[topnotch]

Good luck south Laurel. From a Williamsburg fan.

[64SUR]

Until laurel co gets some kind of solid youth program nothing will change. North and south will have a good group come thru from time to time and be competitive in some years but not consistently. Pulaski co has youth football as school based and have about 800-900 kids playing youth football in their county and city leagues . laurel co had optimist football till this year and even optimist cancelled the football program for this year. Last couple years optimist in laurel co had about 120 kids playing football. So pulaski co has 800 plus playing and laurel co had 120 easy math there. now laurel co will have zero kids playing football unless they play in corbins league. Its a mess

No Optimist football will hurt South and North football in the long run fast. I look for Corbin to benefit.....Shame on laurel county. :HitWall:

[panther nation]

Until laurel co gets some kind of solid youth program nothing will change. North and south will have a good group come thru from time to time and be competitive in some years but not consistently. Pulaski co has youth football as school based and have about 800-900 kids playing youth football in their county and city leagues . laurel co had optimist football till this year and even optimist cancelled the football program for this year. Last couple years optimist in laurel co had about 120 kids playing football. So pulaski co has 800 plus playing and laurel co had 120 easy math there. now laurel co will have zero kids playing football unless they play in corbins league. Its a mess

I agree untill they get something going it's going to be a long haul. I can remember back in the when it was just laurel county they had a pretty good pop warner league and all the schools had a 6th & 7th grade teams. ( Lilly, Bush, Hazel Green, and London.) then the jr high had 8th and 9th grade teams. From 1983-1988 laurel had fairly good teams even with having a district that included all the Lexington school.

Why aren't the youth playing anymore is the big question??

[ky playmaker]

One problem was optimist football ran into the elementary basketball season and nobody would ever change it. It over lapped by a about 3 weeks. I am sure alot didnt play because of that. My son always loved football but after watching season after season of basically the whole backfield out with a broken this or a tore that he looked at me after leaving a home game last year and said dad I aint playing after middle school. I told him that if every good player thought that way then it will never get turned around. He said dad it just aint worth it. idk its a mess all the way around

[topnotch]

There is no reason that I can think of that SL HS cannot have a successful football program,

[panther nation]

Having went to school there when it was just Laurel County I can tell you no one really cares about football other than the kids that play and their parents. You don't see people who don't have any relation playing at any of SL games. All people in LC care about is basketball and it's been that way since way back in the 70's.

[topnotch]

I am real sorry to hear that , they have some nice looking kids.