[RunItUpTheGut]

Ive thought about this before. Here is one of my thoughts. What about the number of coaches that coached at schools for 25+years that's left or gone somewhere else in the last couple of years? You know the ones, run right, run left, never pass, old school football is the way its going to be kind of guys.
I think a lot of what ive been seeing lately that makes it look like EKY football in general is better is because many schools in EKY have evolved and changed there mindset over the past few years. They have finally learned you will never win a title with a 5 play playbook and a load the box defense.
Look what its done for schools like Pulaski, and heck, Hines is still there, but he changed his way of thinking.
It may just be me, but I think that has a lot to do with it. More exciting football and running a lot of different balanced plays with complicated defenses make the game seem much more high speed and not as dull making it appear the players and teams are much better, and really they are.
Im with EKU though, take it from a guy that works in the coal industry. If something major doesn't change in the next five years and we don't elect leaders who understand that, then schools populations in EKY will fall dramatically. Its real simple. Unemployment with high theft and drug rate or move and work in a factory pushing a broom for 20 bucks an hour in a city. Most will leave. To put it bluntly, there is a shit load of coal left in EKY. More than you could ever imagine and some not even discovered or old mines that left a lot that high wall miners haven't went back in an claimed. Problem is, they wont let you mine it, and if you do, theres fewer and fewer places left to buy it.

I really do think football this year is going to be exciting. A lot of traditional powers and a lot of school just getting off the ground, I don't however see a completely dominant force in EKY like weve seen before, but overall the parity and the way the game is played will be very nice to watch.