Panther8404

It is a vicious cycle considering that the potential to be berated in the work environment is one factor contributing to the officials shortage.

Commissioner Tackett makes it a huge point of emphasis in the yearly rules clinic that referees criticizing other referees happens far too often and something the KHSAA does not wish to tolerate. What the potential penalties are and just how frequent this is I do not know.

They are in the NCKC, not the NKAC. With that being said, they did play every team you listed this season. NKBBCA does not have any scheduling requirements that I am aware of and is not part of the "conference" discussion.

Speaking for the actual NKAC Division III schools (Bellevue, Calvary, Dayton, Heritage, Ludlow, Silver Grove, Villa Madonna) the conference games are definitely big games for them. The districts can often be a struggle for the smallest of schools. Not that district games are not important, and that those teams cannot win a district, but the year in and year out chances of winning the conference give those kids something else to work and grow towards. With all of that being said, I have gotten the impression on here in the past that divisions II and I are a different story so I can only speak with confidence to DIII.

Yes, the last time they made region was the 08-09 season. Great job Panthers!

Neither game may very well prove to be all that close, but Newport beat Holy Cross on a buzzer beater in the 9th region All A final a few weeks ago. It was a really fun, well-played game!

Prayers for him, his friends and family, and the entire Lynn Camp community.

Hathaway was a senior last season.

It is hard to speak in absolutes about no one caring about this. A lot of this depends on the particular school we are discussing. If I am an administrator at a large catholic school and I know that one of the means that I rely on for attracting students to my school is athletics, there is all the more incentive to draw winning programs. I might have a heck of a nice guy as my head coach but if he strings together a couple of "poor" seasons, I'm going to be quicker to pull the trigger on a change. That is not to say that other schools can simply accept mediocrity, but I'd take a little more time to decide if the down swing is because of poor coaching or because of the cyclical nature of talent that most schools experience.

In my experience over the last nine years as a varsity head coach, doing these things and winning go hand in hand. To borrow a line from Roddy Piper, the X's and O's aren't "rocket surgery". The part that takes some work is capturing your team as a whole and the individuals that comprise your team. Winning is important but lets not lose sight of the fact that we are representing high schools. The vast majority of the kids we coach will not go on to college to play and next to none of the ones that do will play professionally. As coaches we have an opportunity to teach lessons that will stick with them well past their playing days, and in doing so, will be able to teach them to win.

Schools currently have the option of two scrimmage games and no bye week or one scrimmage game and one bye week. Honestly, under the current format, the 1A and 6A schools are playing an entire season of scrimmages prior to the playoffs. This is essentially true for a majority of schools in the other classes who only have to beat out 1 or 2 teams from their district to make the tournament, and who can probably get past those 1 or 2 teams fairly easily. With this in mind, I really wouldn't like to see a mandatory second scrimmage while not allowing a bye week for teams to allow 15 to 18 year old bodies to heal up from what could be a stretch of 17 straight weeks of football games (2 scrimmages, 10 regular season, 5 playoffs).

Eads is one of the finest young men in NKY. He is a great asset to the Ludlow Panthers and will do great things in his post-secondary career!

Sorry, didn't realize Goreddevils included the link!

Here is the time schedule for all three classes: http://khsaa.org/track/2016/statetrackmeetschedule.pdf

There is not a single key player that has faced any sort of ineligibility this season. There have been some injuries but I do not know where this is coming from.