[Mr.Kimball]

Thats small classrooms. I would think the more attention they can recieve would have more to do with academics than sports. What worries me about this is the abandonment of extra curricular activities. I hope this is not the direction they are going. Classroom work only gets you so far in life. Theres lessons to be learned outside the classroom. However i know alot of their teachers are very active in the community so i'm sure this is not the case. However its a bad idea to concentrate on the classroom aspect of education and not explore the rest.

Personally, I think Tigerfan just fed you a bunch of hooey, Matman. Paintsville has always been strong academically and has always stressed it extremely hard. It's no different now than it has ever been. I can just about guarantee you that Tigerfan has not been around long enough in this world to have a full grasp of what he is talking about. Johnson Central has grown leaps and bounds with their academic success's the last few years, and what has happened to their sports programs? They were named by the Lexington Herald just a few months ago as having the best overall high school sports program in the entire state of Kentucky, is all. That should be evidence enough. Yes Paintsville is highly ranked academically in the state of Kentucky, but so is Johnson Central. Talent comes and goes in cycles. Kyrifle has stated many times that there is just not a whole lot of talent right now on the gridiron. Knowing rifle, as I do, I trust his observations immensly, and I take it as absolute fact, if he says it. This is something that happens in all schools both large and small, but at a small school the effects on the program get highly magnified. Is it ironic that since Matney's arrival and transfers to the city system from the county system have dwindled that the decline has come about? Is it just coincidence, or as I said, is it just the cyclic nature of the beast? That's certainly something to ponder on.