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North Hardin has been moved to the district with Manual X and PRP according to the CJ

Saying Trinity is in Louisville is an advantage over Boyle and Frederick Douglas seems to gloss over a few things like St X, Male, Manual, Louisville Christian Academy, DeSales, KCD, Central, Atherton, Ballard, PRP, Eastern and all the other schools in Jefferson County. There is an opportunity for good football players to be a part of State championship team a lot of different ways in Louisville.

PRP schedules X and Manual in district and Male and Ballard out of district, although Male was in district for many of Coach William's seasons. That's a pretty tall order to fill each year. Finding a coach winning at his current school who wants to work for an AD who fires the last coach for not consistently winning against that schedule won't be easy.

The students at Atherton kept the hippie movement alive way past 1979. Its a unique place and a very good school. Pretty excited for their football team.

The Phoebus coach's comments trying to explain his actions in the press make his decisions look worse, not better. If you believe him, he had so little character that he "gave in" to a classless act he knew was classless because the kids wanted it. So he made the decision but is blaming the players.

The Creek rose!

No punishment. Adults need to be able to make responsible decisions for there players. Kids get hurt more often in games when teams are completely out matched. An 0-10 team usually has fewer players and less talented players. Beating their heads in against a #1 seed has real risk to kids whose hearts make promises there rear ends can back up. And as the One seed substitutes fresh kids who want to prove themselves they continue to pound the 0-10 team. Its not a positive any way you cut it. Football isn't basketball or soccer. Getting the heck beat out of you isn't just hyperbole.

If all that will happen is a severe butt kicking and kids getting hurt, I think its a reasonable move to withdraw. The coach stepped down mid season and the program is having severe problems. https://www.falmouthoutlook.com/school-sports/pettit-steps-down-wildcats-football-coach

Given concussions are such an issue, I am surprised the old rule isn't strictly enforced. Not wearing a mouth guard is pretty dumb. In addition to protecting teeth, research shows they also help prevent concussions. Risking an injury and missing 3 weeks in a concussion protocol to look cool is pretty dumb. https://www.ucalgary.ca/news/mouthguards-do-more-just-protecting-teeth-youth-ice-hockey#:~:text=Two styles of mouthguards tested&text=Both protected against concussion%2C reporting,and not the custom dental.

I think it was 2016 when a winless Muhlenberg County team traveled to Louisville to play St X. It was Desmond Ridder's senior year. No one got anything out of that but an uncomfortable 5 hour round trip bus ride and a beat down that could not be avoided. Just about every team making the playoffs leads to these types of games. 15 games and July to December is a lot to ask of high school kids. Shorting the season by shorting the playoff a week would be good. Get it done Thanksgiving weekend

$10 to $15 bucks is fine. A frustrating thing today isn't so much the price but the requirement at some places that the ticket be bought exclusively online. I have seen older folks standing at the gate trying to figure it out give up and go home.

If you think that call needed a replay I think you are asking for a pretty low bar. And 1 or 2 bad calls are errors, 7 to 10 by the same guy in one game is a pattern.

X had plenty of chances to win... like forcing a fumble and recovering it with 20 seconds left! This has every appearance of an integrity of the game issue. And it wasn't a single bad call by this guy which makes it wreak.

X made mistakes that should have prevented the loss but this was the most one sided poorly officiated game I have ever seen. How from any angle in the stadium could that fumble be ruled as down? The running back was standing up all by himself. The same official who made the just plain awful call on the fumble made one sided bad calls all night or odd errors that effected the game to Manual's favor. He had an inadvertent whistle that stopped play right as X snapped the ball on a 4th and 9 ( X converted anyway after the play was reset). And called the excessive celebration call when X scored with 33 seconds left giving Manual 15 on the penalty. ( High school kids shouldn't get excited about touchdowns in the ;last minute should they) And the same official delayed play several times for reasons no one could understand when Manual happened to need a time out. It didn't appear to be "mistakes". The fumble wasn't even a close call. If the KHSAA doesn't want people to question official's integrity or competence that guy needs to be retired.

Atherton should continue to improve each year. Its a very good school and as Catholic school tuition rises and the admissions to magnet schools in JCPS embrace different criteria Atherton's talent pool should grow. T

The KHSAA using this nonsensical rating system to seed teams is a joke. There are several teams above past opponents that crushed the higher team. Male dominated Ballard 34-3 and has a better record overall but is ranked below PRP. X beat Ryle soundly last weekend and Ryle is 2-4 overall but several spots ahead of X. Trinity destroyed Bryan Station 36-3 and whooped X 45-10 but is rated below both as well as a Henderson County's 1-5 mark. And Trinity has played 4 teams in the top 20 in this rating system. Meade County is 5-1 but well below Henderson who is 1-5 so I guess that is based on the 1 point head to head loss by Meade to Henderson? This index has no appearance of a legitimate basis in math or reality.

Is Zeek Washburn injured or no longer playing at Manual?

Quite a few Catholic school kids have been playing optimist football because the CSAA is so poorly run. As an example, last year there were no officials scheduled for games on several Sundays including playoff games. The teams had to wait 2 hours for officials to show up at St X for the 8th grade semi finals. It was joke. No one apology to the parents and grandparents and there were no consequences.

Not sure what is meant by "traditional ways of building a roster" ? Trinity didn't win many, is any, freshman games last year, fired their freshman coach and hired a guy coaching an optimist team who brought a bunch of optimist kids with him. Is that a traditional approach? Kids on Trinity's freshman team last year are starting varsity this year. The team struggled but there was talent. Freshman develop, or don't. It's a game every one wants to win but its neither a crowning moment or the end of the world for the next 4 years. X's freshmen have some talent and hopefully it develops. Trinity's freshman talent is deep. But you never know what happens over 4 years.

Trinity's stadium holds around 4,000 St X's holds around 6,000. Attendance has dropped in the past 10years but its still between 15,000 and 20,000 so its pretty clear the game needs to be at Cardinal Stadium.

X's O line and running game looked very strong. X made a few mistakes but played hard. No one likes to lose but this game should help X as the season progresses. Elder and its QB ran the ball extremely well (like they did that against St Edward the week before). Elder's O line was darn good.

Moments like these led to some policy changes, and unfortunately violence near the end of High School football games is a national trend. https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/preps/kentucky/2021/08/26/western-high-sets-fan-limits-after-incident-resulted-in-forfeit/8241097002/

Cardwell Gardner was in the NFL for years from the'80's teams. I thought Trinity's senior QB this year started last year and some as a sophomore?