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Don't remember Boyle's team from 2000, but it better have been truly exceptional to have been better than Highlands that year. The 2000 squad was one of the best Highlands teams I've seen (and I'm 54 years old).

Do remember Boyle in 2009, having watched them in person and on tape several times. A very good squad. In my opinion, not really close to Highlands that year however. Only better than Lone Oak by the slimmest of margins and while LO had a nice squad that year, they weren't one of the top 5 teams in the state that year, again in my opinion.

Boyle 2000 roster:

*Travis Leffew, OL/DL, Louisville 4 year starter, NFL (Packers,Cowboys)
*Matt Quinn, RB/LB, Campbellsville (Other offers from bigger places but he was an academic and discipline problem. Still a great player)
*Jeff Duggins, QB/LB, Alfred State and Future Mr. Football (2001)
*Brodie Overstreet, OL/DL, Wake Forest (Injured while starting as Redshirt Frosh and career was lost)
*Matt Miller, WR, Eastern Kentucky University
*Michael Paul Webb, LB
*Jacob Tamme, WR/DB, Kentucky, NFL (Hurt in fourth game and never played the rest of the year. Imagine if he had.)
*Taylor Begley, K, Kentucky 3 year starter. Kicked 97 EP's for state record that season, and state record 17 FG's.


Finished season with 2nd most points ever scored (4 points behind '98 HHS record) in the state at that time.

As to 2009, I felt the Lone Oak game was not Boyle at it's best. I might add they were down significantly most of the game yet played well enough to still come back and win.

As to talent on their team that season, there were some outstanding players that are now heading off to make some colleges happy. One can't compare scores I now, but Boyle handled Johnson Central a lot easier than HHS did that year and they were far from a Top 5 team IMO as well.