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1 hour ago, CCHFC said:

Definitely traits over production. I think in general:

5-Star - Elite size/speed and production or a true outlier athlete (Think of Darnell Washington being rated over Mayer lol)

4-Star - Usually elite production but slightly smaller and slower than the 5 stars. Or slightly more raw as a player, but great size/speed. 

3- Star - Either a "project type" with elite size/speed or someone with elite production that is just smaller and/or slower. For your guy Hayden, I think he ends up here with how well he throws it and his production. A MAC or high FCS level player imo. 

For example, if Austin Alexander with his tape was 6'5/255 and a step faster instead of 6'3/245, I think he's a 5 star. If Quisenberry was 6'/190 instead of 5'9/160, he's a borderline 5 star instead of a 3 star. 

 

No doubt if Quisenberry were 6 foot 190 lbs he would 5 star.

I think Adair is #1 by a pretty good distance. LaRue, Caverna, and Green seem to all be neck and neck. North, Central, and Etown could get some guys in to lift them. The wildcard is Taylor County and who they end up hiring. If it's Gatewood I'm sure he isn't coming solo.

If Coach Irvin was pushed out I would assume they knew they had Gatewood locked up imo.

I would think Russellville would mutually agree not to play that game IMO.

I always thought the Russell County job had/has potential. Being the only school in the city/county is a positive as it is much easier to get things done. However, Russell County district  with Boyle, Taylor, Wayne, and Lincoln is rough. If you do beat 3 of the 4 you get Corbin first round of playoffs.

16 hours ago, WishboneCity said:

This team should be just as good as last season. If the RPI works out in their favor, I could easily see them on Kroger Field. 

I agree have to avoid Pikeville in Semifinals, and I believe they make the championship.

Washington/ Adair and the Larue/Etown will be very good 1st round matchups.

20 hours ago, ACfan4 said:

It is really crazy to think about that Central Hardin has yet to make a state tournament being a school with 1900 students.

I thought the same thing. 

35 minutes ago, BobbyKnight said:

Maybe the KHSAA Should mandate a fall break / open week for ALL teams/schools ? It also may help with Officials,  since there is a shortage of them as well. 

With schools have different fall breaks and with scheduling not sure that would be possible.

16 minutes ago, okie1 said:

I just looked...they played Boyle Co the week after their open week (Fall Break)...now we know, had they practiced, they surely would have beaten Boyle by a couple of TD's!

Without question!!!

I think the issue is players' families going on vacation during fall break. As a coach do you practice with 10-20 kids showing up? What do you get out of a practice with over half your team not there?

As Coach Preston said I have no dog in this fight. I just think that is silly to hold against him because it is common practice in very successful programs. I would guess 3/4 of coaches try to get the open week and fall break the same week.

3 hours ago, Breds82 said:

I would agree that taking a week off, during the season, is a very bad look. You guys can't say you'd be ok with your HCs leaving the program in the hands of his assistants.

Did they have a game that week?

I know several schools that take fall break week off if they don't have a game. 

Adair has been the best team in the Region so far IMO. Larue started 2-4 but since then has been very impressive. Will be a barn burner in Russell County.

35-21 Cviile. 

4 hours ago, Tkinslow said:

The combined record of LC’s opponents is 18-3. I guess that gets you 0-5.

When it's all said and done LaRue will probably have top 5 toughest schedule in 3A.

FS by 21

22 hours ago, theguru said:

Thanks for doing the heavy lifting VoR.  I agree Boyle could have but I think it would have been highly unlikely.  And the only thing I will add is that Boyle won a very close game over Corbin to win the 4A title which doesn't exactly say to me Boyle could or would have won 6A.

 

To me FD was the best team in the state last year.

I know it was early in the season but BE did lose to Spencer County. And Boyle´s win over BG was close to say margin as FD beat them by. I know comparing scores gets iffy at best. Not saying Boyle could win 6A but I believe they would be in the mix. And a yeah then the big 3 of X,T, and Male were not a dominated as in recent years.

25 minutes ago, theguru said:

I am going to say no on winning 6A.

You don´t think Boyle could have won 6A this past year?

20 hours ago, DearToday said:

An example of that would be Boyle just went on a 3 peat and was playing up the whole time. Should’ve been 3A the last alignment. Top of page 3 from the link. 
 

https://khsaa.org/football/realignment/2019-2022/football alignment 2019 enrollments original.pdf

Boyle County was one of the teams that came to mind when I was talking about a team winning multiple championships. Boyle could play up to 6A and be a factor or even win it.

11 hours ago, Westernside said:

Some schools do play up to Challenge themselves, but most schools play up to get into a weaker district. In my opinion.

Unless your a team whose won multiple titles I can not buy your playing up to challenge yourself. Now I could buy some guys playing up for travel purposes. If you have schools within an hour drive in the same classification no need to move up IMO.

Great research, I admit I never look very closely at the logo. I do remember when they used EKU logo, I knew they switched a few times. 

Is there a process that a school must go through to switch a logo?

I would think Trigg would fight with Union for the district championship.

2 hours ago, Tkinslow said:

I’m 50 and they’ve used it as long as I can remember.

I can remember back to the mid-90´s and Caverna has always used that logo.

Very tough schedule I would say 7-3 would be an excellent season. I would have loved for them to be playing Campbellsville as well.

On 2/20/2023 at 1:42 PM, colonel-fan said:

To answer the question, it absolutely devalues out of state wins against  strong competition. Discourages teams from seeking out strong out of state opponents. 

But on the other hand it values weaker out of state competition though. The best team from Texas and the worse team from  Maine have the same RPI rating. So it actually helps the low level teams, who play bad teams it gives them a solid RPI boast.

16 minutes ago, Hearsay said:

The Tigers will return 7 of 11 on offense, including 4 of 5 offensive lineman, and 8 of 11 on defense, including the entirety of a good linebacking corps (rising-juniors FB/LB Kaden Stone, and All-State Championship LB Caden Ferrell are two names that should be on your watch list).  We are pretty close to having full platoon.  In addition, during the injury pandemic the Tigers suffered, several reserve personnel got critical game experience and performed well.  Practices will be iron sharpening iron.  There are good numbers and pretty good talent coming up to the freshmen class.  The offseason early morning and evening workouts have had the best participation numbers in my 30 years watching this school.  Morale is high, I repeat, morale is high.  Kids want to play for the Tigers again.

We have to replace a QB, and that is likely to be rising-junior Amonti Marshall. Amonti does not have the polish throwing the ball that Brayden Clark had, but is a tremendous athlete.  Is it a downgrade?  As always, much depends upon the system Coach Clark installs to cater to personnel strengths and the performance of those around him.

CAL and Central can and do take players from all over Louisville, and beyond.  We can't and don't.  50 of our 53 man roster last year played middle school football for Bardstown Middle School.  We have 4 high schools in a county of 45,000 residents.  The district was a factor, but the bigger picture is being in a district with teams that are like us and where there is a level-playing field.  let's ask E-Town in two years how they feel about their district.  It does no good to speculate about cross-districting or 4th round play if you can't make it out of your own district.  I think Coach Clark made the right move, but if it turns out to bite us in the rear than he is the type of guy who will own it.  In the end, he's the one paid to make the tough calls, not us.

I was shocked Etown elected to play down.

Once Central made it known they planned to stay in 3A Bardstown had their mind made up. Yes that 4A district 1 is good, but I don't believe they are better year in and year out that CAL or Central.