[Norm Peterson]

You must try to understand how Hines thinks. When him and John Cain came to Pulaski, we were the absolute worst football team in the state. In all classes. A joke. To beat Somerset was a huge measurinig stick. Also, Hines was "passed over" for the coaching job at Somerset when Cobb got hired. That threw gas on the fire. As long as Hines is around, Somerset will always be a big game for PC. And actually, it dosen't hurt the playoff run. It is always early in the season, and the fans love it, and whatever happends in the playoffs is long after the Somerset-Pulaski game is history. Really, in the big picture, PC's fixation with beating Somerset has helped the program grow over the years.

I get all that. What I was saying is Pulaski has the program to the point where they should no longer be concerned with beating, or even whether they play Somerset or not.