[PHSForever]

The Breathitt Co Bobcats of 95 and 96 team would of beat the 1987 pikeville or the good 2004 team at Belfry. The reason that the bobcats would of beat the 87 pikeville team is I don't see them being able to stop the pass. The bobcats would stretch you out and just throw the ball all over the place and they could also run the ball. On defense they were very good, the stop some very good wishbone teams in Danville,Fort knox,Belfry. In 1996 Belfry was ranked #1 in 3a and bobcats were #1 in 2a and the Bobcats beat Belfry 54-6. The Bobcats would also hand the 2004 Belfry team a loss because the were to one dimensional. To beat the bobcats you would had to be able to pass also and not just throw it up to one player, but read a defense.

Some quick stats for you. Top two teams for season total offense are the 1987 and 1991 PHS teams with 7409 yards. 1989 team had 6679. 1987 team averaged 453.4 rush yards PER GAME, with 4983 total yards rushing in 14 games on the season. Ask any coach, a team with a strong running game will wear you down a heck of a lot faster than a passing game, and enable you to control the clock, and open up passing opportunities. While Breathitt was good passing those years, their running game didn't come close to PHS's. On a side note, PHS actually has had several good years of passing offenses, with quite a few records on top achievers. The 87 team didn't have a ton of passing offense because it was situational. Still had some very good numbers because they passed in the moments when defenses were loading the box to stop the run (or try to), and that opened the box back up for the rushing game. Breathitt NEVER approached a similar level of rushing offense, so they had to throw the heck out of the ball.

1988 PHS defense (basically the same team as 1987) allowed a TOTAL of 1,100 yards by their opponents for the SEASON, 1987 team had 35 total fumble recoveries. Pass yards defense records are mostly held by teams from the 60's, 70's and earlier, so I don't have access to those records.

But suffice to say, there is NO way the Breathitt County teams of 95/96 would have had an easy time against the Pikeville defense from 1987. Would they have gotten yards? Of course. But you also have to remember PHS 87 and 88 teams had people like Chris McNamee (played safety at EKU), and Jody Brown (all-state DB) in the defensive backfield. Again, not to take anything away from those very good Breathitt County teams of the 90's, but they just would not have dominated the 87 PHS team like you are implying. Just go ahead, tally up all the different people from all different schools here who are all in agreement about that 87 PHS team. It's a landslide vote in their favor.