The Scribe

They are interviewing a couple on their staff and that appears to be the path they are taking. It's hard to take outside applications because of DoDea involvement. They want someone quick to keep the transition into spring practice and summer seamless.

Hard to argue those rankings other than maybe Crittenden County at No. 10. 2-6 in the region is interchangable.

Congrats @statman on the win. Who knew I needed to start Adrian Peterson over Derrick Henry to get the win.

Even though I'm rarely mentioned in the playoff stuff, the playoffs are my favorite time on here because of the work Godot does with the histories. Fantastic job as always.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of the GMs out there.

Fantastic finish and a fun game to watch although I think Bain got away with a double dribble when he split the Duke defenders at the top of the key. Regardless, kudos to the Lumberjacks and Mayfield High grad Ryan Ivey who is the AD at SFA.

I'm not sold on an RPI that ranked KCD higher than Trinity and Male throughout the season.

However, the mathups appear right. But can you imagine the atmosphere if Holy Cross was driving two miles down the road to play KCD and Paintsville was playing at Pikeville this weekend? Those would be two huge gates that would benefit each school.

I'm for any bracket that gets the War Hogs their long overdue first championship. In other words, I'm flaming out in the first game.

Stafford is hurt, and Derrick Henry is on bye. I'd say anything over 50 points this week is a moral win.

I was watching the app last night. I had Jason Myers, and sweet16 had the 49ers defense. Our lead changed hands three times in the final minute and overtime. Myers finally won it.

I don't blame you, I'd be pumped too.

 

I just like numbers and happened to notice that and thought it might rile a few of the less fortunate up a little haha! It's too quiet in here these days.

But yes. The schedule has worked in my favor this year. :dancingpa

Given my history of significant injuries to top players and usually having the most PA in the division year after year, any good luck is welcome by this franchise.

The one year I planned to move on from Kelly Stafford's husband, and he has me in first place.

Good stuff as always Godot. Thank you for your work

It's hard to play a cupcake schedule leading into district play. The best two teams beat them up. Hoptown outphysicaled them the last three quarters. Should be a fun rematch with either Madisonville or Hoptown in the playoffs.

Logan County's kicker/punter is a soccer player who had a soccer game.

Hopkinsville's defense held Logan to less than 20 yards rushing, and they had a freshman pick off three passes. I agree with the above. Hoptown's physicality was the difference. Hoptown can lock up the No. 1 seed at Madisonville next week. A Madisonville win means a three-way tie for first place.

Maybe. Or maybe the victim's family's compassion did. There is some sympathy for police officers in the Dallas area given what happened in 2016.

That's absolutely crazy. If you take away the whole police officer thing, and change the scenario to "person with concealed carry gets confused and walks into the wrong apartment, shoots and kills the apartment owner while they're sitting on their own couch watching TV", I struggle to see a jury only giving that person 10 years.

 

Then again, Larry Mahoney was only given 16 years for killing 27 people in the Carrollton bus crash. Only ended up serving 10 years. I can't even begin to comprehend that one.

 

The courts got the conviction right here, but man oh man did they ever get the sentence wrong.

She did not enter the apartment with the intent to kill him. You made the perfect comparison with Larry Mahoney. As tragic as it was, he didn't intend to drive his pickup truck into a church bus. If she had hit him while she was drunk and driving, 10 years would have been somewhat appropriate.

Now, can the feds go after her for a civil rights violation? Maybe.

But her lack of intent to kill when she entered the apartment factored in the sentence whether people like it or not.

You can't compare public scores to private scores. Very few, if any, private schools have special education concerns. They don't have busing problems. I mean, yeah. If I hand-picked the best basketball or baseball players within 50-miles of where I live, I would put up good numbers also. The same applies to education so throw out the public school v private school score comparison.

Compare the problems of Louisville to say a city the size of Shelbyville or Prospect. Infrastructure, solid waste, crime, etc. The problems are greater in Louisville because of size. The same thing applies to education. Look at the top scoring high schools and count how many of them are smaller schools.

Was training the cause? No. But everything wrong that happens isn't caused by just one thing. Did a lack of training contribute to the cause? Probably. Did her inability to process what was happening in the moment contribute to the cause? Probably. We don't know what her history was involving men or African-American men was? Was she scared of them? Did she have a bad history with them? Who knows? But if she did, that could have contributed. Could mental fatigue have been a factor? Maybe. But to say one thing caused this is unlikely. It was the culmination of several things, much like most things these days.

How did the Dallas PD hiring standards cause this?

But don't take my word for it.

Dallas City Council Plans Vote to Relax Police Hiring Standards to Bring On More Officers - NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Murray is overrated every year. I think District 4 is easily tougher.

If they want to help schools guarantee a balanced schedule that benefits more schools than it hurts, the KHSAA is going to have to do away with the current scheduling grid. It makes it too hard when every school is trying to find non-district opponents in the same six weeks. Let schools schedule district games anytime after the second week and anytime before the final two weeks. That's a seven-week window to schedule instead of the current four-week window.

-- Reduce the number of classes to five

-- Allow schools with an enrollment of 300 or less to play 8-man football. Any small school that wants to give football a trial run can use 8-man football to get their feet wet. You can't play both 8 and 11 man football

-- Get rid of the current scheduling grid required by schools and allow them to schedule district games after week two and before week nine (first two weeks and last two weeks). So many schools are hamstrung by the limitations that some really bad matchups occur as a result. You also have schools having to travel out of state to fill a 10-game schedule.

--Top three schools in each district advance to the post season. Regular season champs get a first round bye. They would play the winner of the third place team in their district and the second place team of the other district. Good teams aren't going to be bothered by a first round bye unless their bye week is week 11. That is an issue the new scheduling system would fix.

I agree with the above. Maddon cut his teeth in the Angels system under Scioscia. He is an American League manager at heart and like the Cubs did, they will throw a bunch of money in free agency to make sure it works out of the gate.

I like David Ross, but I get the same heebie jeebies like when Ryne Sandberg's name was mentioned several years ago -- no experience but the fans loved him as a Cub. The Cubs have only won with experienced managers. I just don't know.

Of course, if they don't get rid of 90% of the bullpen, Terry Francona couldn't win with them in 2020.

I think we are giving newspapers too much credit here. With all of their ownership changes and technology changes, I'm sure Nick Burns the company's new computer guy came in and cleaned house from the server and didn't realize that by pressing F10, he was deleting the files associated with Lit and the formulas.

Sad case and justice was metted out properly here. Unfortunately, we will see this more often with the lower standards police departments now have in the hiring process. It's a dangerous cycle for a profession very few want to now enter.