Colonel 17

Unless you live in or around Lex/Louisville or NKY charter buses become very difficult to afford. The bus companies start charging when they leave their shop, if you are 2 hours away you get charged for the 2 hours drive time and 150 miles for the bus to get to you and back after your trip. Depending how far you are away from the companies, a one day trip can get in the 4 to 5 thousand range for 1 bus, if you need 2, double that.

Believe what you want, it was not even muddy that night, sorry you only play on turf.

It had rained 3 days the week Lloyd played in Grayson, stop with that crap. And it was no where near what the weather was Friday.

EKU and WKU both seat 20,000+, Murray is at least 15,000. I think EKU or WKU can host it easily.

Its not just locker rooms, it's getting one game done, all the celebrations and both teams packed up and off the field, then the next teams getting set up and ready to go. It's a state title game, don't screw a team up off a normal schedule of pre-game, just so people can have a hot dog and watch the next game.

I liked when we only played 2 a day and played Fri, Sat, Sun. Then it changed to Thurs, Fri, Sat You have to have the gap between games to get teams in and out, also if people come for all the games it is nice to be able to go get food at some point during the day and not live off $7 bad hot dogs. Most people going to all the games, want to make a weekend out of it.

Only problem with Bowling Green is for Eastern KY its a long trip which hurts attendance, the event was better at WKU but the travel sucked. KHSAA will never move it from Lexington, they could move it to EKU and have a smaller venue with easier travel for most of the state would really be the only option. I think Georgetown would be too small.

Dropping out of the district is not a decision for most schools. It is really an option for the lowest achieving teams in the state, if you are debating on dropping from the district as a Coach, you are aware you have 0% of a team set up for success in the next few years. let's face it, most people in the state don't have a clue about any other school. If we win games people are happy and you get more people excited, if you lose, interest from kids and the community die with it. The state has made it very difficult for schools to drop. With our schedule having certain weeks that all district games are played, if you are nondistrict, you only have out-of-state teams or others who have dropped to play so it is difficult to schedule. To me, the answer is go with the Ohio model, if you think you have a team that can compete, schedule for it. If you know you can't schedule some games you think are competitive, end the year 6-4 and try to get more kids and excitement and try to build for the future, not all schools have the resources to compete for state titles.

Short version of the situation. Very late, right before the season started they decided to create a 4th class for football. All games had already been long scheduled. They set their playoffs by computer ranking similar to RPI. Where the fight has started is how to calculate games. Example a game was scheduled as a 3a vs 3a school, at the last second the state changes one team to 4a, does that count as two teams playing in the same class, or one team playing a class up? The state decided one way to count it and the playoffs were set, some of the schools that were left out because of this technicality went to court, the court changed the playoffs, when they changed it, it knocked other schools out of the playoffs, now they have gone to court saying they should be in and two different judges have ruled in favor of both groups. So now they have to wait on the courts to decide what to do because the state screwed everything up big time. Its a complete mess.

Yes, there were, I know Pendleton County dropped out in 3A for sure,

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.