[Hoot Gibson]

I agree with the part you should believe in your team’s ability to make it to the championship game and I have never said Pikeville could beat anyone and right now Lynn camp is the only team that matters but your statement about beating some team or any team comfortably is purely speculation and in some cases is true but not all and what is the definition of comfortably 7,14,21,28 it’s just more of an opinion and we all know that saying and I know that statement about Pikeville beating everyone has come from some but not all Pikeville fans believe that

Is there any prediction that is not pure speculation? Some predictions sound more ridiculous to most people than others, but none of us have a working crystal ball. I was asked what I thought about how a game between Pikeville and JC would turn out, and I answered the question.

Some, and I am not saying you, seem to think that losing an early season game with a green OL and having a stud running back break his leg on his first carry of the game, and then losing the following game to a very talented Ironton team on the road, was evidence that Johnson Central was "down" this season, but that Pikeville only lost its first two games because their coaching staff had the wrong player taking snaps at quarterback. 

Now, many Corbin fans believe that their team is much improved this season. So, if Johnson Central loses on the road at Corbin, should that be taken as proof that Corbin is better than last season, or proof that Johnson Central is not as good as they were last season? I say neither. Two different seasons and two different teams. If Johnson Central and/or Corbin get upset and that game never takes place, then I would speculate that to mean that the team(s) that gets upset was probably not as good as last season's team. I think that it is always better to build up potential opponents because it makes beating them seem like a bigger accomplishment for your own team.

I apologize to the Pineville and Hazard posters for helping take this thread off on a tangent. I am not responding to any more questions about Pikeville, Corbin, or Johnson Central here.