[Hoot Gibson]

For all the Pikeville haters, Pikeville is a totally different animal than the first two games before they decided where to put Duty and Boykins and started distributing the ball to all their weapons. Now Carson Wright who was all-world RB before he was injured the last 2 years got his first carry of the year vs Madison Central and took it 74 yards for a TD. So I'm sorry, not buying Pikeville getting crushed by anyone in any class.

I'm not a Pikeville hater but you are delusional if you think that Pikeville is capable of competing against Trinity and Saint X. Pikeville does look much better playing weak teams than it did playing Covington Catholic and Corbin - but Covington Catholic and Corbin would get crushed playing Trinity or Saint X too. They are bigger, faster, and deeper than Pikeville and any other team in the state. 

Every good team fiddles with their lineup in scrimmages and early non-district games and every good team improves as the season progresses. Pikeville is a very good team but they are not the only gooid team in the state. Pikeville would get hammered playing a 6A schedule, they would get hammered playing Trinity or Saint X this season, and there would be no shame in a very good 1A team getting hammered by Trinity of Saint X. If Pikeville wants to compete on an equal footing with the best big school teams in the state, then the city needs to get busy annexing surrounding communities and figure out how to absorb a few nearby school districts.

Pikeville is not a top 10 team in all classes. Pikeville was not as good as Corbin or Covington Catholic when they played them, they are not as good as either of those teams now, and they will not be as good as either team when Pikeville wins the 1A state title - assuming that Pikeville avoids getting upset by Hazard or Raceland.