Talk to Boyle County and get back with us.

 

Or the good folks in Johnson Central and Mayfield and yes I have spoken to both over the years!

 

And Bowling Green, Danville, Warren Central, Lexington Catholic, Bell County just off the top of my head. There are so many programs in this state with excellent programs. To define being a tremendous program by state championships alone is a disservice to kids and men and programs like these listed in these three posts who give up their blood, sweat and tears for the legacies they have left at their programs. And guess what.....some of these people at these schools have beaten Trinity, St. X, Highlands, CovCath and Beechwood for state championships. And they will again.

 

Ryle is a better example. They actually beat Highlands. But look at the difference in their season when they lost one key player. Different team. There will always be public school programs that have good years, but if you just take a look at the collection of d1 commits by school, you will see there is no comparison. I'm sure the Highlands crowd will say that's all coaching prowess and nothing to do with God given ability.

 

You can say the same thing about even the most successful programs.

 

In the not-so-distant past, Trinity lost to Dixie...and I still ain't figured that one out other than lack of team Chemistry

I'm 99.9% certain they'd improve immediately. And that's with all due respect to the coaches in Grant County. You won't find great programs with poor to average coaching. I don't understand how you can't recognize that all of these great schools has tremendous coaching staffs.

 

I'm not knocking the coaches or the schools. I'm just saying they serve a different population. At Highlands , I bet just about every (large % anyway) kid there has at least one parent with a college education. Makes a huge difference in the culture of the school.

Ryle is a better example. They actually beat Highlands. But look at the difference in their season when they lost one key player. Different team. There will always be public school programs that have good years, but if you just take a look at the collection of d1 commits by school, you will see there is no comparison. I'm sure the Highlands crowd will say that's all coaching prowess and nothing to do with God given ability.

 

As of 2012 Boyle County is 2-3 against Highlands and defeated them for a state championship. Boyle has 7 State championships. Show me a better example.

As of 2012 Boyle County is 2-3 against Highlands and defeated them for a state championship. Boyle has 7 State championships. Show me a better example.

 

Was that before or after Highlands moved to 4A? I said better, not best.

Was that before or after Highlands moved to 4A? I said better, not best.

 

Highlands has been 4A one year since the reclassification. Highlands beat Boyle last year. Before last war they last played in 2004 when Highlands beat Boyle in the regular season and the State Final. In 2003 Boyle defeated Highlands in the regular season and the State Final. 2003 was Boyle's 5th championship in a row. Some say the 2003 defeat to Boyle in the State Final was when the Highlands program took their program to another level.

I'm not knocking the coaches or the schools. I'm just saying they serve a different population. At Highlands , I bet just about every (large % anyway) kid there has at least one parent with a college education. Makes a huge difference in the culture of the school.

 

Funny but a lot of the guys that I went to CovCath with back in the day weren't born with silver spoons in their mouths and the majority of those guys were first generations College Grads! They studied, worked hard and are now enjoying their success! BTW isn't what my friends did the American Way? So this could be that generation at Grant County, like my frends at CovCath, if they like my friends want it badly enough!

Ryle is a better example. They actually beat Highlands. But look at the difference in their season when they lost one key player. Different team. There will always be public school programs that have good years, but if you just take a look at the collection of d1 commits by school, you will see there is no comparison. I'm sure the Highlands crowd will say that's all coaching prowess and nothing to do with God given ability.

 

Ryle is not a better example. Boyle Co had all the challenges you seem to think are insurmountable for a county school. They were right in the backyard of a very successful local independant public school system to boot. Yet they built that program and dominated in the late 90's/early 2000's and have become year in year out one of the top programs in the state.

Ryle is not a better example. Boyle Co had all the challenges you seem to think are insurmountable for a county school. They were right in the backyard of a very successful local independant public school system to boot. Yet they built that program and dominated in the late 90's/early 2000's and have become year in year out one of the top programs in the state.

 

 

This.

Ryle is not a better example. Boyle Co had all the challenges you seem to think are insurmountable for a county school. They were right in the backyard of a very successful local independant public school system to boot. Yet they built that program and dominated in the late 90's/early 2000's and have become year in year out one of the top programs in the state.

 

75 I agree Boyle is a good example. But please be careful, I just saw one of those left over fireworks shoot off from PP92 house all the way up here in NKY cause hes getting excited.

75 I agree Boyle is a good example. But please be careful, I just saw one of those left over fireworks shoot off from PP92 house all the way up here in NKY cause hes getting excited.

 

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Was that before or after Highlands moved to 4A? I said better, not best.

 

The Boyle dynasty began in 2A football with Chuck Smith. They were bad before he got there and it took him 8 or so years to get it going. They won 3 straight championships and learned to win in 2A. They then moved to 3A and won 2 straight including 1 over Highlands and I think 1 over Rockcastle County. Boyle was the TEAM and made Highlands step up there game.

And Bowling Green, Danville, Warren Central, Lexington Catholic, Bell County just off the top of my head. There are so many programs in this state with excellent programs. To define being a tremendous program by state championships alone is a disservice to kids and men and programs like these listed in these three posts who give up their blood, sweat and tears for the legacies they have left at their programs. And guess what.....some of these people at these schools have beaten Trinity, St. X, Highlands, CovCath and Beechwood for state championships. And they will again.

 

Danville, college town right? Lots of kids coming from educated families that already place a high value on education. With all due respect, as posters have already pointed out, academic and athletic success are linked. I'm not putting anybody down here, I'm just pointing out that its a different population.

 

The real challenge is to inspire youth that does not value education, or achievement in general, to do so.

 

My wife and I are both public school products. Our boys go to the same rural high school that my wife attended and is still the third all time scorer. Football is what motivated me to stay in class until I matured enough to value education. Between us , we have four undergraduate degrees and two advanced degrees. We have two sons in this school and they both have 3.5+ gpas because we make it our responsibility to educate them. We aspire to be examples to others because we remember what we came from.

Danville is a small town with a college in it. I wouldn't define Danville as a college town as Danville is not defined by Centre. Boyle County especially isn't. I am a transplant and moved to the area in 1998 and my oldest son graduated from Boyle County this year. I have been here for the state championship run and all I can say is that your generalizations about Boyle County are inaccurate. Very inaccurate. Hopefully Hatz will catch onto this thread and clear up some of your thoughts about Boyle County and Danville. I'll direct him to this thread.