[SEKYFAN]

Spot on. Both you and HCS have pretty much nailed it.
I remember watching Corey Sears in high school, who was around the same age as me and thinking how ridiculously more talented he was than anyone else in EKY that I seen all year. Doing 360 dunks and leaping over everyone.
Rick Jones was just heads and shoulders above the rest and maybe the most college ready player I seen. Had it not been for his personal issues, that may have been one that made it.
And what about Pietrowski himself? I remember when Dale Brown came up from LSU while Pietrowski signed with them. I was younger than, only in elementary school while Pietrowski was playing, but very few have handled the ball as well as him and was as good of a game manager as ive ever seen at that level. I wish he would have stayed and really done something down there.
This is what makes me think the caliber of player just isn't what it use to be in the area, although the game has changed. These were the types of players teams wanted in the 90's, now a days not so much with all the AAU ball and inner city kids getting a chance to do something. So, it has me wondering if players then were that much better, or if the kids today just don't get the looks they use to.
what happened with the Crawford kid that was at Corbin a few years ago? He was doing pretty good in 8th grade and as a frosh playing varsity for Corbin and I never knew what ended up happening with him. He was the closest prospect to Sears I had seen at Corbin and it kind of just fizzled out.

Josh Crawford had an excellent high school career, but got into body building after his freshman year and really bulked up, then injured his knee going into his sophomore year. He lost some of his mobility and quickness due to the injury and to the bulking up of his body, which made him basically a really good, versatile high school post player. He played at Centre for a couple of years, but ended up giving basketball up to concentrate on going into the Ministry field.