1. Ballard

2. Trinity

3. Hopkinsville

4. Holmes

5. Lafayette

6. Newport Central Catholic

7. Scott County

8. Knott County Central

9. Montgomery County

10. Pleasure Ridge Park

11. Cordia

12. Perry County Central

13. Lexington Catholic

14. Wayne County

15. Covington Catholic

16. Warren Central

17. Elizabethtown

18. Bowling Green

19. Graves County

20. Doss

Last rankings of 2013. Agree or disagree?

Ballard

Trinity

Holmes

Lafayette

Newcath

Hopkinsville

 

Rest looks good.

No way BG is #18.

No way BG is #18.

 

higher? lower?

No way BG is #18.

 

Who should be in their spot?

Ballard

Trinity

Holmes

Lafayette

Newcath

Hopkinsville

 

Rest looks good.

 

Hopkinsville beat Lafayette by 9 but you say Lafayette should be ranked higher than Hopkinsville who is actually down 1 spot from our last rankings?

Mason Co., Madison Central, and maybe Betsy Lane are schools I would consider higher than BG right now. Along with Graves and Doss.

Lexington Catholic should be higher.

Mason Co., Betsy Lane, Madison Central, and Lafayette are schools I would consider higher than BG right now.

 

Madison Central just lost to Lincoln County so that hurt them. Losing by 20 to MoCo doesn't help either.

 

Betsy Layne and Mason County are casualties of SOS at the moment. We'll find out more about them soon. Betsy Layne lost to Campbell County so that didn't help them.

 

Lafayette is #5.

Lexington Catholic should be higher.

 

They weren't ranked in the last rankings and they have losses to KCC and Cordia. Not ready to put them higher than Cordia just because they won a quality tournament that they hosted. Going from unranked to #13 is still pretty impressive IMO.

Madison Central just lost to Lincoln County so that hurt them. Losing by 20 to MoCo doesn't help either.

 

Betsy Layne and Mason County are casualties of SOS at the moment. We'll find out more about them soon. Betsy Layne lost to Campbell County so that didn't help them.

 

Lafayette is #5.

 

I caught Lafayette after I posted.

 

I don't think BG has a marque win to be Top 20 material just yet. They definitely have the potential. If it were me voting, I would have had BG right outside the Top 20, and would have waited until their game with John Hardin to decide whether or not to bump them into the Top 20. BG played an easy holiday schedule with their best win of their season, IMO, being over Barren County.

I caught Lafayette after I posted.

 

I don't think BG has a marque win to be Top 20 material just yet. They definitely have the potential. If it were me voting, I would have had BG right outside the Top 20, and would have waited until their game with John Hardin to decide whether or not to bump them into the Top 20. BG played an easy holiday schedule with their best win of their season, IMO, being over Barren County.

 

No argument from me. I think that BG's game against Trinity has added some allure to their team. While they lost that game they led most of that game and that was without their football players playing with them. While I agree that they don't have a marquee win just yet the way they have been beating people has caught our attention and it afforded them a spot at 18 when looking at their entire body of work. They lose to John Hardin and they'll be dismissed. The football players are back and seem to have adjusted fine. No excuses for them going forward.

They weren't ranked in the last rankings and they have losses to KCC and Cordia. Not ready to put them higher than Cordia just because they won a quality tournament that they hosted. Going from unranked to #13 is still pretty impressive IMO.

 

That's fair.

 

At the same time though, going out of region from Lexington to the 14th isn't easy. KCC is a tough place to win. Huge arena and fans who turn out. Look back at my 11th Region Notebook to see the amount Catholic traveled to play 3 games in 8 days. I think it was the equivalent of driving from Lexington to Orlando non-stop.

 

Unless Hines were eligible, I'd take Lex Cath over Cordia in a heads-up game on a neutral floor, but I know that's not really what the rankings are all about.

That's fair.

 

At the same time though, going out of region from Lexington to the 14th isn't easy. KCC is a tough place to win. Huge arena and fans who turn out. Look back at my 11th Region Notebook to see the amount Catholic traveled to play 3 games in 8 days. I think it was the equivalent of driving from Lexington to Orlando non-stop.

 

I remember that. It was an a crazy amount of mileage for sure. At the same time, had they won just one of those games they'd be significantly higher. They've proven they can play with both of them but historically we have never bumped a team up from unranked to top 10 or higher. They started the preseason poll in the back part of the poll and then lost twice to get knocked out of the poll altogether once some other teams put some impressive wins together. Now that LexCath has proven to be legit(at home anyways) they have to slide in somewhere. I think where Cordia sits(even after Cordia's embarassing loss to Male) is a good spot for LexCath to land for now. It also gives them an opportunity to keep rising as they move into their district and region schedule.

 

 

Did you know that LexCath and Lafayette could possibly meet 5 times this season? I'm sure you did. Blows my mind. :lol: