[Fly Like a Duck]

Consolidation might be one of the things that has hurt KY football, especially in our rural areas.

Most places usually took the one football playing school in the county, and merged it with a few other smaller schools out in the far reaches of each county that didn't have football for a variety of reasons (mainly population, money and largely agricultural) and simply didn't care about football.

....turn the clock some 40-60 years later, and many of those same pockets within each county still couldn't give a rip about football.

I know for a fact that 3A and below, you have a lot of So and So High School (insert any town) Football @ So and So County High School.

3A schools, with 1A football programs in terms of where they actually draw their talent from (and/or overall participation in general).

Harsh reality, but fact.