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The area... Mayfield is by no means a metropolis... but the Paducah/Mayfield area is a fairly populous area with several schools traditionally to draw from (Used to be you had Heath, Tilghman, Mayfield, Lone Oak, Grave County, and Reidland). Obviously consolidation has changed that, but it doesn't change the fact that if you are a young parent and have a son and want him to excel in academics or athletics which school district out of those would you choose to live in?

We are 25 miles from Paducah and you don't get any kids comming over from McCracken schools, if anything we occasionally lose a kid who's family moves to Paducah. Some Graves kids do and vise versa, our projected starting RB this year left Mayfield and enrolled ar Graves.

I too have often wondered how this program has been a constant Blue Blood. There are alot of factors but the tradition is the foundation. At Mayfield kids grow up wanting to be a Cardinal football player just like their fathers and grandfathers. This makes dedication to achieving greatness easy and it snowballs with community support, great coaches ( its a very desirable job and getting a great head coach is easy and assistants, I could go on and on.