[birdman44]

This is all im looking for. It doesn't have anything to do with one team. I could care less what Highlands does. The other teams shouldn't be allowed to do it either. It goes against any kind of consistency.

As for the 6A comments, while Highlands may have a good win loss record over the past 100 years against most of these schools, I highly doubt Highlands would of had a single state championship in the past five years had they been playing 6A ball. If I were a Highlands fan that just enjoyed watching them id much rather see them in 6A than lowly 5A where a run to the state title game will be just as easy as it was in 4A. At least in 6A they would be stuck in a district with Campbell, Ryle, and Simon Kenton or some combination like that and it makes sense. We know Highlands is going to be pretty good every year, but that district would be much more challenging than being in a district with teams like Cov Cath, Conner, Cooper, etc. especially with how those NKY 6A teams are starting to look much better over the past couple of years. It wouldn't get any easier in the playoffs as they wuld be forced to play teams like Scott County and even play Lville teams on off years do to the screwed up alignment and too many classes.

My biggest pet peeve when it comes to this is not teams playing up per say, but every time a team like Highlands does, another teams is allowed to play DOWN in order to fill out the alignment which isn't right.

Lets get something straight right now... when Highlands plays ""up"" they are playing "up". 5A is tougher than 4A and 4A is tougher than 3A. Below that may be a little more interchangeable. 6A is better than all of them... due to like 3-4 teams... T,X,Male.... these teams have around twice the kids to put a football team together than Highlands... Highlands plays up a class just because we can... the team that steps down is probably not too far off that class.... it makes it more competitive on both ends. Saying it should be playing up 6A or nothing is dumb. It is an amazing program that completely dominates schools of equal size... its the right thing to do.

Mayfield is pretty much the same thing. they should play up too.

And there have been plenty of years Highlands would have won the big class... 96,98,99,00 to name a few.