[papabear02]

Living in this county all my life and watching these teams here’s my take: this is a big season for brewer and Prestonsburg. They need to show improvement. I don’t think we need to rush to remove brewer as I don’t know what kind of quality applicants we would attract. BL will be better but jarrell didn’t make any friends this year that’s for sure. I don’t seem them being able to compete with Raceland or Paintsville as both have better talent and coaches with much better resumes and experience that a school like BL can’t attract. They are much better with jarrell and look forward to more successful seasons by their standards. Floyd central will always struggle in that district. Should be better than this past season. They trick is this county needs to keep its athletes. But with JC, Pikeville, and paintsville all close that will be tough because all are in better situations than any team in this county and I don’t see how that’s debatable? Again, I could see BL having a similar record, Prestonsburg and Floyd central both improve their record.

- I still think Prestonsburg will always be a attractable job. Heck, they almost pulled off stealing Matney away from Johnson Central when they let Derossett go. JC just matched the offer, so he stayed. Pburg has been good at football for decades and has consistently produced good athletes. You have a great boosters club and great facilities. It's also probably one of the best football programs in the state to never win a state championship.

- Bingo. Keeping kids in Floyd County and Prestonsburg is the biggest thing. If we can keep our kids here we can compete with anyone in the mountains at nearly every sport.

In your opinion, how do you keep kids in Floyd Co? 

Its not only Prestonsburg its Betsy Layne also...The parents get mad at one person and they transfer...The parents are the biggest cry babies when it comes to transfers...they think their kid is an all american and should play at the position they think they should play and when they dont, they say ok he will just transfer...I mean, If Floyd County schools isn't good enough for you to go to school in, then why do you still live in the county? Move your house too...dont just take the pizza toppings, take the crust too...