Green guy

Please give the latest Cantrall link. I couldn't find the complete rankings online. Thanks.

Snottie, I can see that your brain is wired like mine ... weird. Thanks!

Clyde, for all 4 values, does your statement about Def "higher the positive number the better" apply. I hope so, makes it simpler. And thanks for your response.

As long as I have been reading the USA Today computing rankings, I cannot figure out how to interpret the measures in the 4 columns: sched strength, power rating, offense, defense. Can anyone help? Does a higher value mean better? These are the cpu ratings from today. № School WL SOS POW OFF DEF 01 TRINITY 12-1 32 28 81 17 02 FERN CREEK 12-1 29 26 83 13 03 CHRISTIAN CO 11-1 27 23 84 11 04 COVCATH 11-3 29 27 76 20 05 BALLARD 8-2 28 28 87 9

Do you guys know anything about tuition assistance at the privates? You're talking garbage. You have no data, only fifth-hand baloney. Do some research and don't respond until you do. I'm talking chapter and verse.

There are a bunch of >90 games in Trinity's history but these 3 are in Coach Szabo's tenure. If you'd like all those 90 & + games, which go back close to Trinity's origins, I will be happy to post them.

Very. I'll go with >91 pts: Date OPPONENT WL THS OPP ∆ 27-Dec-15 Lawrence Co. W 92 82 10 10-Feb-12 Lafayette W 99 41 58 3-Feb-12 Daviess Co W 91 36 55

The CC Crazies are nuts compared to St. X kids when there is no barrier between the X seats and the floor. Or St. X just might reserve the crazy for Trinity. This is a highlight video of St. X & Trinity playing for the 7th Region title in 2012 at Bellarmine. Whole video is good but ff to 2:35 to see X's "restrained" crazy. Trinity surrounds its student section with faculty & administrators whether home or away. At Sweet 16 games it's hilarious to see the real or rental cops around the Trinity student section plus 6 or more faculty, coaches from other sports, & administrators. I'll never forget the 2012 title game between Trinity & Scott Co. Look at Trinity's students ~ cops, Rupp ushers, & Trinity officials everywhere. Look at Scott Co. ~ maybe a teacher or two, but those kids were exceptionally well behaved, vocal but, dare I say?, acting like grownups. One detail: Trinity hires the off-duty or rental cops. Same for football at home, but I think just school officials when the football team travels. I agree with whoever said the CovCath situation is a serious problem waiting to happen. But let's not wait ~ be vocal but be vocal in the stands. That's all. Allowing fans to be so close to inbounders is irresponsible. Hard to believe any school would allow it. Hard to believe ANY parents would tolerate their son acting like that.

Your wording is ok with me. I'm thinking what kind of message does this send students, not just the athletes. Whatever the logic behind the PSJC decision, the decision itself is absurd. Thus, if the school system does not raise funds for everybody, school boosters have to act on their own. So they act on their own then are told by the Board forget about it? And if an alum wants to give back to their school, wow, isn't that the message we try to instill in the kids, to think of those who follow you? Do for them what was done ~ or not done ~ for you? Another issue, maybe the biggest: we are not talking about turfing just football fields but a field that all the school's teams + PE classes + community teams can play on. Ryle's field happened through the generosity of the Borland Trust (Mr. Borland revived Newport Steel). Admittedly, a family member played a field sport there but it took that connection to jog awareness. The rest of the money was raised by the parents & supporters. In many fund drives, big donors premise their gift on a show of support from other stakeholders. Why must the enthusiasm of one school's boosters be rejected because other schools' supporters are quite happy with their children running around on bad fields blowing out their knees & slipping on their backs

Frosh Rocks (aka The Pebbles) have a pretty good schedule too. Freshman Football Schedule Highlands, Nashville Brentwood Academy, Male, Central, St. X, Cincinnati Moeller, plus the other Louisville schools--excellent competition. The Young Rocks will be ready. 22-Aug Sa 11.00a Highlands THS 29-Aug Sa 12.30p Brentwood Academy THS 10-Sep Th 5.30p Male THS 17-Sep Th 5.30p PRP PRP 19-Sep Sa tba Central Central 1-Oct Th 5.30p St. X St. X 10-Oct Sa 12.00p DeSales Fairdale 10/115 Th 5.30p Seneca Seneca 22-Oct Th 5.30p Ballard THS 31-Oct Sa 11.00a Moeller THS

71 as of today, 1-Aug Freshman Football

I was pleasantly but firmly corrected at the 2012 Sweet 16 by a George Rogers Clark mom that it is just that, George Rogers Clark High School, NOT Clark County.

For longitudinal records 2003-14, click calpreps.com & scroll down to end for the 2 DYNASTY links. You get plenty of tables: for the US, for KY, & for any other state. You also want to go to the High School Football dynasty compilation here: De La Salle leads Dynasty Compilation - NationalHSFootball.com But it doesn't help us much: the compilation is national. Of the 500 teams, there are only 4 KY representatives: #20 Trinity; #135 Highlands, #154 St. Xavier, #356 Bowling Green. But the calpreps link is loaded with stuff: columns for every team in KY including its W-L record, district W-L, class W-L, KY W-L, W-L against top-1000 teams, W-L against top 7000 teams, & the W-L records of opponents. Plus each team's power rating & schedule strength rating. PR & SoS are averages over the 2003-14 span but the W-L records are aggregates of those 14 years. You of course can sort KY teams into the 6 classes & other things. What I did with the material is compute W%'s for all the W-L columns. If anybody is interested, I could either attach my calculations to a post here, if that can be done, or send it as an email attachment to a person who asked via BGP private mail. It's a mass of data anyway you shake it.

I hesitate about some of the criteria: "Contribution outside of W's & L's are factored in. Head Coach prestige, D-1 players, NFL players, & competing on the Regional or National level all are factors." The D-1 & NFL thing really bothers me. How many kids with D-1 talent are happy just playing for the high school and town but then moving on? I know a dozen right off in the last 15 years just from 1 team (& that includes coach-announcers saying this kid has to have a lot of majors after him). I think we all do. They want to play for their school & that's it. Plus, and this is a big one, a great h/s athlete simply may not grow physically to compete at higher levels. How many of us were pretty good but peaked at 18? I see a few hands out there in the audience. Re competing against region and/or national powers, I feel queasy about this one too. (1) Location may work against you. We have enough trouble in Kentucky with a team having to spend 4-5 hrs on a school bus for a playoff game … then another 4-5 home. And I repeat – a school bus, noisy, rough-riding, lousy seats/back support, no seat belts, bad ventilation … (2) The school may not have enough of a budget and/or booster support to pull it off. (3) A good team may be from a poor area & is lucky to have uniforms & a halfway decent field & flimsy stands. We are talking about high school athletics. It’s really cool to go play a well-known team but some competitive teams simply might not have the respect, resources, & wherewithal. So the criteria automatically exclude some worthy teams, don’t they? I would say keep it to highly competitive W-L records in regular season & playoffs as well as the standing of the head coach. But that standing ought to be based on a real foundation, like being a true role model whom the guys love, then imaginative practices, game planning, & mid-game adjustments, not to mention O & D styles, & maybe most important, building a good team around the players’ talents as well as turning a bunch of not-so-talented players into wild & crazy overachievers.

Responses after each statement GREEN GUY: “I think the key to having a competitive program at any level is the degree that the head coach sets strict guidelines on everything & enforces them. If the coach controls the team, does not tolerate academic or behavioral lapses or a rowdy locker room, guarantees nobody anything they can’t earn in practice, & assembles a quality staff, look for good results and happy fans.” GG: “That makes numerical logic but who amongst has not seen a big squad with lots of quality players NOT platoon? One ex-coach in Louisville probably cost his school 2 state titles in the last 13 years by playing his best players, even the QB, both ways, when there were at least another 12 players he could groom. His two potential championship teams lost both of the playoff games in the fourth quarter to less-talented but smarter-coached teams that let as many talented kids as possible play in one setting or another (kickoffs, extra-point team, punt receiving team, etc.). I speak vaguely because these are interpretations & the coach did win 2 or 3 titles with his non-platoon system. On the other side, one prominent coach with a big squad trains players to play 2 or 3 O/D positions & may have up to 5 or more going both ways. Conditioning is the key here, I feel.” GG: “Money? I am not sure what you mean? We have few rich schools in this state.” Kids? Talent pool? Platooning? GG: “Indeed. But the number of popular sports available in each season does. For various reasons a multi-talented student may play only one or two sports: the student needs to spend more time on academics than that darn guy who plays 3 sports, is student body prez, & maintains a high GPA in an honors program; the student’s family may not be able to afford the equipment in multiple sports; the student may like to divide time between a sport & community service; the student needs to work to get his spending money; the student may be banged up from one sport. But go back to the available popular sports. Say a school has 1300 males with the choice of 12 KHSAA sports & 6 or more club sports. Also realize a student may concentrate on the sport that gives him the best chance of a college scholarship even if it may not be a local glamour sport.”