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Breathitt is struggling more this year and I’m sure most of that is due to the kids who transferred out to other schools. But a lot of people want to confuse the present day sports scene at Breathitt with the days of yesteryear. What they fail to compute is Breathitt at times back in the 1950’s through the 1980’s had as many as 1,200 students in their high school. Nowadays that number is down to about 650, almost half less than in the past. That means they have less numbers to pull their teams from. Their school is smaller than Estill and Powell and not too much larger than their neighbor to the north, Wolfe.
It’s not going to be as easy or simple to come up with good to great teams every year these days. The numbers simply aren’t there anymore. Occasionally they will have good years in different sports but it’ll never be as consistent as it was with boys basketball under Farecy Woods or girls basketball when Irene Moore played for them or the state teams they had with the Noble girl. It’s much harder to do when you have less enrollment.