[Gitback Coach]

It's not the lack of talent in schools, you play other schools with your same general enrollment in the playoffs as well.

Simply comparing raw enrollment numbers doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the issue.

For instance, the median household income in Fort Thomas is $60,000 while it's less than $35,000 in Johnson County.

46 percent of the adults in Fort Thomas have at least a bachelors degree and 7.7 percent of its citizens live below the poverty level. In Johnson County, those same metrics are 10 percent and 24.5 percent, respectively.

Simply put, the "same general" student populations in those two communities are born/raised on two different ideological planets. Whenever we discuss/compare "eastern Kentucky" with any populations/regions beyond, I think it helps to keep these stark, pervasive differences in mind, not as a crutch or an excuse, but as a longstanding reality.