[Scotty_Bronson]

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To play Devil's advocate..Williamsburg has substantially upgraded their schedule and I don't think you gave them enough credit.

North Laurel is not a power..but they are a very big school and have improved immensely in recent years

Wayne County is a team who IMO may be the 2nd or 3rd best team in 3A entering the season. With all fairness, it is easy to overlook them has they have historically been a very average program, but this may be the best Wayne County team in recent memory. With that said, I expect Wayne County to lay a beating on Wburg similar to the beating Pikeville will take when they play Belfry... a comparatively similar team.

Harrison County is a weak team and Pike Central has had consistency issues and appear to be one year away from returning to being competitive and a Top 10 caliber team. Nonetheless,,,, in comparison to last season Wburg has to be applauded and their schedule really isn't that far off from the other schools and may actually be stronger than Fairview's.

Thank you for that input. I didn't know about Wayne Co looking as good as they did. Looked at some numbers and returning players from them and I can see where u are coming from. As far as North Laurel goes, they are a big school, I will give you that. So sometimes it is hard to judge because they don't really do a whole lot inside of their district if I am not mistaken. I still can't say that their schedule is stronger than Fairviews. Now, a lot of this is yet to be seen because we are ALL going off of last year and history. Which is all we have to go by...thus the statement of...Is it August yet?


In regaurds to the Russell game being on Pikeville's schedule. I can't really give much of an argument. Raceland beat Russell soundly, the last few years. Outside of the first year of the Rail City Bowl, Raceland defeated them in every match up. I have spoken with a few Russell players and they have all said the same thing. "Uh Oh"...seems that many of the seniors aren't coming to work outs, and it looks slower and weaker than in years past. Which is scary because they haven't had a really strong team for a few years.