[Coach]

First of all..does it really matter where anybody came from? We're talking about the best players at a school. I'm sure every football team out there has at least one player who came from somewhere else but you never hear about it. But when somebody talks about Belfry thats all you hear about. I don't care where he came from..In my opinion Doug Howard is the best football player to play at Belfry High School. He has Belfry's career rushing mark. He played well on both sides of the ball. I can remember at least two HUGE turnovers credited to Howard on defense that either saved or won the game for Belfry. Everybody remembers when he laid the boom on Chris Todd causing him to fumble giving Belfry the chance to score the touchdown that took the '03 state championship game to overtime. Also against Prestonsburg in the playoffs in '04, Howard got an interception that sealed the game for the Pirates. Howard was always one of the team leaders in tackles every game. And he saved his best for last. Howard's last game against Owensboro Catholic for the state championship, Howard rushed for 278 yards and 3 touchdowns. David Jones is at UK because of his size, speed, athletic ability, and POTENTIAL. He was clocked as running a 4.2 40 in a Nike camp. There's only a handfull of people in the NFL that can run that fast. But he still wasn't as good a high school football player as Howard. I saw one of the posts earlier saying that Jones was at UK and Howard wasn't playing. If that automaticly makes Jones better then James Ramey is the best football player ever at Belfry..He and I think one other person that played football at Belfry made it to the NFL. So if UK makes Jones better then Howard then we just need to talk about Ramey and not mention those two again. But I don't believe that way. And so many people use the excuse that Howard played when Belfry was AA and these other players such as Caudill played when Belfry was AAA. Theoreticly, when Belfry was AAA they had more people to pick from for the football team then Belfry does now. This is what makes all the other AAA teams out there better then the AA teams. These people act like Belfry was AAA having to play against AAAA teams or something. They played and lost to teams of their same size. The Belfry teams of Howard played and won against teams of their size. You can't use the size of the school at the time as an excuse. I just believe that Doug Howard is the best football player to every play at Belfry High School.