I think you make a great point, but there aren’t very many county/rural fans who are going to be sympathetic to Louisville schools traveling an extra 10 minutes down the road when many of our district opponents are 1 or 2 hours away. I’m just saying….

I think you make a great point, but there aren’t very many county/rural fans who are going to be sympathetic to Louisville schools traveling an extra 10 minutes down the road when many of our district opponents are 1 or 2 hours away. I’m just saying….

 

And hence why I said he needs to change the argument.

The distance isn't the point. The point is that the KHSAA gerrymandering high school football districts and ignoring geography is pathetic.

And hence why I said he needs to change the argument.

 

I think his argument is that the powers that been need to come clean and say "this new alignment helps all schools geographically, except in Louisville where we used other factors to make our decision".

Throw out some maps for these other cases. I'd love to look at them.

Throw out some maps for these other cases. I'd love to look at them.

I'd still love to see someone match Fern Creek's case of three schools in the same class closer than their closest district opponent.

The new alignment:

 

 

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Vs:

 

 

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Why is Butler driving past Manual, St.X and Male to play Seneca?

Seneca is 4 miles further from Butler then is St X or Manual and 3 miles further then Male. Is that what we are complaing about, 3-4 miles. Henderson's closest district opponent is Daviess Co 31.5 miles away. Their furthest is Marshall county which is 106 miles away.

What is Seneca doing playing PRP, when literally every school in Jefferson County, regardless of alignment, is closer to them?

Again, yes every school is closer but we are talking about the difference between 5 miles and 14 miles.

Why is Fern Creek in a district with Oldham County when Seneca and Southern are closer? For that matter, Fern Creek has three schools closer than their CLOSEST district opponent!

 

Look past T and X. This doesn't make sense for teams in Louisville. The KHSAA really screwed this up and produced a broken district map in Jefferson County.

 

The furthest distance between two schools in Jefferson Co is about 23miles, PRP and Ballard, and they aren't in the same district. Teams outside of Jeffernson Co have to travel 10 times the distance these JC schools do. It all comes off as a bunch of crying over a few miles.

 

For those complaining about T and X being in the same district and are using distance as an arguement need to think about this. The 3 closest schools to Trinity are Seneca, Ballard and, that's right ST X. Seneca is closer to St. X then Trinity but by less then 1/2 a mile.

All of these distances came from Goole Maps.

All of these distances came from Goole Maps.

 

Are they driving distances? Or 'as the crow flies' distances? Not that'll matter much, but still.

The furthest distance between two schools in Jefferson Co is about 23miles, PRP and Ballard, and they aren't in the same district. Teams outside of Jeffernson Co have to travel 10 times the distance these JC schools do. It all comes off as a bunch of crying over a few miles.

 

For those complaining about T and X being in the same district and are using distance as an arguement need to think about this. The 3 closest schools to Trinity are Seneca, Ballard and, that's right ST X. Seneca is closer to St. X then Trinity but by less then 1/2 a mile.

 

Again, you missed the point. And again, I am not a T or X fan, so all of the "crying" and "whining" comments are wasted on me. Again, being from a rural school, I know about traveling distances to get to your district games, though not nearly as much as some. No one is debating that the current Louisville 6A alignment puts them at a geographic disadvantage. They are in a city. Chances are you aren't going to have to travel that far from any point in the city to any other point in the city.

 

However, the point is that one cannot claim that the realignments are done for geographic reasons and then not put the schools in three closest geographical locations, which is what they have done.

They're going to keep telling you that the point is not how close those schools are, but what message it sends by doing what they did.

 

What is the sole goal the KHSAA claims to have in these alignments besides a competitive playing field based on enrollment? The answer is geography. What was the only criteria you could use to petition to move up (supposedly - though Cooper clearly got around that)? Geographic concerns. Yes, schools like Henderson County are miles upon miles away from their nearest opponents. There is nothing the KHSAA can do about the fact there are no other schools of similar enrollment around Russell, or Graves County, etc. You look around the state, and in every district but three you can see the KHSAA attempt to justify the districts based upon the geographic placement of those teams. So ask yourselves, why the special case in three districts of 6A? Why do you go to painstaking lengths to give us maps displaying where each team is, thereby showing us why they were placed that way, to completely ignore it when it comes to Louisville? I think you'll find there's only one answer.

 

You are seeing two schools being singled out for their success. There is no way around it.

The furthest distance between two schools in Jefferson Co is about 23miles, PRP and Ballard, and they aren't in the same district. Teams outside of Jeffernson Co have to travel 10 times the distance these JC schools do. It all comes off as a bunch of crying over a few miles.

 

For those complaining about T and X being in the same district and are using distance as an arguement need to think about this. The 3 closest schools to Trinity are Seneca, Ballard and, that's right ST X. Seneca is closer to St. X then Trinity but by less then 1/2 a mile.

 

And which schools are Trinity with currently? That's right, Seneca and Ballard. Which one is in the new district? NEITHER.

 

Which three schools are closest to Oldham County? Trinity, Ballard, and Eastern. So why is that not a district? That's right, because Henderson County has to travel further to Daviess County.

Are they driving distances? Or 'as the crow flies' distances? Not that'll matter much, but still.

 

I would assume driving distances.

I noticed you didn't answer for Fern Creek's case.

 

The point, again, is not distance. Maybe by varying the word order I have a chance of that sinking in.

 

No one can possibly claim that the new districts make more sense than the old ones. If the refutation is going to be "Team A out in the state drives 100 miles each way to play Team B" then there's no district combination in Jefferson County that can't be supported. But it also doesn't mean that a district of Manual, Ballard, Fern reek and Oldham County would make sense.

And forget cherry picking... Manual is closer to Male than to PRP, but SOME three schools have to be in a district with PRP. Can you claim that as an overall model the new districts make more sense than the old ones?