[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.

You’re exactly right about kids wanting nice things. These farm kids in particular are able to make it; and it’s that foldable kind from dad/grandpa/family that the government never knows about.

State lines? Good point. Kind of ties into what I said. Most state lines are separated by rivers, rivers provided areas to set up shop years ago which provided industry which brough in population.

CovCath, Beechwood, T, X, Raceland, Pikeville, South Warren, Mayfield even Glasgow (a stretch. More like 30). Some of those are along river borders. Some aren’t.