[Panther Thunder]

Talk about trying to pad a schedule! It's obvious that the coach is trying to rack up some wins so he can brag on his record. In the mean time, they're not getting any better for post season play. They've played 2 decent teams, (Hazard and SV). The win against Hazard was a good win. They've played a struggling Paintsville team(5-12) 4 times. Even when they have opportunities to schedule good competition, they chose not to. For example in the Farm Bureau Classic, instead of scheduling a good quality opponent, they play Rose Hill Christian(0-10) who hasn't won a game this year. At the same time your district foe schedules and wins against one of the top teams in Georgia.
To me it looks like the coach just wants to show a bunch of wins on his resume. Obviously this helping his team come post season, they not made it out of the district the last two years. It's a funny thing, but I don't remember Pikeville playing Paintsville 4 times in one season when Paintsville had BMR and was good!

And a couple of other things: Shelby Valley is a top 15 team in the state. Of course they can handle the competition of a team like that from Georgia. Pikeville is an average 15th region team, so comparing the two is pure stupidity.
Also, when Paintsville won the region in 1998 Pikeville played the mighty tigers 3 times, so you can scratch that one off the list. And 3 more times in 2001-02. Over a 5 year stretch of 1998-2002 they played 11 or 12 times. It doesn't look like the Panthers shyed away from BMR or Paintsville.