[grimsrud]

It might be in 15-9 in favor ot tn. but what about the last few years? That's what I'm getting at. And, I'll be the first to say, all star games is not a fair acessment of the two states either. It's apples and oranges in any of these comparisons.
Brentwood Academy back in the 80's and 90's ran roughshot over many teams, instate and out. Paducah Tilghman beat them several years back. Paducah wasn't one of the stronger teams during that era but Brentwood was. Paducah didn't even make it very far that year in the playoffs. Still yet, it's not a game that you can use to measure the two states.
And Ft. Thomas, one of the folks from Alcoa said you couldn't put them in the same league with Maryville. That is definitely a crazy statement. Ft. Thomas is ranked nationally year in and year out. He wanted to argue that Maryville was has always been ranked over Ft. Thomas. He needs to do a little more research. Ft. Thomas is the real deal. I don't care who you are, 18 state championships puts you in an elite status. And, I won't even mention the Louisville schools. No way can you compare in a fair way. I know I couldn't justify making the statement ky was better than tn in high school football.
One more thing to look at. Look at your top players nationally (top 100). Ky has more listed than tn.

Agreed on all-star games, but as it relates to those games and the Tilghman reference...you are isolating recent history on the all-star games; and you are highlighting one Tilghman win (I believe they have two over BA actually). Both are in contrast to overall results (Tennessee leads the all-star series; BA is 6-2 versus Tilghman all-time). I tend to look at the full picture over the history of time, not just isolated segments of time or a cherry-picked game out of a series of games. I'm not saying a multi-decade perspective is the be-all, end-all way of comparing the two states, but one can never be charged with having tunnel vision when every game, series, etc. is taken into consideration.

I mean, if we're going to cherry-pick some recent games as support, why not MBA-Trinity? It's recent. It was two home-and-homes. No players being rested or held out for college scholarship purposes. And no public/private debate applicable when comparing two privates.

Agreed on Highlands, too...while Maryville has had a nice run in the past decade (and actually has a good long history of football; #3 in all-time wins in Tenenssee) and has entered some national rankings, one has to wonder if those national rankings would have occurred along the way had the long winning streak (74 games in the end) not been occurring, but Highlands has had an even longer history of quality play, and, as I said earlier, has played a schedule over the years that has probably garnered it more national attention on a quality-of-opponent basis.

Not trying to be confrontational...just get a little irked when I see recent all-star game results invoked as "Well looky here" when, for the two decades leading up to the last half-decade of TN/KY all-star games, the results of the series were largely non-discussion material out of the Commonwealth. They either count all of the time or none of the time.