[Orange Blaze]

Raceland is the Corbin of 1a football. If you flew in from Texas to check out KY high school Football environments you would think Raceland and Corbin have won 30-40 state championships combined, and definitely more than 1.

You want to win championships and not rebuild or rob from peter to pay paul every year then you have to start building a winning environment and changing the mindset of kids in the program now and for generations to come. It's no coincidence that in the last 24 years Boyle has 12 State Championships with 3 different coaches. No different than Beechwood who did it with Rash and Yeagle over 30+ years.

Raceland and Corbin as good as they have been over the years have way underachieved with the talent and support they have had.  You have to get the right guy to lead the program and change the mindset from maybe to no doubt.  Pikeville kids knew they were going to win at kroger field.  Raceland players thought they could win, and their is a huge difference.

Just my two cents, but if you're robbing kids from Fairview in Mid June you are not in the same place as the Big time programs.

I may catch some flack for saying this but Raceland’s biggest problem has always simply been a lack of talent to seriously compete for a state title.   This goes back several decades.  

While Raceland now regularly makes deep playoff runs this wasn’t always the case when there were fewer Classes.  Prior to 2006 Raceland had only won 6 or 7 total program playoff wins in playing over 70 years of football.  This was because the program was simply outclassed by the NKY teams that it was matched up with in the playoffs.

Since the 6 class system went into effect I think the program has gotten a false sense of being better than what it really is because the competition level isn’t what it was 20 years ago due to Beechwood, NCC, and LCA no longer being playoff road blocks.

Now Pikeville is the new roadblock and the difference between our programs has been they have better athletes. This past season that gap was closer than what it has been but at the end of the season those differences showed when Brendon Anthony played in the rematch. Raceland is good for the current alignment but had more classes not been added the program would have continued being a second shelf type program and it continues getting exposed as such when faced with a legit championship program.