DragonFan12

I would say be thankful with what you got because it could always be worse. It’s not like Joe isn’t a good football coach.

Depending on standings in the region each coach is allowed to pick a certain amount of players from their team.

I’m glad to see one of our fans has some common sense. The parents and politics in this community is ridiculous right now. It’s turning into be a very hard place for anyone to coach at. Our football program is a solid 4-6 year rebuild but obviously people in the community can’t understand that. We don’t exactly have a ton of athletes in any sport right now that can bring us any kind of success. We sadly have a bunch of unrealistic expectations for our sports programs. Building a successful program takes a lot of time and with the region we are in it’s gonna be awhile for us in all sports period. As far as football is concern, face it all the good players are going to AC right now and I can’t blame them for that. Randy did a good job with what he had to work with which wasn’t much all three years. All I know is that until the administration, community, and central office can get their crap together, nothing will ever change. But 6 head coaches being forced to resign in 3 1/2 years tells me enough about the administration at Clinton HS.

I can agree with that on the teams you just mentioned. I consider those programs very average. Bottom line is though until we get in a different region, we won’t be seeing the playoffs for awhile.

I highly disagree on the talent. We won two games all season against bad teams that we usually beat every year. If your telling me we should beat teams like Powell, West, AC, Fulton, OR, it’s just not gonna ever happen for a very long time. Fact is we just don’t have many athletes in the school right now that you can win with.

Home run hire or not it isn’t gonna matter unless we can magically find some athletes to roll into town that can actually play some football.

You would think very soon but you never know with Clinton.

Anyone have any idea when they are wanting to name a coach by?

I was thinking the same thing lol

You realize that Kerr and his father are the coaches at UC right? One of the 6 head coaches that Collette has forced to resign in the past 3 1/2 years.

Would be a great first time head job for someone but could also be a very tough first head job. Clinton hasn’t been exactly an easy place for coaches to coach at. It’s a nice setup facility wise and coaching supplement though. The problem for coaches at Clinton is unrealistic expectations from the community. They act like we should be competing for championships every yr and at the end of the day we are just a decent 1a football school at this point talent wise. I’m not sure if we could even beat teams like Coalfield and Oliver Springs which both are close to Clinton.

I see us getting a good assistant coach that wants his first head coaching job. That makes a lot more sense to me. I don’t see us getting someone that’s already had success as a head coach. Whoever it is, I just hope the fan base and administration actually gives him a chance to build a program because it takes time and Clinton is a serious 5-6 year rebuild

I agree that Clinton is an awesome community to raise a family in (I love it). Dropping down to 5 classes could help but as I have said in previous comments before, we don’t have any talent right now and it’s very obvious if you just watched a game. The 2009 season was great but we as a community have to realize that it’s not 2009 anymore and we don’t have those kind of athletes anymore. Good coaches want to play good competition yes, but a smart coach knows that the region we are in is a no win situation for Clinton right now. I have to disagree on the community support. I am at the last game of the season and Karns had more fans than we did(very embarrassing). The trend for our town has been to come out for the first 5 games with decent crowds and they drop tremendously after that. As far as administration you know already I think Tipton and Collette are a serious problem.

I’ve heard of such rumors but they are just rumors for now and have been for awhile. I just don’t see any coach coming in here right now and doing well in the region that we are in. Plus the talent to work with just isn’t there right now. Any good athlete we get goes down the road to AC. But honestly I can’t blame them at all. Looks like it would be a fun place to play football at and the community support is great. I sure do hate to sound negative towards our program right now but it is the truth. Best thing we could do is start out by getting rid of that AD that we got and go from there.

Would be great to have him at Clinton but he’s too good for this job just to be honest. Very hard place for any coach to coach at and I’m not sure the locals will give any coach a chance to build a program without running them out of town. Hate to say it about my own community but it’s true. Wouldn’t be shocked if they just gave the job to someone on staff already.

Never know what to expect with Clinton lol. We might as well go after Lane Kiffin or Jason Brown(Last Chance U) but we would probably run them out of town as well lol

I’ll have to go with central in this one. They are the more experienced team when it comes to big games like the state championship game. Plus the central defense is very tough to score on.

Heard from a family member today at Thanksgiving that Joe Hassell and Coalfields head coach are serious candidates for the Clinton job. No idea if this is true but it’s just what he said he had heard around town.

When was the last time Central and West played each other?

I heard a rumor from one of my buddies that has a son that plays for Webb and apparently they are already in talks with Rosser once their head coach calls it quits. A job like that makes more sense to me.

Would be a dumb move on Rosser’s part to leave central for Oak Ridge. He’s got things rolling in Fountain City and plays a much easier regular season schedule with the region they are in. Why leave a place that you are competing each year for a state championship at?

Should be one heck of a game tomorrow night. I would expect a big crowd for this one. Best of luck to both teams.

Has anyone heard of any rumors yet on who will be the next coach?

The right job could make anyone rethink something I would think. I don’t know the whole situation so that’s just my two cents

That will be a big time job if it opens up. I’d say a lot of coaches would be very interested in that one. Ellison is about as good as we can get in Clinton. I’ve lived here for over 50 years and I’ve never seen politics and our fan base as bad as it is right now.