Ryle Raider Dad

It helps when your head coach played for the Chicago Bears, volunteers at NIKE camps all over the country and is close personal friends with dozens of college coaches some of whom you played with. Lets just say coach Douglas knows how to help his kids get noticed. Its still up to the player to perform and get offers. Trotwood is stacked this year. Should be a preseason top 10 National pick.

Congrats Raiders on what I believe is Ryle's first Regional Title. You make us proud each and every day. RRD

Not that it matters much but the split between boys and girls at Ryle is about 55% girls (880) and 45% boys (720). So to have 100+ varsity football players works out to be about 1 in 7 boys will suit up.

First time Ryle is faced with the issue of how to number the jersey. In the past I have seen rosters from other teams with two 99's, two 55's, etc... Would have never thought it would happen at Ryle. Although this may only be temporary since the new school in Boone County is slated to open in two years which will dilute the talent pool once again. Everyone says that with the projected growth of Boone County it will not effect the athletics. I can't see how it won't have an impact. What are others thoughts? How do teams with more than 99 varsity players assign jersey numbers? Do you have a roster with 99 & 99B? How accurate are the stats if you sub 99 with 99B?

Having had an opportunity to meet Trotwood Madison coach Maurice Douglas while visiting UK this past summer I can honestly say he is a class act. He played for the Chicago Bears and gets his team ready to play. I hope to see this game in person. Being from Kentucky I'll be rooting for Highlands even though it goes against my nature.:lol:

Chris Pridgen is still waying his options. I heard he was leaning toward Thomas More. Ryan Luster to Mt. Union, not sure which school Huth & Rabe are leaning. I haven't heard if Kicker Ross has received offers but I think he would be an assest to any team.

From what I know so far Ryle's Vince Murray has signed with Navy, Scott Gray will be playing at Marshall & Greg Gillum will play for Thomas More. There are several others still considering D-III schools. Congratulations! I can't wait to see you all continue playing at the next level. I will always be one of your biggest fans. RRD

Ryle started spring ball last week and by the way they look they worked hard in the weight room too.

I just read in another post that the Ryle & Highlands game thought to be held at PBS will played at Ryle. According to the poster the PBS thing fell through. It would have been nice to see this one played at PBS but a home game is still awesome.

I guess you consider 17 state titles penalizing Trinity. If thats the case please penalize Ryle.:thumb: As for Henderson they hand pick the 35 players they put uniforms on. That's there choice not KHSAA's. Numbers do matter or do you suggest we have NCC or Ludlow play in 6-A.

I have lived in three states other than Ky. in the past 15 or so years and have never seen an alignment that puts up schools with male enrollments in excess of 1000 against schools in the 700 range. Trinity and X 2-year average is double most NKY schools. To me it just doesn't make sense.

And I can't wait to see a great game. I believe its being played at Paul Brown Stadium.

Great. Now lets realign by male enrollment and play for a couple years and see if Male wins state year in and year out. I am sure they wouldn't mind since they wouldn't have to compete against Trinity and X every year for the title. Look I am only offering an opinion for how I could see realignment working better than it does now. I don't care if you are private or public. The alignment should be based on the number of male or female enrollment. Again only my opinion.

Where do you get that. Ryle's varsity hasn't played Highlands or Cov Cath in a real game for as long as I can remember.

And by the way where did I ever mention public versus private. You must be reading more into what I wrote. I don't care whether the school is public or private. In my scenario Henderson would most likely end up in the same class as Trinity.