[EKUAlum05]

"Cawood" sent a premature void contract when they thought they would be in a different district, without consent from the KHSAA. I agree, if your not playing for the district, why even field a team! Breathitt will be 20-30 pts better than Harlan Co. anyway. Larkey is a great coach but so is Hillard Howard and it took him 3-4 years to get Letcher Central on the same page. Evarts, Cawood, and Cumberland don't have the talent that Mercer Co had when combining with a traditional power house like Harrodsburg. Powell now has two games scheduled on the same day which gives them 11. It is not going to happen, they will either forfeit and play nine which will leave Harlan with 9 games or they will play it, which is a home game for them anyway. Agreed it looks like running from competition just to get a hopeful win against a first year program.

I don't see HCHS being as good as Mercer either, their fans seem to think they are going to step in and immeidately be the class of the mountains, BUT comparing HCHS w/ LCC is inaccurate.

LCC was a consolidation of 3 schools (Whitesburg, Fleming-Neon, Letcher: Comparatively a 3A, a 1A, and a 1A) with only two schools fielding a football team previously. HCHS is a consolidation of 3 schools (Cawood, Evarts, Cumberland: Comparatively a 3A, 1A, and 1A), with all 3 schools fielding a football team. Cumberland has had some solid 1A teams and Cawood/Whitesburg is a wash, let alone Evarts/Letcher as a distinct advantage. LCC immediately was placed into their proper classification, whereas HCHS will "play down" for a year. The pieces are together for HCHS to put together a nice team, but they are a loong way away from the elite 3A teams (Belfry, Lou. Central, Pad. Tilghman, Russell, and Breathitt)