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The 2001 [Red Bird] team was featured on a great ESPN documentary about Kentucky high school basketball that doesn't seem to exist anywhere anymore.

Don't want to threadjack, so I'll just ask and maybe we can start a thread someplace. Anyone know more about this documentary or where it could be found?

Also seems like KET did a documentary on high school basketball around 1999ish. Are these the same?

Never won a district title but were runners-up to Bell County in 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999, and 2000. Beat Cawood in the region in 1992 before getting routed by Clay. Advanced to the region finals in 1998 and fell to Clay County by five. I might be incorrect but I think the 1998 team had a kid right near the top of the state in scoring. The 2001 team was featured on a great ESPN documentary about Kentucky high school basketball that doesn't seem to exist anywhere anymore.

Don't want to threadjack, so I'll just ask and maybe we can start a thread someplace. Anyone know more about this documentary or where it could be found?

Also seems like KET did a documentary on high school basketball around 1999ish. Are these the same?

I'll start and I admittedly have limited knowledge and observations of many Kentucky schools but I've seen the 9th for the better part of a decade so I will name who I think would make the All- Decade team. Feel free to name yours from your region

 

C. Ben Weyer- NCC 2016

F. Elijah Pittman- Holmes 2010

G/ F. C.J. Fredrick- Cov Cath 2018

G. Adam Kunkel- Cooper 2018

G. James Bolden- Holmes 2015

 

6th man- Nick Ruthsatz- Cov Cath 2014

Well....umm..that's a VERY good team right there. Well done. That team wins a lot of college games. I'd probably replace Weyer with that Drew kid he played with at NCC.

I didn't want to threadjack and post this in any of the other threads dealing with this thing. But, I have a question that I can't really seem to see anybody (at the professional level) addressing. But, ultimately, flattening the curve gets us to where? (And please don't confuse this with WHY we are trying to flatten the curve. I totally understand that.) This is more of a WHERE we are going. To me, there are several possibilities...

 

* Until a vaccine can be created?

* Until a "cure" can be found?

* Until additional medical equipment can be manufactured?

* A combination of any/all of the above?

 

Here's also several other key components that go into my question...

* A vaccine will likely take 12-18 months to get done

* A cure will not happen overnight, as they don't want it to lead to more deaths than the original virus. Hence the reasoning into looking into already approved treatments/drugs.

* It's been said we may hit our "peak" of the curve sometime in May.

* We could see anywhere from 100,000 to 200,000 people die from it.

 

So here's my quandary, let's just say 50 million people end up being infected by the time we reach October (figuring 5 months on the uphill side of the curve, and another 5 on the downhill side) due to more testing being available. That sounds like a huge number, doesn't it? But, in reality, it's only 1 out of every 6 people or so.

 

Meaning that if all of this social distancing is relaxed, it really only takes one unsuspecting carrier to start this ball rolling again, right? Am I missing something?

Great post, great questions. In my heart and mind, I want to believe we will be restarting things the beginning of May. Realistically, I have very high doubts about things being close to normal even in July. That's 3 more months like this, and I'm not sure our society could handle that.

On the bolded, I think the reason no one is addressing it, is because no one knows. There's nothing finite about this issue, so anything said is going to be a guess.

Personally, I think the "endgame" is going to have to happen sooner than many medical leaders would like because as a whole, Americans want what we want when we want it, and we are used to that. Not being negative there, that's just how we are used to living and I don't think a 6, 9, or 12 month "besafeathome" slogan is going to work

Had some great whiffle ball games back in the day, but for me it was a nerf football by a wide margin.

Great thread, great quotes. A few I may be heard to utter:

"What we have here is a failure to communicate." And I've never seen the movie, just love the line.

"Son, your ego is writing checks that your body can't cash."

"Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit drinking."

"Houston, we have a problem."

"And the hits keep on comin."

Friendly neighbors everywhere...

I've noticed this too. Everyone seems extremely friendly. I can't remember ever getting so many smiles and hellos from total strangers and I consider Cincinnati a pretty friendly city.

Tradition be damned, this is an excellent time to move baseball to the fall and football to the spring. Athlete health and safety, even the weather for both sports has always been perfect for it, so why not do it now?

zero chance that this would ever be given one second thought for many of the reasons listed by others, and many not listed. There are a ton of reasons not to do it, and No reason to even think about it.

If you want to start a good debate though, propose moving soccer to to the Spring and baseball and softball to the Fall.

Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop to take a look around once in a while, you might just miss it.

Life is like a box of chocolates, you're never gonna know what you get

Good stuff.

Looks like the Vikings sent you a media guide, that's a pretty comprehensive booklet (usually). That's pretty cool. Flip side, I loved the Green Bay response.

Some great ones so far. Love all these. I'll have to see if I can keep up

Not worried about the Virus. Hate how it is affecting the lives of our young people. Worried about their mental well being. For many, school and extra-curricular activities are their routine, their friends, and their safe haven.

In so many ways I agree with this. Great post. But things are different at the moment. I'm between a 4 and 5 because I have family members who are older but are smart folks with a plan, I'm lucky. I want to see how this plays out for a few weeks. Maybe we'll have a better idea then. For the kids, I couldn't agree more Hoops, they are basically going into a quarantine and they are not sure why. I really hate that, especially for seniors. But sometimes life changes our plan and that's when you learn to be strong

I would have disagreed if I was on here last night. The KHSAA did make a stand.

Yep. During one of his pressers during the girls Sweet 16, Julian was asked about Spring sports and maybe baseball specifically. He said they had been consistent about this all along, and until the start of the state tournament it would be a local decision.

The KHSAA stand on Spring sports is going to be no stand. This is a local decision up until the time district tournament play starts.

I wish they would do away with the rotating officials. That was Julian Tackett's idea.

This. It was a bad idea to begin with that has run its course.

Let's get to the biggest games of the year and bring in strangers who are going to call the game differently than it has been called most of the kids careers? Solid thinking there

Runcible Owl, I like your efforts to add more positive threads to the girls basketball forum. Well done.

It seems odd in today that this was the case, but a network TV 2 part move, or maybe it was a mini series from Stephen King scared me to death. Salem's Lot.

Early 80's and I was a youngster, but I still remember a lot of nights sleep being disturbed by this movie.

Poltergeist was rough on me.

Not a fan of slashers, but the first time I saw Halloween...

Terrible idea. It's not going to change attendance, as noted by a couple of you. NCAA tourny and Sweet 16 shared dates forever with no issue, now there is one? Cmon, man.

For the kids that play, still playing in March is awesome. It's basketball's month and the whole state is all basketball.

For the All 'A' schools this will make most of the season feel longer than the NBA playoffs. The good 'A' teams will just come off a regional tournament and possibly a state run, and then almost start right back over with districts.

For fans, I think most feel much more like driving an hour or so to go watch a few games in March than in Feb. Parking and walking to Rupp, much more pleasant (most of the time) in March than Feb. Nothing better than wearing shorts and walking in to Rupp to watch some HS basketball after listening to Marty call a Spring Training game on the trip down.

If we're a basketball state and we stay one class because of tradition, then keep the traditions....

Curious and all in fun, but I wonder what the ACT score is required in order to watch this game live and in the building? Lol. Or how much money could have been in attendance?

My opinion, it's not cheap at KI but I don't think it is outrageous either.

I like that they offer a ton of food and snack options (including many local and national places that many like. LaRosas, Skyline, Graeters (sp), Chik Fil A, Subway, etc.

I don't like that they "bundle" all their meals. Everything has to be a "meal", why can't I just get a slice of pizza? Or one dang coney? I don't think there's anywhere in the park that you can just go buy a hot dog.

Had a Cris Collinsworth jersey when I was a kid. Got it for XMas the year they made the Super Bowl I think.

Never bought one.

Tennessee was down 13 points with 5 minutes left in the game . When they were behind the cameras kept showing their fans and it looked like some of them were ready to blow a gasket!

Exactly this! I couldn't believe the looks on the UT fans faces, classic.

Still in, thanks Warm 98 for not playing it yet when I tune into Christmas music mode. Zero chance I win though...

I'm still in, but not a chance I win.