PepRock01

And when some of us try to help people be a bit more reasonable in their expectations we get people all mad at us for trying to the straight man in this narrative. I seem to recall this moment in the 2014 state game.

I agree, but first real game with a new team and new school is different than practice and a scrimmage. Besides, people need to remember that Beatty lost his first game at Trinity in 2000. This sort of thing is not unusual.

That's one of the things that I have been thinking. We are looking at a squad with a new head coach, playing with a new offense, and without their starting QB. I think that the X squad we see by the end of the season will be much different than the team we see now as they get more comfortable with everything. Not to take anything away from the Colts, I was stoked to see this, but I think people are still overlooking those details.

To be fair this is technically out of state.

Wow!

Only good teams in Indiana are further north, down by the river they don't care at all.

1953

I love it!

On top of all of that Wallace has experience and a history of success as a coach. While Wolford's heart may have been in the right place and he may have been a great player that doesn't translate automatically to coaching ability. I think Wallace is much better prepared for the challenges ahead of him.

Our most successful coach of all time was an "outsider," let's not cast stones on this one.

You do realize that their district makes ours look like paper mache, right? We have to go farther on account of that. I think the top teams were tougher for us for sure but the weakest teams were waaay weaker, but there is no question that if you average it out they were pretty close overall.

It could be that Coach Wallace doesn't want to make too many changes right off the bat, more gradual. I mean Wolford tried a bunch of changes in his first year that didn't really turn out too well. Of course I could be remembering that completely wrong, so I may have missed something there.

2004 2003 was Brian Brohm's senior year,T won state against X 17-14.

That would have been Dixie Heights 2004 actually.

Considering my senior year was his first season I feel ya.

This fall will be Bob Beatty's 18th season at Trinity.

This is a great hire for St. X. Wallace sounds like a great fit based on what I have seen and definitely will bring X to new heights. I for one am happy for X.

KY's obsession with small schools has a lot to do with this too, in KY they want to keep most schools no larger than 1000-1200 students so they just build a new school and split them up...as opposed to adding on and hiring enough teachers to keep the ratio where it should be.

So why exactly is most of the state so dead set on restrictive boundaries instead of just letting all funds follow the student from public school to public school? I have never understood it in areas with larger school districts, if you only have 1 school I get it but if there is more than 1 why not just allow for it? Or better yet, if you live near a county boundary then you could go to the neighboring school system... having 120 counties is absurd anyway with our population (but that is another discussion).

It's not and I agree they shouldn't be calling then state titles.

If we want to brag about having just ONE state champ in basketball and having no classifications then you cannot logically call the All A Tournament, as amazing and great an event that it may be, a state championship. Then you are in a logical fallacy. I have no doubt the quality of play, level of competition, quality of teams, intensity, or anything of the sort. Winning the All A is an amazing accomplishment and hanging a banner of being "All A Tournament 2018 Champions" is 100% fine and I would encourage it. You just can't call it a state championship as it is not recognized as such by the only relevant HS Sports governing body in KY. Trinity has won a number of "titles" in club sports but they aren't official state championships and if any of those sports were ever recognized they would still not be considered state championships. That is fine, and I have no issue with it.

See above.

It's not football, I don't really care. I am just arguing a point of detail not passion. HSBBall is irrelevant in my world. I just want things to be given their proper names.

So KY has 2 state champs? Well we better start labelling things accurately then. No more of this "One state champion" nonsense.

So you are saying that Kentucky crowns more than one state champion im basketball? Sort of undoes the mythos of the Sweet 16 and our "One State Champ" mindset doesn't it?