[Mr.Kimball]

I hope this is the last Apple Bowl. Class 5a vs. Class A, have both schools get an opponent and exchange venues. Central has come of age in football. Coach M has been able to get kids to come out for football that are actuaully good for football. That wasn't the case for the first 37 years at JCHS. Central will continue to win at football, lose at basketball and swap outwith Paintsville back and fourth at baseball. That will continue until my kids are typing on bluegrass rivals.

What a completely ridiculous post!!!!!

Yeah I can see why you hope that this is the last year for the Apple Bowl. Heck you cant even get a score for 24 hours after a Paintsville game even when they win big over their district doormats. By the way,Johnson Central has been very good at football for about the last 12 years, minus the 3 years after Musick left. Musick had some extremely good teams. They also had some very good teams in the 70's as well under Tene VanHoose. Last 37 years is a completely ridiculous comment, although I agree that the 3 Humphries and Ross years were very bad .

As for basketball, Paintsville has not won a regional championship for the last 9 years and Johnson Central has won two of them in the same time frame, so I guess that makes Paintsville an even more losing program than Paintsville for the last DECADE. As far as losing I believe that Paintsville has had a couple of sub .500 years here lately, (and correct me if I am wrong but Johnson Central came very close to running Paintsville off their own home court this past season). After this year I would say it goes back to scheduling some of the cream puffs that Bill Mike scheduled about 3 years ago for several years to come. I'll even go out on a limb here and predict that after this year it will be a very long time before Paintsville will be able to even stay on the same gym floor with Johnson Central, and I predict the same apathy for the basketball program that you see for the football program right now after Bill Mike hangs it up. The numbers are up huge right now in preseason conditioning under Tommy's guidance. Johnson Central will be very good in basketball AGAIN in just a very short period of time.

As far as baseball, Central has had one final four team and one elite 8 team in the last 4 years, while Paintsville has not won a regional championship since what about 2001? I really like and respect the Paintsville baseball staff, and hope and expect they will continue to do well, but you will see for the most part kids stay put in their respective schools. You just tell me why a Johnson County player would want to venture away from the brand new facilities that are on the way. Johnson Central's baseball program the last four years have been one of the most successful programs east of Lexington. Sounds equally ridiculous.

I just hope your kids are able to keep their stats and facts in a little better order than you are doing when they start typing this "anti"-propaganda, that I wish would go away.