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He was unhappy with his playing time at Jtown.

Sounds like they drank the JCPS Kool-Aid!

Good for Coach Renner. Glad to see some coaches speak out against the JCPS board & JCTA.

I watched some of the livestream on NFHS network. The kids appeared to have masks on, but worn mostly over their chin. Game was at St X.

CM - I thought Oldham County schools had to join the JCPS experts and delay their season for (at least) a week. Can South Oldham girls play on Wednesday?

CM - Spencer County may be short-handed tonight due to illness/injuries or losses from last year?

Trimble County is homeless?! Moved to the 31st, correct?

Great works always @ColonelMike! Awesome in-depth analysis and research! Should be a fun season and am looking forward to getting the teams back on the court. Do you know if all the 8th Region teams are in action next week?

JCPS can blame KHSAA for putting them in this position, or they can also look at Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and other states that are playing and determine where the blame should really fall!

There are a few medical experts in Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee. In fact, there are probably a lot more in those states than in Kentucky!

Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee all have positivity percentages higher than Kentucky's . . . all three states are currently playing high school basketball.

No!!!! Don't give them any ideas!

They plan to return?!

I hope that doesn't mean February 26!

Hopefully six weeks of watching Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee high school basketball highlights will soften the position of some districts by January 4.

Note that all the coaches Frakes quoted are from Fayette or Jefferson County public schools. Those districts don't appear to want to fully open sports anytime soon.

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2020/11/11/high-school-basketball-crowds-25-capacity-some-counties/6256152002/ Link to Indianapolis Star article above. Yesterday, Indiana announced plans to move ahead with high school basketball with some attendance restrictions in "hot" counties. Their "orange" counties are limited to 25% attendance. Their "red" counties will limit attendance to participants, support personnel, and parents guardians. Note, their orange/red measurements are different than Kentucky's and look at more than just incidence rate. Their girls' basketball season is underway.

Can Beechwood challenge Highlands and CCH with Draud, Downton and Rylee?

One of the old "young bears", Gage Mabry, is now enrolled at Jeffersontown.

I believe it is county-by-county, but I know of some schools that have a 250-300 maximum / 30% capacity.

I'm not sure why we can't use volleyball as a benchmark for what basketball may look like. As of now the first day of practice is 10/26 with games scheduled to begin the week of Thanksgiving. I don't see them allowing fewer spectators at basketball games than volleyball games.

No big deal . . . saves some officials the embarrassment of trying to toss the ball straight up 9 feet in the air!

#JCTA A lot of districts have kids that have tested positive.

Reacting to daily results in cases is like day-trading the stock market. Reacting to longer-term trends in hospitalizations and deaths is a more reasonable approach. I hope they don't overreact based on a few days of tests, especially if we don't know if all those were recent results or were accumulated over the last weeks/months. The more cases we get without a corresponding increases in deaths tells us the virus is weaker than originally thought, which may bode well for sports this fall. The teams that get it and develop antibodies / herd immunity will be well-positioned.

Fern Creek not in the field doesn't surprise me given their history in this tournament. I was surprised not to see Lexington Catholic.