[TheTruth!]

Hate that it end the way it did for Brenden Anthony. What a great career for 35! Does he have any offers? As in big time offers

[Belichick]

Let me say this too. That’s not excuses. All credit to Sayre. They were prepared and that’s a reflection on their coaches. Played exceptionally hard. Pennington threw the ball really well in those conditions. Coffman is a stud and as advertised. Slabaugh played really well too. Can’t name them all but their kids fought all night. Wanted it more and it showed.

[Blue_Bird96]

Hey look at it this way! At least Pikeville played that tough schedule!

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Maybe folks will stop trying to mail in State Championship trophies at the beginning of the season.

I highly doubt it just Wait til August!

[Orange Blaze]

Let me say this too. That’s not excuses.  All credit to Sayre. They were prepared and that’s a reflection on their coaches. Played exceptionally hard. Pennington threw the ball really well in those conditions. Coffman is a stud and as advertised. Slabaugh played really well too. Can’t name them all but their kids fought all night. Wanted it more and it showed.

I think it will be Sayre and Raceland in the title game.  If that plays out who would you pick between those two teams to win it all?

[ArmChairHC]

Pikeville was a shell of what they were week 1 last night. I’ve always had huge respect for that staff but I’m just left scratching my head with some of the decisions made this year by Mac and Company

[Patriot1]

Let me say this too. That’s not excuses.  All credit to Sayre. They were prepared and that’s a reflection on their coaches. Played exceptionally hard. Pennington threw the ball really well in those conditions. Coffman is a stud and as advertised. Slabaugh played really well too. Can’t name them all but their kids fought all night. Wanted it more and it showed.

I think it will be Sayre and Raceland in the title game.  If that plays out who would you pick between those two teams to win it all?

For me it would be Raceland those young men come to play every game and it shows if this Pikeville team had the heart of those Ram players we wouldn’t be having this conversation but it is what it is and I am sure the coaches seen  this way before we did

[Belichick]

Let me say this too. That’s not excuses.  All credit to Sayre. They were prepared and that’s a reflection on their coaches. Played exceptionally hard. Pennington threw the ball really well in those conditions. Coffman is a stud and as advertised. Slabaugh played really well too. Can’t name them all but their kids fought all night. Wanted it more and it showed.

I think it will be Sayre and Raceland in the title game.  If that plays out who would you pick between those two teams to win it all?

Raceland. I think it’s their time and they deserve one. They could get another next year. They are better than Sayre. Pikeville is better than Sayre and I have given Sayre their due but that last night was the culmination of a year that is not consistent with the talent on the field.

[2000PHS]

Let me say this too. That’s not excuses.  All credit to Sayre. They were prepared and that’s a reflection on their coaches. Played exceptionally hard. Pennington threw the ball really well in those conditions. Coffman is a stud and as advertised. Slabaugh played really well too. Can’t name them all but their kids fought all night. Wanted it more and it showed.

I think it will be Sayre and Raceland in the title game.  If that plays out who would you pick between those two teams to win it all?

Raceland. I think it’s their time and they deserve one. They could get another next year. They are better than Sayre. Pikeville is better than Sayre and I have given Sayre their due but that last night was the culmination of a year that is not consistent with the talent on the field.

I agree. I think those who study the game are perplexed by Pikeville’s game plan, or at least I am. Sayre is a dink and dunk passing offense and use short passes like handoffs based on the numbers. Pikeville simply gave them what Sayre was good at.

[Patriot1]

Nobody has been as hard on Pikeville this year as I have but when you watch these young men play football for years and know what they can do and then see what they did on the field(and in some cases off the field) it’s very disappointing but for some reason in never materialized into a team but just a bunch of individuals not doing their jobs and definitely not putting in effort into the games and for that matter the practice. Brandon Anthony was a very good player and he came to play every Friday hurt or not. I do hope these younger players take a look at this year as what it was a disappointing characteristic of some of these older players and see that nothing is handed to you if you want something you have to work for it nothing is handed to you like someone said on here it was given to Pikeville before the games were started but in the good note life goes on well maybe not for JetPilot ( just kidding Jet) but hopefully some will learn from this and on to basketball but not for me I really don’t care much for basketball

[RAM-A-DEVIL]

I’m disappointed that Sayre did the job that we wanted to do! The argument in Ramland was do you want to play Pikeville now or in the finals. I wanted to play them early. Everyone else said it would mean more if we beat them in the finals. All a moot point now. My dreams of Glory are dashed! Thank you Pikeville.

[RAMDAD50]

Nobody has been as hard on Pikeville this year as I have but when you watch these young men play football for years and know what they can do and then see what they did on the field(and in some cases off the field) it’s very disappointing but for some reason in never materialized into a team but just a bunch of individuals not doing their jobs and definitely not putting in effort into the games and for that matter the practice. Brandon Anthony was a very good player and he came to play every Friday hurt or not. I do hope these younger players take a look at this year as what it was a disappointing characteristic of some of these older players and see that nothing is handed to you if you want something you have to work for it nothing is handed to you like someone said on here it was given to Pikeville before the games were started but in the good note life goes on well maybe not for JetPilot ( just kidding Jet) but hopefully some will learn from this and on to basketball but not for me I really don’t care much for basketball

There are a ton of questions that can be asked but only the kids and coaches know the answers. From an outsiders perspective lots comes to mind. Was there a lot of transfers on this team? If so was there issues between the “true” Pikeville kids and the transfers? Was it parent issues? Was there parents getting in the kids ears ??? This causes more issues than people know. Was it coach issues?? Did the schedule physically and mentally drain the kids? Was it simply young kids not knowing how to handle success? Or was it to much pressure from the fans that basically lay claim to the championship trophy every year before the first game is played? Or….maybe this group of Panthers just wasn’t as good as everyone thought they should be. I believe it probably a little bit of all the above. In the end I’m sure that these kids enjoyed their time playing football at Pikeville and they will go on to be great young men because that’s what programs like Pikeville and Raceland are about. The tide has definitely turned…..has it turned orange?? We will know soon

[Orange Blaze]

Pikeville just won a middle school state title so I definitely won’t be singing ding dong the witch is dead lol. Pikeville hasn’t won 5 state titles since 2015 by accident. I would imagine the coaching staff will be spending the offseason working to fix the things that lead to what many consider to be a disappointing season.

[RAMDAD50]

Pikeville just won a middle school state title so I definitely won’t be singing ding dong the witch is dead lol.  Pikeville hasn’t won 5 state titles since 2015 by accident.  I would imagine the coaching staff will be spending the offseason working to fix the things that lead to what many consider to be a disappointing season.

Here’s something people don’t talk about…the last three years Pikeville and Raceland were both loaded with 19 and 18 year old Covid/ hold back kids. Nobody done it better than Pikeville. No…it was illegal and they didn’t bend the rules. Raceland tried but didn’t have enough numbers to compete with what Pikeville had. These kids on the rosters moving forward will look more like class a kids and the playing field will be alot closer to the rest of class a. I’m not dinging anything cause I’m a Raceland guy that knows the Rams always find a way to stumble. We’ve been here before. Hopefully we can get it done but no….Pikeville isn’t going anywhere.

[WestCoast]

I was shocked with how vanilla and BORING the playcalling was for Pikeville. It is so hard in football to just depend on one guy for everything. Pikeville is just hand to Anthony, hand to Anthony, screen to Anthony, hand to Anthony....
Is there no one else on the roster they can get involved? Sayre just keyed on him all night.
That's one thing about Raceland. They have rushed for 2100 yards on the season, and dont have a guy over 500 yards. Pikeville has rushed for right at 1900 and Anthony has 1100 of them. Raceland is just deep this year at so many spots and will be for years to come. They start 3 sophomores on defense, and I believe 5 on offense!
But I blame that game squarely on the OC. You have to be more creative than that. He was calling the game like a JFL game.

[RAMDAD50]

Pikeville just won a middle school state title so I definitely won’t be singing ding dong the witch is dead lol.  Pikeville hasn’t won 5 state titles since 2015 by accident.  I would imagine the coaching staff will be spending the offseason working to fix the things that lead to what many consider to be a disappointing season.

Here’s something people don’t talk about…the last three years Pikeville and Raceland were both loaded with 19 and 18 year old Covid/ hold back kids. Nobody done it better than Pikeville. No…it was illegal and they didn’t bend the rules. Raceland tried but didn’t have enough numbers to compete with what Pikeville had. These kids on the rosters moving forward will look more like class a kids and the playing field will be alot closer to the rest of class a. I’m not dinging anything cause I’m a Raceland guy that knows the Rams always find a way to stumble. We’ve been here before. Hopefully we can get it done but no….Pikeville isn’t going anywhere.

I meant to say wasn’t illegal

[Landsten88]

I was shocked with how vanilla and BORING the playcalling was for Pikeville. It is so hard in football to just depend on one guy for everything. Pikeville is just hand to Anthony, hand to Anthony, screen to Anthony, hand to Anthony....
Is there no one else on the roster they can get involved? Sayre just keyed on him all night.
That's one thing about Raceland. They have rushed for 2100 yards on the season, and dont have a guy over 500 yards. Pikeville has rushed for right at 1900 and Anthony has 1100 of them. Raceland is just deep this year at so many spots and will be for years to come. They start 3 sophomores on defense, and I believe 5 on offense!
But I blame that game squarely on the OC. You have to be more creative than that. He was calling the game like a JFL game.

I have to agree with this. I’m not familiar with pikeville football, or 1A football in general, but this being the first pikeville game I watched I wasn’t impressed by thier play caller.

you knew first down would be an inside zone run, you knew second down would be another run but outside this time and if they don’t go with a screen to the RB on 3rd down, they’d do a roll out to the right and try to hit something just past the sticks. 

Not sure if this is an issue pikeville fans have noticed or if this was just a rough night play calling wise but they were more talented than Sayre just terrible play call decisions made all night.

[Fanman]

Anybody checked on jetpilot?

[Patriot1]

Anybody checked on jetpilot?

Jet will be back just got to give him time to get his emotions settled and believe me there is no one not even the team or staff took this harder than JetPilot is truly the #1 Panther

[jetpilot]

This is what happens when a team loses its desire. I’ve watched it all year. I called it weeks ago. Great win by Sayre, congrats to them.

Pretty much says it all. Congratulations to Sayre, well deserved.

[Panther369]

Word is Qb and WR1 here both in Lexington on Thursday night at a sorority party. If true some of that is on the parents. Agree with MB you could see this coming weeks ago. Congrats to Sayre had a great game plan and deserved to win.

Qb was definitely not at a sorority party in Lexington on Thursday night. 

In my opinion, the coaches did not do their homework and underestimated Sayre’s game plan. They let the team down.

[HatfieldMccoy]

Word is Qb and WR1 here both in Lexington on Thursday night at a sorority party. If true some of that is on the parents. Agree with MB you could see this coming weeks ago. Congrats to Sayre had a great game plan and deserved to win.

Qb was definitely not at a sorority party in Lexington on Thursday night. 

Maybe he should have went then.  In all seriousness this one is on the game plan of the coaches.   Offensive game plan was one dimensional and no adjustments.   Defensively, Pikeville had the worst game plan they have had all year.   Allowed Sayre to dink  and dunk them all night long.  Maybe the coaches partied to hard before coming up with this game plan.   They really let these kids down.   


In my opinion, the coaches did not do their homework and underestimated Sayre’s game plan. They let the team down.

[jetpilot]

Defensively, Pikeville held Pennington who had 47 TD passes to zero and held Sayre to 82 rushing yards. Also coaches partying is absurd.
Same issues all year - way too many turnovers, penalties, injuries, vanilla offense, special teams breakdowns and other team playing with more intensity. I have faith Pikeville will be back on track next year.

[Shogun]

Word is Qb and WR1 here both in Lexington on Thursday night at a sorority party. If true some of that is on the parents. Agree with MB you could see this coming weeks ago. Congrats to Sayre had a great game plan and deserved to win.

Qb was definitely not at a sorority party in Lexington on Thursday night. 

In my opinion, the coaches did not do their homework and underestimated Sayre’s game plan. They let the team down.

As a UK grad, the part that makes this story unbelievable is the idea that sororities would throw their own parties.

[jetpilot]

Word is Qb and WR1 here both in Lexington on Thursday night at a sorority party. If true some of that is on the parents. Agree with MB you could see this coming weeks ago. Congrats to Sayre had a great game plan and deserved to win.

Qb was definitely not at a sorority party in Lexington on Thursday night. 

In my opinion, the coaches did not do their homework and underestimated Sayre’s game plan. They let the team down.

As a UK grad, the part that makes this story unbelievable is the idea that sororities would throw their own parties.

As a UK grad, I promise you sorority parties do in fact take place. Not buying Pikeville players were there however.

[Shogun]

Word is Qb and WR1 here both in Lexington on Thursday night at a sorority party. If true some of that is on the parents. Agree with MB you could see this coming weeks ago. Congrats to Sayre had a great game plan and deserved to win.

Qb was definitely not at a sorority party in Lexington on Thursday night. 

In my opinion, the coaches did not do their homework and underestimated Sayre’s game plan. They let the team down.

As a UK grad, the part that makes this story unbelievable is the idea that sororities would throw their own parties.

As a UK grad, I promise you sorority parties do in fact take place. Not buying Pikeville players were there however.

Must be different time periods. My wife was in a sorority, several roommates were in fraternities, and never once heard of a sorority party outside of their little daytime get togethers for the girls in the sorority. Exact quote was "why would we throw our own parties where we would have to pay for our own alcohol?"

[jetpilot]

^^^^Sounds like we didn't know the same girls lol.
Girls have parties.
Girls pay for alcohol sometimes.
Guys bring booze to parties girls have as well.

[Link M9]

Defensively, Pikeville held Pennington who had 47 TD passes to zero and held Sayre to 82 rushing yards. Also coaches partying is absurd.
Same issues all year - way too many turnovers, penalties, injuries, vanilla offense, special teams breakdowns and other team playing with more intensity. I have faith Pikeville will be back on track next year.

I’ve seen several people saying the play calling was “vanilla” , that is an extremely nice way to describe it ! Myself along with most people would have a different word or description for this years play calling and it ain’t white !!!

[HatfieldMccoy]

Defensively, Pikeville held Pennington who had 47 TD passes to zero and held Sayre to 82 rushing yards. Also coaches partying is absurd.
Same issues all year - way too many turnovers, penalties, injuries, vanilla offense, special teams breakdowns and other team playing with more intensity. I have faith Pikeville will be back on track next year.

I was joking about the coaches partying.  Lol.  And I don’t think that any sorority party had an effect on the outcome, especially is the qb wasn’t there.  To me this is on the coaching.  Sayre out coached Pikeville in this one and whoever the special teams coach at Pikeville is needs to go or find another specialty.

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Defensively, Pikeville held Pennington who had 47 TD passes to zero and held Sayre to 82 rushing yards. Also coaches partying is absurd.
Same issues all year - way too many turnovers, penalties, injuries, vanilla offense, special teams breakdowns and other team playing with more intensity. I have faith Pikeville will be back on track next year.

I’ve seen several people saying the play calling was “vanilla” , that is an extremely nice way to describe it ! Myself along with most people would have a different word or description for this years play calling and it ain’t white !!!

From an outsider looking in, this had to be the most frustrating offense that has been put on the field in awhile.

[Big Five-0-]

Defensively, Pikeville held Pennington who had 47 TD passes to zero and held Sayre to 82 rushing yards. Also coaches partying is absurd.
Same issues all year - way too many turnovers, penalties, injuries, vanilla offense, special teams breakdowns and other team playing with more intensity. I have faith Pikeville will be back on track next year.

With the fan support, community interest, tradition, and talent that's there, plus the talent that's upcoming from the Jr High, no doubt whatsoever Imo, this team will be back on track for next season. Imo, Pikeville with talent that's there this season should still be in it. Yep, more injuries in one season than anyone would expect to see, but this team had what it took to win it all. Don't know what caused a lack of desire, enthusiasm, or effort, but that has to be corrected. IMO

[Belichick]

I think Pikeville staff thought they could run it at Sayre like most outsiders looking in but someone else thought that too. Chad Pennington. He loaded the box. Linebackers shots gaps on the snap and the safeties came downhill. 8-9 in box all night. Manned up corners outside because they weren’t afraid of the pass and didn’t think Pikeville could beat them outside. Their skill may have been better than the skill Pikeville had healthy for this one. This wasn’t a novel concept. Every team played Pikeville this way all year. Take away Anthony and make someone else beat you. Left big gaps to throw the ball into. Problem is Pikeville couldn’t spread them out because multiple receivers were hurt. When Pikeville spread the formation this year, that’s when they played well. They would pass more and it opened up running lanes. Why they ever went away from it is questionable. Injuries were a bigger deal than anyone thought. The ‘23 team had some dudes but this team was as good or better than last year talent wise. This was on players and coaches. Pikeville loses a lot but I don’t doubt they’ll be back in the mix next year. Something to prove. Looking forward to see who gets their first title out of remaining teams.