[PHSFAN]

I don't really see where Pikeville has so much young talent. The Honakers are good, but not star quality. There's a coupe of decent sophomores, but after that the underclasses at Pikeville is weak, and from watching the grade school, not much coming up from there either. They will be good this year, but in that region who wouldn't be..After that it will be the Honaker show, if they don't go somewhere else. Don't be surprised if they show up wearing valleycolors on the field next year. HH works in mysterious ways, you Pikeville folk should know that. HH will be BH's recruiting coordinator.

I am sorry to burst your bubble but Pikeville players including the Honakers are NOT going to transfer to Valley or any other school in Pike County. It will take Ben a few years to build a nice program at SV and I promise you that he knows that. THe Honakers and every other young player at Pikeville will stay at Pikeville because they want to be part of the Pikeville football tradiation. The only way SV will get players from Pikeville is if the player(s) is orginally from the SV area. Players will come to Pikeville and Belfry because they want to be part of winning tradition. Ben will build the program up but the Honakers will/could be playing on the college level by the time they are a consistent winner. I wish SV nothing but the best now that Ben is coach, and I hope they win their disrtict and region every year and I think a few years down the road they will be competing for both. The main think SV needs to do is get the best players in the school to play football, sort of the same problem Pikeville faces on the basketball court. SV is not going to win a state title in basketball, but they can win one in football if the kids come out in large numbers and listen to Ben because he is a great coach and knows the game.