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Central has some good young kids....an eighth grader that gets alot of run and a soph named Covington that has some game....they'll hang close but won't have enough....

How many did Sanford wind up with?

From what I heard, he resigned.

He was let go. Sad situation, he did as well as you could do at my alma mater and you couldn't find a better person to lead the program. Sad day.

He is terminated as coach, he was informed just a few days ago.

 

Pikeville athletics(football particularly) is far beyond chaos, they are in a total a melt down.

 

They want Hillard Howard back, they feel that will fix everything.

He's not going back there. Period. Not gonna happen

Why, in football, do we say teams must deserve their spot in the playoffs when in almost all other high school sports, every team makes the playoffs regardless?

 

Every team makes the playoffs, the ones that don't deserve to advance don't. I say innocent until proven guilty, not guilty until proven innocent. Look at Simon Kenton this year. A four seed makes it to the third round. Let the kids play.

Good point.....never really thought of that......

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I remember a while back (before I went to Iraq this most recent time) there was some good discussion on the districting and playoffs and I jhave had quite soime time in the desert to think about a plan and wanted to see waht you all thought about it. To me it makes sense and eliminates that first game that we currently have that does not do much to increase any competition among sports.

 

1. Have as many classes as KHSAA decides is needed to maintain competition within each class. 1A to either 4A, 5A, or 6A would work well.

 

2. Do away with regions and districts.

 

3. Create eight conferences within each class with anywhere from 6-10 schools in each conference. Schools would have some say as to which conference they belong to in their class, but the state provides oversight to maintain some balance with the numbers in each conference.

 

4. (As a side note: original schools in the conference selects a name on for the conference, i.e. Louisville Metro Conference)

 

5. Regardless of the size of the conference, two teams qualifiy for state.

 

6. Conference champions are seeded 1-8 for the playoffs with seeds 1, 4, 5, and 8 on one side of the bracket and seeds 2, 3, 6 and 7 on the other side. Conference Runner-Ups are automatically placed in the opposite side of the bracket and seeded against a conference champion for the first round.

 

In doing this, no teams from the same conference will play in the playoffs unless it is for the state title. This also reduces the odds of playing the same team in the first or seciond round each year as the seeding would constanlty change based on records and position within the conference. Some extra travelling may be required, but if it is to much, a neutral site can be used. For those that like the extra game that the first round of the playoffs gives, this creates another week where a game could be played during the regular season while preserving the playoffs for those that have shown they are the better teams throughout the year (it eliminates just about every team in the state from being able to say "we were good enough to make the playoffs" when they clearly were not.

 

I have seen similar systems used when I was growing up and moving around and it makes me wonder why no one on the KHSAA has thought about a system like this. Let me know what all of you think about it.

Thanks for serving our country . The system as it is lets too many teams get in....When this year's Betsy Layne team makes the playoffs, something is wrong...just make it to where 2 teams make the playoffs from each district...that would help and rotate districts each year as far as opponents.

Whitley manhandled LCC the first time early, but as game went on they adapted. Learned a great deal from that game. Did they learn enough? I will be there to find out.Good luck to both.

There is a reason for that...Hillard Howard - One of the best, if not the best coach in the state.....How he has built that program from scratch is remarkable, but shouldn't be surprising considering his other coaching stop. If he hadn't retired, he'd be #1 all time in wins.

They'll have all they can handle next week - Hillard's teams are no joke

Final

Mo Egger will be pumped on Monday

Hillard and boys get the dub