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I’ve said this numerous times on here when it comes to recruiting Betsy Layne kids to Pikeville being brought up.

As a Betsy Layne homer, and I’d be hard pressed to find three people that love Betsy Layne as much as me, Pikeville hasn’t had to recruit our kids from 2015-2020. We weren’t doing anything to entice them to stay at Betsy Layne. Our boys basketball team was in shambles when Jr retired. Our football hadn’t won 15 games from 15-20 and Pikeville just won their third state title in that time span I believe and the boys basketball team has been to Rupp. So Betsy Layne folks have no one to blame but ourselves, we have to be better across the board and I believe we are in the right direction.

Derrick Newsome has the boys competing for a regional title this season

Jarredd Jarrell turned the 1 win team into a 9 win team and had some promising quarters against Raceland and Paintsville.

So we are moving things in the right direction on the Hill but complaining about recruits from Betsy Layne to Pikeville is overplayed. We have to earn students respect to show them we care about winning and we are going to win or you’re going to lose kids to Pikeville or anywhere to win. Kids are only in HS for 4 years with the exception of covid year. So they have to do what they believe gives them the best shot at happiness and I’ll never hold thst against a kid.