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I am just so sick of hearing about how good Corbin is. They should be they have kids spanning from Williamsburg to Corbin to Bell County to Knox County to Laurel County. If everybody went to the school in their district maybe things would be a little different and games would be more competitive. Yes we’ve lost kids to Corbin and we’ve lost kids to Williamsburg this year it has nothing to do with the group of coaches that we have now. Good old Coach Irwin ran them off.And as far as Mr. Siler goes he is the one that is trying to get away from the good old boy and the nepotism that Whitley County is known for.

They don't really have anything to brag about when they beat you with your own players.

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Never gonna change, I’ve seen it play out way to many times.  Kid at unnamed school never touches the field and isn’t getting developed decides he’s had enough and transfers to Corbin.  Gets coached and developed, ends up being a star and one of the better players on Corbin’s team, loved by the whole community.  Unnamed school who said he wasn’t any good then starts whining if they had all their kids things would be different for their program, if only kids would stay at the school in their district.  Fortunately the Kentucky legislature sees things differently, for those that didn’t know they recently passed statues that allow parents to take kids wherever they want, and in my opinion if your not footing the bill for their kids, it’s none of your business where they live or where they decide to send them to school.

I've seen several well developed Colonels go to Corbin. Don't make excuses. lol

I wasn’t  just referring to Whitley and yes we’ve had kids that showed up who where more than developed but we’ve had just as many show up who where phenomenal athletes, yet they didn’t have the right last name at the previous school.  Everyone at the county was ready to get rid of Chappel after a large senior class graduated and a couple rough seasons followed, but the kids there loved him, seemed there was a sense of stability (except when a certain higher up got involved), and the roster numbers have done nothing but declined since he was let go.  You can’t cherry pick and blame Corbin when coaches are leaving every 3 to 4 years, kids and parents see it and the ineptitude behind it, they don’t want to be a part of the dumpster fire and leave.  You can’t have it both ways…

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I’m not pointing fingers at Corbin the state doesn’t revolve around the red hounds like most on here would like to think. In my scenario no school was exempt I stated clearly that this should apply to all schools and districts unless recruiting is clearly stated usually by requiring tuition for all like private schools do. This small town politics goes on all across the state from Corbin to Danville/Boyle your Lexington schools Fredrick Douglas now Great Crossings in Scott county but it shouldn’t happen unless you have legitimate reasons like your mom or dad had to relocate for a job or family emergency occur your grandma left you their farm in their will all paid for and you were struggling in an apartment two counties over some type of logical scenario and not just moving due to an advantage for a team sport. For some reason all these big time programs tend to  have a problem with this occurring because they know that it levels the playing field for all those involved and their “Big advantage “ goes away in my scenario let’s be honest the education of the kids is not what is important to these areas no where near as important as that big W on Friday night on the football field the system uses up the talented athlete who let’s be honest usually doesn’t even go on to play college ball anyway and just become a foot note for yester-years big time story told at our local pubs that go “do you remember 5 years ago when so an so had that awesome play that beat our rival?” We all have told those stories at some point or fast forward 15 years and said athlete ends up on this forum chatting it up about the big game coming up lol but we all know small town politics are hard to stomp out in rural ky

Did you have the same opinion when Rockastle was pulling kids from Laurel /Pulaski all the way up to Richmond?

i don’t quiet get where you don’t understand I don’t agree with it period! Not even when or if Rockcastle done it. I grew up around that same group your referring to. That back to back state championship teams were home grown boys that all grew up here and went from elementary school all thru high school together most still live here this day. The Anderkins ran local new paper for decades their mom worked for the school. The leger’s have been farmers and still are to this day right here in the county. Now his boy is a freshman this year for rock. The Abneys,hurst,dennys,Taylor’s all the same way local grown talent that played together from peewee we all knew those were going to be great years I was growing up right along with them boys they never moved in here or came from anywhere regardless what you have been told. But for hypothetical reasonings if they were recruited in here I don’t condone that regardless if it’s my home team or not.

Hahahahahaha yeah sure, tell it to someone else that done know any better…