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This is the best way of putting the story in short, GC is right there is a lot more to the story, but none of it is particularly meaningful since it all happened about 3 years ago now.

They have 3 chances in my eyes, Apollo, Marshall, and Christian County. I’m not sure I would pick them in any of those games, Christian and Marshall, but they way they have looked 0-10 and a trip to Trinity are looking increasingly likely.

There is 0 chance SK would beat either of Male or Ballard.

This could be the year for PT, they are very very talented, but, I can’t pick PT against Mayfield till I see it.

Pretty insane that Ballard only beat Hoptown 22-0, with a pedestrian offensive performance, yet Mayfield I believe scored on on 2 of there first 5 plays and I believe scored every position they touched the ball in the competitive part of he game.

Even 237 is not a ton of yards, obviously you expect to win if you out-gain your opponent by 100 yards but 237 yards is not exactly moving the ball at will. Now for Male’s defense, 115 yards is just a total suffocating performance and I would never have imagined a team could lose giving up that few total yards.

The program was in really really rough shape after the last 4 years from a number and talent perspective.

In McCracken more specificity it is harder to untangle because the baseball numbers didn’t boom until the middle school football program really feel off a cliff.

The only team outside of Louisville I’m confident is any good at all Madison Central. To be perfectly honest, I’m pretty sure most teams between about 6 and maybe 15 are interchangeable in 6a, which can be said for most ever year.

This is something I know both baseball coach in the schools history have been adamant about is keeping the middle school programs separate from each other so they just have a much larger talent pool to work with.

The numbers have tanked during the years Corey Robinson and Jason Nickel were running the program, who both moved to PT a couple years ago. In the first couple years of the consolidated middle school, the numbers were much better.

Sorry that is what i meant to say, the defense for hop town wasn't bad by any means, and probably played well enough to win most games, but the offense was awful.

PT names the score, probably the best Tilghman team in maybe a decade? They had some really good teams in coach Smith’s first couple years, but I don’t believe there were ever quite as loaded as this year. PT-54 GC-7

I would agree, but I’m not really sure what Bryan Station has done over the last 2 years to earn the respect they are given. Off the top of my head I don’t remember a single win or a top quality team in the state, mostly just beating teams comparable in talent level, but never really beating teams more talented then them.

Mayfield wins pretty easily, really uninspiring week 1 for Hoptown, although the defense was terrible, the offense couldn’t do much of anything, I suspected a similar game to last week for Hoptown. M-28 H-7

I can’t believe more people picked Highlands pre-game.

I don’t expect this game to be close, I think McCracken is headed in the right direction for the first time in years, but this is a tough opening game that’ll most likely be a precursor to a long season. PT-49 MC-21

McCracken Rolls.

I’m not totally sure McCracken will ever be a football school, at this point it would definitely be more of a baseball or basketball school. But I would also never say never.

Well Marshall County might go back down to 5a, and South Warren could go up to 6A, which would be a huge deal for the district.

How high was the interest in this job? Given the state of he program, and also how much the district is about to change, I could see it being a job that wasn’t super coveted.

If anything I think we need classification, and have the final 4 of each class played at Rupp.

Smith did a good job at PT, before Smith was there PT had a couple of down years with some really talented teams, and PT immediately got better. The optics don't look great because of they success they has this year, but i certainly would approve of Smith as the next coach.

I would be stunned if Lewis got it, his Trigg teams were always real underachievers.

This is why high school basketball needs a shot clock, this game was I believe 13-13 at half, just awful to watch.