tcjkbt

4 minutes ago, TheDeuce said:

Stoops has elevated Kentucky Football far beyond where it was when he took over, there really is no debating that. He has raised the floor of UK Football by a significant amount. 

That being said, you know what you're going to get from him at this point. 6-6 to 8-4 most years, consistently in a bowl (even if most of them are in Nashville), and every handful of years you'll get a 9 win season with a better bowl game. 

What's the alternative? Basketball is king at UK, so no "big name" coach is coming there for football. I'm not aware of any UK grads that are in the coaching ranks anywhere close to leading a D1 football program, so your best bet would be taking a chance on a young, enthusiastic coordinator. That has its obvious challenges. The additions to the SEC and the doing away of divisions aren't going to make matters any easier for UK. 

Mark Stoops will be the coach at UK for as long as he wants to be. Barring a stretch of multiple losing seasons, UK will never fire him. Based on him having two feet out the door to A&M, I'd imagine he will leave long before there's any real chance of UK cutting ties with him. 

I agree with most of your post.    But Neal Brown at WVU and Jon Sumrall at Tulane are  head coaches and UK grads.   There may be others....I don't know.

Features two of the best guards in the state, King and Perry.

Is it me or is this broadcast heavy on commercial time?

Per Jason Frakes Trinity came from 16 points down in the 4th quarter to win in OT.

Four games are on tap today:

Consolation Final:  Male vs. Harlan County

5th Place:  Newport vs. Trinity

3rd Place:  Fairdale vs. Bowling Green

Championship:  Great Crossing vs. Little Rock Central  

Thank you for the extensive coverage you have provided on the KOB.

1 hour ago, SHAMROCK69 said:

You are 100% accurate with your assessment of Brady McEnaney. He was so deserving of better.

Did he make the 2nd or 3rd team, I wonder?

The WKU receivers made some outstanding catches.    

Bring back David Padgett for the rest of the season.   I think you need someone who is not affiliated with the current staff to be the interim HC.

That is a nice honor.

Good for Holy Cross!

Per the article you cited, he did not become eligible until the second playoff game of his junior year.

Just now, tcjkbt said:

3 hours ago, TheDeuce said:

He got snubbed because he played in Louisville for Trinity...

Also, if I remember correctly, he was not initially found to be eligible and therefore had to sit out his entire junior year at Trinity.   That absence had to have hurt his recognition factor among the Mr. Football voters.......not saying it caused him to lose the award but certainly didn't help, either.

3 hours ago, TheDeuce said:

He got snubbed because he played in Louisville for Trinity...

It was a bad look.   Keep that stuff for the locker room.

8 minutes ago, DevilMayCare said:

You could argue strong cases for Rondale Moore and AJ Mayer in 2017. 

D'mauriae VanCleave had a fantastic year for Danville, but that selection hasn't aged well.

It's hard to make a case for anyone being snubbed in 1994, because it went to Shaun Alexander that year. But Chris Redman was one of the most celebrated quarterbacks in state history. There's probably only a few years where Redman wouldn't have won Mr. Football, and '94 was one of them.

I was going to mention Rondale Moore, too.

Trinity at Atherton, Friday at 7:30.

10 hours ago, Runcible Owl said:

The Tigers are averaging an impressive 96+ points per game during their 5-0 start.

They're like the high school version of Loyola Marymount and Kevin Klein is Paul Westhead.

Granted the video may not give a true and acurate picture of what went on during, before and after the fracas,  but I did not see any fisticuffs or punches or the like.   I was expecting a lot worse.

This is the kind of loss the selection committee in March can refer to when defending a lower seed for UK.

16 minutes ago, Tigerpride94 said:

Ratings sweep the championship games and only got one wrong in semifinals. Pretty good to end the season. 

Very good indeed.    Congratulations.

Plummer had me audibly cursing at the TV last night.   I think the injury to Thrash hurt UL more than a lot of people realize.    UL's play, I thought, dropped off a little in the last third of the season.   I hope Brohm can get what he needs from the portal (will need NIL money) and from the high school recruits.   He showed IMO a tendency to recruit Kentucky players while at Purdue, and I hope he continues that trend.

In some years  I think Trinity's demanding early season schedule did not necessarily helped the team's development as it just overwhelmed the players.    However, I believe it did help this year especially with regard to the freshman QB.    It's almost unbelievable that Trinity started a 15 year old QB and won the state with him.   I never thought I would see that at Trinity.    I have to give the staff a lot of credit for the way they brought him along.   Having a bunch of seniors helped, too..

St. X is starting out like a house afire.

6 minutes ago, 16thBBall Fan said:

During this 4-year run Boyle Co, is 53-3. Boyle has now won 20 straight games their last loss was October 28, 2022, a 37-6 loss at home to Frederick Douglass. That's a heck of run they have going currently.

The thing about runs is that each opponent brings their best, and that makes continuing the run more impressive.