Larry Warner

I have no problem. I find the outlook in Ft. Thomas comical, AKA, we win with this small 3A school draw and we are normally playing against schools with more D1 athletes.

Would you like to bet your car that they won't be offered? Just wondering?

I think that the goal of Jefferson Public should be to keep every public middle school football player.

The answers to do with the kids that they have are easy. Longer hours, eliminate the undedicated, and better speed and agility training. However, speed and agility training didn't have Trinity playing seven sophmores this year. They were loaded with one of the most talented classes I have ever seen. Their draw is becoming ridiculous. Jefferson, Oldham, and Bullitt County schools need to do something to keep their players, let alone Indiana. I have seen Trinity be sucessfull for a long time with teams centered around catholic families that have been part of the program for years. This one wasn't. As far as scheme goes, there are many teams in this state that would love to be able to run a 4-3 cover 2. However, most no that they don't have the horses to stop the run in something this basic. However, there are teams out there doing everything they possibly can, including looking at chages that would help their sucess in ever area possible, to make beating Trinity a possibility.

I would think, from the way you described it on another post, that Jefferson County should allow their public coached to become aligned with public youth programs. They should keep anyone associated with private schools away from their youth programs. They should fight harder to keep their players. The state should also eliminate participating in KHSAA acitivities if you don't live in the state, much the same way that other state's have such as Ohio.

I would say you arew wrong. Ryle has a lower male population than they had three years ago due to a new High School being built and taking some of their draw. They can't take tuition students and they don't have open enrollment, so how could you possible make this claim. Unlike Ft. Thomas, you must live in Ryle's draw area to go to Ryle. Simon Kenton, on the other hand, would be more more arguable if Highlands didn't have kids on their team from the same county that Simon has open enrollment.

At least two. Also, who is slinging mud. It is funny that Highlands fans percieve it as slinging mud when you bring up facts about the student draw of their program.

Once again, when have I said it is a bad thing? I have simply said that it helps their sucess. As far as titles, I would say that they would have not won in 1998 or 2004 without out of town players. I would also say that a lack of Frisk would have hurt the 1996 cause, but maybe not have kept it from happening.

Well, you are the first poster from Highlands that has admitted it makes an impact. I have never said that it is the ONLY reason Highlands is sucessful, I have said that it has an impact on their sucess.

Let me ask you a more simple question, Do you believe that people specifically move to and pay tuition to attend Highlands High School to play football for that school?

Frisk? You mean that Ft. Thomas running back from the mid 90's? Wait a second.:eyeonyou:

First of all, how does it sound like Highlands has 1-4 in any given years? Secondly, do not confuse football players moving to a school to play with students whose families simply move that are involved in no extracurriculars. The athletes gained for Highlands are significant. As 2 hump stated earlier, some people are living in fantasy land if they don't think Highlands football benefits from a draw of out of town players.

It happens at a vastly increased rate at Highlands vs. other schools specifically due to football.

Once again, we are not only discussing tuition students. We are discussing students that Highlands draws from. If I have lived in another area my whole life and I move to Ft. Thomas to go to high school, then Highlands has drawn from my area. Also, I am sure there are tuition students as well. However, as we have already stated, you do not have to be paying tuition to be from out of town.

Thats why I used the phrase "nearly doubled" and not "doubled." For instance, I would consider Ryle's 2010-2011 male enrollment of 726 to be nearly Doubled by Trinity's male enrollment of 1357. I know words mean things. It seems very clear that Trinity and X have a male population vastly larger than most of their 6A competition, and larger than all of their 6A competition. Also, how is 1357 not near 1500? It is over 90% of 1500 which would make it nearly doubleing their population.

Get me a list of tuition students and students that moved into Ft. Thomas upon entering high school and I will tell you. I guarantee you know of some. Why don't you let us know?

When they are division 1 or professional football players they become worth mentioning. They have an impact in the programs Sucess.

By a quick count off of the KHSAA enrollment report I counted fourteen schools with male enrollment in the 700's and 9 schools with enrollment in the 800's. I would say that makes a majority out of 32 teams.

Actually, you are wrong. I said nearly double. There are many schools in 6A with male enrollment in the 700's. If you have 1357, you are nearly double the size of schools in the 700's. You keep mentioning Scott County, Henderson, and Henry Clay. The fact is that most 6A schools are vastly smaller. As you just stated, Male for instance has far less than Scott County. Therefore, I fail to see how this is a misnomer.

Who has bashed X and T for being good? X and T haven't been bashed. Their attendance and financial aid policies have been questioned and the fact that they have nearly double the enrollment of most schools in their class has been questioned.

Just to name a couple of players off of top of my head, and this is in no way a complete list, Lorenzen, Scarlotto, Smith, Hamblin, and Bruns. Once again, this is in no way the complete list, but I am sure you know that. BTW, I think these players were all impact.

2 Hump, why are you invading fantasy land with facts? Before you know it, you will be seeing evil fairytale creatures. I just don't understand why people from Ft. Thomas fail to admit that out of town players make an impact on their football program. Its not like they are breaking a rule.

No, they accept tuition students.

School support and too many members of the community thinking they should have a say in the program are big negatives to this job.