[nekysportsfan]

Raceland has a few more transfers in prominent roles this season than in most of their seasons (top 2 defensive leaders in tackles played for Boyd, best line player is from Ironton), but that isn't a slight on their program. They've done a good job coaching, building the program, and even now upgrading the facilities to get it to be a place where good players want to come play football. The best teams in our small area are always going to have a few out-of-district players. Ashland has players from Paintsville, Louisa, Ironton, South Point, and Boyd. I can understand why good football players would want to play at either Raceland or Ashland.

Fairview tried to build it, but they were just too out in the open about it. Suddenly a nearly all-white small community had numerous black players playing football on Friday nights. Luckily for the McPeeks, they are getting to build the same thing on a larger scale in Lexington now at Frederick Douglass, where they appear to have already created a 6A powerhouse. Unluckily for Fairview, though, they are left with only Westwood players and not very good ones at that.

I have a feeling the only thing worth talking about on any Raceland-Fairview thread for the foreseeable future is going to be transfers and the memories of the rivalry from the old BITW days. Sad but true.