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What about the players who are "encouraged" to enter the portal from their current staff? That happens as well! What if a player is subject to "pay back" any NIL money they have made from a school if they leave that school?

The fact is, there is attrition at every level of football (sports). Some kids play little league but don't move on to middle school, or quit then. Some are solid middle school players but quit or stop playing because of the time commitments in HS. There are some pro's every year that decide to hang it up, who are getting paid a lot of money to play. I would rather a player give it a shot if given the opportunity at any level of college (if that's a goal) than to live with the regret of not trying. Yes lots of small schools use sports as enrollment drivers, but a lot of times those schools give competitive financial packages to student athletes that help some students afford a college education.

Not really, HS coaches are using college offers (whether they are committable or not) to "promote" their programs in hopes of persuading future HS athletes to their programs now. It's all a big game, using kids and players as pawns.

What's a better job St. Johns or Syracuse? I really don't know the answer, but on the hoof I would think Syracuse.

I don't think Wheeler is back this year. I am not sure that he hasn't quit the team with his no show at Senior night. Cats couldn't hit a shot or free throw down the stretch to get over the hump. Rupp crowd was great, especially in the second half. I thought that the crowd and Oscar were going to will them to the win, but it didn't happen.

Gate is divided by the schools competing in the tournament. From what I have heard, the home venue gets to keep concessions. I would think that is a 10k profit for the hosting team. With LC and PC alternating the girls and guys tournaments between themselves, that is a nice revenue stream they can count on each year.

I agree...Corbin arena has hosted the youth and middle school State the last couple years...That would be a good place as well.

Congrats Nate...a KY HS Football product!

Good news and hopefully at the same time they are able to remedy the boys state championship issues they are having. I am not sure if the issues are title 9 related, but adding girls state should help with that.

Cal normally subs Oscar out before the 8 timeout...I would like to see him use the under 12, under 8 and under 4 timeout in the first and 16,12,8 in the second half to get guys a few minutes of rest. This is providing no foul trouble. I am wondering if he is trying to keep rotation at a min, so when the 2 injured come back there isn't PT issues.

I think this UK team plays better on the road away from the pressure of stagnant Rupp Arena. I don't feel good about this game.

I think Oscar got to big for his britches. It is starting to show why he and Huggy didn't get a long. NIL is going to cause a lot of broken locker rooms IMO. With that said, UK has a roster with a lot of Mid Major talent and it shows night in and night out where at UK, you get everyone's best effort.

That district is going to kill LCA RPI. If they don't beat some of the heavy weights, they will be on the road starting in round 3.

Mitch didn't play as big a role in hiring Cal as he did in hiring Gillespie. Pratt and company were allowed to pursue Cal.

UK squandered a chance this year to have a great offensive year. Stoops needs to hire an OC and them hire their offensive staff...that way hopefully everyone would be on the same page.

It's November 15...College basketball shouldn't even be playing for 2 more weeks. UK is going to be very good...Izzo is a better bench Coach than Cal. Cal is a better recruiter. I think UK misses Rubik, or a basketball mind like that. I feel like his assistants are assistants for their recruiting. We need a basketball coach on staff.

This is awful news to wake up to. Robbie was a Great Coach and a better man. He loved the game and he loved his players.

Cross district and RPI should give a lot better games in week 3 as well. If you had a weak district before, that would put a weak team in round 3 automatically. Now that is fixed.

I don't see there being any more problems now than there used to be, just every fight is now posted to social media and video taped. I would argue there is less fighting in games now than there was in the past. Fighting and football have always been intertwined...and in certain settings (Pre Season Camps and Practices) has been encouraged.

I like this UK team, especially once they get healthy. Hopefully Cal doesn't run Fredericks legs off like he did with Grady last year. Reeves should take some of that pressure off. I would think UK can play Wallace 18 minutes and Wheeler 18 minutes and be able to go with the hot hand the last 4 minutes of the game at point. Both of those guys should be able to wear down opposing point guards with their relentless pressure. Lots of depth and talent, now can they put it all together?

This is hard to do because of small districts. In 4 class system when there was 7-9 teams per district, you wouldn't have to worry about many of these situations. I think KHSAA should eliminate districts...combine districts 1 and 2...3 and 4 and so on...call it a region and take the top 4 teams per region to playoffs. (This does away with 1 round of playoffs). Initiate RPI in 3rd round (new semi final round) and be done with it.

That score would not surprise me...Odds makers are good!

I am sure there are plenty of HS's in KY that would welcome him for the rest of the year.

I have to admit...pretty sweet for a Halloween weekend game. The stadium will be rocking Saturday night for sure.

I am not sure UK can come out conservative and expect to be in the game. They have to plan on trying to score every possession, not setting stuff up for later.