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Louisville Central has had a bunch of D-1 talent the last few years! I don't think Belfry has had a single kid sign D-1 but they have still managed to play Louisville Central tough! I am not sure what Football you watch Bama has won 3 out of the last 4 National titles by running the football and playing good D! Bama had two 1000 yard rushers last year. Hal Mumme threw it all over the field while he was at UK but the best SEC record he could manage was 4-4. When a team like Highlands puts a bunch of WR's that run 4.5 and JC has Zero DB's that run 4.5 who is going to win? Give Haywood ONE PLAYER who is a 4.4 guy and he will win you a title! A real 4.4 forty yard dash translates 99% of the time into a sub 11 second 100 meter dash, take a look at the State track and field results and tell me how many sub 11 seconds 100's you find coming out of Eastern KY. I can think of only 1 from JC and that kid transferred in from down South and was not much of a football player. I can remember only a handful form Eastern KY. I remember one from Bell Co and he was part of one of there title teams. Pikeville in the 80's had Bobby Deramus and Chris Baily(?) I saw both of them run SUB 11 seconds. I am not sure the Jones kid from Belfry ran track but I would bet you he could run sub 11! Funny how those State Football title follow those Sub 11 Second guys around??? Ashland won a title in the early 90's and they had a FREAK of nature dude that was big as ahouse and ran 10.8 !

Check the state records each year and you will be lucky to find 3-4 sub 11 runners every year in the entire state. There is not many of those guys no matter where you go in the state. And I would say Highlands is lucky to have one guy a year that is a 4.4 or 4.5 guy in the 40. They have good over all team speed but not as fast as you are saying. This year I would say Green is the only 4.4 guy on the team ( he was state champion in 400 meters in sub 50, have to be able to fly to go sub 50).