Is Bowling Green the best team in Ky?

[Hellbird]

BG was undefeated last year, and we had a loss.....BG was the better team?

 

No and that is where knowing the difference in the teams each and every year come into play. This years BG team is special. Yes they may win their 3rd straight title this year but this team is different from last years team etc.

 

You can lose a game or two but its the team itself that you know the difference. For instance T will most likely win the state championship again this year but I don't think even you will say they are better than last years T team.

[mcpapa]

So Highlands beating Trinity 1 time 17 years ago makes Highlands a Big Boy school?

 

You say You have to be willing to put your program and reputation on a National stage for all to critique and put everything on the line. How much do you really believe that? The reason I ask is when someone does critique the team people like you seem to hold that against them and put on your defensive side.

 

HHS has won wk in and wk out against the oopponents they played but that doesn't mean the opponents they play are among the best. The entire UC game itself the way you all boasted about it was pretty much a joke. UC is ranked #71 in the state of Florida this year yet you all make it sound like you beat a national power. When the facts are brought up you then fall back to they were state 2A champions last year....so what? We beat KY's 2A champion a couple weeks ago, doesn't mean Cooper is a Big Dog.

 

I just think if you are going to have a Big dog category, then please make the criteria the same for every team.

 

Don't get me wrong Sweeperboy. I think Highlands, as I've already said many times, is one of the best football programs in the state. More often than not they could compete with just about any team in the state year in and year out. I wish them the best this year and always root for them in the title game year in and year out. I just think every once in awhile when a special team comes along (this year being BG) it would be nice for the big programs with all the success in their corner could actually acknowledge that maybe, just maybe that particular year that someone else may have the team that year that is actually better and give them the recognition they deserve. Because when it's all said and done, on the years that the H's and T's of the world have great years, those schools you want to deny this year are always giving you all kudo's.

 

It would be nice to have the favor returned to those schools I would think. It's called respect, and when you receive it year in and year out, it would be nice to also see you giving other programs the same respect when they deserve it.

 

Excellent post.

[Hatz]

HB, reread the above very carefully and this applies to your argument about any and all teams from NKY and most if not all of the State...

 

This is not a knock on any other program in KY, it is just the facts, plain and simple.

 

I think it was 1996 Highlands beat T and then T returned the favor a few yrs later

 

Highlands beat Trinity in 2000, I know that one. How does a Boyle County Rebel know that one and a Bird man doesn't? :lol2:

 

It was 42-29. HHS would win AAA with a great team that season and Trinity would lose to Male in the AAAA Final.

[75center]

Highlands beat Trinity in 2000, I know that one. How does a Boyle County Rebel know that one and a Bird man doesn't? :lol2:

 

It was 42-29. HHS would win AAA with a great team that season and Trinity would lose to Male in the AAAA Final.

 

We only remember our big wins. After several hundred they all run together.

[floridaboy#2 speed kills]

I just would like to know what defines below avg football? Are should saying the kids aren't good or are you saying the coaching isn't good? What are you going by since you apparently know but aren't willing to list the states that are better and should have a list of at least 25 states that are better for us to be below.

 

I've lived in several states and have watched HS football in all of them. Didn't notice much difference between the majority of schools compared to ky

 

list from ESPN: ESPN.com has teed up the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Now the football is in your hands. Pull on your gameday jersey, tape up those writing fingers and hit back with your opinion. We'll print the best fan signal callers on our pages.

 

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[mcpapa]

Right between Hawaii and Utah. YIKES!!

 

 

I really thought we would have been higher, but I guess one program isn't enough to carry an entire state.

[AvidTiger]

list from ESPN: ESPN.com has teed up the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Now the football is in your hands. Pull on your gameday jersey, tape up those writing fingers and hit back with your opinion. We'll print the best fan signal callers on our pages.

 

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How old Is this list might I ask? One would think Georgia would be 4-5 and Pennsylvania 6. But for ky to be in the bottom half, I think they hold their own vs regional opponents extremely well.

[Sweeperboy]

The #5 State sure rings a bell for some...Just sayin

 

FWIW, one of you number wiz geeks do me a favor and go thru these 22 pages and take out every single post that has the name Highlands, HHS, Birds, Dale or any other name associated with Highlands and it's associated posters and you are probably looking at an 5 page thread so to say Highlands is being left out is hilarious. Just sayin...:thumb:

 

If anything most on here are worried about the Birds then the other way around:lol2:

[floridaboy#2 speed kills]

Avidtiger list was from 2009

 

Here's a list from 2010

RivalsHigh - Where is the best football played in 2010

 

Kentucky is 31 on this one. Ky is 28th on the most recent list I've seen but I'm still trying to find it!

[AvidTiger]

The #5 State sure rings a bell for some...Just sayin

 

FWIW, one of you number wiz geeks do me a favor and go thru these 22 pages and take out every single post that has the name Highlands, HHS, Birds, Dale or any other name associated with Highlands and it's associated posters and you are probably looking at an 5 page thread so to say Highlands is being left out is hilarious. Just sayin...:thumb:

 

If anything most on here are worried about the Birds then the other way around:lol2:

 

The highlands posters, you being prime suspect, always include themselves in forums they weren't even though of.

[Sweeperboy]

Check that...

 

#1 and #3 States are looking even better folks...

 

Have at it folks...Just sayin

[Sweeperboy]

The highlands posters, you being prime suspect, always include themselves in forums they weren't even though of.

 

C'mon Avid, Iam one poster on here with 3400 total posts for crying out loud...

 

I hear what you are sayin though

Edited September 11, 2013 by Sweeperboy
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[AvidTiger]

Avidtiger list was from 2009

 

Here's a list from 2010

RivalsHigh - Where is the best football played in 2010

 

Kentucky is 31 on this one. Ky is 28th on the most recent list I've seen but I'm still trying to find it!

 

Ya I would believe on an updated list Georgia would be higher.

[AvidTiger]

C'mon Avid, Iam one poster on here with 3400 total posts for crying out loud...

 

I hear what you are sayin though

 

I would give you benefit of the doubt but you do it in almost every thread. Ie the second post in the "we can judge bg all we want".

[Bluegrasscard]

Right between Hawaii and Utah. YIKES!!

 

 

I really thought we would have been higher, but I guess one program isn't enough to carry an entire state.

 

I wonder if the smaller school populations hurt Kentucky in this type of ranking. Without a doubt there is good talent here. But with the smaller average size schools the teams are not as strong as other states where they have larger schools with larger populations due to less counties per capita and larger schools in the metros. In Kentucky we top out at around 2,000 but other states have schools with 3,000 or even 4,000+ in them. Theoretically schools of this size should field teams on par with you-know-who with ease (assuming population makes a difference - not to open that oft discussed topic).