[tomcatfan722000]

Excellent analysis of the situation. Ashland is just stuck in an area where high school football is, at best, no better than average.

You have hit the nail on the head my friend. Ashland will realistically only ply 4-5 teams on its level this year those being belfry,gw,Ironton,JC,and possibly Russell(not to sure how good the devils are I believe they will be better than most think).But none of those teams are the Caliber of FTH or Cov Cath with maybe the exception of GW. So as we have all stated it comes down to an administrations decision,money or championships? I would imagine hosting an extra playoff game or two every year would negate the travel cost somewhat. So it doesn't make sense why Ashland doesn't schedule these programs. Ashland was once one of the premier programs in the state regardless of class. So if it happened once before it can happen again. But we are not going to get there by playing teams like Lawrence or Raceland.