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Brady seems to ellicit a lot of responses (somewhat critical) in both football and basketball. However, you cannot take away the fact that he is one of the most outstanding athletes in this area over the past twenty years. Further while he may possess an abundance of confidence he is also one of the hardest workers and fiercest competitors anybody has had to face in all three sports. Off the field.....one of the nicest young adults you would ever meet. I think he falls into that category of when he is on your team you love him when he is not one your team you cannot stand him. Not a bad compliment to have.

They'll be tough. Losing Brady hurts from the perspective of he seems like the only player they had that could score outside of the offense. He could break his man down every time. They will be a very balanced team next year, even if that doesn't show up in the PPG column. McDonald and Schulte both pass well out of the high and low post. They will be pretty long in the front court. I am interesting in seeing how Mr. Pangallo plays. Obviously everyone knows his Dad and the family name, but his mom was a very good ball player as well at NewCath.

As long as he has mom's skills he will be just fine!!!!!:lol: In all seriousness both Chris and Jen (his parent's) were outstanding high school players. Does Zach not also play football?

VofR that was my point. The article becomes convoluted and loses the focus of a good kid having a good season and becomes something that questions the transfer, etc.

Sports guy based on your location I am positive I know which case you are talking about and there was a whole lot more to it than that. PM me if you want to discuss further.

It is America you have the personal choice to do so....................No eligibilty issues with non high school age students. You cannot move and keep your child playing a sport "in the old district." That player would be ineligible immediately upon them residing outside that public school district.

The family moved? Aren't they living with in-laws in Boone County? Aren't his siblings still attending WV? Isn't there house still empty in Walton's district?

It says in the article they moved out of the district. At that point he must attend the public school in the district he lives or a private school. I am not sure where they moved to and it is none of my business. He moved he is eligible like any other student/athlete that moves. And there is no stipulation that your house has to be sold or rented to be eligible. The fact that the house is empty only means they moved.

Let me re state as I do not have a problem with Richard Skinner at all and he has been more than gracious to me over the years with articles, etc. I said the transferring was misleading in the article and I meant that the quote by Vance convoluted the transfer issue as if he was being talked into it by a summer teammate vs them moving. I did NOT mean to say anything was malicious by the writer. I just felt that quote made the whole thing seem messier than it should particularly for those looking for something wrong in this case.

Thoroughbird you are correct NCC took no risks. A family moves; they have to go to a public school that they live in or the private school. Paper work is filled out when you move and eligibility is established by the KHSAA. Pretty mundane process. Nothing else in your paragraph applies to his transfer. Now whether you are "close" to the situation or not nothing else really matters as far as his transfer.

As far as the article I have read over it a couple times and I think it is bad journalism. Really misleading as far as transferring etc.

I am going to focus on what Clyde quoted to start the thread. Obviously with the "family moving" from Walton there is a public or private school to choose from in the area that they moved. I think that would be the take on his comments about Cain and not looking at it from a perspective that he transferred from Walton to play with Cain.

Now the reporter may be innocently ignorant when he asked the questions and wrote the article.

Bottom line is a good kid having a good season that is playing on a new team his senior year is the focus of the story and congrats to him on the article!!!!!!!!!!:thumb:

Now that is a true statement :laugh:. Seriously if you look at every post I have ever made I am not sure I have ever been derogatory or negative about the program............Although I think one time in a poll I did vote against them to win but was promptly chastized in my PM box by enough people to never do that again!

Well.........first I think I am allowed to have an opinion and secondly I did not rip your program or say anything that should elicit the kind of responses. Further so that I do not get any more negative PM's this has to strictly do with how it effected a summer team that has NOTHING to do with anything that is Highlands or any body associated with Highlands. The fact that a team has to deal with missing player(s) due to football practice several nights a week is something that only has to be dealt with from the kids at Highlands no place else. Now this also is the reason the football program is where it is....................................The committment and dedication (see that is a compliment). Also flat out kids do NOT want to miss football practice! See another compliment to where the program is. I gurarantee you that at several schools kids are missing freshmen workouts in order to play summer baseball games. Now do you think those involved with the baseball team are happy? No of course not. But those involved also understand the situation and make the best of it. Highlands players are going to be committed to football first and while this may seem strange to those on the outside it is what makes their program. Now if you have this need to try and rip people that might have an opinion that you deem not fiitting into your view. Please feel free to do so. And I do not think any "crying" was going on in the last post.

It is only early June and freshmen football is already causing issues with summer baseball conflicts.................................ON the flip side this makes for a great football program and these kids are committed!

In one of those two innings a ground ball was hit right to the SS and he bobbled it and made a bad throw on top of that. Surely that was an error.

There were errors and also some shaky outfield play...............( left fielder frozen on a ball that could have been caught that went for a double early in the 6th). I do want to comment on Mr. Bertke's composer. As hot as it was and with some defensive lapses not one time did he even look at the offending teammate. Also cooperstown is corrrect....he backed up every base when NCC was hitting the ball hard off him and showed no negative reaction. What a great lesson for younger players and trust me it was a teaching moment for those kids at the game. He has been a class act his entire baseball career with Beechwood and with the Bluegrass Organization. Does anybody know where he is going to school next year?

Ok TAC I guess we will do this again as we do every draw in basketball and baseball threads:

#1 The All A is not a state sanctioned tourney and is not just "A" schools if you were to use football classes.

#2 How about going to classes and then you can seed everyone in their class. Put yourself in the shoes of a Silver Grove you have 11 players one of them a 7th grader starting and you have to play with Scott and Campbell County. Yeah now that is much worse than a blind draw.

#3 Complaints about lopsided scores in regional because of blind draw and a weaker team getting in .....well you have really lopsided regular season scores and district tourney scores due to district seedign games that you have to play.

#4 What is more unfair? Forcing tiny schools to play the largest schools in the area or two good teams drawing each other randomly.

Siple's resume is much deeper than Faust and Ollier. That being said this program since its first few seasons has been on a wrong path. This is not going to change how the administration treats football. Good luck to Coach Siple!

tbg excellent points about the level of competion. What you see day in and day out is what makes you better as a player. The level of teams in select leagues SWOL or Greater Cincinnati Select league plus the freedom to be able to play in tournaments against select leagues from all over helps develop players. There are knothole teams that are an exception just like there are supposed "select" teams that are an exception being really bad. The problem is if you are the really good exception in knothole.....................you are not being tested especially during your regular season.

Now my main point is this.................the best way to develop a program in all other sports is to have a feeder program. But how many schools have a baseball feeder program due to the loyalties in knothole or a player's select team which of course are all coached by dads in the lower age levels. Coach Baioni has been able to start something most programs will never be able to touch. That being putting teams together that can function as feeder teams coached by who he has picked. Now granted a couple players on each team are not future Bluebirds (yet) but if you do not see how this is going to start having baseball taught correctly the way he wants it which in turn starts to become a huge advantage. And if you look even at younger ages the majority of his 13 year old players play on two teams that he has strong knowledge of and my guess is some lines of communcation with. Further down the line he coaches two youth teams that his son's play for and again he is getting "his way" taught at the earliest age possible. The bottom line is this....with the time to do this Coach Baioni has made sure through coaching teams, holding clinics, fall leagues for younger players, starting feeder teams and communicating with coaches that have players that are in his pipeline that he is setting up players for success in his program which will turn that program around. :thumb:

That came straight from a phone call I made to the KHSAA office and spoke with the commissioner. But I agree with what you say the way the rule reads. And you are correct it is not fair to the younger players who wanted to play the game.

Money is split but trust me by the time you pay umpires, baseballs, field maintenace issues (diamond dry, chalk, etc) most schools will get a check for 100.00 or a little less.

Okay after doing some research the 2 year suspension only applies if a team does NOT show up. If you show and do not have enough players or if you start the game and then forfeit for whatever reason the rule does not apply.

The girls softball team did not have enough players for the district tourney last year and forfeited their first round game and they were not suspended the two years. Really does not matter though it is an absolute black eye on the school and the program. Not the coaches fault as he has worked very hard this year and they have been competitive instead of always losing in 5 innings. In fact in the top of the first in the district game they had a walk and three straight singles (unfortunately two runners made outs on the bases). But when you have a roster of 11 and 3 kids determine that they are making a choice to do whatever else they need to do you are stuck.

And I do agree that if the schools agreed to this schedule that is there own fault. however, it just shows nobody was paying attention at other schools as to the potential issues that would come with this type of schedule.

The issue was not daylight anyway. It may have been that tornado/monsoon that came through about 7:15. If two games were started at 5:00, both of them might have ended up getting suspended.

Ok first of all the second game started at seven and if you read my post it stated rain or no rain this game had no chance of getting completed so it is poor planning. Second as I also stated mel had nothing to do with it. Third i also stated that soembody had to agree with the schedule however this district chooses to do there meeting via e-mail and not get together and meet. Finally if Silver Grove does not bail out which is conmpletely and utterly bush league you are not in that position. This schedule did not make the 5 team district only have one game left. Silver Grove opting not to play has created that situation.

They could have just played it at Campbell.......or used the same format Silver Grove used last year at NCC field when they hosted it there.

Clyde the set up for the tourney is supposed to be agreed upon at a meeting but this district does not have a formal meeting (or at least did not last year or the year before and if they did this year my apologies) and so the stuff is "sent" out via e-mail and really does not enter in to much discussion about things like other districts would. And based upon hearing the discussions about the game times by the coaching staffs they were not happy but had no choice. Could have been Brossart set the times and sent them to people, could have been AD's, not sure. All I know it was a bad decision and an easy one to see well in advance that it was going to be a problem. In defense of Mel he is running the girls fast pitch tourney so somebody else with the school is running the basebal..