West 27 East 14 (2008 NKY East/West All Star Game)

I dug around for some more detailed information and came up with the following:

Buckley from CCH chose not to play due to a vacation.

There were six practices. More were scheduled but there were multiple conflicts.

Hurtt chose to play LB, not RB.

Moloney came down with mono two days before the game and the offense was in large part built around him.

There are numerous instances of players not coming to practices. One example is NCC had 5 players. 3 of them played baseball and the other two only showed up 2 out of 6 practices. The other 3 showed up 1 time. Holmes only had 2 of their 5 players scheduled to play show up for any practice and believe it or not 2 more of the Holmes players showed up on game night only. The entire Highlands contingent missed the last practice and Cecil had conflicts with the track meet making it tough to play him at QB. One practice only 25 of the 45 kids on the team showed up to practice. There are other examples but everyone gets the idea.

James Miller is a gifted athlete but he had a meltdown and was ejected from the game. Add to that, passing the ball was not his strong suit and that answers why he didn't play QB.

Ryan Ball had a great game at RB so I don't know how anyone can fault the coaching staff for using him there.

The bottom line is the powers that be need to take another look at this game and determine if it is time to go in another direction.