don't know if I would put him on there yet. Still has two years left. Some past players I could think of are Niel Burchett (First All-State Player), Brian Taylor (Mr Everything in the late 70's), and more recently Ian Welch (30+ career int). This is just strictly based upon ON field performance.

[BlackcatAlum]

Prestonsburg

John Ortega
Nathan Leslie
Seth Hyden
Matt Slone

Honorable mentions: Jeremy Caudill, John DeRossett, Michael Burchett, Nick Jamerson, Allen Craynon, Seth Setser.

[TigerBlues]

Paintsville

Walter Brugh
Mike Minix Sr.
Tony Mayes
Joey Couch

[DALE]

Paintsville

Walter Brugh
Mike Minix Sr.
Tony Mayes
Joey Couch

Hard not to put those guys up there. Who would you consider as an alternate? Not familiar with some of the earlier teams but the 78 team had several that possibly could be considered; Bobby Mullins, David LeMaster, BJ Ward. Bobby was a beast that had signed with UK, David was the QB and consistent winner as a coach minus his first year, probably more notable for his baseball career, and BJ was an All-State RB as a Sophomore and Senior, not sure about his Junior year. Mike was the only All-American I believe Paintsville has ever had, Tony was All-SEC at UK and the only guy that I am aware of to play in the NFL and Coach Brugh are locks.

[Deebo]

I'm going to do a list for East Ridge. It's just hard though with such a struggling and still developing.

East Ridge
*Coach Terry Morgan - Asst. Coach 02-Present. despite not being the head man, Terry has been a face of the Warriors for nearly every year as an assistant coach. Terry played in the mid 70's for Elkhorn City where he lead the Cougars to the 1973 State Title game
*Coach Brad Allen - Head Coach of the Warriors since 2008. Brad was a graduate of Breathitt County, a well established power in the mountains and came to a place with a losing tradition. He should be highly thought of for his personal love for the school and passion he puts into building the program. Brad has 2 playoff appearances and has the all time coaching record at East Ridge.
*Keith May - Player from 06-09. He led the Warriors to their first playoff appearance ever as well as being named all state defensive end. He holds numerous defensive records for the Warriors. Keith would go on to play college ball and come back to coach at East Ridge.
*Dave Ratliff - Player from 03-06. He previously held the Warrior career rushing record until it was broken in 2010. Dave was a hybrid QB/RB in the side saddle wing-t offense that was used by legendary coach Jack Hall. Dave would go on to play college ball and enlist in the US Marines.

Honorable Mention: Paul Deese, Brandon Ratliff, Bryan Casey, Michael Rowe, Tommy Bingham, Brad Branham, Caleb Epling, Tyler Pigg.

[Bear_Paw]

Breathitt- Holcomb and 3 State Title QB's
Leslie- Couch and Whitaker
Perry-Lil Al, TEwayne, Tony Pennington, Keith Pray, Matt Robinson, Ryan Miller,?
Hazard-Mark Dixon, ???

I like it...

[Bear_Paw]

Corbin -

Roy Kidd
Rodger Bird
Archie Powers
?????

I honestly can't make myself pick the fourth one. Many, many coaches and players deserving.

Brent Freeman