Me and you both buddy, at least the bowl games have been good.

Yes, they have. I have enjoyed almost all of them, some really good games.

Six A Trinity

Five A Highlands

Four A UP for Grabs

Three A Central

Two A Fort Campbell

One A Danville

 

 

Six, Five and three A are repeats for certain. While Central and Fort Campbell have too many athletes for the competition.

 

Small state with power concentrated in a few schools. Tradition Tradition Tradition. Hard to pick against proven winners year in and year out.:dancingpa

 

I like your way of thinking!

I am very excited about the Carroll County Panthers prospects for the next few years. They went from a make-shift o-line just a couple of years ago to at least 2-deep at every position next year. The defense looks to be as strong as it has ever been and the offensive backfield has a stable of good looking running backs. Things are looking up in Panther land. A testament to a lot of hard work by the players and staff that is beginning to pay dividends. Coaches Weedman, Arney, Hollinsworth and Tillett have the guys hard at work in the weightroom. Keep up the good work guys.

Six A Trinity

Five A Highlands

Four A UP for Grabs

Three A Central

Two A Fort Campbell

One A Danville

 

 

Six, Five and three A are repeats for certain. While Central and Fort Campbell have too many athletes for the competition.

 

Small state with power concentrated in a few schools. Tradition Tradition Tradition. Hard to pick against proven winners year in and year out.:dancingpa

 

 

It may have already been pointed out by someone else but Danville can't win Class A since they play in AA.

Six A Trinity

Five A Highlands

Four A UP for Grabs

Three A Central

Two A Fort Campbell

One A Danville

 

 

Six, Five and three A are repeats for certain. While Central and Fort Campbell have too many athletes for the competition.

 

Small state with power concentrated in a few schools. Tradition Tradition Tradition. Hard to pick against proven winners year in and year out.:dancingpa

 

Danville is still in 2A. Here is the 2009-2010 alignment:

 

http://www.khsaa.org/football/2009and2010footballalignment.pdf

 

My gut tells me in 1A it might finally be LCA's time in 2009 with Hayden and Witt as seniors...but then I remember my belief that defense wins championships. So until someone beats them I'll go with Beechwood, even with an 8 man senior class next year, and Raceland as my #2 pick.

Louisville Western:

We only lose 5 starting spots (3 defense-2 offense) to graduation off our team that started our playoff game vs. North Bullitt.

 

Sophomore Leon Melvin was honorable mention AP all-state at corner. He had 9 picks this past season – 3 in our win vs. Louisville Central. 3 others were returned for TD’s. He also averaged 8 yards a carry and 17 yards/reception in limited play as a WR/slotback. He’s started every varsity game since the opener of his Freshman year.

 

Our biggest problem to overcome was the fact we got hired so late that we got no off-season workouts, no spring practice and very limited pre-summer (7 on 7) work. We didn’t actually meet the kids until the last Monday of last school year.

 

We didn’t have the time to build the much-needed discipline in the program, we pretty had to jump right in and try to install our system and go from there.

 

This year we should be better by default just by having all the off-season work. We also have a very strong senior class, many of who are going to be 2 or 3-year starters.

 

Some of our notable players:

Daishon Maxwell – C/DE, Senior

Leon Melvin – WR/DB, Junior

Cortez Ricketts – RB, Senior

Orlando Brown – QB, Senior (transfer, sat out 08)

Kenyon Young – LB, Junior

Joe Malone – OL/DL, Senior

Romero Brown – WR, Senior

Domonic Turner – RB/DB, Senior

JaCorey Ritchie – LB, Junior

 

We also made a big jump in our non-district schedule.

Marion County Bowl, replaced with DeSales

Bryan Station, replaced with Simon Kenton (in talks)

Central, replaced with Male

Southern, replaced with Jeffersontown

Iroquois, replaced with Butler

Shawnee, replaced with Ballard.

 

Hopefully this schedule will make us a better team in November.