TylerDurden

I remember those unis. Lol, somebody at Lloyd definitely was a 'Stillers fan.

Heard it thru the grapevine that Scott is challenging the enrollment numbers that the KHSAA used and is trying to stay 4A instead of moving up to 5A.

Anybody else hear that? That was the sound of what little remaining wind they had leaving the sails of the Admirals program completely. Good lord, they really can't get out or their own way in the administrative offices up there in Danville, can they? This was absolutely made to be the opportunity to get Clevenger back in the saddle and pick up the pieces, and instead they just elect to sweep the pieces into a trash bag and throw them out.

I agree with you LongTimeReader. Trinity is a great program, but if they're trying to continue measuring themselves up against the accomplishments of the guy who currently is (and probably will remain to be) the most successful coach in the history of KY HS football, they're setting themselves up for failure. Expecting anyone to repeat what Beatty accomplished is ridiculous. Also, hot take here, Trinity's football program will probably never be as good again as it was under Beatty. Same as Highlands, who won't ever be as successful again as they were under Mueller.

Did I see on Twitter that North Laurel picked up a pretty big transfer from another school somewhere in the vicinity? Not trying to be coy. I'm just pretty sure I sat that sometime recently, but can't find it anywhere on Twitter now.

Birds by 90!

Oh man, here I am posting about helmet designs without even having gotten to the juicy part of the thread yet! This sounds like the downstream result of all the drama around Coach Smith getting Das Boot at Tilghman a couple years ago.

Those are both pretty solid helmets. I honestly liked Union County's a little better without the outline of the county when it was just the big U with the arrowhead. Tilghman has had that helmet forever, and I like it, but that Tornado logo is so cool, it's almost a shame not to see it on the helmets. But I do like seeing it blown up huge as the midfield logo at McRight Field though.

So I seem to recall when Christian County and Hoptown were working on hiring new football coaches that the plan back then was to have the new school operating as two separate campuses and playing under one conjoined athletic program as the Wolfpack. Then once the new building was finished everyone would be at the new campus and the current Christian County and Hoptown campuses would go away. That seemed pretty unfair to me, at least. So with the plan to continue on as separate schools for at least one more year, does that mean they are planning for everything to consolidate once the new building is completed? How is construction coming along at the new campus? I wonder if the KHSAA might have possibly poo-pooed the whole two campuses, one team idea.

These two.

Such a Karen thing to say.

They were too busy protecting and serving to be bothered with it.

That's right. We drink our Bud Light with our pinkies out.

Okay, so maybe I was being a little dramatic. Lol I'd take the job for a million, but that doesn't mean the Danville job wouldn't still be a miserable job to have in its current state. And especially with the old administration and coaches in place.

Didn't know the baseball coach resigned. That bodes much better for the future of other sports programs. And for the head coaches of those programs.

Right now I wouldn't take the Danville job if you paid me a million bucks a year. Especially with the baseball coach calling shots around the school and arranging for the administration to show Clevenger the door. My question has always been, which makes the school and athletic department more money: baseball games or football games?

Count me as one who would like to see South Warren schedule more teams outside of the Western Coalfields and Mississippi Plateau. They have seen some decent teams in the Rafferty's Bowl here and there and they've had Central on the schedule for a few years now. I was pretty pleased to see the addition of Gibson Southern but that didn't pan out to be any kind of a game last year. Just spitballing some opponents I'd love to see them work into the schedule...Owensboro, Male, X, Trinity, Manual, Ballard, Douglass, Boyle, LexCath, CovCath, Ryle, Brentwood, or basically any of the big dogs from Indy or Cincy.

Tell me you aren't trying to say that the coaches at Douglass work harder to promote their players and devote more time to making their players/team the best they can be than most other coaches do in the state...

This. Let the kids transfer. There are 250+ KHSAA member schools in the state and if 25 kids from every grade in every school play sports that makes 25,000+ kids playing KHSAA sports in the state. And how many kids try to transfer in any given year that will actually result in any real change to day to day win-loss records of a school? 100? 200? Even if there were 200 bigtime transfers in a year, and I don't think there are or would be nearly that many, that's only 0.8% of the total students competing in the state. This is a lot of arguing over an overall small portion. Let them transfer when they want, where they want.

Specifically running track? Or any track and field events?

And this is the kind of information I come to BGP to read. Wow!

If consolidating schools without consolidating campuses is a fair thing to do, then I think Fayette County should announce they've merged all of their high schools into one super high school of like 10K students that holds its classes at 6 different campuses. They'll stomp a mudhole in every team they play in every sport they play. Except swimming. St. X will still win swimming.

So if the new school isn't going to be built yet and they can't hold classes at the new school, how is there a new school? Why not keep everything as Hoptown and Christian Co until the new place is actually ready?

I'm all for the world to have thicker skin. That notwithstanding, Atchley's blowups were taking place repeatedly in the classroom, so the fact that he is a coach is irrelevant. And there had been enough prior incidents of Atchley blowing up at kids that he was placed on probation by the school. And even after being placed on probation, as a grown man, he was unable to control himself well enough to keep from screaming and cussing at kids. That is a problem.

Except Jones had spent 18 years as a head coach at Trigg, another year or two as linebackers coach at Hoptown under Clayton, then a year as head coach at Madisonville before he became head coach at Hoptown. Jones had all the experience in the world when he was given the keys to the program, and Clark was literally a first year head coach when he took over from Jones. That's a major difference to me if you're going to directly compare the two to one another.