The Scribe

After Lyon County, the three best teams in the region are in the 8th District. Bateman is the second-best player in the region behind Perry. He proved that in the KY/IN Junior All-Star series over the summer.

Vienna had three starters coming back from a 29-win season. Good win for the Lyons.

Todd has improved its facilities. They have improved the feeder program. It wouldn't be a bad job for a coach who wants to build a program.

Reds have been playing with house money most of the season. At some point, the come-from-behind wins stop. The only way the Reds make the playoffs is by winning the Central. I don't see that happening.

On 6/28/2023 at 2:55 PM, WKY_Football said:

4th Annual Best of the West in Hopkinsville July 14 & 15th.

21 Teams currently I’ve been told. 

Kentucky Schools

Hopkinsville

Christian County

South Warren

Trigg County

Madisonville-North Hopkins

Hopkins County Central

Logan County

Paducah Tilghman

Doss

Muhlenberg County

Indiana

Gibson Southern 

Tennessee

Clarksville Kirkwood

Clarksville Northeast

Clarksville Northwest

Clarksville Academy

Clarksville Kenwood

Clarksville West Creek

Pearl Cohn

Nashville Maplewood

Whites Creek

Macon County

August 4 GRID at Muhlenberg County - Fulton County, Muhlenberg County and Trigg County

Hopkinsville at South Warren is Aug. 11 and not the 10th

Going back to the old format that eliminates the state first round. Boys tourney in 2024 will be Thursday and Friday. The girls' will be on Saturday. In 2025, the format flips with the gals wrestling on Thursday and the guys on Friday and Saturday. The state tournament returns to Alltech Arena in 2024.

Four classes. When Kentucky football was at its best. 

Marshall County should be able to challenge for the region title (as they should every year) with McCracken's losses. 

Congrats Deuce.

As someone late to the party, never, ever let anyone in her family stay with you longer than a weekend.

The move up to Class 3A has kicked Trigg in the tail.  One playoff win in 10 years.

The first thing they have to do is figure out the defensive philosophy.  They can't keep giving up 40 points a game to everyone and 60 points to Tilghman every year. 

The pieces are in place but the new coach needs to get the right people in the right positions

1 hour ago, gchs_uk9 said:

How does student allotment work with Christian County and Hopkinsville. Are there strict boundaries or open enrollment?

Yes.

There are boundaries but kids hop around quite a bit

Soccer team had one win.  Football team had one win. Basketball team had no wins.

Rough talent cycle going on right now. 

Steve Lovelace has resigned as Christian County head coach after 14 seasons, according to a tweet by YourSportsEdge.com.

Former boys' coach Fred Harper is on the staff as is former Caldwell County standout Matt Fraliex.  Those girls are getting coached and will be an improved bunch come March. 

Webster is now playing Murray on 9/11.  No trip to Jackson County. 

I agree with more training needed.  More psycological training.  Contempt of cop is a real problem.  Officers are taught in the academy that when you tell someone to put their hands up, they do.  What if they don't?  You scream louder.  Then what?  A lot of these police-related deaths begin with resisting arrest.  Yes, they shoudn't resist.  But they are.  Then what?  More training is needed on this.  How to handle the situation without an incident.  

The state pays $3,000 in KLEPF money each year in exchange for 40 hours of training.  The formula needs to change.  The more training you complete, the more KLEPF money you get.  40 hours gets you $1K.  80 hours gets you $2K.  You can add more to the amount but there needs to be a formula that encourages officers to complete more training.

I'm mixed on the military making better officers.  They tend to be better tactical officers but not as good in verbal judo or communication.  Communication and logic are the two things agencies should look at before anything else when hiring.

Police departments want more minority candidates.  They just aren't applying.  I know of one who became a police officer in the small town he grew up in and was immediately called an "Uncle Tom" by the Black community.  After a few years, he moved over to the state police so he could be assigned to a different county.  Minority hires in small/rural areas are rare because of the lack of applicants.

College degrees for police officers are overrated.  On the job training, communication, and logic trump a piece of paper.  

You can't leave a body camera on for the entire shift.  Cities are already paying through the teeth for hard drives to store their video.  The video has to be kept for a minimum of weeks, months, or even years.  But there has to be policy in place for when it is turned on and consequences if it isn't.  I have no problem with termination if the camera isn't on in a police-related shooting.  There has to be more teeth when it comes to body cameras not being on.

A lot of good police officers got out of the business after Ferguson because of a false narrative that was painted by the media.  It led to riots, injuries, and deaths.  The Justice Department ruled that "hands up don't shoot" was false.  The uproar over what was determined to be a "justified shooting" sent a lot of good, experienced, and qualified officers into retirement or other professions.  By the thousands.  Police departments lowered hiring standards to fill the gaps.  Some are paying for this now.

We ask the police in this nation to do too much.  They aren't mental health professionals.  They should not be anywhere near non-violent mental health warrants, transports, and evals.  There are some juvenile matters they don't need to be involved with such as truancy.  

Somewhere, our police went from being law officers to problem solvers. They are being sent to calls they shouldn't because adults are not capable of solving problems themselves.  Neighbor's dog takes a crap in your yard, the police are called instead of neighbors talking it over. Neighbor plays their music too loud, police get called. 10 year old kid won't get out of bed and go to school, police get called.  The list is long and getting longer.

The police have to get this figured out and figured out quick.  There are issues of trust. There are issues of training.  And there are issues of the police being told no.  Society has changed and not for the better.  Defiance is applauded. The court system is broken. The nation is divided.  Police training has not kept up.  

I have a lot of friends who live 100-200 miles from Louisville and nowhere Kenosha, Minneapolis, NYC, or Dallas.  They are getting out of the profession en masse and it's their communities that will suffer.  Who's going to fill their shoes?  Are we safer because of it?

I never cried until I had kids.  

Search committee will be put into place and applicants accepted far and wide.  Not a lot of love lost between Madisonville and Webster.  Newton making the jump would be interesting. Duvall, the girls' coach, is likely to see his name tossed around.  A wildcard could be Patrick Sparks. 

The target keeps moving.  First, youth sports guidelines set down in June didn't apply to the KHSAA, then they did.  Schools were going to be allowed to set their own restart guidelines until they weren't.  The KHSAA was able pass the guidelines they felt best for resumption of play until they likely won't.  The target keeps moving.  There has been one COVID death in Kentucky of someone under 30. One. That was an infant that the coroner said died of SIDS. Four counties [Jefferson, Kenton, Fayette, and Warren] account for 46-percent of all of the state's cases.  58 counties account for less than 10-percent, many under 1-percent.  The BOE vote was an obvious rural vs urban vote.  I think the education community and rural areas of the state are growing tired of the 'one size fits all' approach by the state. That may work for bars, gyms, and large venues.  But not all schools are the same.  Not all sports facilities are the same. I'm hoping some trust is put into schools and administrators Monday but I'm guessing we had better learn the details of Option #2. 

Last word was they formed a search committee and was taking applications from far and near.  Solid group of underclassmen returning so the cupboard is not bare. 

I read the title of the thread and thought 'that sums up my life perfectly.'

I am one of the most socially awkward people at funerals. I always ask family members "how are you doing?" or say "it's good to see you" before I realize what I'm saying.

There is no way of knowing a solid number on how many cases of COVID-19 have been prevented by social distancing guidelines put in place by states no more than knowing how many armed robberies were prevented by increasing police patrol in a certain area.

Maybe a couple tidbits of good news several college coaches seem to think their seasons will start on time and I noticed on KSR that UK is planning on having students on campus this fall so high schools may follow what colleges do.

High schools are more likely to follow what the pros do because there is no on-location housing issues in high school like in college.

A doctor told me this comparison. COVID-19 vs the flu is like a sprained ankle vs. a broken ankle. Same kind pain. Same area of pain. Same symptoms. Treatment is different. Level of seriousness is different. Treat a break like a sprain and it sets back the recovery time.