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Still unofficial at this point, but hearing the same from multiple sources. The phrase that is being repeated is "stepped down".

If you have a coach who understands spacing, angles, the importance of the outside shooter, the importance of defending the outside shooter (the number of 3s Ryle allows is staggering), the importance of developing a great JV program (not repeatedly telling the JV players that wins and losses don't matter), and the importance of doing everything possible to instill confidence in your top seven instead of playing musical chairs with that rotation starting early in the season, you'll have a coach who wins games. McFarland is one of the only coaches I have ever known who finds ways to kill the momentum of a run and loses games that shouldn't have been lost. Say all you want about the talent that walks the halls at Ryle, but if you have a hard look at the girls basketball program, the football program, and the baseball program, you have to wonder what is going on with the boys basketball program.

Then you really do believe that Cooper just got lucky with how the lines were drawn? Funny, I remember the McNeil family at Walton Verona at one point. Do you think that the move to Cooper was random?

The one thing that is missing on this thread is that Cooper, which was founded in 2008 and is just down the road from Ryle, split the attendance between the two schools. Theoretically, these schools are drawing from the same pool of talent in the district. Does anyone really believe that Cooper just got lucky with where the line was drawn? With that in mind, why do the records for the past five years look so different between these two schools? The idea that it is systemic may be correct, but it could easily be argued that what is systemic is the decision process for how Ryle's coaches are hired. The talent that runs through that system hits a brick wall at the JV level.

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