[ekywildcat]

I graduated JC in 1970. I think football started in '71 or '72 not sure which and I'm to lazy to use the Google machine, but Paintsville pretty much dominated JC for years in the Apple Bowl, which was hunky dory with the Tigers. Well, JC finally gets a decent coach and the tide turns. This turn of events doesn't sit well across the creek. Suddenly, it's not in their "best" interest to be playing 4A schools. It was certainly okay when they had the upper hand. Last year, they played Bourbon County, a 4A school, at BC if I'm not mistaken. A JC-Paintsville Apple Bowl would have made both schools a nice payday with no travel involved, but, it wasn't in their "best" interest.