[Hoot Gibson]

I was joking Hoot but Pikeville could beat most of the teams in all classes this year.

So could Johnson Central, but that is true every year. There are some very bad teams with very bad coaches in every class and they outnumber the well-coached good teams.

Paintsville leads Johnson Central in their all-time series by a wide margin but that was the result of better coaching. Johnson Central did not suddenly begin enrolling better athletes, they just stopped playing politics with their football program because they got tired of losing to a much smaller 1A school more often than they won. As long as Johnson Central is well coached, I doubt that Paintsville would be win 1 in 10 games with Johnson Central. Johnson County's middle school has always dominated Paintsville in football, even when Paintsville was still winning most of the games at the high school level.