[Elwayfan]

I think I can understand where most Pikeville fans are coming from with not being satisfied with just winning a district title. If you go by either Cantrell ratings or Litkenhouse ratings you will see that (other than Paintsville) the other 6 teams in the district are all rated in the bottom 10 teams in the entire state. Not much to brag about if you ask me as well. Show me where the prestige is in that. At least the Pikeville fans are realistic and know what it takes to compete at the state level. If more programs were truely interested in getting their programs to a state competetive status then you might see a team out of the district advance a little farther. Playing the Allen Centrals, the Betsy Lanes, the Phelps', and the Jenkins' of the world get you prepared for one thing, and that is to get the crap beat out of you when you play someone from down state. I will give Jackson this, he has tried to play some teams since he has been here that he more than likely had no chance to beat, but played them anyways. I will agree with Comfort Eagle however, that you cannot try to do what he does as far as trying to get limited resources (number wise) to just play one sport year round. And please dont any Jackson supporter get on here and contradict what I am saying because I know full well that there were some players that got the shaft for playing SUMMER baseball. They may have been freshmen at the time, but sooner or later they become seniors and you may just need them in a year or two. You just cant keep doing kids that way and not expect to have to pay the price on down the road. The best thing for Pikeville IMO, is to either get rid of Jackson or cordially help him find another job somewhere else.

Summer baseball is not a school affiliated sport. Jackson has never tried to get a kid to play only one sport. In fact he encourages kids to play as many sports as possible(which personally, I don't agree with). I've heard him say that kids pick up other good qualities that they may not get from football.
Your on the outside looking in, and your probably repeating what someone else has said that don't have a clue either.