[PHSForever]

Running clock in the first or second quarter. Would love to see Phelps figure something out to get numbers up and become more competitive. Their kids always show so much heart and never quit, they just never have the numbers.

Pikeville by alot. I'll say:
Pville Starters score 35 unanswered points
Pville JV scores a handful of times
Pville Freshman finish it out

Coach Mac is a class act and wont run up the score, but the problem is, there is only so much you can do. Last year Raceland played JV and Frosh from midway through the 2nd quarter. The varsity went up 48-0 after 4 TD passes from Young, a rushing TD by Christian a pick 6 by Christian and 2 punt returns for a TD by messer. The JV came in and Damon Black through two TD passes and Ran for another. The freshman would have scored but ran out of time. Its a tough way to coach.

There is only so much a coach can do. You CAN NOT tell kids to slack off, play soft, or ease up. You can try different things, formations, hell, you can play kids out of position if you want. But when a team struggles like Phelps has in the last few years, it's hard to play them "fairly" with being insulting.

Its a tough situation. Imo, Phelps should do what Berea did a few years back and ease up the schedule and drop from district play and try to do something to build their numbers up.

Hope both squads come out injury free. Good luck to bith squads.

IMO that's what they should do too. Very fair post with good points. East Ridge took the same route, it appears to have worked some for them. Then again, they have a bigger enrollment to draw from so I'm not sure exactly how much it would help. Joplin is a class act too, I agree Mac won't purposely run the score up into the 80's. But like you said, there's only so much you can do. If you run the ball and a young kid sees daylight, he's gonna run for it and no one can blame him.

Like you, I'm just praying for an injury free game and safe travels for students and fans of both schools.