[charlie22]

I was shocked by the Belfry Central game. Central is a very good team and the fastest that we played this year. Belfry didn’t do as bad as most on here are talking. This game could have been won by Belfry but a key turnover occurred. That is football and why we watch it. I am very proud of what this Belfry team was able to accomplish. You once again made the pirate fateful happy to be a Pirate. Yes, Belfry needs to play a harder schedule, but it is difficult to get a lot of teams to travel to eastern KY. I also wish that the district would be more competitive. Belfry played several good teams this year. I agree that the schedule was no were near as hard as Central. Some of that has to do with location. I was very impressed with this Central defense, but Belfry had several chances to make big plays with the pass, yes I said pass and Belfry together. We all must admit that both of these teams made mistakes in this game. Central may cause problems in AAA for a lot of future teams coming out of the East. I just hope that each young person involved in this game learned something that will help them with the struggles of life. You don’t always need a win to gain something for the future. Thanks seniors for such a great and exciting season. I cannot wait to watch the rest of you next season.

You are probably right about that. But if you can't get the good teams to come to you, then the benefits of playing against stronger teams probably outweighs the disadvantages of having to go to them. Highlands only had 3 home games this season. We could have scheduled a fourth home game and not played Trotwood in the Herbie, but the experience we gained playing against Trotwood's excellent athletes helped us considerably when we played BG in the finals and certainly outweighed the loss of a fourth home game. I'll acknowledge that we didn't have to travel far to play Trotwood, but nonetheless we gave up a home game to play them. I have a feeling that Belfry will end up playing Central a lot of times in the state finals in the years to come and Belfry needs to get some speed teams on their schedule, even if that means playing them on the road every year.