Being a fan of Class A high school football in the state of Kentucky I have taken the time to align each 4 team district across the state. I feel like the main issue that the KHSAA has to look at when aligning these districts has to be travel. Schools today are having all kinds of issues with travel with some boosters having to pay the travel for their team, for this reason I have tried to keep the shortest travel distances for each district. My favorite team has traveled 2 hours each way to play each team in their district for the last few years and I’m hoping something will be done about this. After many years of watching and being a part of Kentucky High School Football here is my idea of the best alignment for Kentucky Class A football for the next few years:

 

District 1--Crittenden Co., Fulton City, Fulton Co., Russellville

District 2--Eminence, Frankfort, Holy Cross, Kentucky Country Day

District 3--Berea, Bethlehem, Campbellsville, Caverna

District 4--Beechwood, Bellevue, Dayton, Ludlow

District 5--Bishop Brossart, Bracken County, Nicholas Co., Paris

District 6--Fairview, Paintsville, Raceland, South Floyd

District 7--Hazard, Jenkins, Phelps, Pikeville

District 8--Harlan, Lynn Camp, Pineville, Williamsburg

 

The schools to the west of I-75 are the hardest part of this alignment because they are so spread out on that side of the state. Schools east of I-75 are much closer together which makes alignment a little, not much, easier. Two schools in Eastern Kentucky that will complain are Hazard and Pikeville being in the same district. These schools have been pretty powerful in the past in Class A football and I hate to see them in the same district but again I put travel before competition. It’s hard to say a whole lot about competition within a district when you can go back and look at the Northern Kentucky district throughout the 1990s! I remember a few times 4 of those teams (Beechwood, Bellevue, Newport Central Catholic, and Ludlow) being in the Class A top 10!

Beechwood the happiest team in 1A?

Hey, Pr1de. Good to see you on BGP.

 

At a glance, your alignment prediction looks to be pretty dead on to me. The only thing I notice (and it may already be that way in D3, I'm not sure), but Berea is going to be doing a lot of driving.

Beechwood the happiest team in 1A?

 

Man, I can't imagine they're not.

Like the Way you have it Pr1de.

Being a fan of Class A high school football in the state of Kentucky I have taken the time to align each 4 team district across the state. I feel like the main issue that the KHSAA has to look at when aligning these districts has to be travel. Schools today are having all kinds of issues with travel with some boosters having to pay the travel for their team, for this reason I have tried to keep the shortest travel distances for each district. My favorite team has traveled 2 hours each way to play each team in their district for the last few years and I’m hoping something will be done about this. After many years of watching and being a part of Kentucky High School Football here is my idea of the best alignment for Kentucky Class A football for the next few years:

 

District 1--Crittenden Co., Fulton City, Fulton Co., Russellville

District 2--Eminence, Frankfort, Holy Cross, Kentucky Country Day

District 3--Berea, Bethlehem, Campbellsville, Caverna

District 4--Beechwood, Bellevue, Dayton, Ludlow

District 5--Bishop Brossart, Bracken County, Nicholas Co., Paris

District 6--Fairview, Paintsville, Raceland, South Floyd

District 7--Hazard, Jenkins, Phelps, Pikeville

District 8--Harlan, Lynn Camp, Pineville, Williamsburg

 

The schools to the west of I-75 are the hardest part of this alignment because they are so spread out on that side of the state. Schools east of I-75 are much closer together which makes alignment a little, not much, easier. Two schools in Eastern Kentucky that will complain are Hazard and Pikeville being in the same district. These schools have been pretty powerful in the past in Class A football and I hate to see them in the same district but again I put travel before competition. It’s hard to say a whole lot about competition within a district when you can go back and look at the Northern Kentucky district throughout the 1990s! I remember a few times 4 of those teams (Beechwood, Bellevue, Newport Central Catholic, and Ludlow) being in the Class A top 10!

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Beechwood the happiest team in 1A?

 

Might win their district, not much else.

Might win their district, not much else.

 

:troll: You need to put this guy's head on your green thing any time you post about Beechwood. It fits very nicely there.

Beechwood should play up . When you are up by 5tds at half of all your district games that doesn't help you going into playoffs

6 classes are destroying football in this state. If I'm Russellville, I petition to play up. But I doubt they filed one.

Beechwood should play up . When you are up by 5tds at half of all your district games that doesn't help you going into playoffs

 

That is why their non district schedule is usually all top tier 4A+ schools and New Cath. I have to admit though that I expected them to play up and was a little surprised when they didn't.

6 classes are destroying football in this state. If I'm Russellville, I petition to play up. But I doubt they filed one.

 

I agree 110%!!!! There should only be 4...

If we are continuing to have 6 classes, this is the best case scenario for 1A.

Beechwood should play up . When you are up by 5tds at half of all your district games that doesn't help you going into playoffs

 

Why? That district is not much less competitive that the one NCC plays in. As stated, BW gets plenty of comp in regular season. They schedule Cov Cath every year and play at least 1 6a school. Unlike a much talked about 6a school around here who plays an awful regular season schedule and plays in the softest district in the state at it's class.

Beechwood should play up . When you are up by 5tds at half of all your district games that doesn't help you going into playoffs

 

It is better to win a 1a state title than to lose in the 3rd or 4th round of the 2a playoffs.