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Trinity scrimmages Scott County on Aug. 11. What do they have? How did they look against X? What are their strengths?

Last year is done and over with - or at least it should be. Having said that though, I'll backtrack some and say that it is very questionable whether X had the best 4A team at the end of the playoffs last year. There was so much hype about how tough the west side of the bracket was that people forgot to see how well T was playing at the end, how much they had improved, and how X was vulnerable. I would invite a position-by-position comparison of the two teams (to include intangibles and coaching) effective the first week of December, 2005. I would submit that if X was better (conjecturally), it wasn't by much. I do indeed think T was better. End of story.

Graham Switzer injured his ACL in a preseason scrimmage (against LexCath, I believe) and never played a down last year. He is a big, fast kid and his loss, as well as injuries to other DLmen, really put T behind the 8-ball on that side of the line last season. He has graduated. I am not certain but I don't think he will playing ball in college.

Trinity PK Eddie Webb is walking on at Western Kentucky, I believe.

That puts the Dead Sea Scrolls to shame.

By the way, what is the record for the longest thread in the "Football" forum?

I understand that there were different combinations attainable. What bothers me (and I don't really care who plays whom and when along the way) is that KHSAA arbitrarily carved out a different system for half the districts (1 2,7 and 8) than for the other half, and then did not explain the seemingly odds-defying results until they were pushed. This is a big enough deal to warrant a full page in today's C-J sports section. Why the secrecy? It looks as if they were trying to pull something on the schools. A little more thought would have been nice for an agency that is quickly losing whatever credibility it once had.

The only thing "blind" about this draw was the vision of the KHSAA administrators who rigged the system and then didn't have the guts to tell anyone before or after (until now - after an outcry) how the thing worked. What's next - a shell game? It looks like CentreRocks' concerns have indeed

been validated.

Trinity and St. X have a very wide recognition. Their Alumni bases are huge and active. Students come to these schools for a variety of reasons and from a variety of influences. MANY are 2nd, 3rd or even more, generations imbedded in their loyalty to either X or T. As an example, in this year's senior class, there were 268 graduating. 68 of those Seniors' fathers attended Trinity, thats 25%. Of those 25% I know of quite a few who have other children who have either attended, are attending, or will be attending Trinity. Many others have fathers who attended St. X, who've chosen to "buck the system".

Rockmom, I believe the number of graduates was 368 plus a man who left high school in 1943 to fight in WWII who, per some state law, was permitted to graduate in the class of 2006, making a total of 369. (He did not play football.)

in 1968 Alan Hennessey of Trinity touched the ball 6 times and scored 5 TD's against DeSales, I believe it was. That season culminated in Trinity's first state title. Alan got a scholarship to Georgia Tech , as did LB Tommy Rittle, that year. I believe Alan had a pretty serious yards-per-rush average that game.

Will someone please explain how the playoffs work? Are the districts/regions/semi-states arranged more like basketball or football? Is every game an elimination game? Does a team ever have to win a series to advance? How many teams begin play? Are there limitations on how much a pitcher can pitch? I'll close now and await your responses. Thank you.

There is a difference between the situation of

Tony Driver and that of Nick Petrino and that is that Nick's entire family relocated to Louisville whereas, as posted previously, Tony was "adopted" by "someone" in Louisville (who apparently lived in Male's district or otherwise had the wherewithal to get him into Male). Probably, Tony was not "adopted" but rather had a legal guardian appointed for him who lived in Male's district. Did Tony's family relocate to Jefferson County or was it just Tony? I believe that for purposes of establishing residency for public school enrollment, JCPS looks to the residence of the student's guardian - which in most cases is obviously the parent(s). An overzealous coach or school official could conceivably see to it that a student, by causing a guardian to be appointed, "resided" in their district.

The gaurdian could be an aunt, grandmother, other relative or even "someone" not blood-related.

Without violating any rules or breaching any confidentiality dictates, what in general terms is alleged?

The Courier-Journal reported on 5/5/06 that Trinity's Grant Conliffe (QB) and Kyle Saylor (WR) have committed to Centre.

Even D3 and NAIA teams have kids who are 22, possibly 23, years old. They have what I call "man" strength. College teams run more varied schemes on both sides of the ball (e.g., zone blitz). You don't see any 155# DB's in college. The college game is much quicker and faster. The reaction times must be faster in colllege. College kids are big at all levels, with the D3 players being shorter than their D2 and D1 counterparts but strong and quick nonetheless. They have been lifting weights for years longer than 15-18 year olds. College teams would wear down high school teams. College players know their system better. The level of contact is much higher and intense in college. Many high school kids would leave the field crying after a few plays. Few colleges need to platoon. A .500 D3 team would thrash any high school team in the country. The worst D3 team might possibly lose on a bad day, but I would not bet on it.

Members of my immediate family have won multiple titles.

No offense meant to anyone, but will someone please explain what the fascination is with the rings? You've won, you know you've won, isn't that enough?

I did not see PRP's semi-final loss. PRP Coach Dale Mabrey, who evidently does not have a reputation for being a whiner, is quoted in The Courier Journal as very strongly questioning the last 3 fouls on Crutcher and their timing. Does he have a valid point?

Crutcher is a tough, hard-working kid along the lines of (but not at the level of)

Winston Bennett or Charles Hurt.

Last night, Male was to play J-town. Of the refs scheduled to work that game,

two were Male graduates. This fact became known to the powers-that-be, and the two refs were pulled. During halftime of the following game at (Louisville) Gardens, an official in some refereeing group confronted a referee working the 6th region semi-final, who also happened to be a Male graduate. Hostile words ensued, and I believe that both were then escorted from the gym. The ref who ended up working only half the game filed suit and obtained an injunction. I do not know against whom the injunction is directed or what action it orders to be done or prohibited. The plaintiff claims that he was accused of informing the J-town personnel that two of the officials were Male grads. He denies this, per his radio interview a short while ago.

Evidently because of the dust up occurring in the refs' locker room at halftime of a 6th region semi-final last night, an injunction was obtained by one of the refs in Jefferson Circuit Court, which has had the effect of postponing the final between Ballard and Jeffersontown, Apparently, the 6th region final between DeSales and Pleasure Ridge Park will be played as scheduled.

Two things won this game for Trinity: senior leadership and Coach Bob Beatty. This Trinity team was far from the most physically talented team that Trinity has had. But what it may have lacked in physical ability, it more than made up in

guts, character and senior leadership. I believe that there was a post earlier that intimated that these types of intagible qualities would not be able to overcome the 30+ shellacking that X put on Trinity in late September, that all the talk about "pride, loyalty, achievement and discipline " would prove futile and of no effect against the (allegedly) superior talent of St. X, that St. X's OL and DL would dominate and/or wear down Trinity's lines, and that St. X would summarily dismiss an impudent Trinity team that had the audacity to think it could compete with the team that had won 25 or so games in succession and was clearly on its way to establishing itself as one of the best, currently, in the USA and, historically, one of the best ever at St. X.

Well, Coach Beatty and Trinity's seniors had a slightly different take on this situation. The seniors were embarrassed by the Spetember blowout (despite mitigating personnel circumstances) and were offended by the subsequent slights and disrespect directed toward them from many points. These served to galvanize them in an effort to successfully end a season which many had written off. They have now succeeded in this endeavor, much in the same fashion that old Flaget High would prevail against St. X (the all-time series is 19-9 in favor of Flaget). The most physically talented team does not always win. This is what make sports great. Heart and desire are variables that computers cannot quantify.

Finally, for all those in the Louisville area and elsewhere who think that Bob Beatty cannot coach, I suggest that you study the past 6 years and how Trinity has fared in the 4A tournament. The job he did with this year's Shamrock team was nothing less than phenomenal, given the adversity he and the team encountered.