Jason Duvall is back in football coaching, and he's doing it in a challenging spot.
The former head coach at Great Bend Middle School and Ellinwood High School wants another crack at football coaching, and he's travelling to Larned to do it. Duvall takes over a program that has struggled recently, going 0-9 in the 2025 season and having just two winning seasons in the last decade.
Appearing on 1590 KVGB and 95.5 FM's "Sports Day" program at the end of March, Duvall said he wants to bring Larned back to being a competitive program.
"I would like for other teams to understand that when Larned comes to play, they're going to have to play hard themselves. It's going to be a competitive and hard-fought game. It's not going to be what some teams think is a pushover game.
"We're going to instill that into our young men, that every game you have to go into battle. And you may be not on the right side starting out, but if you let a team know, as you step onto the field or they watch film from the week before and that coach has to tell the team 'Hey, these guys are coming in to play' that's what we want. That's the reputation we'd like to get.
"So it's going to be built into our kids and hopefully, this class I have coming in to get with now, that senior class, we can pass that down to these younger grades and have them understand as they continue to come up that those are our expectations."