[EKUAlum05]

You need to give a sample of at least the last 10-15 years on your EKY teams beating the crap out of SWVA teams. If you are going by this year, then you are really being mislead. I've followed SWVA football for many years and I don't remember too many of the EKY teams wanting to travel Route 23 or 460 to play the Lonesome Pine District teams, Highlands District, Southwest District or the Clinch Mtn. District in the mid 90's till about 2010. The Black Diamond District has done well against EKY schools but they have had more trouble with WV schools. The Cumberland District isn't really a football district they are more of a basketball district. Rye Cove is in the Cumberland and they are located in Scott County, RC is usually the only team in the CD to schedule any KY teams.

In the past 5 years off the top of my head:

Middlebsoro defeated Union (who was ranked) handily last week 27-6

Shelby Valley (historically weak) defeated Grundy last week 50-26 and Hurley 42-14

East Ridge (histroically extremely weak) defeated Twin Valley (historically very weak) 36-12.

Hazard has defeated Clintwood (who were defending 1A champs one year and I think runner-ups the other) twice.. 23-17 last year and 32-7 in 201

Harlan County has defeated Gate City (48-7, 55-0) Lee County (42-0, 36-6, 40-14, 44-21) big a couple times, as well as Powell Valley (36-7, 35-0)

Belfry also scrimmaged Richlands this summer (widely considered the best team in SW Virginia annually) and George Wythe (defending 1A Champs) this off-season and were on a completely different level to the point Virginia people were talking about never seeing a team dominate Richlands like Belfry

To defend the VA teams... Harlan County is larger than any of those schools and Hazard was State Champs and Runner-Ups in 1A respectively.. and Belfry is on a completely different level to most EKY teams.