Chris Ryan⚾️

Athletic Director
Bullitt Central HS

[Chris Ryan⚾️ @coachryan35]

For all things Bullitt Central Baseball you can now follow @BCcougsbaseball

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[Chris Ryan⚾️ @coachryan35]

Excited to announce that I have accepted the Athletic Director position at Bullitt Central and with that my time as a Head Baseball Coach has come to an end.  My attention now turns to finding my replacement.

[Chris Ryan⚾️ @coachryan35]

We have brand new state of the art facilities and a 55,000 sq ft indoor facility, cages, weight room, that’s set to be completed in October on the way.  Our program is great shape in all areas.

Looking for a baseball job? This is a good one.

https://t.co/DbZMpHei3K

[Chris Ryan⚾️ @coachryan35]

@BBNDuckett44 @matchewV4 I’d like to know too. Seems like quite the accusation.

[Dirt Bro Diamond Training @DirtBroUSA]

Don’t say, “I want to play college baseball,” and then look for ways out of the opportunities that will make you better.

Champions find a way. Period.

Nobody feels like doing what it takes every single day. Winners understand it’s not about how you feel — it’s about what needs to get done.

So they show up, put in the work, and do it well.

[Chris Ryan⚾️ @coachryan35]

Short porch in left.👀

[Baseball Quotes @BaseballQuotes1]

The Savannah Bananas will play in front of 100,000 people at Kyle Field at Texas A&M tonight

[Coach Hill @CoachMarcusHill]

A true baseball coach should be able hit fungos and throw batting practice. Some of you out there yelling at players to do things you can’t even do

[Chris Ryan⚾️ @coachryan35]

Might be moving soon.

https://t.co/Qin6ex35j7

[Chris Ryan⚾️ @coachryan35]

@BEbaseball Too many puddles?

[LMPD @LMPD]

Special shout to this 100lb Chevy Spark that’s out here DoorDashing. SMH.

[Max Price @MrMaxPrice]

A team can be literally 24-0 and still have a parent complaining about playing time, reporting non-truths to the AD, and openly rooting against the team. We live in a wild period for sports.

[Chris Ryan⚾️ @coachryan35]

😂

[LMPD @LMPD]

BREAKING: The roads have been slick since about 2:30pm.
Louisville’s collective driving skills have dropped by 87%.
LMPD has responded to 21 accidents so far. Confidence remains… unjustified.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Reflecting on my 20+ years as a teacher, a recurring theme stands out…
American schools often take on too much.

Schools shouldn’t be considered the lone solution for society’s ills. And many who believe this are teachers!

And when you take on too much, failure is inevitable.

[Chris Ryan⚾️ @coachryan35]

Travel ball coaches everywhere feeling vindicated today.

[MLB Network @MLBNetwork]

He started Game 6, then he finished Game 7 🤯

YOSHINOBU YAMAMOTO IS THE #WORLDSERIES MVP!

[Eric Cressey @EricCressey]

The single most important job of any youth sport coach is to make sure the kids have so much fun that they come back to play the next season. It's embarrassing how much that gets overlooked in 2025.

[Chris Ryan⚾️ @coachryan35]

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[Chris Ryan⚾️ @coachryan35]

I think I've figured out a solution. I'll have little Johnny's parents post their stats and I'll retweet that. Surely nothing goes wrong there.🙄

[Jason Kinner @jasonkinner1]

SB 181 is terrible for our kids! Some context..

I’ve read the “I don’t message kids and never have so it doesn’t affect me..” False, you don’t understand the platforms, restrictions, and promoting kids if you make this comment.

A decade ago at PHS we found a niche on Twitter that allowed us to market ultra talented high school football players at our tiny 1A school like never before. If coaches weren’t allowed to tag, like and retweet, we probably never produce an Army All-American and KY Mr Football. We had D1s from all over the country flying in because of our presence on Twitter(X). We created quality content, and as a staff had a plan to make it go by tagging etc, common practice in 2025! Promoting high school kids got even more difficult after the portal. Awards are also about exposure and public interactions are critical. Those actions are now an infraction and require you to be reported to EPSB.

In east Kentucky an athlete is already behind the 8 ball, it takes twice the effort to promote a high level D1 athlete from Eastern KY, just the facts. Taking an educator/coaches abilities to promote away has a direct negative affect on our youth.

Why aren’t more administrators speaking up?

Recruiting traffic has since moved to other platforms. Take for instance Instagram or Facebook, if you have a team account and you post a story and tag a kid from a morning workout or great play, it generates a private message with the story to said tagged kid. I can show you evidence of power 4 schools watching stories etc regularly. Again, an infraction now requiring you to be reported to EPSB. No other state has a rule like this.

I completely understand the principle of outlawing private messages, conversations should NEVER take place between professionals and students in private messenger on social media. In this case we took a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and those who passed this legislation obviously have a limited understanding of these platforms and how they work. In a world evolving on social media, you just took a critical support role away with one broad stroke of a brush.

Will SB 181 stop those with evil intentions from contacting kids? NO.

The communication will evolve to some other encrypted platform or media, making it even more difficult to track, thats how this works. Rules don’t stop rule breakers, just ask law enforcement. Now if you stiffen the penalty for those caught “grooming” kids, you can make some headway. Stiffen the penalties for coworkers who don’t report inappropriate relationships. Hold parents/guardians accountable for not properly monitoring kids interactions on social media. Those adults who pay for the device have some responsibility here too. You can’t put all of this responsibility solely on coaches/educators, you won’t fix the problem. The goal here is to fix the problem, right?

In my situation, I have a positive presence with outdoors in East KY. I started and run a nonprofit Anglers For Improving Opportunities, kids regularly send me photos to post on our page. My presence has been a positive in introducing kids to the outdoors. (You would be amazed at the level of largemouth bass genetics conversations that I have in my classroom. 😂 ) Why would you take away positive interactions there? This is only one example.

Contact legislators today! We have to make some modifications to this terrible bill, it does more harm than good to our youth and won’t actually address the problem. It only pushes this activity deeper in the sewers where it is tougher to track.

What say you?

[Bullitt Central HS Baseball @BCcougsbaseball]

There's a Cougar on the list.👍👍

[Bullitt Central HS Baseball @BCcougsbaseball]

Congrats to Jordan Powell on his 1st Team All-State Selection.👍👍

[Chris Ryan⚾️ @coachryan35]

We got a guy.👍👍

[Jason Frakes @kyhighs]

Kentucky's high school baseball coaches have announced the 2025 Mr. Baseball and the All-State teams. Corbin's Kade Elam, a U of L signee, leads the way https://t.co/Jzi01wMxxC