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This past year LC was simply not as competitive as we have been accustomed to, mainly because of youth. I like their promise for sure and think Short is going about building the right way. The LC fanbase needs to stay patient and trust his process as it will take several years and a new unified focus at the feeder level.

I believe better days are ahead for LC and they will return to being a Top 10 team in the near future, but it is going to be a very tall task to line up toe to toe with Belfry the next three years. Belfry's current Freshman class is absolutely loaded and I am not sure Lawrence County has been able to compete or beat Belfry at the Middle School level in recent years. No shame in that, as only a couple teams have been able to compete.

LC just needs to worry about taking it a day at a time and controlling what they have in front of them and they will field a team that can at least battle Belfry. If Belfry drops to 2A, which seems more and more possible, this then puts LC in a prime spot to make a run.

I could be dead wrong but even if we have the numbers to drop Coach will stay in 3A better competition that's the same thing Russell did I don't think he'll move