Beechwood 30 Covington Catholic 18 (Frosh)

[TyroneBigsby]

2 minutes ago, theguru said:

Haha. Tell it to the covcath staff. They cared…

[UKato91]

56 minutes ago, theguru said:

Did CCH miss all of their extra points?

Didn't attempt any.  Beechwood went for the 2 pt conversion each time.  And for some reason CCH did too. 

[bjaynes]

3 hours ago, TyroneBigsby said:

Why don’t we just make it easy and let everyone know who they are since there’s so much speculation. Own it. 

Go ahead and produce that. You seem to have ALL the facts. BW has reported the numbers of reclassified kids to the state just like any other school had to. They already "own it". 

[bjaynes]

3 hours ago, gbballfan21 said:

It isn’t even remotely close to “over 18 varsity players”. The number seems to grow each week. At this rate,  it’ll be upwards of 40 kids reclassifying by seasons end.

If we are interested in facts, the actual number is 16 kids, K-12. 

I look forward to talking about this again on the next thread pertaining to Beechwood Football. 

Darn BW if they let a reclassified 1st grader compete in a 2nd grade activity. People, BW did not make up the reclassification rule. It came down from the SSYP. Not one team or one player did anything wrong by acting on what was presented before them. 

[NKY KnowItAll]

I LOVE all this jealousy from the Bird and Blue Boy fans! For little ole Beechwood! All these grown men on here mad cause they didn’t get an extra year to maybe start! 😂 

[Jason Bucklen]

3 hours ago, TyroneBigsby said:

They did some winning on Saturday vs  beechwoods 7th grade team. Even with an 8th grader scoring all of beechwoods points. Lol. 

[TyroneBigsby]

1 hour ago, NKY KnowItAll said:

I LOVE all this jealousy from the Bird and Blue Boy fans! For little ole Beechwood! All these grown men on here mad cause they didn’t get an extra year to maybe start! 😂 

You’ve got that all wrong. I would never let my son do this and I’d be embarrassed to do it myself. Has nothing to do with jealousy at all. If you think folks are “jealous” of beechwood or the reclassified kids you are sadly mistaken. I feel sorry for them. 

[bigblue96]

8 hours ago, CCHFC said:

I’m not concerned yet. I didn’t expect to beat BW with Hergott back this year and I expect CCH to be pretty good the next two.

It seems like the freshman have a bunch of guys out, including the QB and I saw enough in the Elder game (the only available on the CCH season pass) to know there are some future high end contributors in this class. I don’t get too worried about freshman results. You really only need a handful of contributors each class to have a very good team year in and year out. 

The 8th grade team is probably the third best team in the Cincy Catholic league from what I gather, so I’m expecting that class to be better and to have some pretty good players. 

Didn’t the 8th grade team QB enroll at Beechwood? 

[Kellymt75]

4 hours ago, SPKY17 said:

Again just adding to the rumors by saying "the vaunted beechwood freshman have several repeats as well."  Nope, they have 1 playing.

As a dad of a reclassed kid at Beechwood in the 9th grade, I can speak on it.  I would never put other kids names on a list so that minors could be doxed.  That is crazy.  

My son was one of 4 total Beechwood freshman to reclass on the football team.  My son was a two-way starter, hurt in the summer workouts and chose not to play this season and heal up.  Another one of the reclassed freshmen was a younger age, was a starter but was injured early in the season and has been out.  A third reclass is a first year player.  The fourth reclass is a non-skill position starter.  That is all of the reclassed kids on the team, period.

As for my son, we chose Beechwood as an out-of-district family prior to Covid.  We toured/shadowed at CCH and looked at a couple of their schools as well.  We value education and felt that Beechwood was the best choice for us.  We felt our son would compete to play at any school he looked at but have taught him that education is the most important thing.  Then Covid happened, then remote learning happened, then not knowing your classmates happened in a small/tight community happened, then being quarantined 6 times happened, then academic/social struggling happened, then the opportunity to reclass happened.  I would be lying if I said athletics had nothing to do with it.  All of it had something to do with it.  We sat down with ALL coaches of the sports our son plays before making our decision.  We knew that our son was going to have to play freshman football again, even though he was plenty talented enough to play at a higher level.  So reclassed kids didn’t have the choice to move up in football.  We also did our due diligence with the fact that we made sure our son could opt to graduate early (his original graduation date) if he would like to prior to making the decision.  We spoke to the NCAA in addition to college coaches for multiple sports to talk about the extra year college athletes received because of Covid and the effects it had on the recruiting.  We felt the best decision for our son given the reclass option was to take advantage of it.  Our son would like to play college athletics and if it can help provide an education, we are all for it.  We aren’t ashamed about our decision or worried about what grownups/kids say about it, we have talked to our son extensively about ignorant comments.
We have, however, received support from many families from the Highlands and CCH communities, as those were the locations that were mentioned in this thread.  We also know many families that belong to the districts that BOE or Diocese chose against the extra year. These families were going to take advantage of the extra year if it were available.  The districts decided against. 

Lastly, I find it interesting that individual’s narratives are only including facts of taking advantage of this one extra year. I would propose that you look at the ages of the basketball McDonalds All-Americans upon graduation, the vast majority are 19.  Not saying our son is anywhere near that level of athlete.  The reality, we personally know individuals in almost every large NKY district that were “held back” prior to 9th grade.  This is very common in the sports world.  No one comments on these reclass kids.  Some of these kids are some of the best athletes in NKY.

Hopefully my thesis here can shed some light to this ridiculous subject so ignorantly commented on by so many.

[Jason Bucklen]

17 minutes ago, TyroneBigsby said:

You’ve got that all wrong. I would never let my son do this and I’d be embarrassed to do it myself. Has nothing to do with jealousy at all. If you think folks are “jealous” of beechwood or the reclassified kids you are sadly mistaken. I feel sorry for them. 

 

 

[BlueKernels]

4 hours ago, NKY KnowItAll said:

I LOVE all this jealousy from the Bird and Blue Boy fans! For little ole Beechwood! All these grown men on here mad cause they didn’t get an extra year to maybe start! 😂 

No jealousy here either. More embarrassment for them. I know of several BHS parents who chose not to have kids repeat for football and are embarrassed by how many kids chose to do so on the team and that BHS seems to be encouraging it. 

[NKY KnowItAll]

8 minutes ago, BlueKernels said:

No jealousy here either. More embarrassment for them. I know of several BHS parents who chose not to have kids repeat for football and are embarrassed by how many kids chose to do so on the team and that BHS seems to be encouraging it. 

Your clueless! I know a ton of CCH parents who send their boys to CCH specifically for sports! Y’all get whooped by small school Beechwood and start breaking out the excuses! Beechwood has ZERO kids playing that shouldn’t be! You wanna gripe and complain…..contact KHSAA and tell them you don’t like their rules! Otherwise, stop bashing HS kids for whatever they and their families think is right for them! Worry about YOURSELF and YOUR own families! Everybody always worrying about someone else! Mind ya business!