Question: When would soccer use the field?

 

Answer: Every home game. Those days football practice has to end a little early just like every other school, or you move practice somewhere else. Band does the same.

 

Question: Would any boys have played football without soccer?

 

Answer: yes, most schools get kickers and punters from a pool of soccer players or students with soccer experience. Some just straight up play both.

 

The football team being concerned for losing players doesn't really hold to the smell test when the students who like soccer more don't get to play anything.

 

It's a very personal issue for many people that had kids denied the right to play soccer because of the very football centric atmosphere at Beechwood.

 

Beechwood is a fantastic school for both athletics and academics I can very much understand why parents would be upset that their children would not be able to participate in both.

Edited July 2, 201511 yr by bothways
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We will find out in the next few years if THEIR concerns are valid.

 

Given the lack of football state championships in recent years, it is a good thing that the start of soccer didn't coincide with the start of the football drought. Come to think of it girls soccer did start about the same time, maybe the ladies are to blame. :banana:

Beechwood's Jacob Huff, who graduated this year, would have been one of the top soccer players in NKY. Jacob played club ball with the top kids from Cov. Cath. growing up, but because Beechwood never had a soccer team he never got to play high school soccer.

Beechwood's Jacob Huff, who graduated this year, would have been one of the top soccer players in NKY. Jacob played club ball with the top kids from Cov. Cath. growing up, but because Beechwood never had a soccer team he never got to play high school soccer.

 

It is a shame this did not get done in time for Jacob to play. Was he able to play with the team Beechwood fielded last year? I think they had a start up team last year that played JV, right?

Are they going to also have a JV team? I think adding soccer was a great idea, always wondered why they did not have a team.

Who is going to coach this team?

Rob Lilly would have ended at Beechwood too if they'd had soccer but he went to CCH so he would have the chance to play high school soccer. Huff considered the same thing from what I know.

 

And yes, there are and have been kids that have played football that would have played soccer instead at Beechwood had it been available. As far as the field issues, right now I don't believe their field has soccer lines on it so they can't play really but I believe the plan is to put them on when it's replaced. My guess is the powers that be will leave that turf field in place for a longggggg time.....

 

CCH, without lights, manages to have football practices and home soccer games during the week. If they can do that, I'm sure Beechwood can manage home soccer games too.

A funny thing is that in the early 80's when NDA was trying to establish what was then one of the first girls soccer programs, the volleyball people did much of the same type of things (for the same reasons) to stop soccer at NDA. Competition for players, etc. Seems like it turned out well for NDA.

Same argument the football program at Beechwood has used for over 30 years, you can either be really good at one sport or less good at two.

NCC has been pretty darn good in both football and soccer so it can be done. Any other examples of a 1A or 2A school that has been really good in both football and soccer?

Since soccer is not divided by classes for state tournament purposes, there are not that many (1A or 2A) that compete regularly at the state level just for that reason. I think any single A school, regardless of whether they have both football and soccer, would have trouble regularly contending w/ St. X, Trinity or Dunbar, etc.

 

To say you have to be able to be at the highest level to justify existence of a soccer program seems to be an unrealistic bar to set for smaller schools or any school really. If the interest is there (and it has been for a long time), then start the program. Budget-wise, the cost is very small for soccer when compared with football.

 

In the early 80's Beechwood fielded a varsity boys soccer team for a year or two before it was squashed by the helmet heads.

Who said you have to be able to compete at the highest level to justify existence of a soccer program?

Not being a KY guy I'm curious as to how many schools by region in KY field a Varsity team and size of school as I assume the reason they don't have the state broken down by Class (1A, 2A, etc) is due to the small number of total programs or the lack of programs across all regions.

Not sure that anyone actually said that but as guru pointed out, that is the argument Beechwood football folks have made regarding football and not adding soccer. You can be really good at one or just average if you have both. It's just not a valid argument is what I was saying. You pointed out that NCC was good at both and that's true, I'm just saying that should not be a litmus test for adding or not adding soccer.

 

Futbal - can't really answer your question on how many schools, etc but I do think that separation by class in soccer is probably just a matter of time in Kentucky. Hopefully it doesn't go overboard like football with 6 classes but realistically small schools are hard pressed to put 11 quality players on the field going up against St. X, Trinity, etc.

There isn't a separation, but single A does have a separate state tourney during the year.