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But there’s a lot of talent from 4th to 8th grade right now but the question is will they stick together. That’s to be determined.

I hope that they do, but I'm not sure they will. The talent they had in the early part of the decade had true loyalty and school spirit. Hopefully Brad Short can keep the kids there. If I am not mistaken another player from that 2011 team, Dylan Hamilton recently graduated from Morehead State with a teaching degree and he has been an assistant for football. If he would like to do it, he would be a great asset for Brad to have on the bench as an assistant as someone who has some credibility with that All A State Championship ring as well as a passion for the Betsy Layne/Mud Creek community. You can never have too many people like him in your program.

I dont know what happened exactly but at one point John M. Stumbo was a great feeder school for Betsy Layne back when Hayes Hamilton was the coach. When South Floyd opened some of the Mud Creek kids started going there and when Hayes retired Stumbo's boys basketball team started to decline and if I am not mistaken some of the Betsy Layne Elementary team had kids that actually lived on Mud Creek but went to Betsy Layne Elementary.

Something else that happened to Betsy Layne was they lost two of their feeder schools in 1998 when the board closed Harold and Prater and sent those kids on to Betsy Layne Elementary. I remember despite it being a small school, Prater had a wonderful coach in Zenith Hall who had those boys ready to play, much like Stumbo under Hayes.