[Don Carlo]

It isn't that black and white.

Belfry agreed to travel to Southwestern 2 years in a row, 2013 and 2014 because it was best for both schools frankly. Belfry needed an away game in 13 and SW had to have a home game in 14 or they would only have had 3 I think. The only way we could do that is if we adjusted our home/away schedule a little. SC agreed to make that switch and they were gracious about it. It was a mutual decision and it worked.

Keep in mind that it has been a long hard battle to fill out our schedule after having 2 teams drop off in the latter months. Thinking the rest of the schedule was set in stone, we made the above changes and thought it was finally over and done with.

Then, in MARCH, after that is all complete, Matney calls with an ultimatum, either Belfry comes to JC in 2013 or JC is going to drop the game and find somebody else. Sooooo, Johnson Central has the contract and if they want to continue the series they can sign it. If not I guess both of us will be looking for another opponent.

I think coach Matney feels like he may have been misled by his good friend coach Haywood. JC only had 4 home games and 9 total games. Matney has been working on this since last July with Haywood and others. Coach Haywood told him Belfry was in the same boat. Two weeks ago, Sheldon Clark calls Coach Matney wanting to switch the site of their game this year, to help their own schedule saying Belfry would have too many home games and would give them them a home game next year. The good news is this week Central finally got a 5th home game and may be able to keep Belfry. Everything is not always about Belfry. Schools have to do what is best for themselves. I guess to make a long story short Coach Matney has been trying for nine months to swap the game location with Belfry and then Coach Haywood calls Coach Hager at Sheldon Clark wanting him to do the same thing, fully aware that Coach Matney has been wanting to do this since before the school year started. So the question is why would Coach Haywood do this with Sheldon Clark and not Johnson Central? If the shoe was on the other foot Coach Haywood would be upset also.