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Congrats to Coach JB and the Birds! Big crowd and great student support. Let's have the umpires ruin it today and send high school baseball back to the dark ages, so that no students attend games next year or maybe not even attend tonight. Lets let our students root for their team. Total bologna if they are going to even attempt to do this. It's fine to for students to stand behind the stands until tonights game. Are you serious? Check out the student crowd once this happens. The entire student section is scheduled to go to a concert tonight, but is blowing it off. Make the rule umpires and it's bad news for student support.

100% agree with you UCRN. Big Congrats to Jason! Waldo was a huge reason for the great success of Highlands passing offense this past season and he is a first class young man! This HHS family has never rooted for any team in the Hoosier state, but we will go out on a limb for the next 4 years and back the Engineers. No doubt Jason will be an impact player at Rose Hulman, a great fit for him. How exciting for Jason and his Dad! A fact about Rose Hulman is that Coach White recruits only young men that are not only talented on the football field, but only those who meet his high standards of having the right attitude and commitment to his team as a person. Big time success Waldo! Congrats my friend.

Congrats to Spencer! This guy is a great athlete and will be a big time player at Mount Saint Joe.

Congratulations to Goose and continued success! Thomas More has been ranked as a top 25 DIII school for the past three years. Playing for Coach Hilvert would be an honor for any player from northern Kentucky. Enjoy your college career.

Ozzy is very close on deciding the school that he is going to attend, a huge lifetime decision. He along with his family, coaches, close friends, along with current and former players of college teams that he considered, have contributed a lot of time and thought into making a decision. I think Ozzy said it all, that most kids only have the opportunity to think about winning a state championship, but he and his teammates had the opportunity to live the dream for four years. Ozzy knows that his fellow teammates hard work and dedication extended him the opportunity that he now has. Ozzy is just a kid like every other football senior in America, making their best educated guess deciding on which college to attend for both education and football. For someone outside of the Highlands football program to compare Ozzy to a Highlands legendary player who also lived the dream really has absolutely no relevance. Who was the fastest kid means absolutely nothing. Collinsworth was Ozzy's mentor. Ozzy is the mentor to the player that will replace him on Highlands this coming season. That's what is relevant. If Ozzy's replacement runs faster than him next season and averages 40 yards per catch, he's smacking high fives with him! Ozzy is a humble kid. There won't be any drum rolls when he makes his decision. His true friends and members of the Highlands football community will be the first to know. Some will love the decision he makes, others will question it. However, only Ozzy has experienced his personal recruitment for the past two years and only he can make the decision that he feels will be right for him this year, next year, four years from now, and fifty years from now. Highlands will play football next season and Ozzy will play in college. I sure hope he runs fast!

How exciting! Atta boy Devon, enjoy the ride (and your visit)!

All good Clyde. No worries!

Nice cut and paste job Roman Empire.

Will Pike play on defense this season? How many Dixie and Cov Cath players play on both sides of the ball?

VOR, I'm thinking this is before temporary seating.

No problems with Larry here. Obviously, a man between a rock and a hard place. Isn't he afterall the sports editor of The Advocate Messenger, Danville's hometown newspaper, where he posted this article. If Larry were to pick Highlands, he gets run out of Central Kentucky. However, Larry appears to be smart enough not to post the article on his Vaughtsviews UK website that is "For All Things Big Blue" thus avoiding the possibility of starting a rebellion of the UK Big Blue Nation against him. Give the guy credit, he roots for his hometown boys and he writes articles to sell his newspaper. Nothing wrong with that.

I hear ya. I was thinking of it as more a safety issue for players. I don't think anyone broadcast Gold's bad shoulder last year or a couple of guys that had bum ankles and played.

Everybody is healthy. Why would anyone ever post a scouting report?

Maybe a review of game films of the HHS vs. CovCath and JC would be a good start before making comparisons and inaccurate statements.

What cracks me up is that this reminds me of the football quote that "all of the best coaches are in the stands".

Before everyone gets in a tizzy about who makes a list and who doesn't, be knowledgeable about the sports writer and how he performs evaluations. Some of these writers that make these lists do it because they love high school football in Kentucky. It's not their daytime job. Don't be alarmed if your favorite player did not make one of these lists. Mr. Eldridge will be coming out with additional lists of players under different headings in the very near future. He has learned over the years to not simply rank his opinion of the top 25 or 50 players in the state, because everyone gets upset if their kid doesn't make the list. Elliott Jude, Quick and several of my favorite Highlands players weren't on these list, but stay tuned, they all will be on future lists as they are released. Know how the source works before starting a war about which kid is better than another. Furthermore, who really cares. It's one dudes opinion.

Vince Lombardi

Congrats to Vinny. He's a great athlete and a real nice young man!

Your first hand knowledgable points are well taken UCRN and I'm certain that your situation at UC was discussed at the Ozzy household late into the morning hours last Friday night. All recruiting organizations tell kids to not verbally commit to a scholarship until after late in their senior season. None address how to handle a "preferred walk on" at the institution that they love, but common sense tells me that it is a little over the edge to accept a preferred walk on in June before the start of your senior year, when you are on the verge of getting some serious scholarship offers, and get two offers at the same exact camp that you accept a preferred walk on. That being said, a preferred walk on guarantees a player a number and a spot on the roster, on the team that they love, and on the same team as one of their best friends. The two of them have dreamed of this day for years. It's just a fact that some kids bleed HHS and UK blue. For the athlete on the football field, there is virtually little difference in a preferred walk on and a scholarship. One level up with his parents, they have to pay for his tuition instead of the scholarship ride. Sheehan's family will just have to consume less expensive beverages at pre game tail gate parties than the Towles family. As a kid getting the opportunity to live your dream, you drink the Kool Aid that you are offered, in this case a preferred walk on. I'm certain that in the mix of colleges that Ozzy had prior to this past Friday, it listed to attend UK with friends and watch Pat play, and not play himself. In that case he would have also been paying tuition. If you re-read the article above, colleges will still recruit a preferred walk on. Their leverage is a scholarship. Ozzy attended about 8 DI football camps in the last couple of weeks. There are a number of coaches that told them they would be contacting him, and as the article says, he will listen and talk to each of them. I don't think coaches are going to let a preferred walk on, stand in their way of recruiting a kid if they are interested in him. That being said, I believe there is a 99.9% chance that Ozzy will be at UK next year. The analogy that a friend of Ozzy told him, is that if you travel 6 or 8 hours across Kentucky either way, go down every two lane highway, and proceed down each dirt path, each and every kid dreams of someday playing for the Wildcats. If you look at it through the eyes of a kid, it's really a very simple and a very wise decision to accept a preferred walk on.

UCRN. Sometimes a kid just wants to live the dream and it has nothing to do with getting scholarship money. http://oujoshedwards.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/cats-get-rare-early-walk-on/

The answer is plain and simple. Coach Mueller knows the names of his future players almost from the beginning of their careers in the FTJFL. He catches glimpses of their games. When he runs into a 4th grader in the frozen food section of Remke's, he knows their name and he knows their athletic ability in football. It isn't rocket science, it's dedication and awesome coaching. Coach Baioni is on the right track to success.

To end the rumor mill. First, second, third, etc. meetings and conversations with college coaches are extremely important to prospective athletes. Lets not give Kentucky any recruiting tactic glory that they don't deserve and many other universities, including every other SEC school, does. You won't see Kentucky listed as a school of interest on any other website.

Glory Days of Bellevue athletics???? When was that? I know they rank near the bottom in CATS testing scores in one of the most undereducated states in the country. I would be ashamed to cash my paycheck if I worked in the Bellevue School System administration.

Pat Towles, you the man! This Birds and UK fan family is real proud of P. Towles!

I think you are the only one Uk#1 fan that thinks SK would be Highlands. Awesome quote!