OGRaidersman

I'm confused about how the lack growth in Boone's district negatively impacts athletics. Does Boone not have roughly the same amount of students as Cooper and Conner? They are all 5A schools.

Boone also has a lot of kids who move away from the school due to its poor reputation. Most before they even arrive from middle school.

I believe this will be a dog fight like Dixie was but I’m taking Ryle here.

The Raider defense proved a lot Last Friday with 4 red zone stands. I like an experienced defense against a freshman QB.

I would expect to see this as a pound the rock game which I believe favors Ryle.

It looks like the weather has cleared up and it could be a perfect night in Union on Friday for Ryle’s Senior Night. Looks like at kick off the high should be in the upper 50s.

This game will determine district seeding and possibly home-field advantage for the first 3 rounds of the playoffs.

Do the playoff games go toward your RPI?

If so I believe that would that mean if either Ryle or SK could win out (Friday and the first 3 rounds) that their RPI would be higher than Trinity’s for round 4.

I’m wondering this because Trinity’s playoff opponents would hurt them more than help them? Is this a correct assumption?

Literally.

Dixie really didn’t look that bad to me. Ryle’s play calling was very bad I thought but I was impressed with the size Dixie has.

I thought the higher seed owned home field. If Ryle or SK would win out they would end up being a higher seed than Tate’s Creek or Oldham County.

The SK / Ryle game will determine a lot next week:

District Champ for District 6.

The winner will face a bad Campbell team.

The loser will face an improved Dixie team.

Also home-field advantage for likely the first 3 rounds of the playoffs.

Final per board.

Wasn’t pretty but a Win is a Win.

Ryle with worst play calling I’ve ever seen. Dixie with ball 45 seconds

Ryle 13 Dixie 8

13-8 Ryle

Dixie 8 Ryle 7

Huge goal line stand for Ryle

Here we go playing Madden again Trick play on the 20 Ryle fumbles Dixie ball on the 12.

Huge stop by Ryle D

1st down bomb Stanken to Coker

7-0 Ryle

I definitely feel the same. Conner's performance against Ryle compared to Highlands' performance against Ryle makes that all sit pretty funny...but it's a "here and now" ranking, and Conner's win over Highlands is much more here and now than either of the Ryle games.

The Highlands game was by far Ryle’s worst game of the year. I think it was officially 6 turnovers with multiple bad snaps on top of that. Also a QB that is not near varsity ready.

I still believe what makes a player quit is the attitude of the team. As a coach you need to involve all your players and make it as positive as possible. In a losing or disappointing season this is harder than normal but it can be done.

On a football team with 40+ high school age boys I know that this is quite the challenge. Especially in 2019 with parents being more vocally opinionated than ever before through social media.

The first way I judge a coach is by how many players are standing behind him on the sideline. I always feel like Marksberry at SK has a huge team. That tells me kids like to play for him.

On the flip side if your a large school with a minimal amount of athletes you have an attitude problem. You have to weed that problem out whether it’s a group, a single athlete or maybe even a coach.

Most coaches fail to recognize this.

However the old saying still stands true; Winning Fixes Everything!

This is a big game for Ryle. I expect them to seek revenge for last years embarrassing loss they suffered at the hands of the Colonels.

So if the playoffs were today and IF RPI held, the third round and beyond would look like below.

(1) Male V (4) McCracken

(2) N Hardin V (3) Manual

(1) Trinity V (4) Tate’s Creek

(2) Ryle V (3) Oldham Cty

Round 4

(1) Male V (4) Ryle

(2) N Hardin V (3) Trinity

State

Male V N Hardin

Top 20 by RPI;

School, (district), RPI

1 Male (4) 0.705

2 North Hardin (2) 0.667

3 DuPont Manual (3) 0.661

4 Central Hardin (2) 0.638

5 Trinity (Louisville) (5) 0.623

6 Fern Creek (4) 0.609

7 McCracken County (1) 0.602

8 Henderson County (1) 0.595

9 St. Xavier (3) 0.577

10 Ryle (6) 0.534

11 Simon Kenton (6) 0.533

12 Ballard (5) 0.518

13 Bullitt East (4) 0.517

14 Oldham County (8) 0.514

15 Butler (3) 0.510

16 Southern (4) 0.503

17 Tates Creek (7) 0.493

18 Barren County (2) 0.473

19 Daviess County (1) 0.466

20 Dixie Heights (6) 0.44

Me neither! I expected 60-0 lol

I think they took it easy on Mike At Campbell. He isn’t working with much.

I would say Campbell has a chance to beat Boone at the end of the season but that’s it.

After last nights victory I would go with Cov right now.

Let’s got Cov this is incredible all of NKY supports the colonels tonight!!!!

9:21 left in 2nd qtr

Ryle 28- Campbell 0

My honest take is that if you paired up any of the 2-5 teams against one another, you could have a completely different result every time based completely on "which team" showed up at the game for each program.

I agree with this. I think these next 3 games are going to be massive for Ryle and the future. These are all must win games. Campbell and Dixie, Ryle should roll through and if not I would say you will see Raider Nation up in arms again. SK will be a battle because it seems to always be.

I still believe the Districts is Ryle or SK’s to lose. However Ryle was supposed to crush a terrible Dixie team last year and they were blown out. Hopefully Raider Nation isn’t taking these games lightly.