To add to this (although it might not relate with Harmon) sometimes kids reclassify if they'll be too old and thus ineligible for their senior year.

As others said, not for baseball, although I've been part of a couple of games (both as a player and coach) where both sides agreed to stop playing at the end of the third inning when the score was larger than 15 runs.

I've long felt a 15-run after three innings rule would be good for high school baseball and softball.

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2016/11/21/cincinnati-university-looks-to-merge-with-another.html Per this article it appears they were looking into merging with Kentucky Christian. The date given was late 2017, which obviously didn't happen, but perhaps there could be more of this in the future. Is this what you're referencing, PP1?

What are we settling here? Canes chicken fingers are great but I love the Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich. My choice is based on whether I'm wanting fingers or a sandwich.

And Woods has already proven by the work done at Mississippi Valley State that he can be very good for a HBCU. Here's hoping it works out great for all parties.

I thought his game really took a step forward this season. Very solid, heady player, who rarely did anything wrong. Here's hoping he has a great career at Midway and an even better career as a veterinarian. Congratulations!

Read this a few years back - really good!

Maybe occasionally but I'll not argue over it.

Lots of guys who wash out (for various reasons) at D1 schools find their way to NAIA. As you said, those kids are studs - albeit sometimes with baggage.

Fair point. And again, my original post meant to say drop out and not drop down. It wasn't a criticism.

90%? I'm not sure Alice Lloyd, Brescia, Asbury and Midway would be beating Centre or Transylvania with any regularity.

I used the term "drop down" when I probably should have said "drop out" of the NCAA - it wasn't meant as a slight toward the NAIA programs in Kentucky, many of whom, like you said, are more skilled than some of the D3 schools.

They cited distance traveled in their entirely Pennsylvania conference. There are more local conferences but it seems like TMC wants to drop down. Recruiting restrictions are much less in NAIA and based on the trouble they got into recently there may have been a desire to leave that set of rules.

I'm not seeing anything in the last twenty years. That was the basis of my question - I'm well aware of their history but is this the same job as it was in 1999? Can they get back to the previous success?

That seems almost inevitable even without giving Cincinnati a team. I do think this pushes the Crew on out the door.

Really? I get it, but not a fan.

Interesting... Also interesting. How good is the Ironton job? I'm not really aware of the Ohio system but I know Ironton has typically been a good/great program. Can you win state titles? If you don't, do the people get upset? Is it a good place to live/teach?

I thought he was going to Aspire?

Former Lincoln County star Noah Young will be a sophomore at Alice Lloyd, too. You'll see the oddity of Lincoln and Boyle kids playing together!

Located in Knott County in eastern Kentucky. Small, only about 600 students. Started back in the 1920s during a time when easterners established several settlement schools in Kentucky. It's a "work college" like Berea. Good basketball history, especially during the 1980s. Solid program that recruits eastern and south central Kentucky pretty hard. Alice Lloyd College - Wikipedia

Matt, I know you're a second region guy so I'm guessing its either Frankie Smith (formerly at Christian County, now at Bell County) or Tim Haworth (situation at Hopkinsville seemingly up in the air).

I'm of the notion that every head coach of every team knows everything that is happening with their team. These guys claim to work 22 hours a day and are insane control freaks - you know they know what is happening. That doesn't mean they condone it, encourage it, are standing right there when it happens, or that they wouldn't try to hide anything that happens - but I feel like if a gang rape (or any other nefarious action) happens with...

I'm saying the students are in class for a certain amount of time per day (it isn't necessarily the hours/minutes for each school that I put in my example). Some districts require students to attend longer - that's the district decision. Teachers are required to work a certain amount of time before and after students arrive/leave (that's set by the school/district) and are required to work a certain number of days per year, including...

If their kids go to school more than they have to, that "one less day" could be made up as a teacher work day at the end of the school year.

This is a good point. Per Kentucky law, student time in school per year is measured by hours while teacher time is measured by days. Districts like Fayette send their kids longer than others. Some districts also have students go longer each day than required (to make a simple example, say kids have to be educated 6 hours per day but a district instead has them go for 6 hours and 10 minutes)* and that time banks, which could result in not...

I can't speak for other districts and ours was on Spring Break, but I'd have to think it would be since the law requires students/teachers to attend a specific number of hours/days.

Teachers are salaried employees required to work a certain amount of days during the course of the year. The school being closed doesn't affect that.