TylerDurden

My gut tells me South Warren should win this. But being a road game and with Southwestern being as strong as they have been, I can certainly see this going in the Warriors' direction. I think the game is won by 7-10 points, with either team realistically being the winner.

I missed that part of thie story in my neck of the woods. What happened with the coaching pool?

FWIW I'm not looking to lure anyone in to "bite" and say anything perceived in-house as airing laundry. I just read through a whole bunch of pages of a thread about the game, and then decided to follow that up reading the update thread and then the JV thread, and my takeaway was that, damn, those Birds fans are unnnnnnhappy. Allow me to supply a few quotes. "...I wasn't impressed with the way they were coached..." "Why do we fix the things that aren't broken and don't fix things that are broken?" "Seriously, Highlands has two plays in their play book." "Poor coaching by the Birds in all aspects of the game." "...You forgot poorly coached. Selfish football team." "Highlands is getting what the administration has tolerated. The taunting and stupid penalties tonight are unacceptable. A perfect example of what's resulted in 6 or 7 years of substandard football." "I don't have an issue with kids being emotional but the taunting isn't the Highlands that I remember..." "I'm going with the poor or lack of offensive play calling for Highlands." "They are much improved from the previous coaches' days but the cockiness and arrogance that was on display last night was cringe worthy." "Year 3 of Sphire and company and the discipline issue has not been addressed, seemingly being encouraged to be undisciplined." "Extremely disappointed. The lack of discipline is frustrating. You are HHS, be better than that." "I will be interested to see how certain people spin this to be 'someone else's fault' rather than looking in the mirror." "The personal fouls....how many years is this gonna be a thing?!? If the coaches accept it, the kids will do it." "...the jawing, pointing, and self love has to stop. It's embarrassing." "...[Hayden Sphire] has LOTS to learn before that [Hayden's hiring as HHS HFC] can even be considered. Both on and off the field...." "Having watched many football games over the years, especially these two teams, I don't recall ever seeing Highlands being so undisciplined." So yeah, I'm just asking some honest questions based on everything that I read.

Going through the threads from the Highlands/CovCath rivalry it reads to me like there are a lot of Highlands folks who are unhappy with the coaching and culture of the Highlands football team. At least a lot of the Highands folks on here seem to feel that way, anyway. Comments about player attitudes and behavior, a mess of personal fouls on Friday including one that was apparently called on Sphire himself, player discipline on the field. I've always heard it takes a new coach 3 years to get his system in place. This is year 3 for Bob Sphire at Highlands. Is his system in place? Obviously the natives are restless after losing to Cov. But is this year do or die for Sphire with the Bluebirds? What is the bare minimum for Highlands fans to feel like he's done "enough" to make them happy come the end of this season? Is his seat hot right now? With a former player as his AD, can his seat really even get all that hot?

Are school IDs issued everywhere now? Asking because I honestly don't know. I was never issued a school I'd until college, but that was also decades ago, so I'm out of the loop.

Never have I ever: seen or heard anyone refer to Beechwood football as "average". Not until that post. I think that's the point, my friend. Beechwood is far from average. Which is why they have more sets of championship hardware than all the schools in Kentucky especially except for two. And 17 more sets than your school, by my counting. Beechwood, Boyle, Mayfield, Highlands, what they do at their schools is exceptional, not average. And that's why people get all up in arms and try to mince words and pick apart any post where someone from one of their schools says pretty much anything.

Love it!

Well here's hoping it's just a strain and not a tear.

Any word on Barlow?

Yes or no: will Trinity win the 6A championship this season?

For a high school athlete, getting to play in a college stadium or arena is a something really special and memorable. It's genuinely a big deal to them. For a high school athlete, having a business tag their name onto a regular season game in a high school stadium where you would normally be playing the game, regardless of whether or not they sponsor it, is not any kind of big deal whatsoever, and probably doesn't even move the needle for the players. This Skyline thing smacks as a money grab. No more, no less.

Does the Skyline Chili dealio do anything to make these games happen? Or are the games already happening and then Skyline comes along and hitches their event wagon to them? Looks like the last BGP thread about the Skyline Showdown was 5 years ago. Have they had Skyline games in the last 5 years? Doesn't seem like word is getting out about it if they have.

He said Massey uses some information from the previous season; he didn't say their preseason rankings are based solely on last season's results.

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I don't. I'm a grownup ?

Would Dan Wooley take the job back at Scott? I was always told he was waiting for Coach Rash to retire at Beechwood in hopes that he could take over at his alma mater, but it would seem that that didn't happen. Would he want to get back into the head coaching ranks at a program where he's already seen success? If I was Scott's athletic director, I would have emails and phone calls in already with Dan Wooley, Ken Morgan, Dave Brossart, Greg Taphouse, Dave Brausch, and Kevin Siple. I'd assume Rash and Marksberry are both happily collecting their retirements, but I suppose it never hurts to ask. Any idea what Zach Deaton is up to nowadays?

The Etown folks I know all talked like they really like Ross Brown. That's why I was taken aback by your "doesn't have the work ethic and motivation". It reads to me as someone who's just salty to see that their coach left. I've worked with a lot of people who left a good situation at work for another job, and that's their right. I always figured, more than likely, there was some situation I didn't know about that made things look better elsewhere. And I don't feel like it's my right to go insulting a person for looking out for #1. But you, you just go ahead and do your thing, man.

I feel like I see you mention Alex Shelton in every open job thread you comment in, lol.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Coach Brown the younger 25-11 in 3 seasons as boss man at Etown? With one state runner up trophy, and two of three seasons ended by the state champions that year? Geeze, what a bum. ?

Oh, I see. Glad to find out that's it, and not a case of a fan base having gotten comfortable after a half decade with a coach and his success, and then having unreasonable expectations for the following act once that coach leaves. And then blaming all woes on the successor instead of realizing that when a coaching staff changes over, it'll usually be reflected for a few years in a programs' W/L column.

Same. I'm not sure if that is or isn't the official schedule graphic (aka, put out by the school) but if it is, it's kind of embarrassing to use blatantly poor grammar like that on something that is intended to act as somewhat of an advertisement for a school program. Crittenden is misspelled too.

Looking at the list of new hires, it appears that most were assistant coaches that moved up in the ranks. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, necessarily. On one hand a lot of guys are moving up in the ranks, and on the other hand a lot of guys are calling it quits or getting canned.

I haven't ever know the KHSAA to budge on transfer eligibility on basis of religion. The issue will have to be handled in the courts now since it's a state law and not just a KHSAA bylaw, but are you saying that the Harneys intend to argue in that Cash should be eligible to play sports at CovCath next year on the basis of the transfer being religiously based? LOL The Harneys better start showing up every single blessed Sunday wherever they go to church and tossing double or triple into the collection plate. LOL

Yep. Exactly my point. CovCath seemed to handle things fine with those three and CovCath just moved on once they took their sideshows elsewhere.

KRS 156.070 is the law that was recently changed to govern athletic eligibility for transfers. Athletic eligibility for transfers previously only been governed by the KHSAA and hadn't ever been governed by state law until the law was enacted in 2022. It took effect this past July. The nuts and bolts of the change is KRS 156.070(1)(I): Any student who transfers enrollment from a district of residence to a nonresident district under KRS 157.350(4)(b) shall be ineligible to participate in interscholastic athletics for one (1) calendar year from the date of the transfer.