[Old School Hound]

Look, as a fan of both Corbin and Pikeville, I would take great joy in see the two great Mountain schools meet every year. I LOVE Corbin-Pikeville football games. For those who are extremely RPI-conscious, and want to play teams like Boyle County at home, rather than on the road, playing Pikeville carries the risk of sending you to Danville in November. Ideally, if you want to win the RPI game, you schedule a bunch of 5A and 6A teams that you are very confident you will beat but teams that are decent and will win their share of games and will, themselves, play competitive schedules against decent teams. This will benefit all three components of the RPI: WP, OWP, and OOWP.

Last season, scheduling Hazard cost Corbin a state title , imo. If they had played a North Laurel , Highlands, Simon Kenton type team instead of Hazard, they would have bested Boyle's RPI and the region title game would have been at Corbin. I love seeing Corbin -Pikeville but I'd love seeing a state championship trophy after 42 damn years, too. I'm excited for the game, and I think Corbin will win, but it carries more risk than playing North Laurel. A loss in the opener and at Douglass pretty much guarantees being on the road in round three.