[HAIL PIKEVILLE!]

I feel like I know both of the programs pretty well and have followed them and kept up with them for years. Pikeville has with out a doubt a much better program and much more tradition, but the game should not keep the schools from keeping this series as a permanant fixture on the schedule. If the schools would had play for say the past 5 years there would had been much closer and better games. This is Pikevilles best team in quite some time and valley quite simply is in a rebuilding stage and has done very very well this season for playing so many young players. IMO just in theory 2006 Pikeville would had won the match up, they were very talented this year and should not had gotten beat by hazard in the playoffs, 2007 I believe Valley wins, to much speed on that team that Saunders had and i dont believe pikeville could had match up across the board with skill kids that valley had and that would had let to big plays. 2008 Pikeville wins, has a very strong running game that year. 2009 Valley wins very strong group of seniors that year and Pikeville was in the process of going from a wishbone offense to a spread offense. 2010 Pikeville wins again.

The powers at be need to make sure this game stay on both schools schedules cause it will create a great rivalry and great revenue game for the schools and saves them from any real expenses in travel time. Valley may have gotten it handed to them this time but from what I saw last night Coach Stepp doesnt have nearly the abundance of athletes that Coach Mac have, once the talent levels back out again I will be interested to see the outcome.

The only time that SV wouldve even had a remote chance to beat Pikeville was '09. I still dont think they couldve pulled it off. NO WAY SV beats Pikeville in '07. Harmon and The Honaker Twins wouldve killed them that year!