[charlie22]

Good points! If you recall in the LexCath game, LC's offense didn't win that game for LexCath, their defense did. Burke and the Knights only scored 17 points against HHS, so it wasn't exactly like they blew up the Bluebirds' defense. The problem was that HHS' offense (which was relatively weak that year) got shut out.

Last year, CovCath scored 25 points against the 'Birds in the postseason game, so again this wasn't an issue of the Colonels' offense tearing up HHS.

The point with all this is that HHS' defense, while often not "big," is always very quick, and a defense full of very quick and athletic linemen and linebackers will keep you in about every game in Class 5A/old Class 3A, as it has for HHS, even when playing LexCath and CCH in 05 and 06, respectively. If an opposing team doesn't possess good offensive linemen, then it's going to be a disadvantage against the speedy front 7-8 for HHS. I thought this was definitely the case against LCC last year.

And you have good points also. But bottom line is that 17 and 25 points were scored against HHS, and often times that is enough to win games. Sometimes other teams are going to have very good defenses. My point is that while I like what Highlands does with its O and D lines, they can be beat by teams that have a differing philosophy with their O and D lines. Sometimes bigger and slower can work. And with Banks at the qb at LCC again this year, I'm not willing to write off E. Ky teams having a chance to beat Highlands.