[Gitback Coach]

Middlesboro has won 2 or 3 times in the last 30 years or so.

Before then they dominated Bell Co. just like almost everyone in SEKY did. Bell had a few good years in the early 60's then again in the mid 70's but nothing consistent till the new school opened in the mid 80's.

Middlesboro was a good program for many, many years dating back to the 20's. After Vanhoose left in the 80's they struggled until Roark got them back on track in the mid 90's, but somewhere down the way they fell back off. Frazier is getting them back to being competitive with other teams. He has played a weak schedule to get some confidence back in the program and it is paying off.

I hope friday's game is a good clean game. Nobody needs to make it too important, players especially need to keep their cool and play the game. It is a bragging rights and money game. Nothing else.

Hopefully the teams both come out healthy.

Nice post! Your history of the series made me think of the following Middlesboro-Bell County trivia question:

Can anybody name the only person to serve as head coach for both teams in the series (at different times, of course)?