Colonel 17

Here is the problem on the knee pads, Nike, Adidas, Under Armour all make the pants that short because of college and NFL. If a kid is over 5'8" it is hard for the pants to be long enough to cover the knee like the rule states. Most kids have to tug and stretch them to get the length to cover the knee totally.

this is one of the main reasons it is so hard to build a program. Unless you are in a place where the school has multiple teaching openings and you have guys willing to move. If you move to a different area of the state building a staff is gonna be a crap shoot. You are going to be hiring guys you don't know and then hoping it all works together, very underrated part of being an HC is being able to find guys and making it all work together.

Unless there is some issue not known to the public, this is a HUGE mistake on their part. Coach Marcum did a great job with that program.

This is never even looked at because it does not matter to central KY teams around Lexington, so it is never thought of, that if your school is on a border, you just lost 50% of the reasonable travel options you have.

this is why there needs to be adjustments to RPI and playoff selection should be done off of that instead of districts. There are places where you may have 3 top 10 teams in the state in a single district and other districts where the champion is .500. If the goal is to get the best teams in the playoffs, your location should not matter, try to get the best teams in. I'd vote to do away with districts totally if given the option.

District champ gets a bye, then use the rpi to select the equivalent number to equal 3 teams from each district. It reduces the number of teams, give district champs a perk for winning the district and still allows really strong districts to get teams in the playoffs while eliminating the really weak. You can still divide by east and west to help travel times for the first few rounds. Or as much as I hate to give this state credit, go the route of Ohio and get rid of districts all together, fix RPI and take the top however many teams you want and play at regional sites, good thing about KY there are a bunch built in you could use Morehead, EKU, Upike, Murray, WKU, UofL, Georgetown UK just as examples and if high schools want to host and have adequate facilities they can be used as well. This also allows struggling teams to build a schedule to improve and not worry about about the playoffs.

per the KHSAA the levels are to be checked at each site, not use a weather app or anything like that. Therefore, you could even have multiple sites on the same school campus that have different requirements based on a number of factors like surface, shade, elevation.

4th qtr was JV, varsity final 12-6 East win, LC scored on last varsity play

I don't care what your Daddy or Uncle says you run, your 4.5 is more like 5.2 for the majority of kids anything in the 4's is moving pretty good. Almost every team acts like they have 10 4.6 or under kids when they really will be lucky to have 10 kids in the 4's at all.

So you guys want to bash EKU for not recruiting the state, and now you want to bash them for over recruiting the state, sounds like you just like to complain. If a kid gets an offer and does not take it what is bad about that? If a kid does take an offer and they are not happy you can stop playing or transfer, its not like this is a hostage situation.

According to Dicky, Ashland should be undefeated all-time, if not for officials or the other team cheating.

Its not confusing at all, they are rankings done by one person. Teams play better and sometimes worse at different points of the season. Maybe after watching, they feel Boyd is playing better at this point than Ashland is, the last part is due to Ashland fans all seem to think the world revolves around the Tomcats and that everyone thinks about them and is out to get them. It is one person making rankings not that big of a deal.

maybe he just thinks Boyd is playing better right now, everyone does not spend all day trying to figure out ways to get the mighty Tomcats no matter what most fans think.

Don't say this often but Ohio does it right. Get rid of districts all together and let teams schedule on their own or join conferences if they want. Playoffs are determined by computer ranking. If you have a program that is 0-10, it allows you to schedule who you want and try to build a program. If you schedule a weak schedule you have no shot at a playoff but you may be able to end the season 6-5 and get the community and kids excited and build from there. If you think you have a team with a shot, schedule like it, get in the playoffs and prove it. No one gains anything from the 10-0 #1 team beating a 0-10 #4 seed 60-0 in the playoffs, not good for the winning team or losing team. Some districts today may have 3 or 4 teams in the top 10 in the state and because of district they get get eliminated early and teams from weak districts make region finals to get blown out because of weaker competition. You can keep the state divided east and west to keep travel from being insane for the first few rounds and fix the RPI and roll on. The RPI needs fixed on out of state games being worthless, If you are in the middle of the state, scheduling is not a problem, on the edges of the state you only have half the options to schedule because going out of state kills RPI. The other is playing teams in a lower class killing RPI, I think they have tried to fix this part but it makes no sense that a school can go beat a team like Pikeville and get less credit than beating an 0-10 6A school makes no sense, and I'm sure makes it very hard for them to schedule. Call Ohio get the blueprint from them and use it. To me it fixes the majority of the problems we are having.

that's where someone mentioned the advantages being population density more than just the $$$ numbers. Not saying I agree with it all but being in an area where kids are all within a short distance is a HUGE advantage to using the numbers you do have. If you are at a rural county school, you may have 1,000 kids in the school but if they live a 30 min drive away on a farm, you lose a bunch of those kids due to rides and getting back and forth. I don't know a way to fix the issue, its always been one of those things you just have to live with not being a city school but it would be nice if it was considered somehow rather than just pure enrollment.

I would say good shot Fleming and Lewis move to NE KY district, Ashland and Greenup move up it looks like, just leaving East Carter and Russell. Lewis and Fleming I would think would be the 2 to move that way.

Not arguing right or wrong, but I thought the KHSAA had a rule in place that if you transferred and were ruled ineligible and you transferred back, you were not eligible to go back to the school you came from.

While there would need to be room for future growth, 2,000 would be a lot of growth. If you go off current numbers the school would be under 1,500. 500 growth in Carter County would mean we have a big boom in population.

neither school is that big, East has around 700

At the youth level, have fun and develop all the kids you can. One of the best kids I have coached in high school came in as a freshman and we had no clue even what position the kid would play. He fit no where on the field. As a junior and senior he was one of the best kids in the region and played college ball. People get to focused on making sure kids are ready for the pros at age 7. Here's the thing you can cut kids in grade 3 and they are gone forever. I started playing in 5th grade, played high school and college and now coach. If you want to get the kids extra work that is 100% fine but don't worry about being the league champ in 10 year old league. Develop and send 20 kids onto 11 year old league and all the way up.

He coached at Boyd for at least a year when Damron was HC at Boyd. So I think he had coached at Putnam before.

Velez transferred back home to FIU I think it was, Allen moved positions to TE, and Cureton went back home, room was getting thin.

No where near enough info to make a decision in any of these situations. Background, district they play in, who have they played in the playoffs, school population changes, heck run of talent coming through all need considered when making this choice. If I am in a district with 2 top 5 teams in the state, one playoff win a year is a lot to ask for anyone to do. You can be a 7 win team that is around the top 10 and lose first round to the best in the state, you people say that guy should be fired, you are nuts.

New format protects teams in really weak districts and punishes teams in stronger ones. There are multiple districts that could win #1-4 against cross districts and all those teams go home early playing each other while weak teams survive. You will see more blowout games later in the playoffs this year when the "Champions" from a district play anyone else.

Football is different from baseball and basketball already. In both those sports you play districts the first two games, but the champ and runner-up move on to regional where they play the winner and runner-up from other districts. In football, one team moves on from each district, not a good set up