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Congrats to Mr. Trimble. Look forward to seeing him do big things in the future! This was one of the most underrated kids in the 11th this past season and Navy is getting a great kid.

State Championship year and a few years before that I'm thinking. Pretty much any of their 2005-2010 run before Booher got there.

I'm thinking you probably do. He's the guy who used to coach Holmes.

Thanks for the responses everyone. Will definitely consider what had been said and look at the articles .

How much is too much for a kid to be catching? Not opinions, just maybe if someone could provide some links/credentials that indicate you really know what you are talking about and give it by age level. Kid doing it is a three sport-type kid, and plays each at a high level. Both me and my brother played catcher at some points growing up. I played for about a year and a half, him for Junior and Little League, as well as High School. I ran cross country in that same year, played fall ball, and played summer ball the following summer. Brother played football and baseball. Both of us played a lot of pick-up basketball, etc. Now had someone asking me about knee health because of their own kids. Honestly, both my brother and I have knee problems. He's already been under the knife, and I've got a cyst on the back of a kneecap that's been dislocated three times. We have knee problems, and maybe it's genetic, maybe not, but I can't help but think that catching didn't hurt (especially considering NONE of my knee problems arose until after I'd begun). Honestly, I don't really know tons of people who played catcher for a fair amount of time that DON'T have knee problems. Since I've been asked, I wanted to see if someone reputable could definitively answer "how much is too much", and whether or not there's a correlation between catching and knee injuries. Any help/advice would be appreciated, because I want to answer the person's question, and thank you in advance.

I think that all of the 34-0 are a bit unrealistic if we're talking about an entire season and the schedule played under normal conditions. Travel, rest, games in consecutive days versus a fresher team, different styles of play & coaching, just having a night where you are off or the opponent is on fire. I think saying 34-0 without reservation could be a bit much given. Probably not something that will ever happen, but has there ever been an event where a women's team played a team of younger men in an organized-type game? If nothing else, maybe if there's a women's coach who has scrimmaged their team against guys for competition (I would imagine some of the college programs scrimmage against guys and stuff like that)?

Agreed. Juniors are losing out. Hopefully there are some types of events that can make up for this.

That isn't cheap to do though. In some ways it's disadvantageous to kids who don't have parents that are able to do that. Errr... disadvantageous so long as no one is helping them out with the situation, which I don't really care about if they are honestly doing it for the good of the kid and there aren't strings attached; however, I'm not sure that's always the case though.

Academics in general, I agree. I think the reference rjs4470 is making is more to 'academics' as in "academic team". Kid wants to leave her high school to join a school with a better academic team and people are probably going to applaud her and think it'd be ridiculous to ask that she move if she can get her own transportation. As much as anything else, that's probably the value our society places on academics as compared to sports. I think band is a fair comparison. Both are an extracurricular activity that the school could do without, but are things that give kids with talents for those things a chance to shine and be a part of something bigger than themselves. It's just that there isn't a "Band" section on BGP like there is a "Boy's Basketball" or "Football". I don't really know that the lack of emphasis on it alone is enough to say it's an entirely different category because they share so many qualities.

Know what you are saying, and I agree to a point, but there's also poaching. Some of the tactics of it don't serve anyone but the coach(es) doing it in the long run either. It's one thing for a kid and their parents to come to you. It's another thing to come in and take a talent that someone else has developed, especially if they are using nefarious means. An example of this would be a young star player who is very talented who plays for an "old school" coach who is big on discipline, grades, all that. Kid gets punished and starts to get unhappy. It seems as though today's game is much more likely to reveal situations where coaches are handcuffed because punishing a kid too harshly is less likely to improve whatever is going on and more likely to cause them to transfer out, at least compared to years past. Feelers from other programs swoop in and play on the discontent, to sow seeds of doubt into the player's and parent's minds, etc. to cause a disconnect between them and the teams/coaches, I don't think those are right at all. It's definitely a dirty game, but I know of situations where a talented player has been frustrated or even talked about quitting and other schools get wind of it and go after them that much harder. "Coach X at School Y isn't giving you enough shots? I know I'd give you those shots if I was coaching you". Things sound really good when they are recruiting a player, but the reality of the situation is that often times, people are saying anything to get a kid to come to them and then things wind up being different once they are actually there. At that point, the kid is kind of stuck because their old school might not want them back and moving to yet another school opens up a new (or the same) can of worms and is more likely to look like school shopping. No real good answer, but I'm not a fan the tactics of poaching, especially when it's used as a means of circumventing discipline because in the long run, the kids aren't the ones who benefit-- they are the ones being played.

Beats are overrated in terms of price. Tried on a pair of Parrott Zik headphones that same day and wish I'd have gotten them instead.

Maybe an intuition. Go with your gut. I really respect your opinion on the game and I see your 100% shot as far less luck than you are if you are going at it like this. You just picked all four winners of the regions that had the best showings in Rupp as an area/region.

United States Naval Academy... my apologies.

Was told that Mr. Trimble is expected to be in Annapolis this Thursday and Friday to visit the University of Navy. Good vibes your way Drew.

Sounds like a nice job. I'm taking it that they would be fine with having some kids come in from outside the feeders if that's what a coach wanted? I'm not really privy to how all that works in Cincy, but would imagine that some schools do it.

Definitely huge for the program to keep him. Maybe this winds up settling some of the rumors and future offers down some as well. For those of us who aren't as familiar with the Ohio/GCL scene, what kind of job is Cincinnati St. X generally seen as? How "in place" are things there speaking in terms of: feeders, facilities, support from admin, support from the community, parents, competition, other sports at the school that may compete, what kind of package they can offer a coach, etc.?

Nice work to both citycat and stepscalled. 12 and 11 are a lot of correct answers for any point, and it being in the preseason makes it even more impressive.

Put my parents in that group. They didn't go themselves this year and ended up just eating the tickets. Still saw it as a way of saving money because there was no room to buy, food, etc. Clay County didn't go and Knott County Central going out so early last year didn't help.

Are regional tournaments at large, 'neutral' venues eroding into the profits of the Sweet 16?

Choo! Choo! #DirtyBoro (to my friends and poker buddies from Patterson & Westwood... this one is for you all... and your burgoo and BBQ is alright too).

You had a different experience than I. When I tried starting the stream, regardless of when, it started at the beginning of the game and I didn't have any way to catch up to the live action. I feel I'm generally literate enough to figure out how to do that if I wanted, but yea... not this time. Maybe it was just a Mac/Safari thing, but I haven't heard of anyone else having the same issue either.

Most likely it's not any one factor, but plenty of ones that combined for it. A few: Kentucky playing in the NCAA tournament, and having a historically great season all the while, yea... that didn't help at all. Lots of fans were probably taken by that one. Making the drive to Louisville for an early NCAA game was probably a few people's only time to see UK in person this season. Western Kentucky school's position in the draw probably hurts. They seem to do better for night games with fans making the trek up early and staying the day after the game. You'll usually see better crowds from the regions 1-5 when they play at night. Lots more opening game, opening session this year. For whatever reason, that's how it is. People from Eastern Kentucky seem to prefer staying the night before, going straight home if they leave, whereas with Western Kentucky, the trend is more go up for a night game and stay, leave the next morning. With the latter, it's easier to say "we'll go the next day if we win", meaning that the pool of people who'd have otherwise committed a bit smaller. *Maybe this is a complete logical fallacy on my part, but it's just kind of what I've observed over the years... I could be completely wrong. It'd been a long time since any school in the field's "1st appearance since..." aside from Williamsburg, which was the smallest school in the tournament. Those kinds of numbers can really pump up a session. There wasn't really a team to do that this year. I'm sure Williamsburg brought an awesome crowd, but it's just kind of different when it's a Class A school doing that versus a 5A or 6A (e.g., when it's a school like Muhlenburg County in their first ever appearance and when Muhlenburg North hadn't been in forever, something like that. I know Collins may technically qualify, but they were pretty much there with the split from Shelby County, and they'd won a state title in football the year before. More people show up when the appearances are rare/scarce-- that's just how it is. Lots more people probably went to the early Johnson Central/Knott County Central teams in years 1-2 then they did in years 3-4. Scarcity is huge. Remember the last time you wanted Chik-Fil-A, but it was Sunday and they were closed so you couldn't? Ask yourself, how soon after did you go to Chik-Fil-A the next time you had a decision on a fast food of that type of commodity? Related to the above point: some times fans can just get "spent out". Not the best economy and lots of people doing belt tightening and making cuts where they can. Throw this one in when the above factors are all present too, and it doesn't help that this is probably one of those years where statistically, if you correlated things to the State's economy on the whole, then this probably wasn't the best year for the casual fan with no rooting interest who might have otherwise went everything else held constant.

Like the Chris Lofton and Steph Curry comparison. Butter shot. Lofton was more athletic compared to the competition, Curry is obviously a better shooter. Great comparison though.

Good stuff as always PP92.

Well, you must not have been in the same position last year. Don't you remember the quote?