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Seneca beat Male. Then score more touchdowns than Central, but threw 2 picks on extrapointsand losts by 3.

Seneca lost to Shelby on a bad call. They did not play creek

All Tell - I am disappointed that you saw my post as a rant. I merely stated my opinion and supported it with rational arguments. You are correct, there are public schools which have no resides. These schools, like the private schools, chose their students based on criteria which they determine. In the case of Male and Manual, these two schools recently had their enrollment practices curtailed a bit by the stipulation that the student must have come from a traditional program or be acceptable academically (such as being an advance program student). I believe that my main idea from my previous post was the issue with selection. Public schools in Jefferson County (besides the aforementioned Male and Manual, and of course Central) do not select their students. They pretty much have to work with what they are given. I do not know about the enrollment practices of schools outside of Jefferson County first-hand. What I see is that traditionally schools in the state which are given the opportunity to select their students have fared much better in athletics than those who cannot. My question, which you did not address, was how schools which cannot determine who attends them can be competitive with schools who hand-pick their student athletes? Schools such as Central, which has even less restriction on their enrollment practices than even Male or Manual, can allow any student they want to attend and participate in athletics. This is a prime example of my point. Until recently, Central was like the other public schools in Jefferson County and could only accept those students in its resides. Since this has changed, along with the new classification system for football, Central has had back-to-back state championships. Although Ty is a talented coach, I don’t believe it was just his skill that enabled Central to accomplish this. It had to have something to do with an increased enrollment boundary and the ability to select his athletes from that larger area, coupled with changes to the classification system. There has never been a greater need than there is now for reform in Kentucky high school football. Forget for a second the debate between public and private and focus on the issue of selection. The playing field is very unevenly balanced when teams such as Male, Manual, St. X, Trinity, Holy Cross, DeSales, Butler and yes, even Central (there you go, Ty, you've been mentioned with them!) have the right to select their student athletes. Other schools have been handed the small concession of crossing districts so that they can hang in there longer in the playoffs before having to face one of them. I say "small concession" because it isn't much consolation to have to go up against a hand-picked all-star team. I am not suggesting that we start handing out participation trophies, I am merely stating the fact that we need to reform the way we restrict some, and not all, of the schools. We need to remember that while this is the real world, it also needs to be as fair as we can make it. In the real world, laws in our society do not pertain to only one group of people, so why should our system for determining teams of student athletes only pertain to one group of schools? To say that this is acceptable is to say that an elite group of people don’t have to follow the rules everyone else does.

I've noticed that during this "debate" about public versus private no one has mentioned enrollment numbers or boundaries. Private schools have no boundaries from which to draw their enrollment numbers. They are within the guidelines set up for each class for overall enrollment just as the public schools are, but private schools hand-pick their students based on their own criteria and many have enrollments of just one sex. Public schools must take students within their resides area, irregardless of their sex. One 6A public school has an enrollment of total students at 1536 and a male/female ratio of 815 males / 721 females. Can anyone reasonably argue that a 6A public school with 815 males to pull a football team from (who are chosen just based on their address) can compete with a team who is made up of hand-picked students chosen from a number almost double that, without a boundary to restrict their enrollment?

Rock by whatever they want.

JCPS contracts are year to year. He was not "fired", he was not rehired for the next season. The other coach was fire during the season. There are some circumstances about that situation which caused his termination that leaves some room for discussion about his situation this year at another school.

Scorebook also has a PDA feature now that makes it really easy to stat without having to carry a bulky laptop and it gives you access to stats without having to print them out (half-time). Only draw-back is it doesn't show you scoring summaries and you have to enter rosters before the games so that you don't have blanks in your stats (it doesn't substitute a jersey number for an unknown player).

Montrel from seneca thinks that trinity's secondary is horrible and he's going to have at least 21 rec. for 345 yards.

Seneca was missing 3 starters on Defense causing them to play 2 freshman dbs. Coach Dover was very frustrated with the play of the defense. offensively Montrell Williams still appears unstopable.

At Males Twilight Tournament, at papa johns stadium, Seneca and Male were declared co-champions due to the lights being shut off in the middle of the game. Male was leading 19-14 with 8 minutes left, Seneca was 1st and goal on the 10. Seneca's wide reciever, Montrell Williams, was vertually unstopable. Seneca played the whole tourney with two seniors, three juninors, and alot of young, fast, and talented underclassmen.