[CoachW]

This thread makes it sound like that the football and basketball programs at Pikeville do not get along, which is as far from the truth as it could be.

Coach J and myself, ironically, have been head coaches at Pikeville for 2 years. Over this period of time we have not had a conflict with anything regarding our two sports. I don't think you could find any high school around where the football and basketball programs "co-exist" like ours. Is it hard sometimes? Sure it is. We have to share a lot of athletes for each of us to be competitive. The way the summer is set up right now makes it very hard on our athletes to participate in both sports not to mention anything else they might be doing. Sometimes I think it would be betterif the whole summer was a "dead period" but it isn't, so we have to live with it. What does help us is that we get together in early spring and try to work around each others' schedules so kids can do both. A big reason for some success the past couple of years in our basketball program has been because of the year around strength and conditioning program that our football team has. Our players always come into basketball from football in great condition which makes for as smooth of a transition as possible.

Contrary to this thread, the state of PHS athletics is very good!!