[Orange Blaze]

Couple D1 guys from those two schools over the years arent bad. In all honesty, Raceland had potentially 4 or 5 potential division 1 caliber players Petterey's senior year. Josh Adkins, Anthony Frisby, Ross Reed, and Josh Roar all had the ability but ended up doing something else. Anthony was one of the fastest guys I have ever seen in my life. He and Adkins were both apart of the State Championship Track Team.

I think Reed opted out to a academic scholly and Adkins ended up in the military and Im not sure what happened to Roar and Frisby. That was a very good Raceland team on '04. Pettery was a great D1 kicker for Ohio State, but he also had some offers at some big NAIA, Small FCS, and D1 2A schools at QB and WR. Paintsville had a slew of tallent back on the BMR days as well.

This was the class of 04 which would have been the 03 team. As you have stated, that team had some talent but they were a mediocre team that season due to losing a lot of key players from graduation. Raceland had a really good team in 2002 and I believe that team won Raceland's first home playoff game in school history. As good as that team was they only made it to the second round of the playoffs after they ran into a juggernaut NewCath team. All in all those early 2000's years saw a lot of talent throughout the entire area and a lot of schools that we see struggling now were actually pretty good during those years. I remember Greenup and Boyd in particular being light years ahead of where they are now and Greenup actually had a 6 or 7 year winning streak against Raceland. Ironton was also a powerhouse and no one on this side of the river was within three touchdowns of them.