[potlimit2002]

Thank you Wooderson sir that was a great post! I was a freshmen in HS at JCHS in 86' and I remember the game at Belfry that year very well. Here's the JCHS prospective, in 85' JCHS had played Belfry pretty tough and even beat Class A runner-up Paintsvile, so the expections for the 86 team were very high. JCHS had brought in Paul Rains to run the defense and he installed the "Wide Tackle SIX" which was all geared for stopping the Option of Belfry. The 86 JCHS team started the year 3-1 with wins over Ashland and Clay Co, it was Walter Brugh P-ville Coach who moved Joey Couch to tight end and ran the VEER and shredded that Wide Tackle six, so there was no need for JCHS to even go to Belfry. I remember "Devil Webb" he was Kind of a freak of Nature, no person shaped that way he is supposed to be able to move like that, kind of like a bowling ball! To give more of IDea of what was happening at JCHS in that time, Ronny Wells was Coach and in 1987 a very talented JCHS team was hit was a rash of Injuries lost a total of 9 starters for the year so there was no need for Beflry to Come to JCHS, when they DID it was not pretty. Anyway Wells had geared his whole program with the Goal of taking Down Belfry in 1988, he had the Talent to do it too guys like Chris Deaton (Marshall) Steve Estep (Navy) he also Had a True 4.4 QB and a 6 Foot 8 inch High Jumper and His Stepp son Greg Slone (western KY) Baseball. Anyway for some odd Reason Wells was fired as Coach an JCHS hired a guy I will call (ST). (ST) had never coached varsity football before, the 4.4 QB wouldn't play for (ST), Greg Slone who had returned a punt vs Belfry for TD the year before (VERY RARE THING), went to Paintsville with his brother JJ too, the high Jumper was moved to O-tackle. The 88 JC team was still a pretty good team finished 7-4 they lost in 2 overtimes to Paintsville in the Apple Bowl beat Breatitt CO, and came to Belfry unbeaton in the District. It started out a pretty good game but Belfry smashed them finally and JC would lose in the last Seconds to Clay CO and lose the tie breaker in the District. Very poor coaching from a rookie coach. Two guys from that 88 JCHS team got National Championship rings in College. Greg Slone was part of the 90' P-ville state Champ baseball team and the High Jumper got 2nd in the State and got a 1aa offer in Football and track from the Citdal. As far as (ST) goes he coached a few more years and totally destroyed JCHS football it was 7 or 8 years before JC would have winning record again. (ST) is still a big shot in JC but he will always be a loser in my book!!