[Buford T Justice]

I am right here ringo glad you are keeping tabs on me ha ha. But seriously I am going to address this I know people will Probally not agree with me but it is the truth. Cordia has never had a team of local kids. Lotts creek is geographically landlocked. There is only about a 4 mile stretch in knott co. Cordia over the last 50 years has fielded a team full of knott co,perry co,and hazard rejects mostly perry co. In saying rejects I mean every surrounding school that has a kid that is not good enough to play at M.C. Napier, Perry co, Dilce Combs, or Knott Co Central always had a school they could play for(Cordia). Now most of those kids can't play at cordia either and that is a problem. The way I see it is cordia is going to play transfers then they need to play ones that can win. Every other school feels the same way. Look at perry co half their team is not from perry and I don't have a problem with it. It is not a god given right for someone who can't play ball be given playing time because he grew up his whole life in that community. That in my opinion teaches a kid a false sense of reality. In life if you don't perform your job your boss will bring in someone that will do it better you don't get to keep your job if someone is better at it. Second point if cordia could keep the kids on lotts creek at cordia instead of being drawn away by perry of hazard they would not have to have kids come from NYC. Just a quick fact there are 18 kids at the present that live on lotts creek some within 2 miles of the school that go to either hazard or perry co. Or knott co. That was going on way before rod Rhodes ever came to cordia. I can go back to the 1980's that some of the best baseball and basketball players hazard and mc Napier had are lotts creek products,but cordia was not good enough for them. I say let cordia get kids that want to be there not like the ones that live there and go elsewhere.