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I can tell you why we didn't this year. Our travel for bus driver and mileage is over $2000 per year. Playing in this conference would make it much more. The closest school in that conference is Belfry which is 50 miles away. It is around 1 hour and 15 minutes to both Inez and Paintsville and more than that to Lawrence County. We have never shyed away from playing anyone. Last year, we were the weakest that we've been in 10 years and still played 33 games, including many out of county games and KBA and BCI. I was asked to join this year, but already had over 30 games scheduled.

We usually travel to Paintsville for a regular season game and for the Hoops Classic after New Years. I guess they didn't have it this year. We have already gone to Belfry and we go to Martin County next weekend. We could probably join if they only played 1 game against each team and alternated sites each year. The other way would just add too many games to our schedule besides our county games and the tournaments. We will probably be weak for a while after this year, but we would still play.

We have had that conversation and I knew why you guys couldn't play. I was refering to the other schools.