[Fly Like a Duck]

By your metrics, Murray should have made it and they didn't. Here's another factor, how many schools still playing are within 15-20 miles of a state line?

Most kids have a car or have a friend with one. If someone wants to play football, they will play football. They don't have to harness up the mule and plow the back 30 anymore. Truth be told, kids want nice things and lots of them prefer to work rather than participate in athletics, more so in poorer regions of the state.

No. Murray is an independent school which puts them in the pool with a greater chance to make it.

Not all Independents have to be college towns, but some are.

Harnessing up a mule or having a GPS guided tractor has nothing to do with whether or not sports; football in particular are a fabric of the family/community.

You can dispute the stuff I said all you want; until then I’ll keep pointing (along with others) the Independent, Privates and/or County schools that have some population and other demographically-socioeconomic factors in their favor for this year, years past and for years to come BY IN LARGE (always outliers/exceptions- always will be).