[EKUAlum05]

This is called the pike county bowl!!!!!(county)not the pikeville bowl all schools in the county should have a chance to play in this bowl.or host this bowl....when this bowl is held at shelby valley it generates alot of money for this program.valleys football program does not generate the type of dollars as pikeville or belfrys programs do. This team and other pike co.schools need these funds to survive....

Your post is the epitome of a contradiction.

So Shelby Valley should host, play, and receive the lion's share of the gate because their program is not strong enough to generate the $$$$ that Belfry and Pikeville does??????????????

Really???????????

I blame this Socialistic approach on our government.

All the programs who think they deserve to be a part of it have been given a free split of the pot for DECADES... as you said yourself, it is pretty clear who brings in the gates and who people want to see... yet those very teams are the ones who have to take a back seat so other County schools can benefit off their name, and then those schools feel a sense of entitlement that they "deserve" more than they do.

So Shelby Valley is pulling out to start their own bowl... once again, are they foregoing their welfare check from the bowl to do so or are they double dipping all the while complaining they should have had top billing?

This is eaxctly the problem with financial assistance.Even when people are given help they need they feel it is owed to them by the more priveleged/harder worker to give them more. Take your check, shut up, go play who you want so you can build your program (not directed to the poster obviously).