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Cawood, Cumberland, and Evarts all had several quality teams with kids coming together at one point overloading the talent for the first few years. This is obvious. NOW, the schools have been consolidated long enough that those kids that would have played and developed later on are no longer sticking with it. I made this point 3 or 4 years ago on this site and its holding true. While Harlan County may dress 50 or 60 kids, they would of had over a 100 playing football had there still been three different football teams.

Consolidation changes everything, and now Harlan County is starting to feel the bad side effects from it. If Perry, Letcher, and Whitley were even semi capable of fielding a quality team (which apparently there not anymore) than Harlan County should be finishing 4th in this district this year. Luckily for them, the other three schools cant get there heads out of there....

That's simply not true. There were no quality teams at either school when the consolidation happened.
Cawood hadn't won a playoff game since 1993. Evarts hadn't won one since 1990. Cumberland had won only one in the last 15 years and that was against Jenkins.
None of the guys who played on the 2011, 2012 or 2013 Harlan County teams had ever played a game for Cawood, Cumberland or Evarts. They are much better together than they were as three separate teams.