[Boomer_Sooner]

This schedule would be a challenge for just about any team in the state!! Boyle County & the top 3-4 6A teams could probably come through unscathed. There may be a couple other team in the state that could handle it but not many at all!! Most of you guys made logical reasons as to why you're worried about the health of the team after game 6. It's more than fair to wonder if the potential benefits of such a physical schedule are worth the potential damage that can very easily come with playing such a high level of competition the first 6 weeks of the season!! I know I might sound like a smart mouth or a jerk with what I'm about to say. So please know that is not my intention or goal in any way even though it may read like it is. So here we go haha. Even though you guys made valid points & might be proven right about the schedule in a lot of ways, I don't think any of us are multiple times state championship winning head coaches!! But the man who put the schedule together is & if he thinks this is the best thing for his team then I don't think any of us have the record to say he's wrong!! You know Coach Mac has already thought of every single thing that's been mentioned about the schedule & probably several things we haven't considered on top of it multiple times!! And he made the schedule anyway!! Mac obviously wants his guys to stay healthy, he doesn't want to go into week 7 with several guys either out or nursing bad injuries!! And he still put this schedule together!! I believe Chris McNamee is without a doubt one of the top 5 head coaches in the state of Kentucky!! If he thinks this is the path his team needs to take to get to where they want & need to be then it most likely is!! There's a reason he's got multiple rings as a head coach & we're handing out our opinion on rivals. haha. Ive been coming on Rivals since 2006 guys so I'm not knocking anyone that's on here!! What I am saying is that Coach knows better than us & he made this schedule for a reason!! We're right to question & challenge his decisions!! Again, I'm not saying we shouldn't!! This schedule may very well end this season before it even starts if injuries start piling up & we all know how fast they can happen throughout the team!! But they can also make it through just fine & completely healthy!! If the panthers enter week 7 with the team intact & in good health I think most of us will be shocked!! Coach Mac won't be, he will have just spent 8 weeks putting another panther team in position to contend for, or even win & bring home another championship!! I won't be shocked either because I know whatever that man does in any way related to Pikeville football is what needs to be done. Even when he makes his mistakes, which he has, it ends up being a net positive for the program because he learns from the loss & uses it down the road!! I know the Pikeville fans in this thread love & respect Mac in a very huge way!! I know you're not coming on here to take a crap on him or anything like that!! I know you believe & have faith in him as much as the next guy. You just want to Pikeville to have the best chance they can go have a shot at winning later in the playoffs!! Well that's exactly what coach is doing with this schedule!! We may not understand it but you can get your last dollar he does & that's all that matters!! Chris McNamee the head coach of the Pikeville Panthers for a very good reason!! It's gonna be ok guys!! If we come out of it healthy you already know the advantages that come with us!! If God forbid we end up with half the starters either out or barley hanging on it's because Mac was doing what needed to be done to put his guys in a position to chase another title & it didn't work out!! I hope you guys know I'm not throwing off on any of you!! Believe me I thought the same thing when I seen the schedule!! How are we gonna make it through this while?! Then I remembered that Mac knows what he's doing & how it needs to be done!! Hopefully no one took me the wrong way or thinks I'm a jerk..... believe me, enough people have me already hahaha