Big Ass Fans salutes long time coach and educator, Dixie Jones, from Trigg County High as its Kentucky Comfort Creator of the Week @bigassfans, @minguabeefjerky, @KyHighFootball, @TriggFootball, @TriggCoAD

Former Trigg Head Football coach among the finest coaches to ever serve on a staff and the best powerlifting coach in KY history

Many of these weekly awards go to players. However, we have before bestowed weekly supremacy on coaches and even issued awards to a team manager and a team doctor, so you really never know. Dixie Jones is a gentleman of the game and someone who has been a fixture on the KHSAA scene for a lifetime. Jones has been convalescing in the hospital and we couldn’t let this opportunity pass us by to let him know just how appreciated he is across the Kentucky high school competitive landscape.

HB Lyon, Scouting Director, KPGFootball

Big Ass Fans from Lexington, Kentucky has a simple corporate goal. The company is “creating a more comfortable world,” one fan at a time.

The logo is the rear of a donkey (Fanny) swishing its tail back and forth. The trademarked logo is among Kentucky’s more celebrated and well known corporate identities across the commonwealth and has come to represent commitment to quality, cutting-edge innovation, and product reliability.

Big Ass Fans is so much more than just a gigantic fan. It is gigantic quality, gigantic performance, and a gigantic commitment to reliability and innovation. Its size is far from the only selling point about our product. Our product is a Kentucky Comfort Creator…and, these days, isn’t that exactly what Kentucky needs?

Cadiz, KY: Dixie Jones is a football coach, but he is much more than that. Dixie Jones is a career educator, but he is much more than that too.

Dixie Jones is a gentleman of the Kentucky sporting world, and a softly spoken man, who eschews the limelight. Coach Jones wouldn’t be the least bit happy this article was being written if we are being honest, but he is also much more than that.

“Dixie is among the greatest defensive coordinators the KHSAA has ever known,” veteran football coach and nomadic wanderer, Jon Collins, tells KPGFootball. Collins would know, having served as Jones’ assistant at Trigg County in the 90’s and serving on staffs at Murray High, a day at Lincoln County, Fort Thomas Highlands, Breathitt High, Montgomery County, Anderson County, then back to Breathitt before joining Nate Mcpeek’s staff at Frederick Douglass in Lexington.

Collins additionally related, “Dixie is an institution, man! God broke the mold when He made Dixie. There will never be another like him.”

I will tell you this; as the senior writer for this magazine and someone who makes his living covering high school football in Kentucky, if you don’t know who Dixie Jones is I have to seriously question your football knowledge and experience. Dixie has been around forever. Jones is widely loved, respected, and celebrated in the high school football industry.

Jones won 140-games in 27-years as a head coach at Trigg County, Hopkinsville High, and Madisonville North Hopkins. Jones worked as an assistant coach for that many schools and more. Jones assisted Hall of Famer, Dan Goble, on Goble’s staff at Christian County at the end of Goble’s career.

Jones is even better known as a powerlifting coach. Kentucky High School powerlifting is a sport which works in tandem with football and is the preferred offseason activity for budding and hopeful football stars. The sport, not recognized by the KHSAA “officially,” has a 45-50 year history.

Let me put it this way, it is widely believed Dixie Jones has taken a team to the Kentucky Powerlifting State title in nine (9) separate years since the sport has existed. Trigg County has 12-team titles in powerlifting.

Jones wasn’t at Trigg County in 2007, ’08, or ’09. Jones has been there for the remainder.

Trigg County is the Alabama Crimson Tide of Kentucky High School powerlifting. Its head coach, Dixie Jones, is the sports’ Nick Saban.

Jon Collins had this final remark about his long time friend. “Dixie isn’t much on coaching cliches, or rah rah type stuff. Dixie is more the Gary Cooper-type in High Noon. That has always been more his style.” 

Jones suffered a stroke and has been convalescing in the hospital for the past several weeks. As of the date of the publishing of this article, it is being reported Jones is feeling much better and continuing to progress.

That sounds about right to those of us who know Dixie Jones. He’s a tough old bird.

🎶Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper (super duper)🎶
-Puttin’ on the Ritz, Irving Berlin, 1982.

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