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Any thoughts in this week 2 match up? Murray comes off a tough loss to rival Calloway County. Murray seems to have good speed and some size. Could this cause problems for McLean? McLean comes off a week 1 win versus Todd County. Will they come in over confident? What are the keys to either team winning this matchup?

Congrats McLean on getting the monkey off of your back. It is time to prepare for the Murray Tigers who lost a close one at home v. Calloway County.

Congrats to Coach Brown and the Rebels. I am really glad that they were able to get their first win! Here's hoping that they add a few more to the first one!

The last three years Todd County has had McLean's number. Will they make it four in a row? Predictions?

95-99 heat index is not the problem. As long as water breaks are observed, ice towels are on hand and players are allowed an opportunity to take helmets/and or shoulder pads off when not playing, scrimmages can continue. Also, when most of the scrimmages are being played (7 p.m. or a little later), the indeices have been decreasing. The problem could be potentially today and tomorrow. They are calling for tempretures above 100 degrees with high humidity. If the temp and humidity do not decrease significantly by 7 p.m., late practices could be affected. Heat is not something you mess with. All teams take proper precautions and preach hydration. Once the heat index gets above 100, it is very tough to have an effective practice. Obviously, at 104 teams will be required to stop.

South has a good option QB returning this year and usually has decent size on the line. Look for the Suns to cause problems for teams as the backfield matures during the season.

Webster showed some decent speed during passing league this summer. The question will be what contribution Providence will make to the football team this season (as has been stated earlier). With the addition of Brock Shoulders to their coaching staff, their defense will be prepared for the upcoming season and their offense has a lot of ability. Coach Corbin and the Trojans could surprise many people in the West.

Schools are also trying to start later. I know of schools starting practice at 7 p.m. I realize that will make it late for the kids, but it keeps you out of the major heat right after school.

I know that McLean County moved from 1A to 3A, but is there anyone out there that can tell me about McLean County football? How is the team doing? What kind of team they had last year? Players to watch out for? Please remember to stay within to rules of BGP.

Great job, UKBLUE1964! We must protect this HOUSE!!!!! First scrimages are next Friday. It is a great time for football.

Sounds like Henderson has found the right guy to lead the program. I wish him, his staff, the team and the community the best for this upcoming football campaign. I look forward to seeing Henderson County competing with the Louisville bunch in the near future. :thumb:

One person that has been out of coaching for about two years that would make a good head coach is Rick Young. He was the Defensive Coordinator under Mike Jackson at Oldham County and worked at Henry County as a Special teams coordinator. Rick does a great job of working with and motivating young people. He has a keen mind for the game and works well with all levels of coaches. Unfortunately, I think he is looking for one specific job because of where he lives. But I believe he would do a great job as a head coach.

Any girl that wants to put in the time and effort to be on a football team, definitely should be allowed to play. In Illinois, I remember a school that played girls on the offensive line because there were not boys to play the position.

July 15th is the first day that teams can practice in Helmets and shoulder pads. The first day of full contact is based on when your school year starts. If you start August 8th for example, the first day you can go to full contact is July 27th. The earliest anyone can go full contact is July 27th.

I would have to agree with The Scribe.... If McLean County could pull that off (beat Paducah Tilghman) there would be celebrations that would last a year.

Ohio has individual school districts. They do not usually take up the entire county. In Madison County, West of Columbus Ohio, there are four school district. In the Northern part of the county is Jonathan Alder. The middle part of the county is divided by two village schools, West Jefferson and London. The Southern part of the county is Madison-Plains (which is the largest land area school district in the state of Ohio). As has been stated by some others in this thread, there is a lot of community involvement in these individual districts. It may equate to what is happening in the independent districts in Kentucky. Some counties in Kentucky, with only one high school may experience a difficult time getting people to play sports because of inability to get transportation to and from practice. This may be part of the problem, but that is where the community (meaning the county) has to find a way to help support the kids that want to play but can't because of distance issues. A lot of the problems with support comes from people not feeling invested in the schools in their county, as I have said in previous post. How do you get people invested? That is the 64 million dollar question. When people with county schools see the benefits of supporting those schools, then there might be movement. Until then, schools have to find a way to get the people in their counties to buy into the school or schools in their counties.

It is starting to sound like a broken record, but I will have to agree with a lot of what is being said here...... The thing that makes public schools successful in Ohio in football and not Kentucky is community involvement. The communities in Ohio are invested in their sports programs. All of their sports programs. Kentucky is not that way. If the communities in Kentucky invested themselves in other sports, besides basketball, I believe that the public-private debate would eventually go away. We have some public schools in this state that do that (Mayfield, Highlands, Beechwood, Male for example), but we do not have enough of them to counter balance the private schools and make it competitive. It is just this simple..... Ohio public school communities invest themselves in their schools and sports programs. Not all Kentucky schools do that. Yes, Ohio has a lot of football history, but it is the community support of athletics throughout the state that makes the public-private debate non-exisitant.

I still have to agree with Kydlineguy. It does come down to community support of the programs in Ohio. It is not the number of schools. Nearly every community in Ohio really backs their program. The only reason I can say this is because I grew up 30 minutes from Columbus and have lived in other parts of Ohio. People in Ohio follow their teams religiously, whatever the season. I do not see that here in Kentucky. I am not sure why. My only explanation is that most schools in Kentucky only care about one sport, basketball. If you look at the basketball following of most schools in Kentucky, you would see that people are going to follow their school's team. Beyond basketball, it depends on whether the program has a tradition of success. Ohio is not that way! There are programs in the state of Ohio that do not have great traditions, but they still bring in a lot of fan support. Unfortunately, I am not sure how you get communities to back their teams. All of their teams! That is the key to possibly ending the public v. private debate. When communities take pride in their school's programs, athletic and academic, then I think you will see the tide turn. Until that time, we will continue this debate and this problem. I really wish this were not the case, but I feel that for the forseeable future Kentucky, in some sports, will have to continue the debate about public v. private.

Kydlineguy, I agree with you, as I had stated earlier in my post. Communities in Ohio are behind their sports. It is not just football either, which is the great thing. I lived in Western Ohio for a time and the communities there were crazy about every sport. Gyms would be packed for volleyball as well as football in the fall. In the winter, basketball and wrestling would keep the communities fired up. I broadcasted games for a local radio station in the Western part of the state when I lived there and during the winter the gyms were packed to capacity. In the spring, people would follow the baseball, softball, and track teams. I believe that if communities in Kentucky would support their sports, like they do in Ohio, the public/private debate would become a thing of the past. In Ohio, nearly every community supports their athletics. In Kentucky, it is hit and miss. It is all about community support!!!!

It is hard to make a comparison between Ohio and Kentucky in football. I grew up in Ohio and from experience I can tell you that all sports are treated equally in Ohio. The schools in Ohio have a graduation test that all publics have to take, but not privates. It has not affected enrollment at the publics. I feel maybe the biggest thing going for Ohio high schools is that the parents and the kids in each local school district identify from a young age of being a part of that district. This ingrains (sp?) a spirit for a particular school. There is not a whole lot of open enrollment in Ohio, and where there is there still equity in sports among the schools. In Kentucky, the only sport that is taken seriously by most public schools is basketball. Until the people of a school system begin to care about all sports equally, then there will not be parity. The six class system is a nice idea, by giving more schools the opportunity to compete. However, as stated earlier, this does not really affect the 1A's and T, X, NCC and others. I feel that until public school communities begin to take pride in their schools and push them to excell in all sports, parity will not happen and we will continue to have this on going debate.

Sounds like CoachJ has Pikeville headed in the right direction. I would agree with everyone that it looks like Pikeville has one of the hardest non-district schedules in 1A. CoachJ is well known for not ducking anyone and preparing his teams for each week's opponent. He showed that at his previous position by being willing to take on St. X, Trinity (who was in their district), and Male. I also know his coaching staff is working their tails off to give the kids every advantage as they go into this season. I wish him and the Pikeville faithful luck as they enter the new season.:ylsuper: