[EKUAlum05]

You have to let your starters play full games when it's this close to the playoffs. It doesn't really matter what the score is. I'm sure it's nothing personal to any team.

That's what non-district scheduling is for. If you are in a weak non-competitive district, like Breathitt is, you have to account for it by beefing up your non-district slate and moving your games around as needed. That's why Belfry plays Johnson Central in Week 10, why Bell plays Harlan County, and the like.

Somerset and Hazard were "good" non-district games. Letcher Central and Clay County were "ok" games, and Newport was a cupcake. If Breathitt were concerned about reps for their starters they would have scheduled someone other than Clay County in the final week. Somerset and Hazard each are playing non-district games that week as well, instead of running the score up on their over matched district foes they could have switched games on their scheduling grid to accommodate.

I understand the logic behind "game reps", but how much benefit do you actually get against a team who may not even be on par with your second string? Is that really going to prepare you for a team like a Belfry or Pike Central that the Bobcats will be seeing in the playoffs? Not to mention Breathitt's players were probably on mental "cruise control" and Morgan players had probably accepted defeat at that point.