[lochocinco]

It may originate as EKY vs WKY, but really, the question at the heart of it is, why don't EKY teams compete for and win titles on a regular basis versus the rest of the state? Because if you're talking about WKY teams, with the exception of Mayfield, they're not any more successful than EKY teams. Outside of Mayfield (and Fort Campbell, I guess, but they're not really germane to this since they get a big new crop of kids every year from the military), who in WKY is dominating? O-Cath, Hop-town, Bowling Green, et cetera, every year a team from the west makes it to the state final because the brackets are set up such that a team from the west HAS to make it there, and almost universally that western team gets smoked in the final by a team from Lex/Lou/NKY just like all the EKY teams get smoked by those teams. So the real question is one of two things: why is Mayfield so good, or why are EKY teams so bad?

No , it doesn't "universally" happen that way.

2007 state finals:

2A: Fort Campbell 21, Newport Catholic 7
3A: Central 27, Belfry 17

2008 state finals:

A: Beechwood 14, Hazard 7
2A: Fort Campbell 26, Newport Catholic 23
4A: Bell County 15, Bullitt East 13

2009 state finals:

2A: Fort Campbell 29, DeSales 9
4A: Boyle County 42, Lone Oak 39 (2OT)

2010 state finals:

4A: Boyle County 28, Allen County 21

Fort Campbell doesn't always get a new crop of guys every year. Several of the key players on the three state championship teams played most or all of their high school football at Fort Campbell.

Fort Knox once enjoyed similar success, but doesn't anymore ... why not, if they can just bring in a new crop of guys every year?