Boyd County comes into this game winless. The Tomcats struggled a bit early, but have been dominant lately.

Tomcats with a running clock in this one.

Running Tomcats!!!!

Ashland 52

Boyd County 12

Ashland is 4A not 5A and If Boyd can only win one game a year this is the game most everyone associated with the school would pick. They will get up for the Tomcat's but it shouldn't matter.

This will be a similar result as the Rowan County game, Boyd County football at the moment is about as bad as I have ever seen it. I miss the rivalry and wish this game would be competitive again. That said, Ashland's JV and Freshmen will get to gain some valuable experience in the second half of this one.

Heard several players quit last week before the JC game.

That's not surprising, Fairview is 2-3 and one of their two wins was a 36-14 win over Boyd County, the Eagles other win was a 66-46 shootout versus a 1-4 Lewis County team. Interest in football from the kids that are enrolled at Boyd County has hit an all time low in my lifetime. I'm sure there is plenty of talent walking the halls at BCHS which makes it hard to comprehend how the program has fallen so far in recent years.

I am not posting to try to slam the kids / players at Boyd, those kids have to love the game and should be respected. Having said that, it's just a shame what has happened to the BCHS program.

I am old enough to remember when Boyd was a power program (70's) and the Lion / Tomcat rivalry was the game of the season in our NEKY area. Names like Coach T. Scott and players like T. Keelin, R. Chaney and others were always grabbing headlines.

That's not surprising, Fairview is 2-3 and one of their two wins was a 36-14 win over Boyd County, the Eagles other win was a 66-46 shootout versus a 1-4 Lewis County team. Interest in football from the kids that are enrolled at Boyd County has hit an all time low in my lifetime. I'm sure there is plenty of talent walking the halls at BCHS which makes it hard to comprehend how the program has fallen so far in recent years.

 

At best, football is 4th on the pecking order at Boyd County behind basketball, baseball, and soccer. It doesn't help matters that they've had 5 or 6 coaches in the last 20 years. No one sticks around for more than 4 or 5 years. With the current state of that program, even a good coach will need more than a few years to get them back to a winning level. No one can say for sure if Manning's the right guy yet, but I hope they give him enough time to build something in Cannonsburg. If Greenup can turn things around, so can Boyd.