Please do some research before you start making comments like this. Plenty of "tradition and history" in football within the state of Ky. As a matter of fact, there are three schools ranked in the top ten winningnest high school football programs in the U.S. If my memory serves me correctly, Ohio had just two.
The West Virginia high school in which I participated football, one had to play at least one play in 21 quarters during the 10 game season. Keep in mind this was more than 35 years ago.
If people are mentioning some decent but not great talent than I cant believe Arliss Beach from Ashland has not been mentioned..he was a very good high school running back...Arliss went on and had a decent career at UK and was drafted but didn't play much in the NFL..he was real fun to watch in high school