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The meeting is scheduled for Thu, August 20, 10:30am – 11:30am, how do we think its gonna turn out for us?

Seriously hoping our kids get to play. May be a memorable season in Martin Co if we can move forward. If the KHSAA follow the science there is no reason to prohibit the kids from playing. I think Tackett is a reasonable man and won’t be bullied by the governor.

I personally don’t see much if any changes. I went back and watched again the meeting 2 weeks ago and Julian Tackett said the KHSAA had some wiggle room if needed on Kroger field if a delay was necessary. He also said there might be more but it wasn’t looked into yet. Also in last weeks interview on WKYT-CW channel, JT said again that there would be football played this fall. Spring is not a option. Of course, this Thursday will be the new guidelines. I think we play.

In a bit of encouraging news, less than 1% of the more than 10,000 students tested have been positive for the virus, according to WDRB.com:

Out of more than 10,000 students who have been tested, 78 have been found to have been infected. That’s about 0.74%.
That’s an encouraging sign for Kentucky if the Wildcats, and the SEC at large, are going to play football this fall.

Now, it will be important to keep students safe as the semester begins in earnest. If there’s a spike in positive results, it could put the season in jeopardy.


This is at UK...

(08-16-2020, 08:27 PM)jetpilot Wrote: [ -> ]In a bit of encouraging news, less than 1% of the more than 10,000 students tested have been positive for the virus, according to WDRB.com:

Out of more than 10,000 students who have been tested, 78 have been found to have been infected. That’s about 0.74%.
That’s an encouraging sign for Kentucky if the Wildcats, and the SEC at large, are going to play football this fall.

Now, it will be important to keep students safe as the semester begins in earnest. If there’s a spike in positive results, it could put the season in jeopardy.


This is at UK...

It's concerning to me the JCPS is meeting on the 18th and after watching the last BOC he was strongly against doing anything.

(08-16-2020, 08:46 PM)CardinalAlum Wrote: [ -> ]

(08-16-2020, 08:27 PM)jetpilot Wrote: [ -> ]In a bit of encouraging news, less than 1% of the more than 10,000 students tested have been positive for the virus, according to WDRB.com:

Out of more than 10,000 students who have been tested, 78 have been found to have been infected. That’s about 0.74%.
That’s an encouraging sign for Kentucky if the Wildcats, and the SEC at large, are going to play football this fall.

Now, it will be important to keep students safe as the semester begins in earnest. If there’s a spike in positive results, it could put the season in jeopardy.


This is at UK...

It's concerning to me the JCPS is meeting on the 18th and after watching the last BOC he was strongly against doing anything.

Screw the JCPS, they are a political hack outfit.  Last people on earth anyone should listen to. You can bet they will whine and scream and demand that nobody plays. Catholic schools in Louisville are playing. Let JCPS opt out, won't have any affect on the best schools in Louisville or the other 119 counties.

(08-16-2020, 09:09 PM)jetpilot Wrote: [ -> ]

(08-16-2020, 08:46 PM)CardinalAlum Wrote: [ -> ]

(08-16-2020, 08:27 PM)jetpilot Wrote: [ -> ]In a bit of encouraging news, less than 1% of the more than 10,000 students tested have been positive for the virus, according to WDRB.com:

Out of more than 10,000 students who have been tested, 78 have been found to have been infected. That’s about 0.74%.
That’s an encouraging sign for Kentucky if the Wildcats, and the SEC at large, are going to play football this fall.

Now, it will be important to keep students safe as the semester begins in earnest. If there’s a spike in positive results, it could put the season in jeopardy.


This is at UK...

It's concerning to me the JCPS is meeting on the 18th and after watching the last BOC he was strongly against doing anything.

Screw the JCPS, they are a political hack outfit.  Last people on earth anyone should listen to. You can bet they will whine and scream and demand that nobody plays. Catholic schools in Louisville are playing. Let JCPS opt out, won't have any affect on the best schools in Louisville or the other 119 counties.

Wonder what the mass exidus of kids from Male and other schools will look like?

I guess a plus for high school football taking place in 2020 is that SEC schools are pushing ahead with their season as of now. Also Utah has started their high high school football season having played their first week of the season this past Friday night.

I have been back and forth on how I feel and if I see us having football or not. But I'm fully on the fence of us seeing a high school season this year with some bumps in the road but a complete season nonetheless.

I do not see a season happening. At best the games will not be played until in-person instruction starts back the week of September 26. I think you will see the BOC just give some dates to buy some time. Tackett and KHSAA are just hoping they can have winter sports.

(08-16-2020, 09:09 PM)jetpilot Wrote: [ -> ]

(08-16-2020, 08:46 PM)CardinalAlum Wrote: [ -> ]

(08-16-2020, 08:27 PM)jetpilot Wrote: [ -> ]In a bit of encouraging news, less than 1% of the more than 10,000 students tested have been positive for the virus, according to WDRB.com:

Out of more than 10,000 students who have been tested, 78 have been found to have been infected. That’s about 0.74%.
That’s an encouraging sign for Kentucky if the Wildcats, and the SEC at large, are going to play football this fall.

Now, it will be important to keep students safe as the semester begins in earnest. If there’s a spike in positive results, it could put the season in jeopardy.


This is at UK...

It's concerning to me the JCPS is meeting on the 18th and after watching the last BOC he was strongly against doing anything.

Screw the JCPS, they are a political hack outfit.  Last people on earth anyone should listen to. You can bet they will whine and scream and demand that nobody plays. Catholic schools in Louisville are playing. Let JCPS opt out, won't have any affect on the best schools in Louisville or the other 119 counties.

It's going to feel like an eternity until Thursday. I could tell from the last meeting he wasn't even interested in talking about dates, I understand he has a 98,000 student district but think of how many kids in the state will transfer if we don't get to play this fall.

(08-16-2020, 09:09 PM)jetpilot Wrote: [ -> ]

(08-16-2020, 08:46 PM)CardinalAlum Wrote: [ -> ]

(08-16-2020, 08:27 PM)jetpilot Wrote: [ -> ]In a bit of encouraging news, less than 1% of the more than 10,000 students tested have been positive for the virus, according to WDRB.com:

Out of more than 10,000 students who have been tested, 78 have been found to have been infected. That’s about 0.74%.
That’s an encouraging sign for Kentucky if the Wildcats, and the SEC at large, are going to play football this fall.

Now, it will be important to keep students safe as the semester begins in earnest. If there’s a spike in positive results, it could put the season in jeopardy.


This is at UK...

It's concerning to me the JCPS is meeting on the 18th and after watching the last BOC he was strongly against doing anything.

Screw the JCPS, they are a political hack outfit.  Last people on earth anyone should listen to. You can bet they will whine and scream and demand that nobody plays. Catholic schools in Louisville are playing. Let JCPS opt out, won't have any affect on the best schools in Louisville or the other 119 counties.

*effect. I hate it when that happens.

DoD has canceled Fall sports for Fort Knox and Fort Campbell. If the rest of the state decides to play, I wonder if we'll see any of these kids on the rosters at some of the surrounding schools.

Many teenagers feel they are invincible at that age. I know I did. While many teens who do test positive seem to be able to recover and show few or no symptoms - My fear is that some positive carriers will not be tested because he or she is asymptomatic - and they then would play an inadvertent role to spread it to parents and grandparents and older relatives. I am really torn on how to proceed. Not so much worried about outdoor stadiums as I am school hallways and locker rooms and inconsistent testing protocols that vary from school to school.

COVID will not be a reason to transfer. Check the guidelines. Proposed by JCPS. Jerry Wyman.

Reading twitter and the responses from local coaches not going back to school only helps fall sports. Most everyone is reporting 0 cases and that is not being in school keep the same schedule and the teams being isolated from school population a season should take place

(08-17-2020, 02:11 PM)Real Badman Wrote: [ -> ]COVID will not be a reason to transfer. Check the guidelines. Proposed by JCPS. Jerry Wyman.

I was wondering about this. Because I know a lot of folks who probably would at least give the idea a little thought and move to Tennessee.

(08-18-2020, 10:16 AM)CardinalAlum Wrote: [ -> ]

Thanks for the post, Cardinal Alum.  I certainly thought the numbers of Poe give tests would be higher.  Just out of curiosity, how often are teams required to test their athletes and staff?

Football rules clinic is up today for coaches.

Did JCPS meet today to decide?

They are waiting until after the Khsaa meets Thursday. Hearing going to be 3 options- I think one of the options is for the spring, not real sure about the others. Hopefully the others are keeping the original for Sept.11(which I don't think they will) or move it back to October. In my opinion, I think they will let them go ahead and start practice on the Aug. 24th, but back the games up a few more weeks. Just a guess.

Those numbers are ridiculous. And highly inaccurate.

I wonder how many emails KHSAA BOC members have gotten like this:

I have called and emailed the athletics director, the superintendent and his assistance of Fayette county. No one has returned my emails or call. Below is the email I sent. I would like a response.

To add to the email, UK college has started football practice today BUT their helmets have shields/masks and they’re being tested For Covid several times a week.


It was brought to my attention that Fayette county, will resume helmet to helmet practice on August 24th. If children aren’t allowed to attend school due to not being able to social distance, and the increase in cases, they should not be allowed to do non social distance play at practice. As a medical professional, who has worked the frontlines of Covid-19, I am hoping you will reconsider.

The CDC guidelines regarding youth sports clearly outlines that football is a high risk sport with spreading Covid-19. It states “The more people a player or coach interacts with, the closer the physical interaction, the more sharing of equipment there is by multiple players, and the longer the interaction, the higher the risk of COVID-19 spread”.

Football players will breathe and grunt on one another. They expel spit through their mouth guards and end plays in the same dogpile of bodies. Every interaction during a football game is a potential petri dish for transmission of COVID-19.

According to Dr. Rishi Desai, an infectious disease doctor “There is no likely way that you’re going to prevent the virus from getting from one person’s lungs to another person’s lungs if they’re standing around each other, or squatting, depending on what the position, a few feet or a few inches away from each other, tackling each other, and doing it repeatedly over the course of a few hours”.

At the time of this email, 13 states have cancelled K-12 fall football games. Multiple states have modified and aren’t starting until late fall or spring of 2021. College football teams are having limited seasons and they are testing their players every couple of days to attempt to prevent the spread.

Coaches should be focusing their practices on individual skill building or conditioning instead of competition.

What makes you think huddling together during plays, tackling and helmet to helmet contact is safe? You’re asking for an outbreak.

Take the Hazard football team as an example. It took one positive person to ultimately infect 38 people.

Also, The Leestown football team was huddled together under a small awning during the rain last week. No masks, no social distancing.

If Fayette county wants to create a safe environment for kids, it’s not going to include contact sports. With the mask mandate, we are finally seeing a difference in the number of cases. It was extended for another 30 days, which is amazing and much needed. We can’t say you have to wear a mask to go into a store, but it’s ok to not wear a mask and be inches from one another’s face while practicing helmet to helmet.

This needs to be addressed.

If you want them to play and practice they need to do it safely. Provide shields for their helmets. Or postpone the season.

This is crazy thoughts, let these kids play. To many rules for the election infection. 99% survival rate, come on guys. This is some kids future, I can’t live with myself holding others back, socialism at its finest.....

(08-18-2020, 08:56 PM)jamesclay Wrote: [ -> ]Those numbers are ridiculous. And highly inaccurate.

What is ridiculous is making a statement like that because it refutes your narrative, without even an attempt of providing a smidgen of proof.

(08-19-2020, 01:21 AM)jetpilot Wrote: [ -> ]

(08-18-2020, 08:56 PM)jamesclay Wrote: [ -> ]Those numbers are ridiculous. And highly inaccurate.

What is ridiculous is making a statement like that because it refutes your narrative, without even an attempt of providing a smidgen of proof.

I don't have a "narrative" I have seen the virus first hand and I promise, it's not worth the risk to play high school sports right now.

(08-19-2020, 10:27 AM)jamesclay Wrote: [ -> ]

(08-19-2020, 01:21 AM)jetpilot Wrote: [ -> ]

(08-18-2020, 08:56 PM)jamesclay Wrote: [ -> ]Those numbers are ridiculous. And highly inaccurate.

What is ridiculous is making a statement like that because it refutes your narrative, without even an attempt of providing a smidgen of proof.

I don't have a "narrative" I have seen the virus first hand and I promise, it's not worth the risk to play high school sports right now.

Have you seen the flu as well, which is much more dangerous to young people?

Update for what its worth- a lot of smoke going around about pushing back to October and playing district games first. I love football but I swear I keep losing interest every time they push it back, I guess its for the best, not saying that is what going to happen but kind of looks that way. The kids have to be tired of this and losing a little interest also. I hope I am shocked tomorrow and they still open up Sept,11