[RunItUpTheGut]

I will agree that 00-01 would have been very evenly matched and great games, but I still think Corbin finds a way to win. There wasn't a Lawson starting in the backfield during those years. In 2000 you had John Sizemore, Mike Neal, Cook, and Steely. With Mills and Hoover at wideouts. 2001 lost some of the backs, but gained Jarrod Lawson and the Oline was nasty. Lawson's carried a lot of the load for the hounds from 02-05.

2000 could have been a good game. I still think Whitley wins but Corbin could have hanged with us. In 01 I just don't see it. You think your line was nasty but we had the best oline Whitley ever produced that year. 6'6 and 315 was the norm. I'm no little guy but Hundley, Peters, and Young absolutely dwarfed me. And that has just on the o line. On defense we had guy like Partin at nose guard who were just as big and bigger. They played with weight that kids today max out with. The only lineman I remember from Corbin during that year was the Stradley? Kid if im rhinking of the right year, and that other big guy but I can't remember his name. They were small compared in size and I'm not exaggerating.
In 2000 we still had Gibbs who may be the best lineman to come out of this area since then with Blakely and Jarrod in the backfield. Plus all the juniors who were seniors that I mentioned above. So really our line may have been just as good or better in 00. We both killed Bell anyways and at the end of the day that's always a good thing. I remember the Cooke the most out of that Corbin backfield and of course sizemore. I'm trying to recall the Steely. I don't remember him unless he's actually one of the ones I'm thinking about.
As the Corbin poster above said, those two years were as good of football talent as a while this county has seen. 08 probably has the best winning percentage out of the bunch as a whole and won more but football in 00 and 01 in Corbin and Whitley was damn good football. If we could have combined teams in 00 and 01 and played Corbin 2A route I think we take state. Doubt 3A and 4A those two years that Whitley transitioned though. Highlands was loaded in 00 as usual and 4A was stacked in 01.