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But downgrading them is exactly what you were doing. You listed 6 teams on Russell's schedule in 2005. OK, what about the 7 other teams that Russell played that year such as Belfry, Mercer, Fleming, Owensboro Catholic, and Newport? Kasey Clark had 196 yds and 4 TD's in the state championship game against a very good Owensboro Catholic team. It's not Russell's fault that their schedule was rather weak except for Fleming and East that year. Both Kasey and Josh were done playing in those games sometimes by the 2nd quarter and always by halftime. I never said that I thought either one of these players the the BEST back ever at Russell but to say that they're not one of the best is just crazy. It does seem to me that everytime I read one of your post you are downgrading someone at Russell. Usually it is the coaches or the coaching though. You have your opinion but some people who know an awlful lot about football and evaluating talent think that Kasey and Josh are pretty good.

Ive never downgraded a player. Saying that the competition was weak is a fact, noone's fault however. I do downgrade the coaches some, because I feel like Russell could be much better with the talent they have. No mandatory weights, no conditioning. No contact in practice, or tackling drills. Russell is good mostly because they get an overload of talent, and have an awesome feeder system. Say what you want about how great our coaching staff is. Id take Ironton, Ashland, Wheelersburg, Boyd Co. over them any day of the week. It's almost 2008, its time to get out of the 60's and 70's way of highschool football. We run a peewee league offense, and a very base defense that never adapts to the teams we are playing. Ive seen Russell lose games against very good teams. in the last 8 or 9 yrs alone, Breathitt 2x, Lex Cath, Pburg, Boyle co. 4 very very strong programs, simply because Russell wouldn't switch to a common pass defense formation. Hold teams to less than 100yds rushing in a game, and lose. These are all games I watched and felt , if the coaching staffs were reversed, so would the scoreboard. To not have mandatory weights, is just inexcusable. I betcha Russell never even works on a 2 minute drill. Who doesn't work on a 2 minute drill? At least a little bit, have a different formation, not just stay in the wing t, its not designed to score like that.