[Allin]

The coaches need to vote. Less than half of the head coaches submitted their ballot this season. Please encourage your coach to participate. Someone explain this to the Bluegrass Preps people. I have no complaints since three Shamrocks earned first team honors. The Courier Journal only counts the votes submitted. They do not vote in this one. Frakes only votes in the AP. The C-J has been doing this since 1917!!!!inglepar

In that less than half the head coaches even bothered to submit a ballot is disappointing. You seem to know a lot about the inner-workings of the C-J process, my questions for you:

1. Does the C-J have a process to factor out potential "block-voting" regionally - whether it be from Fayette County, Jefferson County, NKY, etc, especially given the low participation?

2. Would you agree more needs to be done to increase coaches participation rather than "encouragement", why not just call it the Kentucky Coaches Football Team kind of like USA Today has the Coaches Polls - then the coaches "own" it right?

It is interesting to see how the C-J coaches ballots stack-up against those that evaluate performance at Scout.com or Rivals.com. I personally think Jacob Hyde is one of the best in-state players, that he only earned HM on the C-J team is disappointing to me. This is how Scout.com ranks what they see as the 1-10 in-state players and then again on a national ranking level:

Kentucky 2013 Scout.com Rankings:

1. James Quick WR Trinity 5-Star #2 National WR
2. Jason Hatcher DE Trinity 4-Star #3 National DE
3. Kyle Bolin QB Lex Catholic 4-Star #14 National QB
4. Hunter Bivin OT Apollo 4-Star #15 National OT
5. Ryan White CB Trinity 4-Star #18 National CB
6. Dalyn Dawkins RB Trinity 4-Star #33 National RB
7. Joey Bloomfield OT Ballard 3-Star #50 National OT
8. Ryan Timmons WR Franklin Co 3-Star #58 National WR
9. Jacob Hyde DT Clay Co 3-Star #63 National DT
10. Logan Woodside QB Franklin Co 3-Star #71 National QB