[LCHSbulldogsalum]

You act as if 6'7" power forwards are walking down every hall and make up 20% of a 1500 male enrollment in large cities which is not the case. They end up in small towns as well, Paintsville had them as well as a 6'10" center and a 6'9" PF to go along with a 6'7" SF in 1996 and probably had a male enrollment of 100 grades 9-12. I'm sure Clay County in 1987, South Laurel in 2005 and Shelby Valley in 2010 are all teams that had the size you are referencing when they won the title didn't they? No they did not. They were fundamentally sound and played flawless as a team to win their titles. Don't act like it doesn't happen because it does. Not all championships are won by teams from Lexington or Louisville. From 2000 only 4 champions have come from those two cities in Basketball. You want more small schools to win titles and they do every year in the Class "A". The deck is not stacked from the start so why not do your best and outwork the competition? No where does it say you have to have size to win it all or 2000 males to choose from. Every school is represented by their best available and not every school is the same size which is true and that is why they limit each school to 15 players. You take what you have and compete. Sometimes you are the best and other times you aren't. As I said earlier, if the KHSAA determined a cutoff for the number of players on a football team that each school can use I'd be all for eliminating football classification as well.

Clay and South Laurel? You realize that in 2005 South Laurel had an enrollment of over 1,300 students....hardly a "small school". And Clay County will be right around 1,000 students as well. Not quite the 200-600 student population that many would determine as "small".

Now, Paintsville I'll give you. But you are using basketball. When was the last time they had that type of height in their hallways since the mid-90's? Yep, never. And their baseball team in 1990 was the last true "small school" to win the state title. Unless Hazard wins this year, we will be going on 27 years since a small school won it all. So are you saying that during those almost 3 decades, that the only reason no small school has won it is because they haven't "outworked" the other larger schools?