[EKUAlum05]

First of all I'm not trying to argue, I respect all your posts and find great insight in most. However, we just don't share the same opinion on this topic. Below is a list of the road these teams had in the playoffs. You can't talk about Bell playing weak and act like Belfry Didn't either.

Bell 2010 Belfry 2010
Boyd 1-10 West Carter 7-4
Lawrenece 9-3 Mason 10-2
Knox Central 10-3 Russell 7-6
Boyle 15-0 Somerset 13-1

Bell 2011 Belfry 2011
E'town 0-11 Jackson 1-10
Wayne 9-3 Lawrence 5-7
Central (Champs) Breathitt 12-1

Bell 2012 Belfry 2012
E'town 1-10 KCC 2-9
Larue 6-6 Lawrence 5-7
Central (Champs) Breathitt 12-1

I personally would rather have Belfry's path each of these years. That's why I stated I wouldn't consider it more impressive that they have more Semi or Finals appearances during those years. When if they switched places Belfry wouldn't have a Region Championship for those years. It is what it is I guess I'm just looking at it from a different perspective.

I am not taking it as an argument...just a god ole fashioned fun debate.

The crux of my point is actually what you have left out though... Its not like Belfry just coasted until they reached the Finals...

2010:
First of all 2010 was one of the three years I gave Bell credit for earlier for having the better team. Absolutely no denying that or debating it as that was a Belfry team that drastically overachieved. I also won't even attempt to deny Bell had a tougher path that year playing in 4A. Though Belfry's playoff run that year wasn't to shabby either.. Mason County was A Top 5 team and Belfry beat them on the road... Somerset was undefeated and the #1 3A team in the State entering that game... then Belfry got skull mashed by Central.

2011:
What is missing is 12-2 Garrard County... a very, very good Garrard County team who IMHO was the 3rd best 3A team that year. To insinuate Bell had a tougher playoff path just doesn't hold water because it is about who you actually play. In 2011 Belfry played three excellent teams in the playoffs...Bell played only Central. Could Bell have made a run on the opposite end? Maybe... but all we can go off of was they lost to only good team they faced whereas Belfry beat two very good teams. To top it off Central beat Bell going away, whereas the Belfry game came down to a TD pass in the back of the endzone.

2012:
What is missing is 13-0 Bourbon County. Once again...Bell played one good team in their playoff run and lost (on their homefield with Central reeling from injuries).. Belfry meanwhile played three of the Top 5 teams in 3A and won two of them against Bourbon and Breathitt. NO team in 3A had a tougher path.

2013:
You left this one off despite putting 2010... once again Bell played one good team (Central wasn't even a Top 5 team last year IMHO) and lost... Belfry's playoff path included beating a Top 10 Pike Central, a #3 Bourbon, and a #2 Wayne County

It doesn't matter if 7 of the 10 best teams are in the West if you don't play them... meanwhile Belfry has not only been playing some of the bets teams in their class in their playoff runs..they have beat them

All we know is since Bell joined 3A they are O-For-3 in the playoffs when they play a Top 5 team... Belfry, OTOH, has went 6-2. Any assumption of a win by Bell with Belfry's path is purely subjecture..whereas Belfry has proven they have earned their title wins.