[Spud6]

Floyd County as a whole has went down hill. Prestonsburg's football team, Betsy Layne's basketball team... two years in a row, Prestonsburg and Belfry played in the regional finals to see who would go on to win the State Championship and Betsy Layne was a former All A State Champion. Now all of your talent runs to neighboring counties. A kid that started on Pikeville's regional championship team (both football and basketball) last year lives between Betsy Layne and Prestonsburg. The kids who won the state championship in middle school at Adams left like the Jewish crossing the Red Sea. Everything is wrong with these schools, even below the high school levels. Betsy Layne ran a middle school basketball coach off who won four straight county titles, went to a KBA final four and finished county runner up in five seasons because he was animated and tough on the kids but he got results. He should have been who replaced Jr. when he stepped down if they was hiring within. What has the county's answer been to all of this? No county school is allowed to schedule games with Paintsville, Pikeville and Johnson Central anymore in any sport because they are supposedly recruiting the kids. That's total bull crap too, the kids are jumping off a sinking ship and swimming to a greener pastor. It is a crying shame when you look at the talent that leaves that county. There is a lot more wrong than people realize, a lot more. Hopefully they are working to fix it already.

Great post!

I hate when people say we are having our players stolen from us and recruited. I don’t buy into that crap. We are giving our kids away to these schools. Why would a kid want to stay at a school and feel like no one cares about them and it’s perfectly fine to lose as long as you show up? When you can go 20 minutes down the road in any direction and be treated like rockstars? The culture has to change for these kids to stay and I don’t know how that’s going to happen.