This may be a bit premature as there's a couple weeks left before the playoffs, but is the "overall" best football in the state being played this year in NKY?? I'm talking all classes, and across the board, not just big schools?? Obviously Trinity and X are going to dominate the top 10 in the state, along with several of their Louisville and Lexington big school brethren. When you compare the potential for several state champs, and the impressive overall ratings by some of the 6A teams; along with top 20-25 ranked 2A and 1A teams, its a pretty good story!!

 

As I look over tonight's games and look at the various ratings, it appears this may be true. Just a few things to consider:

 

**Teams ranked # 1 in three of the four classes where they're represented, with basically no entries in classes 3 & 4!!

 

**Overall 5 teams in the top 25 in Cantrell and 5 in the Litkenhous top 20, despite most of them be compared to much larger schools!!

 

**Impressive overall record versus the rest of the state!!

 

Again, I'm thinking across the board, not just number of top 10 teams in the state; and consider for the most part there's no "middle sized" teams in NKY that haven't chosen to "play up"??

You make good points but I don't know.............

 

6A: Like you said dominated by Louisville schools and this seems to be about an average year for NKY 6A schools when compared to the top teams in 6A.

 

5A: Highlands obviously a pretty good team, but not a whole lot behind them. CovCath injuries/inexperience and Dixie has stood out. Overall, a good year not a great year. I realize HH and CC are playing up but if they weren't HH would be at the top of 3A. CC and Dixie would not be at the top of 4A or 5A.

 

4A: No teams

3A: No teams

 

2A: NewCath looks on track to make a run and looks better than last year at this point. Two tough tests in the next two weeks. Actually kind of disappointed in the other NKY 2A teams as I thought they would be better overall.

 

1A: Beechwood obviously a pretty good team, and Dayton is having a very nice season for a 1A team. Thought Bellevue and Ludlow would be closer to Beechwood than what they've shown in district and out of district.

 

I guess I think its an average to maybe slightly above average year overall to this point but IMO not the best NKY year ever when compared to the rest of the state.

You make good points but I don't know.............

 

6A: Like you said dominated by Louisville schools and this seems to be about an average year for NKY 6A schools when compared to the top teams in 6A.

 

5A: Highlands obviously a pretty good team, but not a whole lot behind them. CovCath injuries/inexperience and Dixie has stood out. Overall, a good year not a great year. I realize HH and CC are playing up but if they weren't HH would be at the top of 3A. CC and Dixie would not be at the top of 4A or 5A.

 

4A: No teams

3A: No teams

 

2A: NewCath looks on track to make a run and looks better than last year at this point. Two tough tests in the next two weeks. Actually kind of disappointed in the other NKY 2A teams as I thought they would be better overall.

 

1A: Beechwood obviously a pretty good team, and Dayton is having a very nice season for a 1A team. Thought Bellevue and Ludlow would be closer to Beechwood than what they've shown in district and out of district.

 

I guess I think its an average to maybe slightly above average year overall to this point but IMO not the best NKY year ever when compared to the rest of the state.

 

Absolutely no arguement that NKY overall has had better years, especially when NCC and BW were right at the top of 1A, CCH and Highlands up top in 3A, and the 4A schools closer to the Louisville powerhouses.

 

My question was however, is the best overall football in the state being played in NKY this year?? What area, if any, is playing better overall football, top to bottom--This year??

Absolutely no arguement that NKY overall has had better years, especially when NCC and BW were right at the top of 1A, CCH and Highlands up top in 3A, and the 4A schools closer to the Louisville powerhouses.

 

My question was however, is the best overall football in the state being played in NKY this year?? What area, if any, is playing better overall football, top to bottom--This year??

 

Kind of hard to answer your question (about THIS year) only because I'm not sure if any areas even have teams in all of most of the classes. I mean NKY doesn't have any 3A or 4A schools, but we are fortunate to have large numbers of teams in the other classes. Lexington is kind of spaced out with top teams in 1A, 4A, and 6A, but how far does the Lexington area reach geographically for this purpose? Same with Lousiville, with obviously most of the teams being 6A size.

Basically look at Cincinnati. Always have a ton of top D1 teams and usually have pretty good D2 teams. Occasionally, a D3 to D6 school makes some noise. But I'd still say the level of football played there is pretty high even though it might not be top to bottom.

 

You may very well be correct that NKY is playing the best top to bottom but it may be because they are one of the few areas that have teams top to bottom.