[Belichick]

I came home feeling pretty okay with the moral victory. Felt like our young team competed extremely hard and didn’t lay down. Penalties gotta get cleaned up and the switch at QB was huge. It’s not an easy thing to do, but if Ison can keep his head right, him going back to WR makes is just as much of a boost to the offense as Waller was last night. not only does he do all the things good WRs can do in the passing game, but he blocks really well.

Moving forward, Raceland has a lot of upside. We are young almost everywhere and currently have 2 significant starters dealing with injuries. I look for both the injuries to be healed up by NCC or Hazard games and that should give us a pretty good amount of time to get things rolling going into district play. The offense has a lot of potential to be pretty dynamic with Waller at QB.

My Pikeville assessment…
They have talent everywhere. They have dudes that Raceland does not have, especially at the skill positions. That being said, I watched last nights game objectively as possible and this Pikeville team, while really good, and definitely passing the eye test, is missing something. Are they good enough to 4-peat? Yes, without question. Are they good enough to get it mailed in to them? Not by a long shot. Not without Anthony getting more than 1 or 2 touches on offense. They need to diversify, but if he goes down, they are very vulnerable.

A lot of people around the league thing this game going the way it did makes 1A wide open. I think it still a 3 horse race with Pikeville, Raceland, and Campbellsville.

That’s probably a fair assessment at this point.  Pikeville is banged up as I’m sure several teams are.  I wouldn’t count out Hazard yet and I haven’t seen NCC or Sayre live yet.