[Shogun]

I would say a program needs to have success over a long period of time and have multiple title winning coaches to be considered a blue blood. For me this is the main difference in a team like Boyle County who would I would consider a blue blood, and a team like Belfry, who I'm 50-50 on.

Boyle's success though is basically right around 2000 and on.


To me this makes them the richest of the new bloods...

They are like a Google or Amazon. A blueblood would be more like a GE... that's a Trinity or Male type of team.

Frederick Douglas is like Twitter. It got big and strong in a hurry, but all it takes is one big change and that all could change in a hurry.

They are in the last half of the current playoff era, but I still think the sustained success under multiple coaches, and the outlook for the future of the program bumps them up into the blue blood category.

Say we back date to teams that have had to have sustained success for at least the last 2/3rds of the playoff era though, and I guess my list would go something like this:

Trinity
Highlands
Mayfield
Beechwood
Danville
St. Xavier

Bump it up to half of the playoff era and I'd include teams like Pikeville, Covington Catholic, Boyle County, Bowling Green and probably Belfry.