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Spoke to him personally about it a time or 2 and there was a time he would have taken the job. A chance to coach at his alma mater!! Are you kidding me?? Every coach would jump at the chance not to mention the continuous stream of athletes that come thru Holmes! With that said I know he's happy at Cooper never suggested he wasn't .

Final from Wednesday night.

No intent to harm and not real sure how it's harmful?

Best athlete on the floor last night!!! And yes there is not a kid on the team who knows or cares how successful Listerman was at his previous stop!! This job should have went to Timmy Sullivan! IMO And Brolley has transferred to Dixie.

Chances are you know Mr. Steidel and probably know he was getting on the refs during the game but in no way shape or form belligerent to the extreme this thread played it out. He is a passionate AD and travels to most of the girls games wherever they may be in the state and supports them fully! I think more girls teams out there would love the same kind of support and passion he shows on a regular basis!! He has shown he doesn't need Title 9 to dictate how much support he throws to the Female athletes at Holmes!

Is this the Eastern that played Ryle at Shelby County Last Saturday???

I just don't think you are giving some of these young ladies enough credit!

Who referenced JV Girls basketball??? And yes there are plenty of girls who can pull this off!! Probably not going to see any of these moves executed properly in a girls jv game because they are advanced moves and any girl who could execute them properly probably plays varsity!

My point was that girls are capable of making these plays correctly but officials seem to be surprised by them and call travels 9 times out of 10!!

68 pts. is pretty good for a half!! Oh wait that was the final score?? I'm only teasing!!

I hate travel calls on euro steps, pull over layups and spin moves that are not actual travels!!! Yes girls can pull these off!!

I'm sure at some point the Lady Dawgs will get some credit for their performance on the floor!! This is a little silly to make such a stink of the coaches and administrators getting on refs when in fact we ALL do it from time to time!! It's not like either were T'D up and Perkins was only warned the once and that's perfectly in his rights... I once just recently heard about another NKY coach at a high profile school getting 3 T's in one game and have barely heard a peep about it!! So my only issue with this opinion is that there seems to be some animosity towards the Lady Dawgs and coaching staff!! The girls have won a couple tough road games yhe last couple of weekends and have played pretty good D doing so and maybe it's time to take notice of that!!!

Huh??

The story of this game is the mental toughness of Asyah Mitchell as a freshman and her toughness as a player!! Wasn't in the game offensively in the sense that she was scoring tons of points but she was asked to run point and control the offense while Held was hurt. She was banging down low getting position on the bigs even Neace grabbing strong defensive rebounds and playing strong D taking 3 charges and was able to play with four fouls. Despite the turnovers that she had she stared down that inbound pass with 5+ seconds to go and took it the length of the court and took the most confident attempt at a buzzer beater you ever wanted to see!!! Way to go Asyah I admire the way you play the game and your toughness!!!! One proud uncle right here!!!

True story

Final from Shelby County

I'm going to see if I can get you a copy of the game tape RC. I'm no longer sure your upset about this as much as you are that it's even possible!

The first half played out as any other game yes a lot of turnovers created but it was played in both half court sets, transition and shots from the field and free throws!! Taft's girls were nothing if fast as well only made the pace of the game that much faster and fed the score as well!!

Yes 8 3's!! Six in the first half by the starters and a couple in the second half by 1 jv starter and a jv reserve both freshman. It's fair to say that as inept as Taft was on offense this game or first half in question wasn't just played under Holmes basket!!

and this assumption that the game was all layups is confusing considering the girls hit 8 3' s counting for almost a quarter of the points plus I don't know how many free throws??

That can happen at any time even practice see Alex Poythress!! Should they not practice hard as well??

THAT Highlands team was coached by Legendary Dale Mueller and in an article on the game was quoted as saying"I don't think we can get any better. " The halftime score was 53-0 and Highlands went on to score 28 second half points. Some of those points came from the arm of Gino Guidugli in the second half! That game was published in the enquirer and was celebrated for Gino throwing 8 td's I was at the game and had custody of my wife's cousin James Jackson who went on to play football at Louisville and Murray State and not one time did I hear a parent from Holmes question his tactic or class. I'm really starting to think this is more a Holmes bashing more than a moral soapbox to stand on for some! The GRC strategy really put Holmes out of their flow and at worst and I don't know this to be true because I don't pester the coach... This game in the first half was to get his girls back on track and run and yes he held them back even in the first half!!! If another team struggled with ball handling and believe me that was the fundamental lacking what were the girls to do??? Coach Perkins didn't owe it to Taft to play with one hand behind his back he owed to his girls to get them back on track!! Holmes travels to Shelby County today and then Johnson Central next weekend for a Holiday tournament and then something really extraordinary!!! He is taking the girls to Florida to play in a Holiday tournament in Fort Meyers! For some of these inner city girls that some parents (not all because there are involved parents) have yet to see their daughter's play for whatever reason, where the coaching staff is the only form of transportation for some to and from practice and this will be the only opportunity for some of those girls to even see a beach in person for some it may be the only opportunity to get out of Covington they may have in life! Well I am going to say it shame on you all for bashing him when you don't know the whole story or his motives he is a good coach and a good man!! No other school in Northern Kentucky offers the same challenges Holmes does with exceptions to Newport but in my opinion that only makes success that much sweeter for some and for outsiders well we insiders see it's bitter and what's fair for some isn't fair for others!

Not all layups this game actually involved Holmes getting defensive rebounds, pushing the tempo, executing half court offense and yes points in transition?? But I have to ask why this gets your blood pressure up RC when I've shown examples of your Bluebirds walking all over my Dawgs? albeit a different sport. But you have not taken a stronger stance on a Girls high school coach at an all girls school exhibiting the type of behavior that warrants 3 T's ?? ( Didn't even know this was possible) But shame on coach Perkins and Holmes Lady Dawgs! !!

And that's the point I was trying to make!! IF your going to beat me do it at your best I would never want or expect anyone to hand me anything or take it easy on me out of pity!! Sports have taught me that!!

I never said I liked it or agreed with it but that's life!! It's not always fair and some days are tougher than others that's the beauty of sports it teaches us life lessons!!! You win some and you lose some!!