[jetpilot]

So this is my main gripe with RPI, you guys even hammered it home. No purpose for a 4A team to take a chance on losing to a 1A team.
I could be wrong but I’m going to assume this is going to be a damn good game. The last time sure as hell was.
This is a game, from a football standpoint, that should happen most years unless Pikeville just gets to where they’re just not  competitive with Corbin. This is a great game for both programs, wouldn’t most agree? Helps both teams get better, wouldn’t most agree? Both teams travel well, so both schools benefit financially, wouldn’t most agree? A game between two great schools, two great towns, two powerhouse Eastern Ky programs. I wasn’t throwing shade, I was simply asking because I don’t know. Yeah I know it’s a bowl game but I for one would love to see this game happen every year with a home and home.
I’d also love to see Beechwood become a regular on the Pikeville schedule as a home and home.

I agree but a few things:

1) You say there is no purpose for a 4A team to take a chance on losing to a 1A team then make a great argument why Pikeville and Corbin should play.

2) Pikeville takes huge risks playing their killer schedule. So what's wrong with Corbin taking risks?

3) Most importantly, this from KSHAA site:

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• Beginning with the 2023 season, the first two contests of the year played against a team in a smaller class will not have the opponent’s class factor applied within the OWP and thus, OOWP calculation but will instead be treated as both teams being in the same class.
  
  
• However, all contests played against opponents in a higher class will have the class factor applied to the more highly classified opponent.
  
  
• With this new provision for two play-downs, when calculating OWP and OOWP in football, there are no “Playing Down” exemptions.>>
  

So it is actually the Class A team playing a top 4A team that takes a bigger risk the first two games, especially on the road like they are doing vs. Corbin twice now. Pikeville could easily schedule bad 6A teams if they were only trying to maximize RPI.

I’m not gonna lie and say I fully understand all about the RPI and a lot of that is because it just seems like something a bureaucrat came up with to make something that should be simple a lot harder than it should be, about all they’re good for….That being said sometimes RPI can’t dictate the schedule win or lose both Corbin and Pikeville are gonna come away with positives from this game…Look forward to the game Pikeville is always a classy bunch and almost as passionate about football as the Hounds….

haha love you TD Hounds but if you really believe the bolded that's another reason you need to get out of the friendly confines of Campbell Field and come to Pikeville...