[ryanparker]

Well...we've gotten players from Greenup and Russell. Now we are going to focus our attention on The Fighting Tigers of Ironton. Face it guys...Raceland rules the entire world. I can't speak for this decade, Mr. Parker, but when I went to school at Raceland we were named the team of the 80's and we had the winningest record of any team in the area, that includes Ironton.

Alright...I get it now. You are saying all of this in jest.

Wasn't it only recently when Raceland started playing Ashland, Russell, and even Greenup? If Raceland was the team of the 1980's, then I would like to see some of the teams that were on their schedule back then. Was Fairview considered the toughest game of the year? And to compare the Raceland teams of the 1980's to the Ironton teams of that same decade? That kind of humor can only be found on message boards like this.

If these "elite" middle schoolers are going to transfer from Russell to another school, then I can't understand why they don't go to Ashland or even Ironton. If they are that talented, then surely they would stand out there as well, right? To use an earlier poster's analogy, maybe the need to feel like a "big fish" transcends the size of the pond they're swimming in.

Oh well, as I said earlier, Raceland hasn't even made a state-semifinal game yet. Maybe this wave of "recruits" will get it done. I guess we'll find out over the next 5 years.