NKY Harry and OCNB are spot on.

 

I can only add as a long time observer:

1. Team speed. Not just the positions you expect to be fast but every player.

2. Excellent athletes playing on the line. (even if they have to be moved to the line from another position) I just never see any other team commit to this as a rule.

NKY Harry and OCNB are spot on.

 

I can only add as a long time observer:

1. Team speed. Not just the positions you expect to be fast but every player.

2. Excellent athletes playing on the line. (even if they have to be moved to the line from another position) I just never see any other team commit to this as a rule.

 

It was pretty funny a couple years back seeing the offensive guard return punts. I believe he had been a running back the year before.

Going deep into the playoffs or the championship game nearly every year has to be an added bonus also... That's an extra month or more practice and more time to prepare the underclassmen for the next season..

It was pretty funny a couple years back seeing the offensive guard return punts. I believe he had been a running back the year before.

Ryan Ball, I believe. He just finished a career at Georgetown with stints at running back and linebacker.

Ryan Ball, I believe. He just finished a career at Georgetown with stints at running back and linebacker.

 

Another athlete doing what it takes for the best interest of the team. A good kid that one. His freshman year he talked to our team in the FTJFL about being a team player.

Ryan Ball, I believe. He just finished a career at Georgetown with stints at running back and linebacker.

 

Robbie Neneighbor (sorry if I misspelled) was another one two years ago. Started (or at least played a lot) at linebacker his JR year, moved to O-line at the request of the coaches during the off season, and started at guard his SR year. And if I'm not mistaken, he was an RB his frosh season.

 

And to Commando's comment above, after winning two state titles in a row, the entire team had played the equivalent of an extra full regular season's worth of games. Think about that. If you continue to dress with the varsity your frosh year, and go to state that year and every year thereafter - as the last two HHS classes have done - they will have played the equivalent of SIX FULL SEASONS worth of football by the time they graduate. It's basically the football equivalent of an AP class.

Highlands football is bred into Ft. Thomas kids from an early age. My son talked of nothing else from the time he was in kindergarten on because the HHS players visited his school and talked to all of the kids about their State Championships and Highlands football. He was hooked. 11 years later, he was the State Champion player that went with his teammates to see all of the elementary students to show them the trophy the team had just won. When he heard that one little boy, who happened to be in his kid sisters 2nd grade class, had been sick that day and had missed the players; he "borrowed" the State Championship trophy and took it to the little boy's house to share with him the next weekend. That little boy is in the 6th grade now. I'm betting the young man still remembers that day, and in a few short years will have his own State Championship memories to share with the next generation of Bluebirds.