HERE WE GO!!!!

They're getting plenty of ugly losses and very few wins be it pretty or ugly. The few times that I've seen EHS since this last coaching change, the players looked lost. It seemed like they didn't know how to do anything fundamentally right. The coaches looked just as lost as the players. A couple years ago when they were in the jamboree (I think) that was the worst looking football team I had ever seen. I'm not talking about, bad players. I mean they couldn't do much of anything right. They were pathetic. That is the fault of one person and one person alone. When Setser was there, they had 0, and I mean 0, athletes on the field. Yet, they tackled properly, they listened to the coaches, and most importantly, they played hard. That's something that hasn't been happening there the last few years.

Nobody is going to look like Vince Lambardi there. It's not a good place to go if you want to be a coach of a successful program. You can get the right person in there though, to teach the kids to do the right things. Before anyone jumps to conclusions too, I couldn't pick Mike Setser out of a lineup. I don't know him, have never spoke to him, and never will. It's not hard to see the monumental drop in fundamentals that have came upon that program since he left though.

I agree that they appear to have better athletes now but there was some good athletes walking the halls of Ervinton, they just didn't want to play.

Let's look at it this way. Ironlung, I know when you're talking about. That was the guys first year and he had never coached. They were horrible. In everyway. No doubt. They went 0-10 that year but that was his first year and I think he got the job like 2 weeks before the season. They went 4-6 last year. Now that's not beating the world, but they grew, they got better and they played better. Now this year they have 11 offensive starters and 11 defensive starters back. Maybe they'll suck, but I'm not ready to throw someone under the bus considering. Just my thoughts.

I'm not throwing the fella under the bus. I'm just saying from what I've seen (and not just the first year), his players do not play well. I'm not talking about athletes, good players, whatever..... For example, you. Your five feet nothing, a hundred and nothing, but you could be coached to do things the right way. The majority of the kids that play for EHS, do not do things the right way. You can do things the right way and still no be good. JJK for the last few years, have done things fundamentally right. They have just not been good enough to win good games. Not everyone can will 10 games in the regular season. My thoughts are not based on w's and l's, athletes nor the lack of, it's about the performance of the kids that line up and "try" to play on fridays.

Isn't the quarterback at Haysi the son of the Ervinton H.S. principal?

yes he is, coach

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I am not sure that is the case. Name one from any other sport at Ervinton at that time. I could agree if they had someone who was competitive in basketball, baseball, or track, but that person just wasn't there for those sports either.

I remember when Setser took over at Ervinton there was a coach from Pound that took the Head job came in saw what he had to work with and followed Palmer to St Paul and gave Setser the job with next to no notice.

That is Close to what happened with Crabtree from what I have been told Crabtree wanted to be a Assent coach at Clintwood (To learn) Ervinton needed a coach and they had be Zero interest in anyone taking the job (It was at the point of a volunteer head coach if the program was going to continue. The Super knew he was interested in coaching and offered the job Crabtree took it knowing that it was most likely a no win situation and has at least brought a positive attitude to Nora and got the kids out the next step is for him to get better at the Xs and Os of the game I really liked the article on Ervinton from last years paper when he ask "Why not Us" It is a good question if he can field 20-25 players and teach them to play good football there is no reason that they can not compete in the Cumberland.

On the other hand if he does not teach the game well the success will not follow and the better players (Like Compton) will end up at Haysi, Clintwood, or Coeburn

I know of two people that wanted the Ervinton job. One guy played 4 years of college football and was an assistant at another school. The other guy came in when Setser got the job on the hill and he lobbied for the job so I know there was interest in the job and people who wanted to coach there.

Really I was let to believe that no one wanted it IM me I am curries in who was interested in the position. If that was the case then there is no way that Crabtree should have got the job (Not that he is a bad guy just lacking experience)

Would one of those who was interested have been Bubba Edwards by any chance O-llne?