TylerDurden

Cliff Dew. Teaches at Mayfield Elementary. He's the DC right now, and the linebacker & Oline coach. Started at Mayfield in the early 00s, left for a head coach spot in Mississippi for a couple of years and came back to Mayfield in '09 or '10. He's from Mississippi originally. Played foosball at Ole Miss.

This is coach Dew's job if he wants it.

What's the motto? With a spirit that occasionally shows up? With a spirit that sometimes tries? I think that's it.

I know I'm not a high schooler. I don't get turnover chains or wrestling belts, and don't even get me started on how little sense carrying sledge hammers around makes, but the garbage can Highlands had was really really dumb, and Sphire managed to one-up that with the stick.

Maybe now that they have that big piece of wood to get excited about, things might get better when Highlands kids move up from freshman to jv and varsity.

The play calling at Dixie is consistently puzzling.

So which player gets to run onto the field with that chunk of wood after this week? What's it called? The tooth pick?

It sounds as if DaMarcus Smith was never even hired as the head coach either. In a different letter to the KHSAA the Evangel superintendent said "Mr. Smith is not an employee of Evangel. If he were, he would be terminated."

Football program has been dissolved. Sounds like the superintendent is stating that DaMarcus Smith was never officially hired as football coach either, despite attempting to recruit players from other high schools while claiming to be the coach. Brandon Bender has also been terminated, and appears to have admitted to falsifying information on Kyran Tilly's eligibility application to the KHSAA by alleging that Tilly's family stated he was "subjected to abuse by his coach at his former school." Interesting stuff. Interesting stuff.

Evangel dissolved their football program.

N Hardin reached out to Douglass this week and offered to host on Friday after traveling to Douglass last year and Douglass waved them off.

I'm not trying to say in the least that kids from BGHS are bad kids. Like I said, it's just a really bad look for the school and football program. And I looked up honor code offenses, FWIW. The honor code at the Naval Academy is a set of formalized codes written to require midshipmen to honor integrity by refusing to "lie, cheat, or steal." So Carothers seemingly would have had to have either lied, cheated, or stolen to get dismissed for violation of the honor code. It's not an issue of him not making his hospital corners well enough on his bed in the morning.

Yikes! Big time football players out of BGHS haven't had a good look in recent years. Jamale Carothers gets booted from Navy for honor code violations, Vito Tisdale facing burglary and wanton endangerment charges here, and Nacarius Fant was found guilty on drug trafficking charges.

I've got it in pretty good info that they hired either a new principal or superintendent of schools for Evangel. When the new principal/supt asked why they weren't playing KHSAA football, the answer was "we have too many players that are ineligible to play KHSAA football". When she was given that answer, her response was "Well I guess we aren't playing football then." End of story.

The scoreboard shows 14 freshmen on the 65-player roster for DeSales in 2019. You're telling me they had 14 freshmen dressing varsity and still enough to field a freshman team?

Roster shows 65 in 2019.

It looks like their roster is up to date on the scoreboard. Showing 42 players. They usually seem to have more like 60 or so players from what I can remember in years past. Losing Coach Scroggins had to be hard on the team. I think they also lost some players when there was a to-do back in May over whether or not Davis was looking into the Butler job. I know at least one or two players are at Evangel now. I've heard rumblings about some heartburn between Davis and an administrator. Not sure if that's true or not though because the AD has been there for a lot of years, and the principal and assistant principal have been around for neighborhood of 5 years. That's not to say that something couldn't have potentially come up in recent months.

For as much as I like the pants on their uniforms, man those are some butt-ugly jerseys.

Good liking lids!

Right? 45 kids, and they're saying they have enough kids to field two completely separate squads?

Ever hear the phrase "parents are ruining sports"? The parents at Anderson County are who that phrase was written about. They're the folks who forced the AD to fire Peach who'd grown up in Lawrenceburg and was the winningest coach in program history. I wouldn't take the Anderson job for all the tea in China. They managed to dupe some poor guy from out of state into taking the job, and here it is less than 2 years later and we've got a case of a parent crying foul about the coach. All in favor of kids playing multiple sports. But if your non-school affiliated AAU basketball team has you missing football practice on the reg, should a coach not be able to assign some repercussions? What happens when the starting center and safety both ask to flake out on practice in August to go on vacation with friends and tell coach, "I mean, he's already missed 9 practices for AAU hoops. I'm just asking to miss 5 practices."?

No, that isn't safe for the kids. How in the hell do you prepare kids to play 4 games against 4 different teams in the course of 9 days? That's dangerous and irresponsible. They don't pull crap like that in college football, or even in the NFL. They're going to get kids hurt. This schedule shows how much DaMarcus Smith and Brandon Bender don't really care about kids and just want to try to make names for themselves. They're completely irresponsible and have no concern for the safety of their players. The fact that this is all going on at a Christian School tells me that the administrators of the school and church have no clue what they're into here. Apparently they want to spread the word of Christ by endangering children's physical well-being.

What does the KHSAA say about playing teams that aren't a member of the state's governing high school athletic association? I looked on the OHSAA site and Bishop Sycamore is not a member (which makes sense if they're taking post-graduate students on as a prep school). Assuming the KHSAA will have something to say if there are potentially 20 year olds on the field, especially after all the hub-bub surrounding the do-over year in Kentucky.

8/13 at Perry County Central - Scrimmage 8/20 vs. Martin County 8/27 vs. Clay County 9/3 at Williamsburg 9/17 vs. Hazard 9/24 vs. Floyd Central 10/1 vs. Middlesboro - D 10/8 vs. Knott County Central - D 10/15 at Morgan County - D 10/22 at Breathitt County - D 10/29 at Harlan