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There were many players and parents upset after the banquet? Just another problem for the administration TO DEAL WITH.

Is it true that Claiborne has had more players tell the coach that they will not play next season? Assistant coach got smart and decided not to return. How many more years can this go on? Band is gone due to lack of interest. Band had more success and less problems than girls basketball. It is amazing that hiring one person can basically ruin school spirit and years of success. How long can this community keep this going? Seems like the feelings of the majority have been overridden. Why was she allowed to keep her job after her previous records at Claiborne? Maybe the assistant coach should have become the head coach and the head coach should have been sent back to elementary for further training. No chance of success as long as she is coach. Great program at one time has become a joke. Check CoachT, click under claiborne girls and look at records/failure for reference before and after she became coach 2 seasons ago.

Claiborne has had the worst seasons ever over the last two seasons. You can't average 8 to 9 wins a season and expect to keep coaching at that school. The coach has had her fair chance and now its time to move on for the best of the players and school. The school has had too much success to allow the program to continue in this direction. Ask the present seniors? Do you see it getting any better under the present coach? Change is needed and needed before summer camps to give the new coach a chance to turn this program around. Everyone in the community knows this.

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Claiborne's program has definitely headed downhill since cook's arrival, That's a fact. They entered Christmas break with a losing record again and got soundly beaten by Gibbs and Seymour. Claiborne always dominated these schools before cook became coach. Seems they can only beat teams within their district which by the way is very weak overall. Check their records on coacht. According to players the team lacks both discipline and has a elementary offense. Who is responsible for this offense? Their best player was thrown out of practice and the next day got to start and play most of the game. Who appears to be running this team? This same player was quoted after the morristown west game as saying that they needed a coach. This weekend their playing in a tournament. Check out who they are playing. It's an embarrassment to the players. Ask them. I do believe that the community will pressure those in charge to make the necessary changes next year. I was at the Seymour game and Claiborne once again had no game plan. With the new district next season Claiborne will have to have a coach that can compete with south greene and greeneville. If not then this season may be their last district title season. Who would have thought this would happen a few years ago? Has the program went forward or backwards during her coaching time? What did she do at Union County that as head coach to be given this job? I've checked coacht and i find it had to believe thst she won only one district game and had a horrible overall record over several years? How did get this job? Could her supporters tell me?

RESPONSE: WRONG AGAIN /b]

I watched Claiborne play M-Town West. Clearly the issues were first that Claiborne had not prepared for West. Claiborne players were lost on the court throughout the game. If it had not been for the mercy rule and the class act of the west coaching staff Claiborne would have been beaten by over 60 points. West was good but not that big of victory margin should have occurred. I along with the rest of the Claiborne fan section clearly heard Claiborne's best player said the team was embarrassed and that they needed a coach. Other players came out and said that the coach had told them before the game that she hoped that they did not lose they game by over 20 points. Is this confidence in your team or what? The score was 30 - 5 the first quarter and Claiborne continued their freeze style offense. Claiborne was outplayed because their coach was sinply outcoached. People need to realize that West's top player this season was ran off last season by Coach Cook Maybe Claiborne could have been competitive if Cook had not ran off all of those players last season. The attendance this season is horrible. Is or not? Last night they played a homeschool team and their were less that 75 people in the crowd. Is this Claiborne county Basketball at its best? If they are going to keep this coach then keep making future schedules like this one. Union Co, Claiborne Co, and next year who else will hire her to destroy their program. Bottom line is the community and players are suffering due the poor decision of politics.

I don't think whether this is a parent of Hancock or a football player is the issue. Let's not get distracted. I was at the game last night -Claiborne played Bell co.,KY. I always sit in the Claiborne fan section. I can tell you that there is little to no support for the present coach. Even most of the players don't support this coach. This is no secret in Tazewell. If players don't support the coach how can they be successful against competitive teams. The majority of parents, players, and fans don't like this weak schedule. The crowd was one of the smallest I've ever seen at Claiborne. Isn't that a warning signal of things to come? I would like to know who made this schedule out? How about the seniors who took pride in playing a competitive schedule. They don't like it either. Is this schedule intended for the coach's success or the players success? This should have been handled last spring.