[birdman44]

Thank you for being the first to at least acknowledge that 4A could be just as good as 5A, (and has been) thus making the argument of playing tougher competition irrelevant. 3A will be tougher than both 4A and 5A the next few years IMO, if you take out HHS and Cov Cath. BG is the only team in 5A that has played like a 5A team with those numbers should over the past few years. Even schools that are usually decent like John Hardin have REALLY struggled lately against good competition. With everyone exiting 4A, its going to be weak, but no more weak or watered down than 5A currently is.

When I look at the alignment of teams next year, I would take the top 10 3A teams from top to bottom over that of the 4A and 5A (minus Highlands and CC since there what were talking about) teams. I just think Lex Cath, Boyle, Central, Corbin, Belfry, South Warren, Bell, etc is a better group of good football teams than what we will see in 4A and 5A.

Yeah its true today that 4A and 5A are pretty interchangeable... when talking about competition I was talking more about when I played we were 2A and played up to 3A (4 class days) and it was BIG difference. Its probably more about competition within the district too.. Cov Cath Dixie and such are far better than holmes and Harrison. I just miss BG being there on the other side that was always a great state championship matchup. But ill concede that 4A overall is as good maybe better than 5A.