[pjdoug]

I'm a Rockcastle alma mater/contributor & fan 450 plus miles north in the Midwest. This "former" character has portrayed a cockiness role that we're considered a juggernaut HS football team with multiple state championship seasons. Fact is we're not! This program has a rich history that great seasons were not built based on statistics or paperwork. Rockcastle was built on a mentality inside the lockeroom day in and day out leading up to spring practice to summer practice to camp to the 1st game to the 1st district game to the playoffs. A certain point from 1999 to 2002, this was a team that lost only 7 games and scored a massive 2,289 points in 56 games and lost only 2 home games (14-42 to Lawrence County in the 1999 3A Quarterfinals and 9-41 to the Highlands in the 2000 3A State Semi-Finals). Our record speaks for itself looking from season to season from 1986 to 1990 then 1991 IT ALL BEGUN but we didn't dominant by stats or paper. Rockcastle has had a reputation at 1 point being almost unbeatable at home. This season has been impressive from the prior 2 seasons....we've been down that road in the past. This talk of cockinesss won't change the perspective of our opponents looking at the big picture LIKE WE ALWAYS done.

The Rockets were a tough out for sure and maybe they'll get back to that point.