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Great move for Western. Let's face it ... this is the only circumstance in which the Hilltoppers would be able to hire a football coach of Petrino's caliber.

I wish Kentucky would've hired Petrino ... he was, by far, the best coach available.

Have some whine with your cheese, Torii. Not much money left for outfielders who are my age and bat .240 with 9 home runs.

Phillips is best suited for the 2 hole than any other place in the lineup...

Count me in the minority, I guess, but the Stoops hire doesn't excite me. Florida State isn't exactly dominating the SEC and the Seminoles' defense hasn't fared all that well against the top teams on their schedule. To be honest, the Stoops name lacks the cache it had several years ago.

As for Jones ... good luck with that. Tennessee is becoming a meat grinder job.

I was of the feeling all season that Central was probably the best team in the lower three classes, with Mayfield and Bell County probably the next two in line. However, Central's series of close calls in the playoffs and watching the two teams on state championship weekend makes me think that Mayfield was, at the very least, Central's equal.

Jackson is a two-way player, which makes him much more valuable than a guy that plays on just one side of the ball. If we're rewarding the best prospect, then I am sure Quick is the guy. If we're rewarding the guy that accomplished the most on the high school level, Jackson has to be a serious contender for the award.

I'm really hoping he fails his physical. Way too much money. I know the team is trying to add good clubhouse/character guys and Victorino is certainly that but I just don't think he's worth that.

How would people from Owensboro Catholic feel if it was posted that Owensboro won a game instead of Owensboro Catholic?

This years attendance figures show me one thing - location matters.

 

BG and Caldwell County are the two closest schools to the venue. They showed up to support their teams.

 

The numbers in the 4A game spiked due to the support of the Collins program which is just a few years in the making.

 

Print me a list of numbers and I look for trends or deviations. The attendance figure that sticks out to me and skews the data for the last three years is the 2010 4A game. What in the world happened to have the ACS-Boyle game have an attendance figure that is nearly double the other years.

There is no such thing as a "select class" in any state ... no one in Kentucky wants it, either. Let's just go back to four classes ... the state title games, and football in general, were better then.

I saw Mayfield play both Beechwood and Fairview ... I would pick Beechwood to beat Fairview, without a doubt.

“They feel like they have more athletes and, to be honest, they do,” Goldsmith said. “In eastern Kentucky, our kids have to work harder. They play harder, too.”

 

That is the biggest load of crap I have ever read on BGP. Give me a break.

I might add that Caldwell County should probably try to emulate the gameplan that Hazard had last year when they beat Mayfield in the 1A state final.:popcorn:

Caldwell County runs the Tony Franklin system ... Caldwell's coach, David Barnes, is a good friend of Franklin's and has used the offense since he was at Daviess County. Elijah Sindelar is the quarterback, a 6-4 sophomore that is a good athlete, very mobile and can scramble and buy time for his receivers. Jaylen Boyd is the tailback and is also a sophomore. He's a quick back who can carry the ball 20-25 times a game or more if needed. Tez Sivels is the Tigers' best receiver and their money guy in the passing game ... he made a great one-handed catch in the end zone for a touchdown in the Murray game and caught a 70-yard pass that finally put away the game with DeSales.

The Tigers have a young defense led by defensive end Cole Webster, the only senior starter on that side of the ball. Caldwell has a lot of sophomores and juniors at the other positions and a very talented and athletic freshman, Dee Cain, in the secondary.

Those stats are not accurate but close enough.

 

Jackson had 30 for 213.

 

Nussbaum had 21 for 102.

It sounds like Marshall has a bunch of injuries, so they might get off to a slow start.

I've been looking forward to this rematch since the clock read 00:00 last year. Nussbaum and Jackson have had MVP careers and will forever be mentioned in the lore of these two storied programs. This is gonna be a slug fest! Beechwood makes more plays and earns another test next week. Beechwood 35 Mayfield 14

If it's not a reasonably close game, I'll be surprised.

Like you said "good teams have a way of making opponents pay for mistakes", of course you didn't say that about Monroe.

Probably because he's seen a lot of players and not many like________

 

 

I don't know where the misconception comes from that Monroe can't throw the ball. We haven't thrown the ball much because we haven't had to. We have rushed for nearly 4,000 yards. Why pass when we have had so much success running? Ask PT if Monroe can pass. They loaded the box so we started throwing the ball and running a read pass that gave Chad the option to throw or run and had success in doing so, Monroe out scored PT 22-0 in the second half.

It will be an uphill climb no doubt, but Monroe will come to play and pack the house. That much you can be sure of....

Two of Monroe's three touchdowns in the second half came off a muffed punt and a fumble, as I understand it.

And before I get accused of it, I am not disparaging Monroe. I am simply stating facts, and good teams have a way of making opponents pay for mistakes.

Monroe played Warren East this year. East's LB's hold multiple scholarship offers including a SEC offered Soph. I think Monroe may have something Central has not seen the likes of...Chad Wilson.

Chelsey Shumpert of Paducah Tilghman has signed with Chattanooga.

You would... Monroe's defense is built to handle what Central does best. It'll be a battle but the starting D has give up 20 points or more only twice and PT scored on two deep passes in the first half. But like I said I wouldn't expect you have to have anything good to say about Monroe, you never have...

The two best teams Monroe has played, Warren East and Paducah Tilghman, put up 26 and 20 on the Falcons, both games in Tompkinsville. Do you think they're going to hold Central to half of that, in Louisville?

If Tilghman put up 20 points on Monroe in Tompkinsville, I'm going to have a hard time imagining Monroe holding Central to 10 points in Louisville.

If I am Frankfort, I drop a couple 1A schools and add two more higher class tough opponents to the schedule to get the team prepared for this type of game. That was a very good Frankfort team that Beechwood beat last night.

Franklin County made it to the third round of the playoffs. So did Danville. Green County and Lexington Christian were ranked in 2A for much of the year. Rockcastle County is normally a solid opponent, especially for a Class A school, but they're in a down cycle right now.

I hear you but the facts are - Cabrera had 14 more HR's, 56 more RBI's, a better AVG, a better OBP, a better slugging percent, and a higher OPS (obviously) than Trout. Trout stole more bases and scored more runs so he deserves the award? I think Cabrera deserved it and the margin of victory is appropriate.

And Trout has Cabrera beat by a wide margin in areas like defense and baserunning. The MVP doesn't go to the best hitter. It's supposed to go to the best player.

Personally, I'm dismayed the media made it such a rout. Trout deserved much more support.