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Wow…that escalated quickly with WarriorHawk…anyway…

Raceland will still be a top 5 team and have just as good of a shot as anyone to make it to Kroger to get beat by Pikeville imo lol. I look for them to be somewhere between Paris and KCD/Sayre last year in terms of how good we will be.

There’s a consistency now in the off-season program that really makes be think we will be better than a lot of us think we will be. Our regular season record won’t show it because of the non district schedule, but come November, we will be right in the thick of it to make a run at atleast the semis. 1A just isn’t strong enough for the “program” schools to not be in these situations. Hazard, NCC, and Letcher Co, imo, are the games that will tell us what we are realistically capable of in the playoffs. The rest of the non-district schedule is pretty stout and will definitely let us know what our weakness is.

One thing that is fun for me right now is starting with next years 7th/8th grade bunch, is watching these kids grow. I was lucky to have coached almost all of them in JFL. There’s a lot of potential in those groups for sure. And the incoming Soph group is really the first group that saw a high level of investment from the HS staff in the JFL. So it’s really interesting to see how that is changing the direction of the program as a whole.

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Some lineman I expect to have impact as sophomores…Chris Crum and Garrett Elkins. Both have really good size and strength but are really athletic. Especially Elkins. He will be a sub 4.8 second 40 by the time he is a senior and will likely do that at or around 300lbs. Kids always been a crazy athelete for his size.

Simmer down now.  I agree that even though Raceland is down their program is not and they'll be a Top 5 team by season's end and I love our future outlook and the flow of talent we have coming and I also want to say thanks for putting your time and effort into our JFL program...but...there have only been two offensive lineman in NFL history that have run sub 4.8 40's at the NFL combine. It's a little more common with lighter defensive lineman but still very rare at 300+ pounds...maybe with dad or a line coach with a Timex and an itchy trigger finger. I also agree that these two young men will play an integral part of our success (sooner rather than later) and both have bright futures.