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Panther8404

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  1. It is a vicious cycle considering that the potential to be berated in the work environment is one factor contributing to the officials shortage.
  2. Commissioner Tackett makes it a huge point of emphasis in the yearly rules clinic that referees criticizing other referees happens far too often and something the KHSAA does not wish to tolerate. What the potential penalties are and just how frequent this is I do not know.
  3. They are in the NCKC, not the NKAC. With that being said, they did play every team you listed this season. NKBBCA does not have any scheduling requirements that I am aware of and is not part of the "conference" discussion.
  4. Speaking for the actual NKAC Division III schools (Bellevue, Calvary, Dayton, Heritage, Ludlow, Silver Grove, Villa Madonna) the conference games are definitely big games for them. The districts can often be a struggle for the smallest of schools. Not that district games are not important, and that those teams cannot win a district, but the year in and year out chances of winning the conference give those kids something else to work and grow towards. With all of that being said, I have gotten the impression on here in the past that divisions II and I are a different story so I can only speak with confidence to DIII.
  5. Yes, the last time they made region was the 08-09 season. Great job Panthers!
  6. Neither game may very well prove to be all that close, but Newport beat Holy Cross on a buzzer beater in the 9th region All A final a few weeks ago. It was a really fun, well-played game!
  7. Prayers for him, his friends and family, and the entire Lynn Camp community.
  8. With all of that being said, clearly there are an incredible amount of changes that need to occur within the organization. As much as people praise Paul A and his work, sometimes you simply need a new face and a new voice to shake people into getting their job done.
  9. I don't believe Zeitler was worth what he was paid. It is all very subjective. Take Mike Goff for example. Goff played in 16 games three out of the six years he was in Cincinnati. Goff never won any awards while he was in Cincinnati. On those merits you could claim he was a bust. In separate years he also helped anchor the line that had the second best rushing offense in the league and in another season allowed the fourth fewest sacks in Bengals history during his time in Cincinnati. That would fall more under the stud category. He did not make an All-Pro team until he went to San Diego. It is also difficult to write the entire thing off as "the Browns being the Browns" (I am aware I'm the one that brought this up first lol) as there were reportedly deals offered by the Saints, Jaguars, and Bengals that were all worth over $50 million, close to the record $60 million the Browns ultimately gave him. Clearly there was interest to pay him at, or very close to the top tier of guards in the NFL.
  10. I don't necessarily disagree but I do wonder how Zeitler would not fall into your classification of three good draft picks when another team (I understand the Browns are the Browns) thought enough of him to make him the highest paid guard in league history.
  11. It is hard to speak in absolutes about no one caring about this. A lot of this depends on the particular school we are discussing. If I am an administrator at a large catholic school and I know that one of the means that I rely on for attracting students to my school is athletics, there is all the more incentive to draw winning programs. I might have a heck of a nice guy as my head coach but if he strings together a couple of "poor" seasons, I'm going to be quicker to pull the trigger on a change. That is not to say that other schools can simply accept mediocrity, but I'd take a little more time to decide if the down swing is because of poor coaching or because of the cyclical nature of talent that most schools experience.
  12. In my experience over the last nine years as a varsity head coach, doing these things and winning go hand in hand. To borrow a line from Roddy Piper, the X's and O's aren't "rocket surgery". The part that takes some work is capturing your team as a whole and the individuals that comprise your team. Winning is important but lets not lose sight of the fact that we are representing high schools. The vast majority of the kids we coach will not go on to college to play and next to none of the ones that do will play professionally. As coaches we have an opportunity to teach lessons that will stick with them well past their playing days, and in doing so, will be able to teach them to win.
  13. I want no part of a political debate, just found the post and its views interesting, but Jeff Jacobs promotes himself as one of the leading conservative columnists. Despite what way the paper as a whole may normally lean, he very much leans right.
  14. Schools currently have the option of two scrimmage games and no bye week or one scrimmage game and one bye week. Honestly, under the current format, the 1A and 6A schools are playing an entire season of scrimmages prior to the playoffs. This is essentially true for a majority of schools in the other classes who only have to beat out 1 or 2 teams from their district to make the tournament, and who can probably get past those 1 or 2 teams fairly easily. With this in mind, I really wouldn't like to see a mandatory second scrimmage while not allowing a bye week for teams to allow 15 to 18 year old bodies to heal up from what could be a stretch of 17 straight weeks of football games (2 scrimmages, 10 regular season, 5 playoffs).
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