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Good luck getting basketball coaches to agree with that. As it stands right now, according to KHSAA Bylaw 23 Limitations of Seasons, noncontact interscholastic simulations (aka 7on7) can't start until July 10th. Also, Bylaw 24 Section 2 has specifics for football and basketball. Basically: June is for summer round ball, July is for football, signed KHSAA.

What a great problem to have!

A booster club should not have a say in hiring the next coach, imo. Think of who provides the oversight and accountability to that teacher/coach: the principal and the AD. The only people who matter are the people who the teacher/coach will report to. The superintendent should not even be involved unless the football coach reports directly to him. The rest are just distractions and embolden people (or worse, enrage people) to think they are more important to the program than they really are. If your coach is evaluated and held accountable by the boosters, then your boosters have exceeded their purpose and mandate. Coaches coach, boosters boost.

I have heard on multiple occasions of kids not playing football because they live 30 minutes down a backroad and there is no one able (or willing) to take them home in the absence of school transportation. Couple population density with economic prospects. If mom and dad work in another county or work 3rd shift, who is there to take care of the that kid or younger siblings. Some kids lose out on all sorts of extracurriculars in low income, low density, rural communities. My brother in law coaches in Ohio and he says to me all the time: I have no idea how you even have football given your resources, lack of levies, and drive times.

By your metric, PC has 3 unwinnable games in district and BC has 2 unwinnable games in district (even though those games still have to be played). The difference I submit is that PC has the opportunity to schedule 7 other opponents of whatever competition level they choose for the program. Whereas BC only has 5 opportunities to choose their opponents. All I'm saying is that if the four team district makes it an easier pill to swallow due to the freedom to schedule other games. Conversely, being in a six team district does the opposite, and forces BC to win at least 2 district games to make the playoffs now with only 5 games of freedom to schedule. For the record, I'm in favor of making each district at least 5 teams so that you must win to get in, in all classes. However, you don't look a gift horse in the mouth, And PC has been in 6 and 5 team districts respectively the last 2 alignments. I would submit that BC has no tougher a situation than PC, but time will tell. And yes, Pendleton goes to Brooksville for Game 1 in '23.

There are seven more opportunities to compete during the season and an automatic trip to the playoffs given the 4 team district. Dropping the district only adds three more weeks to freely schedule during weeks that it is already difficult to schedule anyways, and guarantees they won't play postseason. Out of curiosity, why do you believe dropping district games is the better choice? And is the beechwood situation with bracken any different?

Look no further than the use of the TE position. Prime example. Went away for a while, now every offense in the NFL has 3 of them.

That would make things very interesting indeed. Remember Lloyd would be in with Pendleton, that is apparent. If Bracken is not offered the chance to fall down to 1A, moving up to 3A would avoid the Beechwood body blows and make a potential for this district: Bracken, Lloyd, Pendleton, Fleming and Lewis. It appears Powell will be playing south in some other district. The other additions to consider would be Russell, Bath and Bourbon and how they relate to teams closer to them.

We play the finals at Kroger Field on UK's campus, it would be cool to play the semis at eku, wku, murray, UofL, morehead and the quarterfinals at some of the smaller colleges like gtown, centre, pikeville, ky weslyan, cumberlands, union, campbellsville, thomas more, kcu and others. It would take the KHSAA doing a lot more planning but would be really cool showcase our best high school teams at our college football stadiums around the state.

I agree that this is a violent sport, and we expect players to play with raw emotion and combat opponents 1 on 1. It is hard to turn that fire off sometimes. IMO, the problem is a societal problem, not coaching, community or program culture. There used to be respect in the dogfight. At the end of a fight you could shake hands and turn around having more respect for standing up for yourself and doing your best on every play, likewise for your opponent. Now when there is a disagreement or conflict with any kind of opposition, the goal is to humiliate, belittle or claim an alternate narrative of how things really are. There is an impulse to make excuses, place blame and lash out in loss. There is the impulse to brag, put down and goad opponents in victory. Tell me who else among us teaches grace in victory and grace in defeat other than our coaches. Where else is it learned and, more importantly, reinforced outside of sport in today's world? Also, as an aside, Social media makes it worse because interactions are no longer limited to between the whistles, but in the week leading to the game and the ride home after.

It would be nice to have a NKY 3A district. I'm sure the Pendleton faithful would much rather drive north than all the way to Powell County.

Thanks Coach.

Pendleton, Mason, Lewis, Fleming and Powell. Addition of another NKY Team would probably remove Powell from the equation in that district.

When I spoke to Coach Hahn last week, he stated that they would be playing all their games on the road as a result of the stadium issues. Previous talks about a neutral site turned into "we are coming to you now".

Coaches: 1. Philip Haywood from Belfry 2. John Hines from Pulaski County 3. Ethan Atchley from Frankfort Topics: 1. Developing Buy-in and investment for your program from your community stakeholders 2. Recruiting inside your school right now, getting the best athletes in your school out for football and defeating the "focus on (insert other sport here)" argument 3. How to recruit Teacher/Coaches to your school and staff

I sure hope not. Call me nostalgic, but I like those old stadiums. Dayton's stands and field has its problems, much like Newport is running into now, but I would hate to see such a stadium fall into ruin. I love coaching there. It's a diamond, not well cut and shiny like you'd put on ring, but a diamond nonetheless.

I agree, it almost looks like the script Hazard and H should be switched side of the helmet. Pretty cool looking stripe to match the collar. I like that.

Varsity 8/6 at Paris Grid Scrimmage (Paris, Harrison, Garrard) 8/13 at Owen County Scrimmage 8/20 at Pike County Central 8/26 vs Dayton 9/2 at Newport 9/9 vs Henry County 9/16 vs Nicholas County 9/23 at Mason County - District 9/30 vs Lewis County - District 10/7 vs Powell County - District 10/14 at Fleming County - District 10/21 - Bye 10/28 at Bishop Brossart JV/Freshmore 8/22 vs Paris 8/29 vs Harrison County 9/5 - Bye/Labor Day 9/12 at Nicholas County 9/19 at Bracken County 9/26 vs Mason County 10/3 at Paris 10/10 vs Bishop Brossart 10/17 at Harrison County 10/24 vs Bracken County

I must admit, love it or hate it, I can agree with this logic.

It would take a principal seeing the need to hire just 1 more teacher to affect the entire budget, not just transfers. Extracurricular budgets get cut all the time because they are EXTRA-curricular, and the purpose of the school is education. I just had a conversation Tuesday about how the product we put on the field effects the support available for our program, like it or not, fair or not. This is real life and death for small and rural programs.

Pause for a moment and realize that, for public schools, most funding comes from the state level and is dictated by Average Daily Attendance (ADA). Next, understand that, in this state, the AVERAGE district uses about 86% of it's ENTIRE budget on salary alone. This leaves very little for other spending, which includes athletics. Please follow my logic for a moment. Students transfer in, ADA goes up, money goes up, more ability to invest in athletics. Students transfer out, ADA goes down, money goes down, less ability to invest in athletics. Understand that most public schools can't miraculously materialize enough funds to compete with those that already are pumping money into athletics. And if students are allowed to transfer, it will widen the gap to create some amazing sports programs and then the rest of us. You may be happy about that, but I am not sold. I believe students have a right to free public education and all the trimmings that come with it, including athletics. If the gap widens too much, you may start to see less and less schools have the ability to pump money into their athletics after the athletes transfer away.

This. But not just in Louisville, everywhere. Small rural teams that wait for that once-every-5-years type talent (or once in a generation talent) may never see that talent again.

That is going in the right direction. That should be standard operating procedure until you are at least at the varsity level, shadowing.

Now, with everything, the more times you are in that situation and learn from it, in theory, the better you will get at officiating that. Thus, making better quality officials. From the sideline of this problem, I would say there is a retention problem as well, as evidenced in this thread. So we need to recruit new officials. Get them in games to learn. Get them to the high school level. Get them to do it for a long time. IMO, better compensation is one way to keep guys in it by making it worth their time. Also, give them resources. Let them have a time and place to watch film and learn from other officials. And I'm not talking about pre- and postseason meetings or clinics alone. Rather, sessions in the season to talk about real situations that arise and also teams, coaches and venues they are having issues dealing with. Message boards are great, texts and emails are better, but meeting in person throughout the season has to have benefits. Unfortunately, I feel that would have to come from the association or the assigners and I am unsure the traction that may receive.

Understandable so, the trouble usually stems from 2 different scenarios. 1, the official confuses rules from college or NFL rule interpretations that differ from NFHS rules. Now, I will also admit that it happens the other way around more often, having had to correct other coaches on my sideline before. 2, when there are multiple penalties, especially a mix of live ball and dead ball fouls. This year there was a 5 min discussion in the pouring rain that took way too long to figure out and robbed us of a considerable amount of momentum and gave the other squad a free timeout while it was sorted. PS. one more scenario is with our 2 pt plays/swinging gate formation. what is legal and what is not