[BlackcatAlum]

If you want to see Prestonsburg return to fielding competitive football teams and making noise in the playoffs then you have to support the program and trust the coaching staff. Brewer is a good guy that knows football and left a good situation at Powell County (his alma mater). Anyone who doesn't believe that, like our friend "the real guru2", either doesn't know what they're talking about or they have some personal vendetta against PHS football or Brewer one.

I also done my research on the claims made by "the real guru2" earlier in this thread. Prestonsburg has never limited practices to 3 days a week and a 1.5 hr at a time. As for returning several seniors for the 2018 season (Brewer's first year) isn't a fact either. In Brewer's first year, Pburg only had 6 seniors and 2 juniors on the roster. Only 3 of those seniors seen significant time in '17. Only 6/8 played in 8 or more games. Prestonsburg did return AA District 8 POY, Ethan Varney, who was a great running back, but he had to run behind a line that was basically a JV line. Still rushed for nearly 1000 yards in 9 games. Still averaged over 100 ypg. 2019, Pburg loses Varney to graduation and only has 4 seniors on the roster. This past season, Pburg has their biggest senior class to date with 8. Most of these guys were in their 3rd year of varsity action and they finished the year at 3-5. Didn't get to play the Martin County game or the Betsy Layne game. The Martin County game was going to be the biggest game of the year for the team and a chance to prove that the program was headed in the right direction, but COVID cancelled both games. Could've finished the year at 5-5 or 4-6 which shows that things are headed in the right direction.

The last claim was about schedule changes. Removing programs like Lawrence and Hazard from the schedule recently was the right move. Pburg has had losing records to those programs since 2000. Makes no sense to keep playing programs out of your district that you were losing to year in and year out. The same reason Belfry was taken off the schedule under coach John. Didn't make sense to schedule those games. Continuing to schedule games against programs in better shape than yours is career suicide. You schedule non-district games against teams you have the chance of beating. Winning is ultimately what matters and Brewer wants to start racking up the wins again and getting the school and community excited about football again.

There's talent coming up for the foreseeable future. Two kids from AMS just competed nationally on the Team KY FBU team. The 5/6 grade team was undefeated and so was the 3/4 grade team. The 7/8 grade team has talent as well, a lot of them just need to be developed.

Patience and support is what they need right now, not people hiding behind screen names posting junk.