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Nobody has been as hard on Pikeville this year as I have but when you watch these young men play football for years and know what they can do and then see what they did on the field(and in some cases off the field) it’s very disappointing but for some reason in never materialized into a team but just a bunch of individuals not doing their jobs and definitely not putting in effort into the games and for that matter the practice. Brandon Anthony was a very good player and he came to play every Friday hurt or not. I do hope these younger players take a look at this year as what it was a disappointing characteristic of some of these older players and see that nothing is handed to you if you want something you have to work for it nothing is handed to you like someone said on here it was given to Pikeville before the games were started but in the good note life goes on well maybe not for JetPilot ( just kidding Jet) but hopefully some will learn from this and on to basketball but not for me I really don’t care much for basketball

There are a ton of questions that can be asked but only the kids and coaches know the answers. From an outsiders perspective lots comes to mind. Was there a lot of transfers on this team? If so was there issues between the “true” Pikeville kids and the transfers? Was it parent issues? Was there parents getting in the kids ears ??? This causes more issues than people know. Was it coach issues?? Did the schedule physically and mentally drain the kids? Was it simply young kids not knowing how to handle success? Or was it to much pressure from the fans that basically lay claim to the championship trophy every year before the first game is played? Or….maybe this group of Panthers just wasn’t as good as everyone thought they should be. I believe it probably a little bit of all the above. In the end I’m sure that these kids enjoyed their time playing football at Pikeville and they will go on to be great young men because that’s what programs like Pikeville and Raceland are about. The tide has definitely turned…..has it turned orange?? We will know soon