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Pike Central, Belfry, & Pikeville all have a big following as far as fans. Schedule them with some good competition & it would be a huge success. Until the other teams can play to the 3 mentioneds level then they just need to reap the rewards & be satisfied with that.
No offense to any of those teams but they simply are not on the same level.

You're kind of on the right track but you are giving way too much credit to Pike Central and probably not enough to Shelby Valley.

Lest you forget, from 2005 through the 2009 season, Valley beat Pike Central all four times they played. For those 5 seasons, one would have to say that Shelby Valley, and not Pike Central, was the team that would be considered in that #2/#3 range (along with Pikeville). But times change, and now the pendulum has swung in the direction of Buckley's Creek. Now it is the Hawks who should be lumped in with Pikeville as the #2/#3 team in the county, and SV who has fallen back.

My point is not to knock Pike Central, but to put things in perspective. Pike Central has had a great turnaround under John Chapman, but this is only the second year now that Pike Central has had a team able to break into that Pikeville/Belfry conversation. In 5 years, things could be completely different. What neither Pike Central nor Shelby Valley has been able to achieve is to put a consistent winner on the field every year. Until they do, there will only be a "Big 2" in Pike county.