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Lambert 1: Just about everything you brought up is in the process of being worked on. It might mean that the Big Sandy (which I also thougt would be represented) either not have a tournie or it end earlier.

My understanding as of right now is

Deadlines:They are going to place a deadline on any school who wants in to pay to be part of the KYMSFA by a certain date.

Classes: Those teams will then be broken into class based on enrollment of students or male students from the schools they pull from. Bell has 6 K-8 schools but play as one team so they would use the numbers from all 8 schools. Lex Cath has no MS so they would use all the schools/area they pull from.

Set date for playoffs: If your in then your season must end by a certain date because the playoffs are going to start.

Now this might end the days of confrences for some schools or it might be more like OH. You play in a confrence but confrence play ends by a set date so no more confrence playoffs.

No truth be told there will always be people who will not want to call it a St Championship. All the Cath schools in Louisville play in a playoff for the Toy Bowl which is 60yrs old. Those are the schools that feed X and T. NKY has a league that will never be a part of this, Boone has a pop warner style league and Highlands has their own. It was the best they could do due to the way things were this year. Bell played a very physical game then 2hrs later played for the championship. Their QB could not play defense and could barely play any offense because of cramps and the game before. Morgan has 300 or so total students playing against teams with almost 3 times their enrollment and Wayne was in the same boat.

Was it perfect? No. Did some schools make mistakes and then want to complain about not being in? Yes. The 4 schools there on Sat were some of it not the best 4 teams in the state. I think any of them would have loved to prove themselves against anyone. Maybe they would not of beat some other schools or maybe they would have proved they belonged. In the end it is what it is. I do think Bluegrass had an advantage due to their first game and playing an early game. Bluegrass alos feed a very good HS program in John Harden. When you look at the final teams in both 7th and 8th they feed fairly good programs. Bowling Green and Bell are very well know. Lex Cath was in the playoffs and they have won 2 titles.

I am sorry that more teams did not get the chance to play and that those that played did not get the chance to play some other teams. There is a meetin in Feb of the KYMSFA to get this stuff worked out and if a teams wants a say they need to be there and inovled with the list serve and the emails. This could be a great thing for our kids, communties and football in thebluegrass.

For those that took the time to come they got to see something very special. They got to see football in KY played in the way it was suppose to be played. Those kids left their hearts on the field. I have watched a good deal of HS football and it did not compare to what those kids layed on the line. I do not care if someone believes it was a true St title or not but please do not short change those kids for what they played for. They played as if a title was on the line. They played as if everything in their world was on the line. After the tears and bruises healed I think they are beleived they belonged and that it had meaning.

On a side note: Past addressing Lambert's concerns this was not directed at him. Also no team of the 8 had more than a lose. I think Grant was the only team of the 8 with a lose though Spencer may have. Grant played the following with their only lose being to Owen who they later beat in the 1st round of the playoffs
Scott
Georgetown
Royal Springs
Oldham
East Oldham
South Oldham
Owen
LCA
Walton Verona
Carrell
Paris
Scrimage Lex Cath and Mason