[sambo]

Regardless of class, who would be your top 5 teams in the mountains?

[panther nation]

Belfry
Johnson Central
Harlan County
Hazard
Pikeville

[Redneck]

Belfry
Pulaski County
Johnson Central
Hazard
Pikeville
Williamsburg

[Orange Blaze]

What is the criteria for the rankings? If you are going off of state championships/appearances since 2006 it would be:
1. Belfry 3-5 in the 3A finals
2. Pulaski County 1-3 in the 5A finals
3. Hazard 1-2 in the 1A finals
4. Bell County 1-0 in the 4A finals
5. Pikeville 1-0 in the 1A finals

If your criteria is who could win head to head it would be more subjective with:

1. Johnson Central (5-4 against Belfry since 2007).
2. Belfry
3. Pulaski County
4. Pikeville (5-4 against Hazard since 2006)
5. Hazard
There are some schools in the latter list that I probably missed but I don't know much about a lot of teams in that part of the state. The first list is based on objective wins and losses in state finals games.

[Redneck]

Idk why, but I just went by the last 5 years, lol. Brain fart

[Belfry0304]

In the past 10 years, Mountain teams have made us all proud. I don't care about rankings. When it comes head to head, I would love to beat Pikeville 100 to 0... but when it came to a Pike County team in Bowling Green, I went nuts for the Panthers! (I still refuse to ever say Hail Pikeville though)... Fact is, we are too small of a group of people to be divided in any way. We gotta rep our part of this state hard because no one else will.

[Belfry0304]

Full disclosure: part of the above rant comes from Jason Frakes consistently having 0 love for mountain teams, including a few comments he made after this past weekend.

[Brooks4Prez]

What were his comments? And do we mean programs or teams from specific years? ( Example Belfry or Belfry 2015?)

[bac2369]

What is the criteria for the rankings? If you are going off of state championships/appearances since 2006 it would be:
1. Belfry 3-5 in the 3A finals
2. Pulaski County 1-3 in the 5A finals
3. Hazard 1-2 in the 1A finals
4. Bell County 1-0 in the 4A finals
5. Pikeville 1-0 in the 1A finals

If your criteria is who could win head to head it would be more subjective with:

1. Johnson Central (5-4 against Belfry since 2007).
2. Belfry
3. Pulaski County
4. Pikeville (5-4 against Hazard since 2006)
5. Hazard
There are some schools in the latter list that I probably missed but I don't know much about a lot of teams in that part of the state. The first list is based on objective wins and losses in state finals games.

Pulaski is 1-2 in the finals...

[RunItUpTheGut]

1. Belfry
2. Johnson Central
3. Bell County
4. Pulaski County
5. Harlan County

[Orange Blaze]

Pulaski is 1-2 in the finals...

My mistake. I must have miscounted when I was looking at the records.

[Belfry0304]

What were his comments? And do we mean programs or teams from specific years? ( Example Belfry or Belfry 2015?)

He said something about the 4 best teams in KY being Trinity, Lafayette, St X, and Bowling Green. Someone mentioned us and he said we couldn't consistently score on "the big boys" because we can't pass. What he means is he thinks because those teams are from the city, we are inferior. I don't know if we could beat any of those teams, but to be disregarded from the convo? Come on man. Especially after St X needed to rally from down 28-0 from a team we shelled last season in the title game (and they may be worse this year/we may have improved)


....... But you know, none of that matters because we don't throw it 60 times per game like real teams do here in the 2000s. *Insert photo of 5 state title rings in the last 13 years*

[I Rule The World]

I think Belfry is the third best team in the state this year behind Trinity and Bowling Green..

[Manster]

1.Belfry
2.Pulaski County
3.Bell County
4.Johnson Central
5.Harlan County

[Iam4thecats]

A pet peeve of mine. There is a difference between "team" and "program". This thread should say top 5 programs unless you mean 2015 Belfry etc.....

[Iam4thecats]

Belfry
Bell
Johnson Central
Ashland
Pulaski

[E's Army]

What has Ashland done?

[Iam4thecats]

What has Ashland done?

Won 80+ games the last 10 years? Won about 67% of the time against a pretty good schedule. Do you have resume of an actual school you'd like to replace them with?

[geauxtigers75]

Belfry
Johnson Central
Pikeville
Bell County
Pulaski County

[E's Army]

Won 80+ games the last 10 years? Won about 67% of the time against a pretty good schedule. Do you have resume of an actual school you'd like to replace them with?

Corbin 103-36. 8 region finals. 3 semis. Their schedule more than matches up with the Kittens.

[EKUAlum05]

I reserve the right to change my mind,,, just taking a stab without researching

Top 5 Programs in EKY over the Past 5 Years
1. Belfry
2. Pulaski County
3. Johnson Central
4. Pikeville
5. Bell County

Top 5 Programs in EKY Over the Past 10 Years
1. Belfry
2. Bell County
3. Johnson Central
4. Pulaski County
5. Hazard

Top 5 Programs in EKY Since 2000
Same As Above

Top 5 Programs in EKY Over the Past 25 Years
1. Belfry
2. Bell County
3. Breathitt County
4. Ashland
5. Pikeville

Top 5 Programs in EKY All-Time
1. Belfry (Wouldn't be this way 5 years ago)
2. Bell County
3. Pikeville
4. Ashland
5. Corbin

[Orange Blaze]

Ashland has had a pretty good run over the past 10 years and they are 4-1 against Belfry in head to head games during that span. Ashland has had two hurdles during that span. The first one being Johnson Central. For whatever reason they just can't seem to get that monkey off their back despite having good players every year. I don't know if it is coaching or just a mental block but JC has their number. The second hurdle is more of a mountain and that was Highlands. This also applies to Johnson Central. Ashland and Johnson Central easily had the most difficult playoff road in Eastern Kentucky. Ashland and Johnson Central had the misfortune of being in a region with Highlands during a time when they were a premier program in the state and would have beaten 99% of the teams in Kentucky regardless of class. Championships aren't a good barometer for measuring Ashland and Johnson Centrals success of the past decade because it would have been very difficult for anyone to have made it to championship game if their playoff road went through Highlands during that time.

[Iam4thecats]

Corbin 103-36. 8 region finals. 3 semis. Their schedule more than matches up with the Kittens.

False. The higher class and the different playoff road is something the hounds have not dealt with. If Ashland had played Corbin the last 10 years they would be 6-4 minimum against them.

[rumpicks]

Belfry.