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Russell has now officially played 2 good teams this season. Not GREAT teams but a good team in Ashland and a pretty good Corbin team. Russell had Corbin down bad early and let them creep back in and hang around. Corbin's hard schedule had them ready to hang around and Russell's schedule allowed Corbin to hang around. Nobody should be more thankful than Russell for the new playoff alignment cause it could have been Mercer and the Russell ride would be over. Russell's cupcakes cost them next week. "We played the same teams last year" before you even start that, Russell's district this season was the weakest 2a district in the state.

I'll be the first to start it. Russell has no choice in who they play or what district they play in. Everyone out there needs to understand that. As for Mercer. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. As for Western they are gone.

This road has been traveled to death. Leave the scheduling out of it. RUSSELL HAS NO CHOICE!

Russell has done what they had to do to get where they are right now. If they lose at Belfry then they will have had a much better season that the majority of the teams out there. PERIOD. We hold our heads high knowing that we are Regional champs. We are making our third state semi final appearance in three years and we have shown that we may know a little bit about football in our little town.