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The way I look at it, Perry Central now has a good coach and seems to be assembling a pretty good staff. They also have excellent facilities to play on up there. The ingredients are there for a winner. They'll start calling it Larkey's Mine up there on that strip mine if he makes a winner out of them. It will be interesting to see where they stand in a few years. Need to see if they can pull some more of those Pray boys out of the woodwork of the school as well as finding the next Matt Robinson. The Robinson kid was a real linebacker for sure.
By the way, I was at that game when Rockcastle and Perry Central were both 6-0...which was 2011, not 2010. If it hadn't turned into a quagmire at Airport Gardens for that game...or if the game was played at the current field with the turf, then it may have been a different game altogether. That was Rockcastle's last pretty physical team and those Rock boys LOVED mud. Perry Central just got outduked in the trenches and Rockcastle converted a few third and long plays that made the difference in the game. Perry Central had an excellent passer that year with some dandy receivers that just couldn't get things going. A buddy of mine who's boy played for Knox Central that year was at that game as well and PCC had beaten KC a few games before that one. He said that PCC just couldn't miss catching a thrown ball during the KC and PCC game before the Rockcastle game. That PCC win by Rock is what got them the district crown that year because KC put a butt whooping on Rockcastle with a wide open offense later in the season. The win is what broke the tie between Rockcastle, Russell County and Knox Central that year.
My avatar is a picture taken by the Mount Vernon Signal from that game at Airport Gardens.