[Real Badman]

Dude I know your not this naive.......or I hope not. Honestly saying go get better is silly and a direct slap in the face of every kid, coach and program out there. That is a simple minded answers to a very complex problem. These guys have a legitimate gripe and you know it. I'm going to explain this like a five year old can understand so I hope this helps. This has nothing to do with David against Goliath, city against country or bla, bla, bla. This is all about the size of talent pool's teams have to draw from. Just for shit's and giggles let's say you could clone a full coaching staff from head coach on down and not just looks but give em all the same memories, experience, coaching styles and everything. Now take both and place one in my home county Lawrence County and place the other identical staff in let's say Jefferson County. Now let's just throw out the whole private verses public stuff and make both public schools. Both teams can only use players from within their county. Now on what planet could the team from Lawrence County ever be able to compete with the talent pool the Jefferson County team has to draw from year in and year out. Every year the Jefferson team would have more size, speed and athleticism. That Jefferson team would beat the Lawrence team nine times out of 10 or 99 out of a hundred if not a hundred not with better coaching or harder work but with numbers. The population of Louisa and Lawrence Co isn't a drop in the bucket to the population of Jeferson Co and Louisville. Now throw back in the mix that the Jefferson team is a private school and has all the luxuries and advantages of a private school and it's not even remotely close to being fair. Go get better won't fix anything and frankly I'm not convinced that any of the coaches and programs out west and north are coached or ran any better then quite a few right here in the mountain area like Belfry, Johnson Central, Pikeville, Hazard, Corbin, Pulaski and Bell Co just to name a few. In fact I would love to see what some of those coaches could pull off if they had bigger and better talent to choose from. Bottom line is when all these rules and regulations were made it was believed that every team in the state had the same even and fair shot at a championship and at that particular time that was probably true, but only a complete idiot couldn't see that this has changed drastically. So are we supposed to lie to the kids who work their tails off and dream of going state that they have a good chance when we know it's not true. Or do we tell them the hard truth that even though they worked and played just as hard that they have a better chance of being struck by lightning all because someone said just go get better and refuse to acknowledge that there is a problem. At the end of the day when all is said and done this system is unbalanced and slanted in certain teams favor before the season ever even starts, championships are supposed to be decided on the field of play and not in the offices of some ignorant and naive KHSAA officials and that is unfair to the kids and I could care less what dumb, lazy and naive adults think. And to end this I want to say that I think your view on this is particularly rich seeing as how I specifically remember you saying on more then one occasion that winning in highschool football has less to do with X's and 0's and more to do with Jimmy's and Joe's. Your convenient views seem to be contradicting one another don't ya think lol.

I'm not going to lie, I don't have the time or inclination to read that text. My argument is public/private, not size in class differences. 1A Fulton City has no business playing 6A Louisville Male. I'm a strong advocate for 4-5 classes in Kentucky football. When we think about the problem, my question is why? Why can't teams compete with each other? Belfry High can line up and play with just about everyone in the state, however 19 minutes down the road Phelps High can't even get 6 wins a year. Why? Talent level? You're telling me the talent level is that different 19 minutes away? Again though, my point is Phelps shouldn't be playing 3A Belfry, they should be playing Jenkins, Berea, Harlan, Lynn Camp, Etc. I will never advocate for giving everyone a way to win. You should play in the clsss your assigned against and if you can win the state championship, I'll congratulate you like you deserve. I promise you Belfry can compete with Christian Academy of Louisville, DeSales, Bethlehem, Holy Cross, CovCath, LexCath, LCA, Piarist, Rose Hill, NewCath, Owensboro Catholic, etc...

The talent argument really doesn't hold there in relation to private/public, now does it?