Final Gutty win on the road for Collins Anderson with 2 unforced turnovers and missed FT's down the stretch cost the Bearcats tonight. A lot more effort and hustle tonight however. Great game to watch. Collins gets back healthy they are going to be tough to handle in the 8th region.

Penny with 29 Gritton with 18 to lead Anderson. Collins placed 3 players on double figures.

This is a nice surprise. If Collins can get at least 2/3 back they have a good shot in the 8th. Getting all 3 guys back would obviously be even better.

Collins started two freshmen and their first guard off the bench was a freshmen. Marcellus Vail had 15, Dayvion McKnight had 13, and Tyson Turner had 2, but played around half the game in a hostile environment. The future is brighter at Collins than any other school in the region.

Collins started two freshmen and their first guard off the bench was a freshmen. Marcellus Vail had 15, Dayvion McKnight had 13, and Tyson Turner had 2, but played around half the game in a hostile environment. The future is brighter at Collins than any other school in the region.

 

Don't count your chickens before they hatch. There is a team with kids just as good and actually younger. Spencer County.

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I really enjoy the banter back in forth with the 8th regions rival fans. As someone who has followed Fern Creek for the last 3 years, I understand the optimism when a team has a strong nucleus of younger players. FC started 3 freshmen in the 6th region in the 2014-2015 season and that does not happen often in the 6th or 7th. Those 2018 kids are juniors now and the experience of playing early is beginning to pay off. At the end of the day the kids have to keep working hard and focus on improving as that is not a given. If your young players in the 8th just keep working at their game it will be a fun ride for both of your programs.

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I really enjoy the banter back in forth with the 8th regions rival fans. As someone who has followed Fern Creek for the last 3 years, I understand the optimism when a team has a strong nucleus of younger players. FC started 3 freshmen in the 6th region in the 2014-2015 season and that does not happen often in the 6th or 7th. Those 2018 kids are juniors now and the experience of playing early is beginning to pay off. At the end of the day the kids have to keep working hard and focus on improving as that is not a given. If your young players in the 8th just keep working at their game it will be a fun ride for both of your programs.

 

Keeps things interesting on the board. LOL

Coachlee--three of Spencer County's 8th graders played for Schooler at Fern Creek on his GHITP AAU teams so I've been able to watch what is going on over there. Hoping Spencer County will have similar success very soon. Playing early and getting that experience is so important. It's really starting to show in our last several games.

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I really enjoy the banter back in forth with the 8th regions rival fans. As someone who has followed Fern Creek for the last 3 years, I understand the optimism when a team has a strong nucleus of younger players. FC started 3 freshmen in the 6th region in the 2014-2015 season and that does not happen often in the 6th or 7th. Those 2018 kids are juniors now and the experience of playing early is beginning to pay off. At the end of the day the kids have to keep working hard and focus on improving as that is not a given. If your young players in the 8th just keep working at their game it will be a fun ride for both of your programs.

 

I agree about the work ethic, not sure if Spencer County and Collins will be fortunate enough to get transfers each season to help the cause like Fern Creek. Wizclift transferred from Ballard 2015-16 season, and this season Moore and another bench player from Eastern 2016-17. Both are major contributors to Fern Creeks success. Would not be LIT champions without Moore. Series of fortunate events ??

Kids want to play with other good players and good coaches which is why Fern Creek has benefited. It is not like FC is the sole benefactor of transfers. It has been that way not only in Jefferson County, but many places all over the state. I think the schools that receive the most transfers are the places where good players and coaching has an appeal to kids and their families. Parents will move into a district to enable that player to be eligible and it is not that tough to move within the city of Louisville. In Jefferson County there as so many good players that it seems more prevalent and it is easier to be transient.

 

You are not going to have many of the better players move out to Spencer County or the Collins area because the best ones want to stay and play against the other best players in the city. You really can't compare the situations of transfers between FC & Spencer or Collins.

 

But FC also lost a great player to a transfer in Trey Hill last season who is one of the best players in the 6th region this year and only a junior. I agree 100% that Moore is a very big key if not the biggest. He was the only transfer from Eastern on this roster. The player off the bench is probably the one who was at Manual as a freshman and sat out last season at FC as a sophomore. But again, FC lost another a player who transferred to New Albany who was their top guard off the bench last season that started at times. FC basically had 2 transfer out and two transfer in from last season to this season.