Jesse Crawford resigns as Knox County Basketball Coach

[Duerr]

KHQA Boys Coach of the year two years ago, looking to get closer to his native Peoria, IL in his next job. Did a fantastic job with the Eagles...all our best

[PhotoGuy]

Crawford's a good coach, he had a hard season this year replacing four starters but ended up with another 15+ game winning season.

Jesse never had a season losing season at Knox and all but one had 15 wins or more, which is extremely impressive at a small school without long winning basketball tradition.

The cupboard here at Knox is most definitely NOT bare... Knox has a 6'6 first team all conference player returning, as well one other starter and several others that saw significant playing time this year.

I am going to throw a name out there for somebody who would be an interesting replacement for Crawford... how about the return of Mike Fray to the Eagles? Coach Fray left here to go back to Illinois by his own choice, and if he wanted to get back into the high school ranks, well, this would be a good place for him to do it.

[mrsports]

The best of luck to coach Crawford. He has been great to me and all of us at KMEM. Good luck Jesse. THANK YOU