[kywldcat01]

You have roughly the same amount of kids as any other school in your class.Therefore that big city crap is just that . Crap. Build your program.Get a good youth program.Come compete with us as we welcome the challenge.Just stop making the same tired excuses why you cant compete.:dontthink

I agree 100%. I get tired of hearing excuses for why the EKY or any other schools around the state lose to nky, lex., or louisville teams. Take a page from their book and build your program!

What difference does that make? Cincinnati kids don't play Kentucky football. They don't give Kentucky football a thought.

Exactly. The majority of the time a kid will simply go to a different Cincinnati school since that area is much more popular on the recruiting scene than nky.

Ok sure thing while most might stay in cicni i'm sure there are some who can't start at a cinci school and come to ky to start right away. To say not one cinci kid comes to ky to play is a joke.

You obviously know very little about this area if that's what you think. NKY has lost several highly touted players to a Cincinnati power. Ohio kids don't want to play football in Kentucky...they look down on us the same way that some of you think we look down on mountain football.

Is all about socio-economics and geography.

Kids in the city have advantages that are not available in EKY. You can't go to skill academies. There's no JFL programs. There's no private schools to accumulate talent. The great majority of kids at places like Highlands, St. X, and Trinity have parents who are high school and college graduates. Many seniors in EKY high schools are still going to be the first HS graduates in their families, much less college graduates. Kids go to places like St. X and Trinity because they are motivated, their families are motivated, and they WANT to be there and get an education and go to college and be successful, because their families have a tradition of success. In your EKY public schools, a huge number of kids are there just because the law says they have to be until they can drop out and get on the draw, which is also an unfortunately frequent family tradition. A kid in Jefferson County or Northern Kentucky can choose to attend numerous high schools for whatever athletic reason all within a 30 minute drive. A kid in Eastern Kentucky in most cases would have to drive 30 minutes to find ONE other high school, much less have that kind of choice. THIS is why we are proud of Mountain Teams, especially when they do well against urban teams: we are overcoming incredible disadvantages that most regions of the state just don't have to deal with, and in many cases probably can't really conceptualize.

I don't buy this. There are areas all over the state that face these same problems that these poor ole mountain/eky schools face.

In nky alone, Bellevue, Newport, Dayton, Ludlow, and Covington are all areas that are low income and see the same problems. Heck, even schools like Simon Kenton face these sorts of problems. In an area like Covington, Bellevue, Newport, Dayton, and Ludlow, probably 65% of the kids are eligible for free or reduced lunch.

Not all is grand up here in the "big city." Some of these kids face the same hardships that others in the mountains/eky face and sometimes more (gang violence), so let's not act like the mountain schools are the only ones.

All that is, is another excuse for why you can 't beat the nky/louisville/lexington schools.