[Avery Bullock]

You can't imagine what it feels like.I watched as my sonand his team won the Middle School Division 3 State Championshipin 2010 and it was better than I could have dreamed. I can't imagine the feeling of seeing him and his team win a high school championship but I sure hope I get the chance.

I only missed one game of the MS team's 2010 campaign. I was there at Lexington Catholic rooting the boys on to the title.

Jacket bashers on BGR like to opine that our team is so young and that they've never played in a big game. Big games are relative. When Hazard beat Mayfield in last year's 1A final, 6A fans could have chuckled that it wasn't such a big game. When Trinity beat Scott County in 6A, college fans could have chuckled that it wasn't such a big game. When Alabama shut out LSU for the national title, it didn't quite compare to the importance and gravity of the Super Bowl, did it?

That MS state title run was pressure packed and even featured an early season win against eventual Division 1 state champions Southern Pulaski. Our boys have been in big games. Anyone who thinks that a state title game isn't a learning experience for an 7th or 8th grader is just ignorant.

I post comments on BGR as a courtesy to fans around the state, trying to educate them about the Jackets. I try to ease the shock for them when their teams lose to Williamsburg. It's uncomfortable for me to look across the field at the opposing stands after a game on a Friday night and see so many people with bewildered looks on their sad faces, wondering, "What just happened to us?"

I try to warn people but they don't want to listen. I guess it's true that no good deed goes unpunished.