There are ups and downs in talent at the vast majority of high schools year-to-year. As a coach at a program that has not had a history of success, I wouldn't want anyone to take the job with the "isn't much we can do" mindset. It is fine to acknowledge the realities of a school's situation, but I think that it is a really negative mindset to chalk it up as "isn't much you can do." I agree with the sentiment that Coach Cooley is probably working hard and he is as capable as any other coach out there so I am not disagreeing with the idea that it is not all on him, because of course it isn't. I do, though, believe that New Albany is more than capable of improving significantly from where they are right now.