[bball_fan]

Watched this game. Berea has been down and out for quite a few years now, but they did show flashes of some hope. Coach Stepp has them going in the right direction but it’s gonna take patience and attention me time.

Berea has finally took the time to put money into their football program, both high school and middle school. The Jackson County game was much closer than the score showed, a one touchdown game late in the third quarter when they just ran out of gas. The middle school program is building a good feeder, their record is 4-1 right now, 4-2 if you count the game that was thrown out against Foley after Foley played ineligible players. The youth program is also doing very well but something no one else has mentioned that will play into Berea's favor; parents are growing very tired of the politics played at Foley and Farristown Middle School which has lead to kids transferring into Berea. Berea has the most athletic eight and sixth grader in the city enrolled, neither of which played football though both have in years past. With the basketball program urging kids to compete in all sports, Berea's athletes, which they have tons of, might finally make their way onto a football field.