BigVMan23

Got word this week Anderson County will be playing in it.

I watched the video in the link. Hyperbole much? Guy was sort of annoying. Ok, it's cool...so far it's the fastest and those numbers are pretty eye opening. But lets be honest, it's nothing that one of the other Big 3 couldn't have done, IF they wanted to put the effort into doing it. It's a purpose built, factory sponsored hot rod that comes off the assembly line rather than somebody's garage. Impressive?:idunno: I tell you what would be impressive...build a car with all those same abilities...and have it get 45 mph on the highway. Now THAT would be impressive.

This has been coming, was just a matter of when. They have been struggling for a while now.

Heck, if you are going to list Rupp as a choice of "mecca" (and it isn't) then you have to AT LEAST include Pauley Pavilion and Cameron Indoor Stadium. And I bet both of those would get as many votes as Rupp, if not more.

Since this is a brand new school and will be first season playing athletics, I'm not sure that's a question that has an answer. However, since it will be a brand new school in Lexington with new facilities and will be garnering a lot of attention early on, I'd say it's probably more "high profile" right now than Mercer is. I'd say it's a very exciting opportunity for any coach.

Success for any coach is much more subjective to me, but many want it to be objective. So, whats the one objective evidence people can use? Wins and losses. I have seen basketball teams lose a lot of games...lets say a team goes 5-25 or some such. That team may have very little talent/ability but the coach gets everything from the kids and is able to put who he has in the best position to get what ability they do have out of them. Another coach might have all the talent in the world and goes 30-5, yet is in close games all the time and maybe loses a couple of games a year most think they shouldn't. Who's the better coach?:idunno: Give me a guy who interacts well with the kids and who the kids will run through brick walls for. Those coaches almost always get the best they can out of their players, and that's ALL anyone can ask.

As does the missing person case and presumed murder of Crystal Rodgers, the mysterious shooting death of her dad in a field just a few months ago, and the teacher and her daughter over 2 years ago. Here is an interesting article published in November. Death Stalks The 'Bourbon Capital' | The Huffington Post Anger, confusion and sadness ― and, from officials, silence ― have deepened the mystery surrounding a man’s recent death in Bardstown, Kentucky. The shooting death of the man, whose daughter is a missing person, is just the latest in a series of high-profile tragedies to plague this small town. Crystal Rogers, 35, went missing in July 2015. Her father, 54-year-old Tommy Ballard, was found dead in Bardstown on Nov. 18. Ballard died not far from where his daughter’s car had been found abandoned 18 months earlier. According to police, Ballard was shot in the chest while hunting and was pronounced dead at the scene. The Kentucky Standard reports that his death is being investigated as a possible homicide. “I was very lucky to have such a loving husband with a heart of gold,” Ballard’s widow, Sherry, told Louisville’s WAVE 3 News. “I do not feel like this was an accident.” Bardstown, a town of some 14,000 people located about 60 miles southwest of Lexington, advertises itself as a “great place to visit, live, work, raise a family and retire.” However, the self-described “Bourbon Capital of the World” has, in recent years, became more synonymous with death than whiskey. “Older residents here [are] wondering, ‘Who’s going to be killed next?’” Bardstown resident Buddy Gulden recently told Lexington’s LEX 18 News. Many in the community are wondering whether police will ever get to the bottom of what’s going on ― especially since one of the deaths involves a local police officer, and a former cop has been questioned in another case. The unsolved crimes have prompted some residents to display signs reading “Solve These Murders.” WDRB News @WDRBNews "Solve these murders" yard signs in Bardstown make a plea to solve the town's three cold cases: http://wdrb.news/2faZyye | @chrissutter “Do we really want signs between the sidewalk and the street, for how many years, saying ‘Let’s find Crystal’ or ‘Solve these murders’?” said Ann Rosalie Ballard, a member of the city’s code enforcement board, according to Louisville’s WDRB News. “I mean, that’s not what we really want everybody to see when they come.” Authorities say Jason Ellis was killed in a 2013 highway ambush. The first high-profile homicide to occur in recent years was on May 25, 2013, when Bardstown police Officer Jason Ellis, 33, was shot and killed on his way home from work. Ellis, a seven-year veteran of the department, completed his shift early that morning and was driving home when he stopped to clear a pile of debris near the Bluegrass Parkway. After exiting his vehicle, Ellis was shot multiple times in the torso, arms and face. Authorities later found a number of discarded shotgun shell casings at the scene. In the wake of Ellis’ death, Police Chief Rick McCubbin released a statement to the media, saying investigators believed the debris Ellis got out to move had been deliberately placed on the highway and the ambush-style slaying was intentional. Despite the involvement of state and federal authorities, investigators have been unable to determine who killed Ellis. Kathy Netherland, left, and her daughter, Samantha. Roughly 11 months later, on the evening of April 21, 2014, an unknown person or persons entered the home of 48-year-old Kathy Netherland and her 16-year-old daughter, Samantha, and killed them both. Netherland, a special education teacher at Bardstown Elementary School, was shot multiple times. Her daughter, a sophomore at Bardstown High School, was beaten about the head. Both victims reportedly had cuts to their necks. Authorities have yet to identify any suspects. Authorities believe Crystal Rogers was killed in July 2015. At the time of his death, Tommy Ballard was leading the charge for information in the disappearance of his daughter, a mother of five. Crystal Rogers was last seen at her Bardstown home on July 3, 2015, by her live-in boyfriend, Brooks Houck. According to the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office, Houck said Rogers had stayed up late on the night of her disappearance and that she was gone when he woke up the following morning. Houck waited two days to report Rogers missing, police said. Rogers’ vehicle, a maroon 2007 Chevy Impala, was found abandoned with a flat tire along Kentucky’s Bluegrass Parkway two days after she disappeared. Rogers’ keys, purse and cell phone were found inside the car. Carolyn Callahan @CarolynWLKY Poster on door of #Bardstown PD. #CrystalRogers is still missing. Authorities conducted multiple searches of the area where the vehicle was discovered, but reportedly failed to find any evidence connected to the case. Rogers’ family had already once been shaken by a mysterious disappearance. In 1979, Rogers’ aunt, Sherry Ballard Barnes, 19, disappeared from Bardstown. Her vehicle was found submerged in the Ohio River, but investigators initially found no sign of the teen. “They searched for years,” Rogers’ cousin, Andrew Ballard, told The Kentucky Standard. “She was pregnant.” Barnes’ remains, along with those of her unborn child, were found buried in a rural area three years after she went missing. According to The Associated Press, Barnes’ husband, Edsel, was arrested and ultimately convicted in 1984 of hiring a man to kill his estranged wife so he would not have to pay child support. Edsel Barnes was sentenced to life in prison. A 1984 news article about Sherry Ballard Barnes. When Rogers disappeared, family members told police it was out of character for her not to be in touch with them and that it would have been unusual for her to travel in the area where her vehicle was found. Brooks Houck’s brother Nick found himself in the spotlight in the months following Rogers’ disappearance. In October 2015, Nick was fired from the Bardstown Police Department after failing a polygraph test about Rogers’ disappearance. “You did not pass the test,” an FBI polygraph examiner tells Nick Houck in a police interrogation video released by investigators. “It’s pretty clear that you haven’t told me the complete truth, and the questions you are having problems with are questions about Crystal and, in particular, whether or not you know where she is right now.” Nick Houck denied being dishonest with the examiner and said he doubted the validity of the test. “I don’t give a damn what your damn computer said,” he tells the examiner in the video. “You’re calling me a damn liar [and] I don’t like it when people call me a liar.” At a press conference following Nick Houck’s termination from the police department, the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office named Brooks Houck — who has a 2-year-old son with Rogers — a suspect in her disappearance. Authorities also said they suspect his brother knows what happened to her. The sheriff’s office then acknowledged, for the first time, that authorities believe Rogers is dead. Despite the suspicions of law enforcement, neither Houck brother has been charged in connection with the case. An undated photo of Thomas Marvin Ballard. Ballard, unwilling to sit idly by, devoted countless hours and dollars to the search for his daughter. He had billboards put up with his daughter’s photo on them, and posted a sign near the Houck family farm that read “Brooks Houck where is Crystal Rogers?” Josh Breslow @JoshBreslowWKRN This sign has popped up near the Houck family farm searched this week in #CrystalRogers case. @WDRBNews With Ballard now dead, authorities have yet to say whether they suspect his death is connected to his daughter’s disappearance. They also have yet to comment on a fire that consumed a three-bedroom home owned by Brooks Houck five days after Ballard’s death. According to WAVE 3 News, police served a search warrant on the burned-out property. It’s unknown if anything of interest was found. Josh Breslow @JoshBreslowWKRN Community lines the streets of #Bardstown in support of Ballard family: | @WDRBNews Ballard was buried in Bardstown on Friday. During the funeral procession, people from the community lined the streets. Some held signs that read “Standing with the Ballards.” “Even if you didn’t know them, you would want to support them,” Nancy Gibson, who attended the procession, told Louisville’s WLKY News. “Just a tremendous loss to this community. The whole family is just wonderful people.” Many questions remain, and investigations into the town’s spate of unsolved crimes continue. Police have not commented on whether Ellis’ death, the Netherlands’ killings and Ballard’s death and Rogers’ disappearance might be in any way connected. “There are tons and tons of nervous people around this town right now,” said a family friend, who was so shaken by Ballard’s death that she asked WAVE 3 News not to identify her. “[We] don’t know... if there is a killer on the loose.” Anyone with information in any of these cases is asked to contact the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office at 502-348-1840 or the Kentucky State Police at 270-766-5078.

Why not? Why do some think football is "untouchable" while other sports can shorten, move, cut, etc.

Not to be off putting, but...do they? I mean even before the split they were no power house for sure and didn't seem to be consistently good/decent in much in recent memory. I'm not sure how after the split it can do anything but make at best an average situation worse. I they have talent there as you say walking the halls, why are the kids not playing?

Preach it Brother Purple!

After a relative down year last year, I think they can be better this upcoming year if they can find a qb.

Start the regular season a week earlier I say. Schools with a lot of basketball players also playing football might not like that idea, but...everybody can't like everything.

I watched a game at St. X's field 4-5 years ago. It's awfully nice.

As do I...coaches dream of kids playing that hard and focussed defensively.

You may have missed my post then, because I've said in these threads a couple of times already it's the best defensive team I have seen this year.

Not that I thought Scott couldn't win, but didn't think an outcome quite like this.

If Tobler and Ohmer are guarding each other, that might be quite the match to watch.

That's how the bigge gets his fix.

Smoking a 10 pound pork shoulder tonight, going to have some homemade pulled pork tomorrow.

Because you have thousands of people caught up in a mess not of their own making, but of both the Fed and their respective state government. Only seems fair.

Huge free throw disparity, just looking at stats seems to be a huge factor. What's the deal there? Lot of fouls late or did SC just foul a lot more during the game?

Jags couldn't hit open looks much of the night, shots just would not fall, especially early. That game could have gotten real ugly had they shot even decent. Though not the most exciting offensive team to watch...I have to say I really really like watching Cooper play defense. Oh how I wish I could get my teams to buy in and play that hard and tough on D.

My thought exactly. Some are saying though the reason is because some states are collapsing so fast under Obama care right now that something has to be done immediately. I say handle those states on a case by case basis and don't put anything new out till it's GOOD. Hey, I like a good steak, but don't give me rancid meat just because I'd really like a nice ribeye and am hungry. Prop me up with a soy burger for a while, that will do till the good meat gets here.

I'd pay to see that game. Oh wait, I DO HAVE to pay to see that game!

Dag gum it...brain fry early this morning, I didn't even notice that. Thanks for correction.