The Oracle

...Nail. On. The. Head.

Walker has wanted to be back in Texas since the day the Horn family arrived in Kentucky. Given the fact that he was moving away from the place he grew up after a year of high school, I can get it. At one point I know the family was researching whether or not there was a correct channel to allow Walker to move back and stay with an assigned legal guardian while his parents stayed on in Kentucky so Darren could continue as coach at NKU. Anything can happen, but I think assuming Highlands is the obvious option for Walker's transfer is far off the mark, particularly taking into account the fact that he only has one year of high school left.

#HighlandsFolksSureHaveAThingForHashtags #29May

"It's always a good day to beat those damn Birds." -Tom Eckerle

Jones is definitely getting attention for football though. An outfit out of Louisiana did a write-up on him last month. https://www.louisianagridironfootball.com/diamond-in-the-rough-aiden-jones/ "Aiden Jones, class of 2023, is a dual position athlete as he plays both Middle Linebacker and Tight End for the Covington Catholic Colonels out of Park Hills, Kentucky. As a 6’3 225lb Linebacker, Aiden is an aggressive tackler who makes sure that the runner is down. He brings his toughness to every play as he never runs away from a blocker, rather, he runs through them and disengages when need be. Aiden is a pure run stuffer too, he has good patience to allow for a hole in the line to open in up and has the burst to attack and fill the gap. When lined up at Tight End, Aiden is a serviceable blocker, and has solid footwork in his routes to get separation, surprising speed to add on to the initial separation, and finishes it off with good, solid hands to secure the catch. Aiden Jones is very versatile athlete with a good mixture of toughness, speed, and hands. With this mixture, Aiden could be a menace all over the field on Saturdays and has another year to make progress and get even better."

I was dubious from the get-go. But there was certainly a lot of talk about it.

If the 9th region tourney still happens on turf, doubtful.

#15october Bring it.

Hey, haha I only said it made me chuckle. Never said anything about positive or negative. You're the one who mentioned negative ?

Highlands is doing these senior spotlights on Twitter that I think are a pretty cool notion. One of the details about them gave me a good chuckle though. The 2021 goal for everyone is apparently to "WIN STATE!" But then, there are two things on each of the senior spotlight graphics that are typed in significantly larger text than the 2021 goal, one is the player's name, and then the other one is.......

Did I hear correctly that CCH is gonna have a turf baseball field next year?

Sphire seems like he knows what he's doing. Ain't no school that loves a good hashtag like Highlands loves a good hashtag.

So do we have a new two-sport athlete on the football team?

I think the results of the first 5 games will tell us how far Eddie has taken the program. If it's a program with a great coach that has top NKY talent or if it's truly elite and just plain reloads.

8/13 Simon Kenton - Scrimmage (H) 8/20 Elder (TBD) 8/27 Belfry (A) 9/3 Lexington Catholic (H) 9/10 Dixie (H) 9/17 Beechwood (A) 9/24 Cooper (H) 10/1 Boone County (H) 10/8 Bye 10/15 Highlands (A) 10/22 Conner (H) 10/29 Ryle (H)

Thanks. I was curious why they any of them would have cancelled in the first place. Did St. Henry end up playing Cooper in Rd 1?

Someone told me that HC, WV and St. Henry all ended their freshman seasons prior to the first round because of COVID precautions.

Same thing I was told.

Is it a coincidence that local residents don't speed as much when their city is a speed trap?

Middle school PE teacher...elementary gym, sounds like I was close but no cigar. My point still stands.

Who said anything about "mysteriously"? Almost two months have passed between James heading back to Franklin County and now. Is it possible that some of the former HHS football staff members have found gainful employ elsewhere when they got jobs elsewhere? Pretty sure the coach who went to Newport was a middle school PE teacher. No idea if he's headed for a Newport day job or not, but is it completely out of the realm of possibility that his job, or some other jobs have opened up in two months time? Or is is entirely impossible that HHS realized "Oh crap, we screwed up there" and decided when they hired the next guy, they would make for damn sure that they could manufacture teaching jobs for some necessary football staff members to start working in their schools? I mean, all of this talk about "they're trying to dig up money for Wolfe" in January, could they have possibly dug up some money to at least try to catch a Wolfe by offering some teaching jobs available to his staffers? And is it possible that perhaps after they struck out with Wolfe, they still decided to offer those jobs to the staffers for the next man up? Situations change, Kenny. I don't mean to talk crazy or anything here...but momma always told me an intelligent person tries to learn from their mistakes. Would a wise person not try to handle things differently after they realize they've screwed up?

My understanding is that Highlands did have a 'lil something to do with it. Promised some school district positions to be available for James' wife and an assistant or two and then walked back on their promise.

So what I'm reading here is that Highlands hired a coach who is very possibly in the sunset of his career from out of his worst coaching stretch in his last 20 years as head coach.

23-20 coaching record in the last 4 years? Yeah we're ready.