[Backwoods]

Agreed. We are talking apples to apples here. I keep hearing the argument of number of players, but that's why we have classes. Dayton, Bellevue, Ludlow - they all have the same issues of not having enough players to field enough players to keep from having guys play every single down in the game. If you have more players, well, then you will be playing in a class of equal size in number of players.

There is,according to KHSAA,1,125 player's on the 32 teams in 1A football in Kentucky.The average number of player's on a 1A team is 35.1,according to KHSAA roster's for 1A. Only two teams in 1A have 48+ players and I'm sure you can guess which two teams that is. Mayfield-58 and Beechwood-63. Minus those two teams and the average number of player's on a 1A team drops to 33. With that said,I will say that back in the day,say 1983,Harlan Ind. fielded a team of about 50+ player's. The average attendance at Harlan Ind. has only very slightly dropped by maybe 20 or thirty students. So,in all actuality,Harlan Ind. should still be able to get at least 40+. But we are only getting around 30 every season. That extra 10 or 12 player's would make a difference for the Dragons. Is it that fewer high school males are interested in football these day's? And,it's hard to say that winning school's will have more player's when Hazard and Pikeville are winning schools and they also have number's down in the 30's. Just thought I'd throw that out there.