[PHSForever]

The state championship teams at Pikeville were built around transfers and recruits. Now the KHSAA needs to be consistent across the board as there is much worse recruiting incidents and transfers at other schools, especially in basketball.

Clueless. You've bought into the myth. Have there been transfers? Sure have. But the 87-88-89 teams were built around these players (by year):

1987: Blair, Hackney, Wright, Mcnamee, and Deramus. Of those, Bobby Deramus was the transfer, his family moved all the way here from Texas for his dad's job. This ain't Belfry poaching from Matewan. All the others went to school at Pikeville all their lives, practically. I think McNamee started out at St. Francis (in Pikeville), which only went up to 6th grade (Catholic school), then went to Pikeville. That's it. Matt Blair's dad was a PHS alumni, as well as the rest of his family. Same for Robbie Wright, and Greg Hackney. Pikeville natives, all.

1988: Deramus, Howard (Hillard's son, Jason), Hackney, Honaker (Teddy, whose family was from Pikeville and his father played there too), Cox (Freddie Cox, whose father was a doctor here, also legit), Lance Rose, ditto. Jody Brown, ditto. Again, all homegrown except for Deramus.

1989: Steve Bailey (transfer from WV, featured running back, that's all I know about him, but I do know he legit moved here, family had housing over here), Allara (son of Bill Allara, coach for years at PHS) Lance Rose (see 1988), Chad Helvey (family from Pikeville, mother was an alumnus as I recall, went to Pikeville all his life), Blair (Matt's younger brother), and Jason Justice (whose family was all from Pikeville, born here and raised here).

Your arguement is hogwash. Those were all Pikeville boys on those teams, at least the mainstays and featured players. As for the linemen, etc., as I recall, ALL were homegrown boys. As I said before, I don't deny there were transfers, etc. But the state's first ever 3peat champion in football was homegrown talent in 98% of the case.

A little side note, if you go to the KHSAA site and look up the stats from previous state championship games, the 1988 play by play is HILARIOUS. Here is the link to the page, then after there, select "1988 stats/results" then game stats. It is about halfway down, Commentary included in the play by play is hilarious. http://www.khsaa.org/football/