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3 of the 4 teams in the 16/under was N. Ky teams.

I looked back at some earlier posts, and it seems like there were more than four teams in the 16's age division. Did I miss something?

Carter and Kendall are from Dixie.

Sorrell is from Holy Cross

Zach Layne is from Simon Kenton

Craddock is from Lloyd

Congrats to these NKY boys. Where are the other kids from?

Was Dicky Beal on an NBA roster (maybe the Hawks?) Granted it was briefly, but I thought he played part of a season.

Isn't this thread mislabled? Is this the 33rd district, or am I wrong?

Have seen all three of the above mentioned and love them all, and clearly Curley is the POY. The only other player that I have seen that I like as a fourth (he isn't as good as the three everybody has mentioned) but I also like the second baseman for Simon Kenton. Don't know his name, but he impressed me with his glove and bat during the Doc Morris tourney.....

 

Nobody asked but.......Rookie of the year......

Luke Maile Catcher CovCath.......The young man can hit......

I'm pretty sure the second baseman for Simon is Rick Parrott. He's a junior, and I believe he's a three year starter.

I'm not sure what order I put them in but as of 5/2/06:

 

Curley, Blazejewski, and Farris are the top 3.

 

I think Farris may get my vote. I think he's hitting about .500 and is leading NKY in stolen bases and may lead in HRs.

Curley is my overall POY as of now.

Farris has great numbers, plays a great catcher (good position to be drafted in or get one of those hard to get full-ride baseball scholarships as well). He's the five-tool player Jim Bowden liked so much to talk about. Only knock on him is he's a sophomore. Not really a knock, I know. But how much will this affect POY voting?

Blazejewski just hits, and hits. Solid glove, solid arm. He's a very good player.

Final

WP - Drifmeyer

LP - Tolson

Thanks for the score, but if I pitched in an 11-8 win I'm not sure I'd want to be the guy with my name out front.

Probably this game had more to do with good offense, than pitching. Who were the guys who hit well? :thumb:

Haven't had the chance to taste a burger at a CovCath baseball game in awhile. Those at Ryle games are good though. In fact, Ryle has great grilling efforts during football games as well.

For food at a HS event, Ryle is very, very, tough to beat.

Actually, There is no mandatory slide rule in High School baseball. If there is contact at the plate and the umpire feels it is malious in nature he can throw the runner out of the game, but the runner is not automatically out for not sliding. Somebody with a rule book either confirm or correct me on this.

You said there is no slide rule. If you're sure, why look for confirmation?

A small correction, the CovCath/NewCath game was Week 4.

 

Last year, were there any 3A or 4A teams in NKY that beat a team they weren't expected to? Maybe Boone over Scott Co and Ryle over Dunbar, but those were mild upsets. No way they would have compared to CovCath upsetting Cincy X, Moe, or Watterson. I do agree CovCath did not secure a signature victory, but it would not have been easy to do against that schedule.

You chose to only quote a portion of my post, so let me state again, CovCath hired a coach to get them back to the state finals. They didn't hire the guy to beat the teams they beat most years already.

As for CovCath not having a signature win, please understand I still consider the Colonels a top NKY program and didn't mean to imply otherwise. It's getting hard to try to call them a top state program anymore though.

Sure beating X, Moe, or Watterson would have been hard, then why keep playing them? Certainly, why play all three in the same season? IMO limping into the playoffs with 6-4, and 5-5 type records (albeit against great competition) still hurts the program and has to take a toll on player confidence.

Finally, for upsets in AAA and AAAA. Off the top of my head, what about Dixie beating Ryle? Or better yet, Simon Kenton beating Boone County.

SM, not trying to be smart, but outside of Highlands and maybe Beechwood, who in NKY wasn't dazed and confused? CovCath posted some convincing wins during the season:

 

Boone W 50 -19

Dixie W 37 - 3

NewCath W 42 - 0

Beechwood 28 - 14

Highlands L 28 - 21

Agreed, but outside of Highlands and Beechwood, who in NKY has played with CovCath year in and year out?

IMO the Colonels most impressive win of the year came against NewCath and that was in week two or three. Not saying the Colonels regressed, but IMO CovCath didn't do anything except beat the teams they should have last season.

CovCath sought a new coach who would beat Highlands, LexCath, Rockcastle, and get back to the carpet. The 2006 football seniors were in the third grade the last time CovCath went to the finals.

Also, if CovCath is going to continue to play Moeller, Cincy St. X., et. al., I'm sure the administration, students, and alumni would like to see them win every once in awhile.

No disrespect at all to Boone County, Dixie, or NewCath, but CovCath didn't hire a new coach to beat those teams.

I am going to throw a couple things out there (for sheer sake of conversation)--nothing less/nothing more:

 

1. Following a legend (or at least a "local legend") isn't the easiest thing in the world. There has to be a few comparisons here/there.

2. Money. Now a private school may be able to supplement a coaches salary, but there has been talk in the past that suggests that Cov Cath doesn't play that way.

3. Maybe KY football ISN'T as EASY as the Coach R thought it would be. One could attribute (at least) some of the success that Cov Cath had to the change in system/philospohy. Remember--by the end of the year--some teams figured out how to stop the vaunted offensive genius.

4. To an Ohio guy--Ohio football will always be king (see the former Ludlow coach).

5. The plan could have always been to use Cov Cath as a stepping stone to a bigger/better job.

6. Cov Cath is NOT a football factory. Pretty much every program is established--and does well. Which means that some of the best athletes are never going to make football #1.

 

Again--these are random thoughts that have either crossed my mind (which I personally admit--mean nothing) or I have heard in conversation (which again means nothing). But there could be something to some of them.

I agree with a lot of what you posted. I doubt the money issue means much though, because he came from a fairly small private school.

I think number three on your list hits the nail on the head. He knew CovCath has a lot of nice athletes and thought that would be enough to leave the rest of NKY dazed and confused. Obviously the talent and coaching pool in NKY surprised him.

As far as why he was hired in the first place, didn't anyone at CCH notice that McNick was never a world beater in football? They had some success, no doubt, but in Kentucky CovCath is a pretty big time job (the private school pay thing hurts them a bit). I'd think they could find some candidates that would want to be ranked in the top 10 in AAA most every year.

On a side note... that's a classless thing for a coach to say it doesn't matter who he said it to from little league, knothole, highschool, college, or pro... it's uncalled for.

What are you talking about?

And they had just as many if not more the previous season. :eek:

Yeah, that's what I meant by the "super class" of the year before.

Mark Guttridge & Garrett Wagner for Ryle. Both hitting for high average and high on base %. Both very solid defensivly.

I know Ryle has a several really nice players, thanks for adding some names. But it seems CSHS81, has reaffirmed my assessment of Blazejewski.

Might be tough to get the Doc in tomorrow..or at least the first games.

 

Might have to play the second games first and the first games after that.

Hope they get the games in. Sounds like it may be a long day.

I was looking on JJhuddle and there was a list of Ohio h.s. signees for 2006 and what H.S. they played at and what college they are attending. I found some amazing information:

 

Glenville H.S in Cleveland, OH had 21 kids sign to play football at the next level.

 

This is the same H.S. where Tedd Ginn Jr is from (WR for Ohio St.) his father is the Head Coach.

 

Also, Cincinnati Colerain H.S. had 10 kids sign to play football at the next level.

 

Has any KY h.s. football team had this many kids sign to play college football?

 

Imagine coaching that much talent at the Prep Level.......:eek:

Having 21 kids from one class sign to play college football is amazing.:thumb: Almost as amazing as having that many talented kids in ONE class (they might have had a few good juniors as well.:sssh: ) and not making the state finals.

Colerain sending 10 kids off to play college ball is amazing as well. Especially, since this was the year after their "super class" went through. They reload with a bigger weapon than anyone in Ky. has.

I wanted to vote, but didn't see an eight class system. Heck, do I hear 10, let everyone win a state title! Then, we can keep talking about Kentucky being a football state. BTW I wonder what would happen if football went to only one class for a few years? My guess is we'd see a drastic decrease in the number of kids participating. Not saying that's a good thing, but I don't like the idea of adding classes.

And before anyone thinks I'm knocking football as a sport, let me state, it's my favorite spectator sport. Particularly at the high school level.

With my rant out of the way, I'd like to see three classes. But, since that won't happen I hope it stays at four classes. I think we've become too saturated as it is, and I'd hate to see it get worse.

I understand numbers matter more in football than any other sport, but we're going overboard here. In baseball, it's a lot easier to find two stud pitchers every year in a school of 900 boys than 400 boys (law of probability). Yet schools with those numbers compete for the SAME state title.

Same goes for every other sport, the more kids you have to choose from, the more likely you are to find good players. Yet no other sport even has four classes, and we're talking about adding more for football?

Also, remember that the NKY POY is divided up into 2 categories. One for 1A schools and the other for 2A-4A. So include one for each category.

If it's divided this way, I think Curley is a mortal lock in class A. His stiffest competition would come from teammates Sawyer and Muth, I would guess. Is Muth healthy and playing, haven't seen his name in the paper in the early going?

Among the bigger schools, I guess with Bleser missing a lot of time, it's wide open. Farris at Boone (or is he too young), Blazejewski at CCH, and Keener at Dixie seem like they have had stand out years thus far. I'm certain I'm missing several candidates from the larger schools though.

I think Curley is the overall POY.

Last year it was rained out. But they made it up, but some teams did not participate due to other schedueled games or in other tourneys.

 

And the Championship location is no longer at Champion Window Feild it is now at SK.

What happened to force the change?

Nah, with all due respect, it was a myth. I had an overweight, slow and not very talented nephew ( I hope he doesn't read this site) make it through Duffy's training and if he could do it, any likewise determined player could have done it to be honest. Don't get me wrong, it was very tough, but not as tough as some detractors of Duffy make it out to be. Don't get me wrong; I'm not an advocate of Duffy's philosophy- I prefer Dale's style. But I do feel compelled to comment on the Duffy cutting (whether outright or by running kids off) issue.

You were closer to the program during Duffy's tenure than I was, so I certainly trust your insight. And, I'm not a Duffy detractor, I think he was a great football coach at all his stops. I agree with you though, that I like Dale's style better.

With all that being said, can you tell me why Duffy's numbers were so low at Highlands, if he didn't cut, or "run" players off?

1. Unseld.

2. Griffith.

3. Houston.

4. Chapman.

All four went on to solid careers in the NBA. I'm not sure how long "the King" played in the league. I bet it isn't close to any of these guys though.

Shining stars were a very good team,I thought Indiana Elite took alot out of them in the semi-finals, they had no legs in the second quarter of the championship game.

Don't they have 10 guys to go to? How do you get tired only playing half the game?

I was very impressed with the Derek Smith All Stars. They played a fantastic game to win the championship. They have so many weapons and shoot the ball very well.

 

That was the first loss of the season for Kentucky Shining Star Sports. They are now 8 wins and 1 loss.

Since you're keeping track. How many of those wins came against younger teams?

I'm not sure if there are any, but these guys were close. Tony Key, Brandon Bender, Carlos Hurrtt, Dontae Smith. Not sure where they ended up, but none were in college for more than a minute. Smith went JUCO to NBA route.