Old Football Fan

Here's the deal....Your 0-7 or 0-8 until your not. Do you want to play all these games on paper? If losing is such a big deal why in basketball does the district runner-up (a loser) get to compete in the region games? Why does a 4-16 or an 0-16 soccer team get to participate in the playoffs? You are correct that most of these teams are going to lose and many lose by a wide margin but who cares. It's another Friday night where 80-160 kids are not doing drugs for 3 hours. For the financial argument the home team takes care of the travel and eating for the visiting team. This almost always results in neither team going in the hole. For all of you that say that the top 2 teams should be the only teams that should go to the playoffs would have cost thousands of fans, thousands of players and hundreds of communities a chance to see good football last night. Is this what we want for football? That only half of our teams get to participate the first week of the playoffs. I always notice who says we only need two teams and its almost always a fan of a program that always has success. The statement that "Maybe ___________ Co. should just get better" is one of the craziest things I have ever heard. Look if it was so easy then everyone would be great and we would all be 5-5. That's the beauty of football. It takes 1000 moving parts working together to be a great programs. What only taking 2 teams does is discourage kids, programs who are not consistently good and reinforces the bluebloods of ky football. I believe that recruiting would be worse, and a lot of programs would drop out. You think a 1-4 matchup is bad try watching a district game and resulting non-district game (wk 11) after one of those teams are eliminated from the playoffs in the regular season. Is this what we want our football in this state to be? You would never see a rags to riches story like my school Wayne County who for years was a 3-4 seed. All those years they would have been going home, adding more negativity to a program, not getting an extra game to practice for etc. The one fix i would make is that all districts must have 5 teams. This would mean that everyone in the playoffs would have to win at least 1 game. I would NEVER ever eliminate 3 and 4 seeds. Also, who gives a crap if the playoffs take 5 weeks. That is a non issue.

Football is a coed sport so that's not a factor. Everything else that would be on the field has both boys and girls sports so I doubt it was title 9.

UMM...you threw the ball an average of 7 times a game last year. I think they will manage. Moving the ball on the ground against Rockcastle will prove to be very difficult.

I'm telling you....they will not move the ball on Rockcastle on the ground.

Rockcastle will beat Garrard pretty handedly. Garrard doesn't have the horses to move the ball on Rockcastle.

Didn't they go two years in middle school with 0 wins. That never is a good thing.

Bell lost a lot on defense but returns their playmakers on offense. They did lose their two monster TE's that were difference makers at the end of the year. Better do it this year otherwise its all down hill from here.

Who would they get to play at this point? I'm sure Highlands needs a game. There isn't anybody better to schedule out there.

I don't know. You started out the season pretty rough with the press box incident. Maybe it was a sign of things to come.

Don't count on it.

Who ever he can get the most money out of.

Yes but Dudley won't be at Taylor next year. You can write it down.

Only beat Wayne 14 to 7. Don't think they would.

Trinity, Saint X, Male, Manuel are on the GREATER LOUISVILLE team. Bowling Green would have had some on but have injuries. Highlands didn't submit players from what I have been told.

Doan is no longer at Somerset. He will be at Southwestern.

I'm heard Johnny Poynter.

Districts do not have to pay a person for their sick days and when they are cashed in for retirement that money comes from the state not the district. If a coach was to use all of their sick days yes then you would be taking on extra money but I cant see a coach being effective not being at school. They aren't going to use 200 sick days while they are at school. They will likely use them towards retirement.

What does sick days have to do with hiring a coach?

What aggrivated me was the statement that its not about money. Everything is about money. Its not that I wouldn't pay for my kid to get recruited. It's that people on here act like that they have reinvented the wheel when it's who has the most money wins. Let's look at both the teams mentioned Highlands and Trinity. What's it cost to go to Trinity a year? I would think that those who can pay for their kids to go to Trinity would have enough money to send their kid to whatever camp that they wanted. Thus they have these great recruiting successes. Now let's look at Highlands who spends more on coaching salaries than most school's football budget. Where does the money come from? Taxes and boosters. So getting on here and saying that money has no bearing on how a kid gets recruited is farsigned. The games that they play that gets them national exposure which is to do one thing......bring in more kids. It is the best advertisement that a school could ever get.

So-- The only camps that are free are the ones for elite level talent, they are only in major cities that are over 2 hours from the center of Ky and no camps pay for your travel. So like i said its about money. If you have money you can get exposure. If you dont you better either be really good and still have some money or a provider in your program that can help out with room/ gas/ board. Makes you wonder how all these players go to all these camps, on all these college visits and to all these combines on their own dime.

Where are these camps located? These magical free camps. Every "camp" that I have seen that is put on by an institution or a person cost at least $125 dollars on up. Thats not counting the gas/eats money that goes along with it. All those over night trips that Barker took to camps, were they all free? I need to find these institutions that pay for all the mileage/room/board. Man you make it sound so easy. Please list all of the "Free camps that pay for travel" here so us poor country schools can take advantage.

Explain to me how it has zero to do with it?

So what your saying is it's all about money. If a kid/school has money then they will do what it takes to get extra recognition. .

If Wayne goes up Moore goes down.

Where is Johnson Central going to go in 5A? There isnt a 5A team within 3 hours of them. They are stuck.