Quote Originally Posted by starbuck View Post
Then why didn't PV bring a title home in the last 10 years if they played a tough out of dictrict schedule?

Here is my opinon. To build a program you have to have some dedicated kids. You start there. You get a good coach who knows how to use the talent he / she has. If you are not a good team you need to build the program. You play teams equal to you or less. You start winning. you win some more. more kids want to be part of a winner. you program improves. You beef you schedule up a bit because you have improved yourself. When you get to this point you are looking at playoffs. Don't matter who you are, even the SEC teams have doormats on their schueules.
This is the way Burton has build their program. I was there when we won 11 games over my 4 years playing. We would have 18 kids at the end of the season. couldn't even have full practice, not enough kids. coached holding dummies to make up a full 22 players practicing. Now we already play several Div 2 teams so what do we do? Do we go AA? Do we play schools that have tripple our students? isn't that what been the situation in the State Finals for how many years? The teams we have played (and Clintwood have played) would be division 2 schools or AA schools down here and the best of the best.
It would be like telling Union "Hey, you need to schedule a bunch of Div 4 or some AAA shcools." to get better.

SOS is over blown on this forum
because powell valley lacked the other key components that JIB has. Offseason training and Conditioning. After Barry Jones left in early 2000's Powell Valley's heart left with him. JIB has the heart and off season training and conditioning, all they need is to step up and play some tougher D1 schools such as George Wythe, Radford, and maybe some D2s like Gate city, and so on. Im not saying go schedule DB, Harlan, Bluefield and teams like that but someone better than casltwood eastside twinsprings ryecove. Up the comp and watch what happens. JIB will be better off in the long run. These arent games that burton should loose but games that would be alot closer and build more confedience on these wins instead of beating up weaker teams