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Well its likely that you know nothing of this series of its history so I will educate you about it.

Its like this up until 1986-87 somewhere in there Bell County was a class A school that existed down on hwy 119 between Harlan and Pineville. When Bell was at this location Pineville and Middlesboro both would destroy Bell yearly. Middlesboro actually beat Bell County 34 years in a row, and actually to be accurate 41 of 42 years at one point. Middlesboro was king of the county.

Then around 86-87 Bell County moved to Log Mountain and began recruiting the counties best players and also players from local towns across the Va and Tn borders which are very close. Did I mention they RECRUITED these kids. I know for a fact they did cause I was very good friends with alot of kids that were loyal to Middlesboro, Pineville, and Tennessee teams and then all the sudden they are at Bell County. Fishy but anyway thats when Bell started dominating Middlesboro and I believe Middlesboro has beaten Bell maybe 3 times since Bell moved to Log Mountain.

As far as a team believing they can beat a team that has dominated them over the years its real simple, you approach every game to win it. Should Middlesboro players just tell one another, "well we have played a weak schedule so far and Bell has beaten us alot lately so lets just forget it".

People like you make me wanna pull my hair out, you talk but you dont listen to yourself, and it makes you sound ignorant.

Middlesboro better play better this week than against Pineville. If they do they will Beat Bell by a td or so. I actually think this game could be fairly high scoring, both in the 30s. I have noticed on this board since Bell is kinda mortal this year their fans are in hiding. Fairweather bandwagoners I guess.

I will agree about there fans being in hiding a little bit, I can remember when you could take a South Laurel North Laurel thread and by day two it was a Bell thread.it was a little annoying at times but that was what I liked about the site you could say what you wanted. Now that they are a few bad mouthing Bell there numbers seem to be down a lot. But back to recruiting if you will hire a good coach and support him people will come you do not have to recruit them people like being associated with winners. The people losing kids want to believe its recruiting but mostly it is people wanting to play for a winner. And do you believe when Middlesboro won all those years in a row they did not have any county kids.