Big sale

Any interest in tonight's District match ups? Boone Co, Highlands, NCC, Campbell Co, Brossart, Cooper, Conner, and Ryle all playing tonight.

I've seen this strategy in other sports. Kids who aren't good enough to start/play at school A go to school B for a chance to start/play. Problem is, they still aren't better players than kids at school A. I don't know how you build a winning program that way.

NCC called timeout leading 34-0, with the ball, with :30 before halftime?? Did that actually happen?

I understand all that - but Scott still has 2 losses to them. It's not like those losses didn't count, they still played volleyball - even though it wasn't the official district game. Should be a battle. I think Camels take it.

Scott 1-2 vs CC with only win going the distance to 5 sets. I would think CC could make a case for top seed. But, Scott does have some nice wins too - SK and Beechwood come to mind. But here's the thing - Scott's schedule got really soft it's last 7 games - Ludlow, Calvary, and Silver Grove for example vs CC playing ND, Cooper, Beechwood, and Ryle all in a row. Sure CC lost all 4, but who's better prepared come tourney time? Records can fool you.

I guess they must have, but Camp Co has a better District record than Scott if that matters.

Case for always having seeded Districts - Bross/Camp Co play each other first round, loser out. Both should have faced off for District title and both would have contended for Regional title. Whoever wins showdown will likely be Region 10 winner, too bad it's coming this early.

Possible Region 9 playoff preview.

So it's the fault of the sport and out of the coaches' hands? And your post game speech to the team that lost would be "well, you chose to play a dumb sport with stupid rules, and this is what happens".

Those 2 statements would appear to be in conflict with each other. In soccer 1 goal is like a TD in football. 18-0 in soccer is like winning a football game 126-0. Nobody would allow that to happen in a football game, and it shouldn't' have happened here.

If the rule is 10, then why are there final scores of 18-0 and 15-0?

RIP sportsmanship. I'm sure Sacred Heart did "everything they could" to avoid running up the score...

Mercy is actually 29-1. They lost to Assumption.

The current government is not worth having either, but I still get a vote!

I saw on ND volleyball website district schedule is already posted.

Seriously? was this game really worth having a "who will win poll" ? Brossart is in way over their heads on this one and everyone knows it. Nobody is going to put up 100, nobody is getting the plague. Play the game, run the clock, go home.

I was referring to the depth of the NCC/Highlands rivalry, that regardless of the records, those 2 schools savor each win against each other. I don't know what ND has to do with that, or this thread.

I agree with that. They have the most deceiving record because of the tough schedule they play (kind of like their football team). And ending with Ryle, #1 in the country Mercy, and SK will probably make their record even worse heading into playoffs.

A 10-11 team beating a 10-19 team is satisfying?

You know how whenever someone says "now is not the time for I told you so, but..." it's always actually the perfect time to say that? --that's kind of where I'm at right now.

Huge rivalry/showdown night in NKY volleyball. I think Brossart gets 1 set off of NCC but that's it - NCC wins going away 3-1. In St. Henry vs Ryle, Ryle has been my team all year - it's time to put up or shut up. I think this goes to 5 and Ryle pulls it out - but it will be close.

Which ones do you feel the Jags are capable of defeating? I assume you are referring to ND since they are the defending 9th champs and currently the highest ranked 9th team. ND beat Cooper at Cooper 25-14, 25-8 and that was with ND's First Team All-State middle sitting out hurt. Jags could beat Holy Cross or Villa - both are private but hardly "pedestal" teams.

Actually, National powerhouses - both ranked in top 20 in both national rankings - MaxPreps and Prepvolleyball. Mercy ranked #1 in both, I think I saw ND is low teens in both? I'm sure there are those of you who scoff at the National rankings. Those national people see way more high level volleyball around the country than the in-state coaches filling out the coaches polls. Most in-state coaches filling out the polls haven't seen and may never see the teams they are asked to rank (no fault of theirs)- so they naturally default to the W-L record or reputation. These National guys are at the games - I'm going to trust what they say more than someone who hasn't been there.

As the one who beat the dead horse on this, in the long run this is the best thing for the school. I'm glad someone or something stopped this.

Called in to whom? It's 3:45pm the day after..follow the @nkyskinner tweets to the Thursday results scoreboard - if they don't have them by now, they aren't gonna have them. You know the competing sites who do have the correct scores as well as I do. They all seem to manage to post scores the night of. If the Enquirer is waiting for a rotary dial phone call from each school, then enjoy waiting by the phone and watching Murder She Wrote reruns.