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The area where I’m from there are several youth programs that are feeders for their respective schools. But there are also neighboring counties that do not have football programs at all.

If there were club teams/aau teams in that area that could draw kids in from 2-3 counties that don’t have football, I think it would be a great stepping stone in creating new programs for these smaller, rural county schools. Specifically the Wolfe, Lee, Menifee, Owsley, Morgan and Elliott county areas. Or areas like that, that don’t have football programs.

Well the premise of what you are saying is spot on. But when you designated you location and named those areas. They do all play for the lumberjacks indeed and continue playing for the Bobcats in middle school and High School. That travel football organization is the sole reason breathitt survived that whole mess when it happened. Kenneth Combs deserves a statue. 

But you mentioned Lee, Owsley, and Wolfe. Each county is so rural that it may produce on average in each grade 2 eventual varsity level football players, not enough to be competitive at the varsity level. So them going and playing for the lumberjacks and eventually Breathitt Co is a good thing IMO.