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Pike County is by no means small, and when you through the entire western border of WV it gets bigger. Haywood has benefited mightily from kids crossing the border. I would go so far as to say that the majority of the better players in Belfry history are from WV, so lets not pretend that Haywood is doing it with kids born and raised in the Belfry school district.

Just sayin......

Pike Co is pretty big geographically, but they also have several high schools and Belfry's district is only a small part of the county. When Coach Haywood came to Belfry, there were 10 high schools in Pike County. Over the years, consolidation has reduced that number to 6 high schools, which is quite a bit of division even for a large county.

Belfry has just under 700 students, no where near one of the bigger schools represented on the list.

Keep in mind too that Belfry is not a city. It is an unincorporated community without any municipal government, no police force, no city hall, etc. Williamson WV is our town, has been for decades. You can sit in Belfry's stadium and look at WV. The point I am making is even though some kids who live in WV have attended Belfry schools, it is a natural thing because of the closeness in proximity of our community to theirs. It really is like one town with the Tug Fork river running through it. There really isn't much separation between Williamson WV and South Williamson KY (where Belfry H.S. is located) as nearly everyone crosses that river daily for various reasons.

I'm not being argumentative at all, as you make some good points. I am simply attempting to give some perspective to it.