[EKUAlum05]

When it comes to Bell, I would rank the 04 team ahead of the 08 team if were talking a head to head matchup and not just the success.
I was there at that Highlands game. One of the best looking teams ive ever seen in EKY.
If not for Mitchell at Highlands, Bell would have won the game, and most likely the state title.

To play Devil's Advocate that 2004 Bell team was very good..but IMHO they were probably the 3rd best team in EKY that year.

They lost to a very good Pburg team who was absolutely loaded and possibly one of their 5 best teams... but Pburg in turn lost twice in narrow games to the 2004 Belfry team that went on to win it all.

2004 was one of the strongest year's in Mountain History, IMHO in terms of the top of the heap. All three of those teams I mentioned were loaded to the gills.

2004 Pburg was much better than their fate showed.Truly a State Championship calibur team that just had the misfortune of a buzzsaw in their same District/Region.