[Hoot Gibson]

Calls are made every year. We can’t force people to play us. That’s how we end up with the west carters of the world. Would love to have played this game a few years back.

JC, Pikeville, and Belfry manage to fill out a quality 10 game schedule every year while being a much better program than Raceland. I promise nobody on either of those 3 teams schedules are dodging Raceland. Neither would those 3 schools.

No, Johnson Central struggles to fill out a quality schedule each year because so many good teams in northern and central Kentucky refuse to play return games in Paintsville. Coach Matney and the JC administration agreed that as a matter of principle, schools should be willing to make a trip to eastern Kentucky if they expect JC to travel to their places. Johnson Central already logs more miles than most schools to play district opponents. I would love to see Highlands and Covington Catholic on Johnson Central's schedule every year but they believe three hour non-district road trips are too much to risk a beating.

I agree with the principle that teams should be willing to agree to home and away series. I am sure that there are a lot of teams that would be willing to play JC after a three or four hour trip and then not have to make the same drive to Paintsville the following year for a game. I wish that Johnson Central's non-district schedule was stronger this year but I don't believe that eastern Kentucky teams should have to do more than their fair share of travelling to allow teams like Highlands to keep their travel expenses low.