It takes a community like Canton to have a successful athletic program. Also, Canton is a town instead of one big county school which is much easier to do. Burnsville is another town that is very supportive of their football program at Mountain Heritage and they supported their coach through the losing years until he could build a solid foundation and that is what he has done there. When they started closing the town schools 40 years ago to save money it took the support of the communities out with them. Madison would be a great example of that. Before that school opened in 1973, Mars Hill High School and Marshall were always good in football, basketball and other sports. It's nice to see a school like Pisgah still exists. Great article.