[Mr.Kimball]

Bobby Hughes :confused:

He may not have been the best hitter on the team but he was the best all-round played on Prestonsburg last season, and this season is the last chance he has at getting a college scholorship. So he has something to prove! So I could see Bobby and Josh being a D1 players, depending on if Marc Sheperd talks to colleges for them.

Marc is a great young man. I have watched him grow up and have known his family for many many years. Marc was a good athlete in high school, and I can say assuredly that everyone from Johnson Co. has nothing but the very best wishes for him to succeed at PBurg. The truth however is that Marc has more than got his hands full in trying to build a program at a school that cares for nothing else other than football. Marc was an average baseball player in high school, and did not play at the college level, so I would not place to much pressure on Marc to be a great recruiting asset just yet because I am sure that at this young point in his career that he does not have any college contacts. PBurg always produces some of the best athletes up and down the river, but they have never produced quality baseball players. Jesse Chaffins is the best college baseball prospect to have played at PBurg in the last several years and could have been a great high school and college player, but never really placed a great deal of emphasis on baseball. PBurgs problem is partly due to having some of the worst facilities in the state, but mostly due to an apathetic attitude towards baseball by the administration, absolutely no vision on the part of the Floyd Co. Board of Education cancerning baseball, and a former long term coach that never gave a crap about having a quality baseball program to begin with. I have seen years when PBurg would only play 10-12 games. I have been part of programs in the past where when game day came around and PBurg was on the schedule that come game time , nobody from Prestonsburg would even show up. Not even a phone call to cancel, not anything.

So bottom line , if you folks at Prestonsburg ever want to have a quality program where you can legitimately say that you have players that truely are of D1 caliber and to have them respected as such, then I suggest that everyone that is a supporter of Prestonsburg athletics get behind your coach and try to really build a program. You cannot expect a college program to seriously take stats into consideration in evaluating players from a team whose players experience consists of playing 75% of their games against nothing more than 58th district opponents.