OldRebel

I went to a get together for the NKY homebrewers this summer and the all grain thing looks like chess compared to the checker world of extract brewing. I will eventually try it out but it won't be until I get out of my condo.

I saw you and gabby on their website and was cracking up! You look like your prepping for a final.

Havent been yet, but will be heading to the levee this week and will check it out.

I live in Independence. Independence is certainly primarily white anglo. I think "largely from rural poverty" is a bit of an overstatement though, and should not be used to try to play this off as some kind of allegation that these actions are being conducted by "poor uneducated white trash" or anything like that. There are bits and pieces of rural poverty left, undoubtedly, but still, to name a "few" of the subdivisions in Independence:

 

1 - Alamo

2 - Alderbrook

3 - Aosta Valley

4 - Ashford Village

5 - Battle Ridge

6 - Beauty View Acres

7 - Beechgrove

8 - Bristow Lakes

9 - Canberra Ridge

10 - Claiborne

11 - Clover Ridge

12 - Clover Trails

13 - Cody Meadows

14 - Country Club Estates

15 - Courthouse Estates

16 - Deanna's Ridge

17 - Falcon Ridge

18 - Farmview

19 - Freedom Park

20 - Freedom Trail

21 - Forest Run

22 - Glenhurst

23 - Golden Ridge

24 - Greens of Glenhurst

25 - Hartland

26 - Harvest Hills

27 - Hickory Valley

28 - Hillcrest

29 - Independence Pointe

30 - Independence Ridge

31 - Janlee Acres

32 - Kelly

33 - Lakefield

34 - Lakeside at Independence Condos

35 - Liberty Orchard

36 - Maher Meadows

37 - Manor Hill

38 - Meadow Glen

39 - New Haven

40 - Old Kentucky Home

41 - Pembroke Village

42 - Plantation Heights

43 - Reveres Crossing

44 - Ridgeview Acres

45 - Saylor Woods

46 - Shadybrook Bluffs

47 - Shadybrook Trails

48 - Shaw Estates

49 - Sipple Manor

50 - Sycamore Creek

51 - Tilford Hill

52 - Trails of Glenhurst

53 - Troopers Crossing

54 - Williams Woods

55 - Woodcutters Crossing

56 - Wood Dale

There is another 40 that have been approved and not yet broke ground on. The housing bubble pop, slowed if not stopped the sub division madness. Kenton County seriously needs to consider another High School soon, SK is WAY overcrowded as it is...

Spring. Track and Baseball coaches hate it because it robs them of talented athletes who want to play a real sport:p

My little ones are still toddlers, but they do have lax sticks already! I do follow the Warriors on FB. And I will be trying to get my middle aged butt into a box league once again..... getting old sucks.

I'm sorry to hear Casey is out for the year. My son was Casey's team mate two years ago on two different teams. He carried Casey off the field when he was injured in Louisville.

 

My son has competed against Moss since the days of the chargers and knights, then the mustangs and broncos. He has all the tools to be great.

 

If I were a Boone parent, given the state of the program today and the issues two years ago around the selection of starting qb, I would be severely tempted to publicly call for change at Boone. But I am not a Boone parent, so it is not my place.

 

Boone has a very rich and proud tradition that rivals that of even Highlands. They get tremendous talent almost every year. They do not perceive a need to commit to a down field pass offense. They just do not engage with the youth program. In order to develop a QB, you have to start at about grade 6.

 

If the status quo persists much longer, kids and coaches will leave.

I will not send my sons to play for them. I am currently in the house hunting process, and BCHS district is not an option. It is sad as I am very proud of my days there, but the program is not evolving, and if your not moving forward, your moving backwards.

Well I hope so at any rate. I played club in hs and college and have two little ones who I expect will want to as well. I pray that Ryle or Cooper will have a program in place by the time they are old enough. If not, CCH or crossing the river is an option.

Maybe, we probably will never know as Boone County and Ryle generally do not play 1A and 2A schools.

Boone will still be a better team than most after they lose to CCH and Male in the next two weeks, and Ryle is a better program for playing and losing to DeSales and Colrain.

I think Ryle has the hardest schedule this year, that being said, I would take an 0-4 Boone County squad that has played serious competition over a 4-0 team that beaten a bunch of cupcakes.

Simon Kenton had a run of bad teams back in the 90s as well. It was usually a battle of the winless in Kenton Co between them and Scott. Now they have great program going! So all these teams listed can at least know that it wont always be this way, and that they are building the foundation for the programs future.

Hate to see talented young athletes make the wrong decision over and over again. At some point you just have to quit holding their hand and let them go. My guess is he will be D3 or NAIA sooner rather than later.

I moved from EKY upnorth when I was still young. I took a lot of crap for my accent so I notice alot of little things that I think are funny. The one that I hear every day without fail is people add an "s" to the end of grocery store names, such as Kroger(s), Meijer(s) & Wal Mart(s)

Thats what I like to see!