[Pigskin222]

A lot of talk going on with not many facts in this thread. Let's go back to last fall. The conference which consisted of corbin, south, north, Meece and clay had tried to get southern Pulaski in the conference. Everyone agreed except Meece. This caused a big fuss as we all wanted southern Pulaski in. The plan discussed between coaches was for the next year to vote Meece out and get southern Pulaski in or basically "dismantle the conference and make a new one leaving Meece out"- a quote by one of the conference head coaches- Why? Meece was a 10 point win as compared to southern being a 30 point win. Both was in same location, a drive to pulaksi county. So would you rather drive to pulaksi and get a 10 point win or 30 point win if you were fortunate enough to win. There has been some problems between north and south laurel with corbin as for kids being recruited to Corbin at both the middle and high school levels. (Won't get into details there but have plenty of facts.) The administration at north Laurel (prinicpal, school AD and county AD) made the decision to not play Corbin in volleyball, football, basketball etc for the current and upcoming year due to recent problems. This was not a coach or coaches decision. It is unfortunate the schedules had to be changed, but it is March and there is many games out there. Also, everyone involved had to redo their schedules. Many is calling this a cupcake conference? Two teams that were dropped was a 10 point team and a 20 point team. The two teams were replaced with 30 point teams. So the conference went from 2 30's, 2 20's and a 10 to now 4 30's and a 20 (clay co) and clay co principal says they may be a 30 this year based on enrollment. Corbin and Meece are both quality and respectable programs but saying southern Pulaski and Whitley isn't is ridiculous. Also, this new conference matches up very well to high school 5A region which includes north Laurel, south laurel, Whitley, and southwestern Pulaski. This new conference makes sense in many aspects. This new conference is not about being a conference champion more often, it's about more points possible, matching up with high school region. Conferences come and go, changes are made. Wayne went independent a few years ago. Wasn't Bell in northern Pulaski conference as well. Things change, go independent, form a new conference. Northern, knox, corbin,Meece , could be a nice conference. New Harlan? McQueary? Bell?