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Ricky Wood, left, speaks to members of the Glasgow High School football team in the school’s library on Thursday afternoon. Wood was introduced as the Scotties’ head football coach in a press conference shortly after speaking with the players.
John Verser / Glasgow Daily Times


Published March 20, 2009 11:13 am - “You better get a good night’s sleep on Sunday night and be ready to go on Monday,” Ricky Wood said as he ended his remarks to the Glasgow High School football team.

Wood named football coach at Glasgow High School


By JOHN VERSER
Glasgow Daily Times

GLASGOW

“You better get a good night’s sleep on Sunday night and be ready to go on Monday,” Ricky Wood said as he ended his remarks to the Glasgow High School football team.

Wood was ready to hit the ground running as he was introduced as the Scotties’ head football coach on Thursday afternoon in the GHS library, saying that “155 days, five hours and a few minutes” wasn’t a lot of time to get ready for the 2009 season.

“I’ve watched them play on film quite a bit and I just think we have a lot of potential,” Wood said at Thursday’s press conference. “Having said that, we’ve also got a lot of work to do. We’re really behind in terms of this spring. It’s just so important. That’s the reason I wanted to meet with them so we could hit the ground running on Monday. One hundred fifty-five days is not a lot when it comes down to preparations for our first game.”

Wood, a graduate of Tompkinsville High School and Western Kentucky University, said that Glasgow’s rich football tradition was one of the many things that lured him to the school. Wood comes to GHS after a five-year stint as the athletic director at Edmonson County.

“I’m honored to be the coach here,” Wood said. “It’s like I told the kids, what appealed to me as far as Glasgow High School was the rich tradition. I grew up watching coach (Coy) Meadows and coach Gupton and all those great players that they had. ... Again, Glasgow is just one of those schools that’s known for great teams around the state.

“I just think it has the resources, the backing here, the support that you need to make a state run with. I just think it’s a great opportunity. I’ve been out of it for a few years and when the opportunity came out I wanted to throw my hat in the ring. I’m excited to be the coach here.”

Wood was a highly successful head coach in stints at Warren Central and Edmonson County. He posted a 41-20 record in five years as the head coach at Central and was 46-24 in six years Edmonson’s head coach.

Wood led Central to the semifinals of the Class 4A playoffs in 2003, his last year as a coach. The Dragons fell 13-9 to state runner-up St. Xavier to end the season. Central advanced to at least the second round of the playoffs in all but one season under Wood.

The new Glasgow coach also built success at Edmonson. The Wildcats were 3-17 in the two seasons prior to Wood taking over in 1993. Edmonson went 7-4 in 1995, followed by double digit win totals in each of his last three seasons there. The Wildcats were 10-2 in 1998 before he left to take the head coaching job at Central.

Wood said this his staff was “almost complete” and should be announced in the upcoming week. He added that one of the draws to the position was the chance to work with former GHS head coach Coy Meadows.

“I’m really excited about getting coach Meadows back in the fold,” Wood said. “That was one of the big keys, I felt like, for me being here. I think of Joe Hood, I think of Dan Haley, Jack Morris, all the great coaches that I grew up trying to study from and Coy was one of those. To have a chance to work with him is just well beyond my dreams. I’m excited about that.”

Offensively Wood hopes to produced a balanced attack. He said that the Scotties would run some spread formations with some traditional offense.

“Obviously it all starts with a good running game,” he said. “You go to the state finals every year, you’ll see teams that run the football - St. X(avier), Danville, Fort Campbell. All those teams have a great running game. In high school, you never know what your quarterback is going to be able to do. I hope that we have the capabilities of maintaining a really good, balanced offense so that we can do both.

“My thing is, I’m going to take what talent we have and mold it into an effective, efficient offense. My philosophy is get the ball to your best athletes in space. We will be in the spread offense some. We will be in a tight offense some. But we’ll do whatever we can do best.”

Wood said the he hopes to produce an attacking style of defense.



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