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2013 WYMT Pigskin Preview: Letcher Central

Letcher County (WYMT) -- Letcher Central ended the 2012 season with a 2-9 record, including zero wins in Class 5-A, District 8.

The team wants 2013 to be a revenge season.

"Everybody is ready to play, everybody is here at eight o' clock hoopin' and hollerin' ready to get out here and work at 8 o' clock in the morning,” senior middle linebacker Chaz Bryant said. “We get out here and we work hard and it's just a whole lot better atmosphere."

This will be the second new coach for the Cougars in a three-year span. Mike Holcomb is bringing the credentials of a champion.

"Our kids have been doing anything we have asked them since April so hopefully we have laid the foundation,” Holcomb, who won three state championships with Breathitt County, said.

Along with everyone returning on defense, Holcomb has a returning quarterback.

"When I heard coach Holcomb was coming to L-C-C, I was the first one to be excited,” junior quarterback Zane Blair said. “With what he has had in the past, it was great knowing that he was going to be head coach of L-C-C. And I was looking forward to it. I just had to set my mind to paying attention because he knows what he's doing and hopefully it will work out."

Winning a district championship is the challenge and, more importantly, the goal. Last season the Cougars lost to all three teams by a combined score of 145-41.

"Perry , Whitley and Harlan County are three outstanding programs with great coaches I respect and, you know, are great friends of mine,” Holcomb said. “But for 48 minutes, we're going to come after them as hard as we can."

LCC will kick off the season against Berea on August 23.

"We all want to win so bad,” senior fullback Keith Boggs said. “It was rough last year – can't get much worse than that. We just want to turn it around."

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