[Orange Blaze]

Pikeville is at home and coming off a loss will definately get there attention. You never want to play a Championship team coming off a loss......Now this Covington Catholic team has a championship pedigree no doubt but they are in the rebuilding mode. I don't see them winning this game but I think it will be a game. Now, turnovers and interceptions and bad calls can play a role in the outcome but I have to give the advantage to Pikeville in this one. Raceland is in a good spot this year. If I was a Raceland coach, I would be breaking film down on a daily basis preparing for the possibles. That waiting till the week before stuff don't get it done. If you want to win a championship, it starts now..... and is a progress that will make a team game ready when it comes. I have seen teams make game plans that week of and it only to end up being massive disappointment. Belfry is a good team to see how progress over the course of a whole year can get you to where you want to be.

I agree and I think that happened to us last year.  Coming into the semifinals last season we just didn’t look prepared for what Pikeville had and looked shellshocked as soon as we got off the bus and got smacked in the mouth.  An advantage Raceland may have too is that the difficulty of Pikeville’s schedule may lead to losses that can affect their RPI and chances of having home field throughout the playoffs.

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Glad to see you back Jet and I still am backing this 2nd or 3rd best team in 1A

There has been some serious sandbagging from the Pikeville faithful in this thread lol.

I don’t see where you get the sandbagging we (or most of us) just call like we see it. I haven’t read to many of the Pikeville fans saying that Pikeville is going  
to lose every game but we look at the team with realistic views and see things that need to be fixed. Now if that sand bagging in Ram land this I guess we are. Now remember Blaze I said most Pikeville fans now that’s not all of them. But as always GO PANTHERS.

I’m just going off of what I’ve read on this thread and the Corbin thread.  After hearing everyone in the Corbin thread you would think Pikeville is going to be terrible this year which I think everyone knows isn’t true.  The fact of the matter is teams like Corbin and CovCath will throttle everyone in 1A more often than not.  The Panthers lost to Corbin by less than a TD on the road and that tells me that Pikeville is a really good team.  As far as the personnel and figuring out the QB, it’s still early and things take time to workout.  Come playoff time I look for the Panthers to be in championship form and will be a tough out for anyone in 1A.

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Will this game be streamed?

1st will this game be streamed, I believe that wymt does all the Pike county bowls now I maybe wrong. Still don’t see where every body says they will be terrible but do have some issues to get lined out. Definitely was not a world ending event to lose to Corbin and actually was a real physical game for both teams. I agree with the personnel and getting people where they need to be and that’s what was said (as I referred to as issues) and believe this coaching staff will do. But you said sand bagging and most was just giving (in most cases) realistic criticism which is fair. Yes I believe they can be a contender and have a good football team but all teams at this time of year has stuff to work on. Except for Raceland now don’t hysterical but right now they look more along in their potential than most teams but can be expected since they have everyone back from last years team. Just my observation on teams I have watched. Yes they have some things to work on too but they are ahead of other 1A teams. Now they haven’t played a team like Corbin either or one like Covington Catholic for that matter which probably brings out some points more so than a less talented team would. Long season Blaze and hopefully if both teams take care of business we get to play the Rams again but hopefully it’s at Kroger instead of in semifinals or before. Good luck to the Rams but as always GO PANTHERS!!!

I’m excited for our trip to Ft. Thomas in two weeks to play Highlands.  I think that will give us a good measuring stick to use after seeing how Pikeville plays with CovCath.  Raceland is looking very solid for sure and I think it is a collision course with us and the Panthers again in the playoffs.