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This post has nothing to do with the OP, per say, but the OP sent me down a rabbit hole on this that I found interesting so please indulge me for a minute. Going solely by enrollment numbers you really should see more dominance out of JC and LC in the 15th than any other schools since they both have more boys enrolled (in some cases considerably more) than the other schools. Here's what I found reported by KHSAA for the 2022-23 school year by male enrollments in the 15th sorted by size-

1. JC- 469 boys
2. LC- 382
3. Magoffin- 340
4. Pike Central - 291
5. Floyd Central- 280
6. Martin- 277
7. Belfry- 259
8. Valley- 249
9. Pburg- 246
10. ER- 218
11. BL- 200
12. Pikeville- 163
13. Paintsville- 117
14. Phelps- 73

The fact that Phelps fields a football team every year is astonishing to me with this kind of enrollment numbers. JC has 6.42 boys for every 1 boy at Phelps. Also, the fact that Pikeville and Paintsville do so well in Baseball and Basketball every year as the 2nd and 3rd smallest schools in the region is also extremely impressive after looking at these numbers at the top.