[jacket-pride]

For whatever reason you all are severely over complicating this thing. Good coaches make bad teams average, average teams good, good teams great. There is no denying the fact that talent in Middlesboro is and has been down by tradinial standards for about 5-7 years now. However, there is enough talent here to be at least average. By that I mean we should beat the harlans, pinevilles, clay county, Claiborne county, on the schedule and we should compete and steal a few from the south laurel, Paris, and Williamsburg from time to time. With a good coach the talent we have should equal 5/7 wins every other year and you SHOULD be able to see improvement in the kids other than them getting a year older each season. What we are seeing is and average talented team underachieving and being a bad team. We're not winning a state championship or winning this district with nick Saban at the helm but we should be much better and compete much more often than we are now. Until something changes this is the product we will continue to get. But make no mistake about It there isn't numbers in the school or talent on the field to make us a good/great team right now. It's that simple no more no less.