[wooderson]

For what it's worth I ran into one of the Russell coaches the other day and we were discussing the whole Russell/Breathitt Belfry/Breathitt game situation.

What I was told was that Breathitts coach was talking to him and told him that the reason they were dismantled by Belfry as bad as they were was due to the fact they were still beat up pretty bad from a physical game with Russell the previous week and the second one just did them in. I was also told the Russell he mentioned that Russell would have been a better match for Belfry due to their very similar styles of play.

Again that is meaningless and just a for what it's worth statement.

Here's some more meaningless info from someone very close to both games last year. I was fortunate to run into a certain Breathitt Co. coach early this summer while he was out on some "errands" and I asked him about the upcoming season and also about the end of last season and the topic of Belfry/Russell was brought up. He seemed to think that his matchup with Belfry was/would have been the better game opposed to Russell. His belief was that their wasnt any offensive game plan that Russell could have come up with to move the ball on the Belfry defense. He felt that an offense that could pass first and run second had a much better chance of disrupting the scheme of Belfry. Granted the Bobcats did put up 28 points against the Pirates, the most all year, made is analysis hold some water. Not one to bring up old memories but in talking about the blowout he felt that Belfry defense would have held the Red Devils to an almost certain shutout. He stated that somewhere along the years Coach Haywood has went away from the run stopping, big country boy DL and transformed his defenses into more of a sideline to sideline unit and was much impressed. With that being said he was most gracious towards both program, which is always is personality and one that stands him highly amongst the coaching fraternity. Now was he right? Maybe, but like i said it is just another take on a very exciting '07 playoffs.