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This is almost too silly a question to answer but OK, here ya go. Best school drawing from a population... Louisville/Jefferson Co. - 628k Fayette Co. - 322k Boyle Co. - 31k

T is great at playing dodgeball as well. Go ahead and sign up Bishop Gorman, St. Thomas Aquinas, IMG, Mater Dei, DeSoto, or Duncanville... Sound silly? Maybe cause those schools have ridiculously disproportionate advantages? Now you know how KY feels. That said, the right T team in the right year (2011) could potentially give any of those teams a run for the money, and likely would be favored. That's what I'm talking about was the case in 2023 with Boyle.

There's not too much that is concerning about the obvious...

Year in and year out, T is better than Boyle (and everyone in KY for that matter) because T draws the best players for the most part from a metropolitan pool that dwarfs what Boyle pulls from. T draws these great players because they have invested in being a place to come to if you are an elite player. NOBODY in KY can compete with what they have built over the history of the school, but in particular, the last 30 years. That said, this T team was good, but far from what we have seen from T in the past. It was not loaded with high level JR and SR P5 D1 guys as it may well have in it's FR group. The most impactful player on T's roster this past year was a FR QB. Boyle manhandled a Douglas team three weeks prior to T having to hold on for dear life to beat. Boyle was 14 points better than T this year. I'll say this as well, T would never have scored on Corbin this year (though I'm not sure Corbin would ever score on T either). 100% Boyle was the best team in KY in 2023. 2023 Boyle would have fared better against 2023 T's schedule than T did, and 2023 Boyle would have beat 2023 T by 14 or more (probably by 28 early in the season). Please notice I said "2023" A LOT. One year is not history, nor is it the future.

1. Boyle would have beat T in 2023 and look no further than their comparative FD score to see the obvious... great run by T in '23, but stay in your lane. 2. Best I can tell, Lynn holds an offer from EKU (if wrong on this, my apologies)... are you comparing him to a WR with a Michigan offer (Quisenberry)?

Outside REC is clearly off the line, even with the bad angle of the pic. Ball is on the 3 and his back foot is almost on the 5... does he have a 6ft. stride distance in his stance? #68 is 100% eligible as long as he declared.

Made a slight change. 😉 The fact that Trinity was able to win with a freshman quarterback is an example of the talent that Trinity is able to attract. This FR Class for the Rocks appears to be the next great wave. I have heard that there is a whole lot more than just the QB coming.

Boyle Co. begs to differ with the bolded portion of this...

1. BG 2. Cooper/Owensboro 4. South Warren 5-10… Good luck, you’re gonna need it against the teams listed above.

Yes, please explain the job of a Head Coach to Coach Hines and his 30 years of experience in the job, State Championship, and multiple Coach of the Year awards...

Train wreck is putting it nicely... They've now had two school names formally announced, two sets of school colors formally announced, and about 10 timelines between construction and consolidation announced.

Toxic job. Barren has a BAD reputation of firing coaches. I mean really, in this day and age, who really fires coaches other than for complete incompetence, or some egregious act? Barren is a school with ZERO Regional Championships... maybe zero district championships... it's a school with an independent (Glasgow) in the County that dominates them in football. Barren's wins per season since 2010 go 2, 5, 1, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1, 3, 6, 2, 3, 4, 5... and they're firing people... The trajectory of Muse's run at Barren win-wise was 3 in '21, 4 in '22, and 5 in '23... and they fired him. There are a handful (a small one) of schools in KY that can be justified in firing based on not winning the rivalry game, the District, Region, or State... but Barren ain't in that conversation. Toxic job.

I'm not convinced Corbin can score on good teams. Defensively they were special. Offense, not so much.

We all have games that we were a part of where the atmosphere was electric and we still talk about "10 deep around the track" or "not an empty seat in the place 30-minutes before kickoff" or a "hostile environment where the opponent fans were right on top of you". We all got a small taste of that in 2010 when Allen and Boyle faced off at WKU and for the Finals the place was as amped as could be. Nobody, and I both played and coached in Finals, remembers anything about the "atmosphere" of the Finals in PJCS or Kroger. Completely empty stadiums, zero crowd influence, and amenities that are the same as you could get at Barren Co.

Love KSR... but it needs to stick to basketball. This is comical.

But to be fair, WKU has proven themselves about as difficult a group to work with as exists...

I think some of you all are mistaking the allure of Rupp with the Grocery Store. Having been around a good number of kids who have weighed D1 offers that include UK, there is very little mystique of "playing for the Cats" in football. To most kids around KY, I would say they're just another football program (except on UofL week which I would say ironically is founded in roundball dislike for one another). The atmosphere at Kroger field is the worst I have been around and I trace back to the Fairgrounds. I would argue that the Pizza Box, now with its expansions has the same problem. There is just no point playing these games in stadiums that hold 60k+.

The Saturday evening game is a rough time slot. They need to make that the 6A game every year since it will almost 100% have two schools from Louisville-area/Lexington in it. Kroger is just an empty stadium as well. Poor facility all around. Both UofL and WKU are significantly nicer venues. The Lynn Family soccer stadium in Louisville would be the perfect venue--holds 15K.

I just think that both would overwhelm Cov Cath when they were on O that it would be too much for the Colonels. I think Mayfield would be able to stop Cov Cath, O-Cath, not so much. I frankly think Mayfield just has significantly better players than Cov Cath this year and in the case of O-Cath, I don't think they would ever punt, namely due to Atwood.

I feel pretty confident after seeing all teams in saying that Mayfield and O-Cath would both probably beat Cov Cath by 14+. There are some others that are debatable but if you saw Mayfield and O-Cath up close, you know those two did not at all look like 2A teams. They had some serious dudes on the field in that game.

BG shut their passing game down too.

So… uh… everyone knows that the rest of the state brings all their guys back too, right?

BG’s defense at the start of the year, when they played LCA and Bryan Station, was atrocious. BG’s defense at the end of the year, which featured at least seven different starters at positions than they had during those first couple of weeks, was stifling. Kudos to the Purples coaching for making the changes and putting players in the positions to be successful. I think the Purples would be OK with playing anyone at the end of the year. I would rank them: 1. Boyle 2. Trinity / BG / Mayfield 3. CAL / Cooper / O Cath / Station 4. Cov Cath 5. Pikeville 6. Bell 7. Raceland

Crazy post-game stat… something like 30 of the starters for tonight’s 5A game return next year. BG graduates two guards and a RB and TE on O and a DT, OLB, and DE on D. Cooper is about the same 😳

I think it would be hard to argue that Cov Cath wasn’t the class of NKY (please don’t say Cooper without looking at the comparative scores) and they are getting demolished. LCA hung with Boyle, so did Corbin. So it’s not like NOBODY could do it. Will be interesting to see how Cooper fares against BG tomorrow.