[jetpilot]

Pikeville has hit a stretch where the talent is just not there. That's hard for people to admit, but it's the truth. I don't think any coach could have made a difference in the Hazard game. You either have the horses or you don't. With football, alot of the problems they are experiencing now is a direct result of how their youth program was neglected for so long. Their low participation in football is partly due to kids picking up on soccer at such an early age. Just this year their youth program was put back on the right track.
I'm not trying to offend anyone or anything, but we can see this in every sport at Pikeville. I mean the basketball team didn't even make it out of the district last year and lost to to Hazard's basketball team by 44 points this year. There are some decent athletes in the freshmen class, but one class will not make that much of a difference in all the programs. I also look for some of those athletes to transfer out very soon, according to some of their parents.
Their boys middle school teams are average at best. I have been told there are only 33 boys in the 8th grade. with those kind of numbers, I wouldn't look for anything exceptional in the next five years or so.
Being a fine academic institution is fine and dandy, but you can't keep neglecting athletics year in and year out and then expect some kind of different outcome.

Plenty of talent, plenty of excuses. Watch how fast a top-notch coach turns it around at Pikeville!:argue: