[Ike Cooter]

I would have to disagree with the bolded statement. We had 10 seniors with only 7 seeing significant playing time. We had 5 juniors with only 2 seeing significant playing time. Thats a total of 9 juniors and seniors.

We had 17 sophmores and 10 freshman on this years team with 8 of these guys seeing significant playing time. Not to mention several others on special teams of the sophmores and freshman.

I do agree that we lost some key players and they will be hard to replace. I also think we will have some young guys step up and fill those shoes though.

According to the stats on KHSAA only 17 players played in more than 6 games. Of those 17, 8 were seniors. Three of the top 4 recievers were seniors. Rushing was lead by 1 freshman and 2 sophmores. Defensively they were anchored by seniors on the line and at linebacker. The top 3 tacklers were seniors and after that the numbers dropped off tremendously. I think it will be another tough year for the Cats next year. The year after may be good depending on what other schools lose. But after that it looks to be heading down hill with the freshmen and middle school this year.