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The advantage is this, Boyle County has great athletic facilities, a great coaching staff, a very good academic resume (for a public county system), and one of the top winning traditions in the state. What really gives them the edge over schools like Corbin is the population density of the surrounding area and the number of nearby schools that lack its academic and athletic reputation. That is a large pool of available talent and Boyle County is an obvious destination for talented athletes to bask in the glory of state championships.

Maybe that's because Boyle County is so small geographically. The distance from the neighboring counties to the school isn't very far. But outside of that, we're talking basically about Harrodsburg, Burgin, Lancaster, Stanford and Liberty, right (Mercer, Garrard, Lincoln, Casey)? Those aren't exactly large cities so I'm not sure how large the pool actually is.