[tigerfan13]

Can none of you see the obvious here? Seriously, JCHS played Fort Thomas Highlands in a close game through the third quarter, you take away one play and JCHS could possibly be playing next week. At the same time JCHS beat Hazard 56-14 and Hazard is playing in the class "A" finals. Shouldn't JCHS be wanting to improve their strength of schedule and not play class "A" schools since even the best aren't very much competition for the bigger schools and instead play 4, 5 and 6A schools? It seems as if JCHS' season is centered around the Apple Bowl, or at least seemed so to me after reading the paper? Be proud of what you accomplished this season. I do think that the elementary teams not playing is a major factor in this decision, why won't the county schools play Paintsville in elementary sports when the schools are of comparable size? Yet everyone says size is not important at the high school level? I also think the youtube incident was a major factor, the skit was absolutely ridiculous and very offensive to PHS students. Yeah I am not blind and I know that our kids are not completely innocent, but our administration has NEVER allowed students from an opposing school to be put down in a pep rally, our pep rallys consist of our kids talking about our kids and our team. Kids will be kids, but highly qualified educators should be just that and use better judgement here. I agree sad to see this game go, but I think this decision benefits both schools. That is just my opinion.