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With Trinity and Ballard rolling, the Eastern job comes with some pretty tough competition. I suspect Couch may have just had enough of the Louisville scene.

Does that mean Riley sets his sights on Christian County? That would seem like a pretty good match.

Bullitt East was actually the state runner-up. Preston seemed to do a good job there, and reports at the time indicated his ouster there may have been as much politics and personalities as anything else. His principal will be former coach Tim Schlosser and Franklin-Simpson has always been a football school. It seems like a good match.

Much more winnable region at Shelby County ...

Henley interviewed at Henderson County back in the 90s, before he got the Holmes job. Henderson picked Phil Gibson over him, as I recall. He was also a finalist at Marshall County a few years ago, when they hired Gus Gillespie. If Henley has any interest in coming back to the west, it might be for the McCracken County job, which comes open in the spring of 2013. I suspect he will be high on McCracken's list if he chooses to pursue it.

I had been wondering if Starns was safe, but figured that if Henderson was planning to make a change, it would've been done before now.

If you're good enough to compete, you're good enough to compete, unless you're playing schools with several times your enrollment ... besides, some schools choose to stay as small as they are. The numbers never seem to affect Beechwood much.

So what? Ohio is much more densely populated and has about three times the number of football schools that Kentucky does. Regardless of the enrollment differences, the classes aren't watered down by low numbers.

Are those three-grade or four-grade figures?

About 36-37, on average. If your math is correct, Ohio would have to go to 18 or 19 classes to be as watered-down as Kentucky.

Oops, looked at the wrong column. I saw Day play at the All A Classic, and while it wasn't one of his best performances, I have a hard time believing he's a better player than Paige. There was a situation in the 90s in Region 1 where a team had an exchange student that was probably the best player in the region, but the coaches didn't even put him on the 10-player all-region team because of ill feelings. I have no doubt that this is the case in this instance.

Paige didn't win the KABC 14th Region award ... there was a tie for the award between a kid from Buckhorn and another from Powell County. I guess we can figure that one out.

Scott County's fan support at the Sweet 16 has been way down in their last two visits. It was really evident in 2010 ... coincidence or not, it was when Scott had four transfers in the starting lineup.

Paranoid?

Jeffersontown in 2006 ... Central was the runner-up in 2009 and Ballard was in 2010.

Scott enrolled at Murray earlier this week. Some will interpret it as a family issue. Some don't see it that way. In any case, it doesn't seem to be an amicable parting.

I like the All A Classic, and it gives small schools two bites at the apple, so to speak. Just a few years ago, we had Clinton County make it to the state championship game, and there are often three or four small schools that make it to the Sweet 16. Lexington Christian won the title once or twice and Rose Hill made it to the finals one year ... I know, those are private schools.

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I'll be there for most of the tournament ... depends on how tolerable the guys in the seats next to me are. :lol:

Fulton City basically has no bench and was very patient with the ball, while Marshall played straight man-to-man and didn't do much to force the tempo. Marshall did a little of it the second half, enough to blow the game open.

How big of an upset is this, really? Woodford County has been a team on the rise since Johnson's return.

Who is this Deters guy?

Wow ... count me among the shocked.

I don't think one guy's experience will make that much of a difference. It will take a considerable upset to keep Madisonville and Hopkinsville from the final.

The region is Marshall County's to lose ...