[Sponge Bob]

Given your methodology, Somerset would have to be heavily favored to win 1A this year because they are going to be 3A next year. Mercer is plain and simply the best out there in 2A. There are good teams that can beat them on a bad day, but they are the team to beat. They are a 2A team playing in 2A according to the class alignments this year, so I do not take anything away from their accomplishments, they have earned the right to be called the team to beat IMO. It just so happens that they have knocked the so called "power" in 2A down a notch and there is alot of jealousy IMO.

Look up cocky in the dictionary and I bet you'd get a picture of Brahma Bull! I'm not getting into the 5A playing 2A debate. I do find it a bit fishy that the two schools merged but will not share a building for probably 2 more years, but the KHSAA lacked the gonads to realign this year. That is not Mercer's fault or problem now.

I am curious to know how Mercer's knocked the so called "power" down a notch. Until they beat them, then they can't knock them "down". Rankings are what they are, if that is where you are coming from. And without a 3 overtime loss at Ashland, Russell would still be sitting atop the polls, not Mercer. And lest we forget, this so called "power" sure put a whallop on Mercer last year.