Here's another thing I'd like to throw out that is more on topic with this thread. Let's say we leave Highlands and/or Trinity with the same staff, same facilities, same school, administration and so on and so forth; the only thing we change are the players. Let's say, we only give either of those two places Campbell Co.'s team. Both places get 4 years to work with what Campbell Co. works with player wise, but use all the resorces available to T and Highlands. Do either of those places win a State Championship?

 

I bet neither even wins a regional title.

 

My point: It has very little to do with all the factors that are being considered by this thread's original premiss, and almost everything to do with the players.

 

Feel free to bash away.

 

They win state. You are vastly under estimating the resources T has I know. Highlands I am not 100% about but they would at least win regionals.

 

I am sure someone from T will correct me on what I have wrong but here goes. The players from Campbell Co would have

1) true position coaches: OL, WR, TE, QB, RB, DL, LB, DBs and maybe more and that would be on the varsity and sub varsity levels. One coach working with them at all times in and out of season.

2) Strength and condition coach: That is all the guy does is make the kids stronger, faster and quicker both in and out of season. If I am wrong on this next statement sorry but I do believe T makes available lifting during in school hours like an athletic period. I am not sure of this nor do I know if extends to extra coaching time.

3) top of the line resources: End zone and side line cut ups shots. Top of the line weight room and equipment. Meeting rooms for positions/sides of the ball

 

You look at the top programs across the country in different states and they have the above 3 things. All of those things help and allow them to develop players. T's freshman staff is larger than many school's complete football staff. They have the resources to obtain and retain these coaches. They also do not have to worry about title IX among a few other odds and ends. The group T has currently is honestly a little out of the norm for them. In the past and I am not just talking the past 10 years or so T did not have amazing athletes. They had good athletes but they were not the most athletic team in the state. They had resources that allowed them to develop players that many schools just do not have.

 

No matter what anyone says what T, X or HHS does on offense and defense is that complex or fancy. With a little searching you can get all of T's offense with the coaching points for free online. T can do some things many schools cannot scheme wise because of the number of coaches and the time they have with their players. The factors I listed are huge in developing a program. This of course does not take into account tradition which can never be under estimated.

How do you suggest Ryle improves their program to compete with T and X?

 

Check out post #1.

I remember reading about Ruby helping a couple kids out paying for their tuition it was in the newspaper several years ago.

 

Who were the kids? Maybe that was at Moeller, but it wasn't at HHS..

I remember reading about Ruby helping a couple kids out paying for their tuition it was in the newspaper several years ago.

 

Doubt it. See if you can find the article. I googled but couldn't find anything. Jeff has helped some kids over the years, one in particular, but that kid was a FT native, lived in FT and of course there was no reason for tuition to be paid.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/b...hschool-296128

 

"Thing's" happen.

Okay, you're crazy.

 

I know it's just a difference in thinking and there is no right or wrong on this issue, but as long as a kid is enrolled in a Ky school, he/she should in my opinion be able to participate in all extracurricular activities that every other kid in that school can participate in.

 

The schools in Ky border counties will possibly have an advantage if they can attract out of state students, but that's life. If we get so Don Quixote-like focused on chasing windmills in the quest to deliver that mythical "level playing field", we will eventually require every school to have the same number of assistant coaches, spend the same dollars per player, require all facilities to be the same, etc. etc. If a team loses to a team that has some out of state impact players on it in a state game, life will go on.

 

I'm in to state titles as much as any one, but making sure that no school has any advantage over another school as they both attempt to win a state titles should not be what drives our management of high school athletics in Ky.

Along that line of thought should classes be done away with altogether?

http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/b...hschool-296128

 

"Thing's" happen.

Not sure what this is suppose to be.

I can't find an article, so I could be wrong about him helping other kids. Would it be illegal to help kids pay tuition to a public high school? Reguardless, I know for sure that there were other kids from Cincy on Highlands team around that time. I know that is not illegal. I bought it up because another poster tried to claim that Highlands never has kids from Cincy, not to claim Highlands was cheating. My argument had been that Highlands benefits from having a large area draw, which some Ft. Thomas posters seem to disagree with. Why I can't figure out.

I can't find an article, so I could be wrong about him helping other kids. Would it be illegal to help kids pay tuition to a public high school? t.

 

Yes, if the student played sports.

I can't find an article, so I could be wrong about him helping other kids. Would it be illegal to help kids pay tuition to a public high school? Reguardless, I know for sure that there were other kids from Cincy on Highlands team around that time. I know that is not illegal. I bought it up because another poster tried to claim that Highlands never has kids from Cincy, not to claim Highlands was cheating. My argument had been that Highlands benefits from having a large area draw, which some Ft. Thomas posters seem to disagree with. Why I can't figure out.

 

There was one other Cincy kid that I can think of in all the years I've followed Highlands. So it would be wrong to say never and it would be equally wrong to think there have been more than a couple.

Along that line of thought should classes be done away with altogether?

 

In some people's minds: yes.

Yes, if the student played sports.

 

Would it make a difference if the kid was a poor athlete and was, for example, the 90th man on a 90-man football team and very rarely played, if at all?

Not sure what this is suppose to be.

 

You have to start from the beginning of this thread and read up to here.

You have to start from the beginning of this thread and read up to here.

 

I wasn't asking what you meant. Your link is to a yahoo search result for "school high school".

Larry: It really is time to move on. A serious question: Did you hang a 3-2 curve ball against Highlands that someone drove for a grand slam, or miss a free throw in OT, or drop a pass in a playoff game? C'mon why do you bring up this stuff all day and all night long for over a week now?