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6 hours ago, NLTanker1 said:

Seneca's last crowning moment was beating a Brian Brohm led Trinity in 2003. The program just can't garner interest. They hold a special place in my heart, as my mom graduated from their, and I played there in 95 before transferring to Trinity. 

Good luck RedHawks!

Yep, I remember 2003 well.  I coached on that Seneca team.  We had a lot of talent led by mostly seniors.  That group stayed together for all 4 years, which was the difference.  I remember that Trinity game well.  Down 13 with about 3 minutes to play.  We scored, then went for the onside kick.  We got that also, then scored again with about 20 seconds to go.  Trinity had 2 plays after the kickoff and Andy Clark batted down the last hail mary pass of the game to seal the win.  Finished the regular season ranked #1 in Class 4A (only 4 classes then) before losing to Ballard in the 2nd round of the playoffs.  We beat them in the regular season, but in the playoffs, we had 7 turnovers and that's just too tough to overcome.  There was a lot of talent in that district that year overall with Gary Williams and Andy Clark for Seneca, Brohm for Trinity, Earl Heyman & Steve Chaney for Ballard, Mario & Maurice Urrutia for Fern Creek and Myron Pryor for Eastern.  Quite a few D1 players and some that had a cup of coffee in the NFL with Gary playing the longest with 6 seasons for the Panthers.

6 hours ago, Roundsteak said:

I don’t imagine there are a lot of KY schools standing in line to play Trinity 

No, but if live attendance is allowed and not restricted and Trinity was willing to come to your place to play, they would bring a nice crowd, which would mean a nice gate.  For some programs that are self-funded, that might not be a bad trade-off for a year.

31 minutes ago, TheDeuce said:

If they decide not to play, I wonder what the private school schedules look like. 

If they decide not to play, I have this huge, gut feeling there will be a makeshift 6A district of Trinity, St. X & Bullitt East.  They all play in a 6A district where they are the only non-JCPS school.  Also hard to imagine schools like Male and Manual not playing, while Trinity and St. X do.  That will be tough for some to swallow.

On 2/4/2020 at 2:09 PM, zoneblitz2 said:

Sad thing is their district is very weak for a 5A District. They will not be challenged. I do believe that all the City Schools, OCath, Apollo, and Daviess County should be pretty good next year and could give OHS a game if they are not ready. But even then, OHS has far more superior athletes and in Year 2 of Gavin Wimsatt.

 

Don't sleep on the Gibson Southern game. Gibson Southern will have a Junior QB who is garnering a lot of Power 5 offers/attention and they have been very good the past few years.

 

This team should have some pretty high expectations and based on this schedule should come in one of the higher RPI teams and walk again to the semi-finals.

I know it's a mute point this year, but I don't think you'll see the Owensboro area schools or Henderson County playing Evansville schools any time soon in the near future.  They might play someone like Gibson Southern, Mt. Vernon Posey, North Posey, Boonville, etc., but they won't play any Evansville schools, which is a shame b/c it's typically good out-of-state competition for those schools.  The Evansville area schools now play in a 10-team conference with the recent addition of Vincennes Lincoln and Jasper so their entire regular season schedule is now nothing but conference games.  They might have a preseason scrimmage against them, but not a regular season game.

Just too many unknowns and this will be a fluid situation for quite some time.  It's going to require a lot of flexibility on many parts.  What do you do when certain school districts elect to opt out of fall sports?  Teams will constantly be scrambling for games all season long.  If JCPS decides not to play this fall, which is a real possibility, but the Private, Catholic schools do, what does that do to them from a district standpoint?  St. X, Trinity and a school like Bullitt East all play in districts where they are the only non-public, JCPS school.  What does that do to schools like that?  Does the KHSAA create a district for those 3 schools?  Again, a lot of unknowns and as much as people don't like it or are trying to predict the future, we're going to be taking it day-by-day and once,/if the season does start, Friday-by-Friday.