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Love the haters. People act like this is the first time Dudley has ever done this at Bell Co. Middle School just had a terrific year. Plenty of talent coming up. A great coach can take a mediocre team and win. Why he's one of the best in the State.

That same MS team also got ran off the field by Belfry. Not sure how they fared against Corbin but in recent years Corbin has dominated them as well.

Once again... this isn't to say that all hope is lost and Bell will never catch them...just saying that Hilton is going to have to close the gap on two programs in the East who are at the top of the mountain from the High Schol level through their entire feeder system and it won't happen overnight.

Give him three years to re-work his feeder program and start developing talent and I think you see Bell back as a Top 10 program, but the fact of the matter is as of 3/2/2017 he is inheriting a Bell program that is much closer to Pike Central and Casey County than to Corbin and Belfry. Lots of work to do before those State Title dreams can return.