[EKUAlum05]

So you have never heard the busride excuse??? What are you 12? I have heard that excuse made a million times.

Since you are not "Pikeville folk" why do you constantly get on here and try to make your point what in the **** do you care? Why dont you go find the thread for whatever team you pull for and state your crap there.

I have heard the busride excuse before... it is a common favorite for teams who simply get their teeth knocked in from the jump and can't accept the fact that it is on them.

Who you do not hear the busride excuse from are the teams who act like they have been there before. Teams who when they get beat point the fingers back in themselves and not at every single excuse they can pull out of the air. Teams travel 4+ hours every year come November and you rarely see anyone blame a loss on a bus trip. If your players were not focused following a 3.5 hour ride that is on your coaching staff...they have over an hour of warm-ups and dressing in the locker room that they should have caught on that their heads were not right..plenty of time to light a fire under them.

I was following the score because I do Power Rankings every week and this was possibly the most meaningful game in EKY in the scheme of those power rankings. I am also trying to win the Pick'Em Contest and made the mistake of actually picking Middlesboro to win. As an added bonus, the team I follow just put a running clock on a healthy Pikeville team last week and eased off the gas from doing the same to Somerset (who is the biggest game on Middlesboro's Schedule). Safe to say there is a reason this game was on my radar.