No disrespect, but I still wonder if BA could survive under KHSAA rules. I still wonder if they would be as successful if their playoff road took them into games with Trinity, X and Male every year. Sure they would win some, but they wouldn't have had the success they have had. The Catholic school system in your part of the country is all but gone.

In its place, so to speak, is a long-established system of private schools. Tennessee has many more private schools within its borders than Kentucky.

Well, I looked up the BA website and I'll reply to my own post. Brentwood had only 747 students in grades 6-12 last school year. They are co-ed. I'm guessing they would be a 1A or 2A school in Kentucky.

 

They have football for grades 6-8, as well as high school students, so they have their own built-in feeder system.

 

With that in mind, I'd say they could hold their own (at least within their class) if they played in the Bluegrass State.

Going strictly by enrollment, Brentwood Academy would be a Class A team in Kentucky.

 

Given their history of "playing up," however, I suspect the Eagles would settle in as a Class 3A program, were they in Kentucky. Brentwood would be on par with the customary 3A powers such as Highlands and Boyle County.

No disrespect, but I still wonder if BA could survive under KHSAA rules. I still wonder if they would be as successful if their playoff road took them into games with Trinity, X and Male every year. Sure they would win some, but they wouldn't have had the success they have had. The Catholic school system in your part of the country is all but gone. The last time I saw BA they were defeated (close game) by a Cinci St. X team that didn't even make the playoffs. Meanwhile Trinity was beating the eventual Ohio D1 Champs at the same event by 24 points. Not arguing that they are a fine program, I'm just not ready to crown them just yet.

 

Please don't tell me you're going to try to prove your point by carving out one season (2002). If we're going to play that game, and use recent history, let's use 2003, too (MBA wins state, but loses to Brentwood Academy; Trinity loses to MBA but beats St. X twice, St. X beats Male twice, and Trinity goes on to win state). Heck, if we're going to talk about Louisville privates versus Nashville privates in general, let's talk about 2005. Kentucky's big school state champ losing to a Nashville private that didn't even sniff a state title in Tennessee isn't bolstering an argument for Louisville private school football. Playing that one-season-in-a-vacuum game isn't so fun now, is it?

 

I have no clue what the status of Catholic schools in Tennessee has to do with this argument. Help me out there.

 

I'm not going to use all-star contests, head-to-head matchups between the states, College/NFL representation, etc. (yet I think we all know which state those stats would favor over time), nor even proclaim to be some guru who watches game film all over the country of various programs. I'm just going to tell you that Brentwood Academy, in my opinion, would have done just fine against your Big 3 over time. Take it or leave it.

 

westsider, I'm glad to hear your perspective. I would agree, but we know that by now.

 

Oh yeah, LSURock, they weren't passing out any crowns for any Louisville privates in Tennessee last year, either. :thumb: