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There is no way that Pikeville or Valley could beat PC...I know you are comparing them, but use a good team like Trinity or someone....lol. I used to coach there my last season and I got the academic reports for some of those student-athletes....you'd be surprised at the ACT score of many that come in from out of state. It does help those that want to graduate, but you can't make those that think they are going to the league or bigger than the system go to class. That's why you have 100 there in the fall and then only 30 back in the spring. What hurt that program is that they, IMO, recruited color (Bryan) thinking they were going to take them to the promise land quick....you look at the elite nine, the first recruiting class there that built that program to what it was for a few years until Mynatt left. Those boys (Justin "Jutty" Gordon, Larry B, Hank Mullins, Joe Spears, Antwan Brown, Quinton Collins, Derrick "Big Show" Sillas, etc...) all graduated and were embraced by the community because they were great players and even better people that made something of themselves. When they went away with that and those type of kids is where they messed up.

Those guys you listed are great. Now, there were some players who weren't given money this year and left quickly, and these two boys won a state title in HS and had videos on youtube, so not all the boys who leave are thugs or didn't care. There are still some guys here who do want to earn their degree and are good guys, all the thugs get run out by the Spring semester.