[Coach Booth]

You have a valid argument, yes LCC does play a weak schedule but first of all they can't control who's in their district. This is the final year of a two year contract with all of the schools except Harlan. The bottom line is the schedule was made so that LCC could be competitive in every game they played, and probably be the favorite in every game they played. There's nothing wrong with that, the football program is only three years old and struggled in it's first two seasons. The problem is I don't think such a sudden improvement in the team was expected or we would have played a more difficult schedule. I would expect to see much tougher non-district play for the Cougars in 2009 and 2010.

I know that they can't control what teams are in there district I never said they could. My whole point in this thread was that respect is earned not given and in my opinion if they are serious about there program and the respect that they are after they need to upgrade the non-district portion of there schedule. I'd love for them to get a series together with Johnson Central. Both teams are 5a and only an hour apart. I know that JC would play them because they always have a hard time getting ten games on there schedule. Both schools would also profit from this game because from what I've seen Johnson Central and Letcher Central have a huge fan following.

If I said it once I've said it a thousand times with all the schools along route 23 in Eastern Ky from Greenup to Letcher no school in our area should have a hard time scheduling but the fact is most do.