[Hatz]

Just remember Boyle Co was NOTHING until the 99 season when they won there 1st State Title in 2A. Thats the year they demolished Middlesboro at Rebel Stadium.

You are sorely misinformed on that one. Was Bell County nothing until 1991?

Boyle has had a program with peaks and valleys in its existence.

Boyle started with some good teams in the mid 60's (first year was '63 football season). Then there were some bad teams but success in the early years of John Buchanan's reign around 1970. 9-1-1 teams and another winner or two.

Ed Rall took the Rebels a little farther, never having a losing season from '74 until '84. Along the way the Rebs won 2 District titles, had a couple of great seasons (9-2, 10-2, 9-1, 8-2) and won the old CKC a couple of times. Defeated teams like Harrodsburg (Parks, Yeast, Meaux, Parks, et al), Washington County (Larry and Jeff Smith), Danville (Chris Jones), Henry Clay among others.

Program fell to the bottom from '83 to '91 with only one winning season.

Smith arrived in '92 and began building it. The breathrough playoff wise was in '96 when the Rebels upset Danville (Remember them in the 90's?) in the Regional and made it to the semi-finals, only to lose a tough game (12-7 ?) at Breathitt County during their 42 game streak. The next year the Rebs went 10-0 and were upset by Bourbon (i.e. Hilton) in the 2nd round (Whom they had trounced in the regular season). Those were the springboard years to the run of '99 to '04.

Boyle was "Nothing" before that run? Hardly. They just had not made the breathrough into the State prominence yet. :Thumbs: