Manowar

No Mayfield would not be ranked number 1 if they was still 1a. Beechwood who won the 1a title returns more than Mayfield. Mayfield has had some good teams the last 7 years, but they lose a lot of 3 year starters, and I'm hearing they don't have much coming up in the lower classes, and they don't have much in middle school right now. The talent will be down at least the next 5 years. I've heard some I know from mccracken say that Mayfield's run is over. I'm sure they will be back on top eventually, but I don't think they get past the semis for a few years. They have some really strong private schools in 2a that will handle Mayfield with ease, just like last year.They wouldn't win a title in 1a the next few years either. Beechwood couldn't get past Mayfield for years, but Mayfield talent was up Beechwood was down now the roles are reversed, and Beechwood is on the rise the next few years.

Well he may have shouldn't went there for a ring. They got the worst beating they have had since 09 last year in the semis. The team they had last year was supposed to be a lock, and was a senior heavy group. The Louisville private school that beat them was very young with a lot of sophomore stars. No way Mayfield wins 2a this year, and probably not for a few years with the 2 Louisville privates lurking. Next alignment will help Mayfield as those other 2 schools will most likely be 3a, that is unless the powers that be find a way to keep those 2 in 2a like they did in the last alignment as those are 3a schools, but the rules conveniently changed during the last alignment process, which helped them stay in 2a.

Suprised no-one mentioned Morris out of Mayfield. He supposedly considered McCracken job, but decided to stay home at Mayfield. I hear he has enough time in he can retire, but in Kentucky you can't retire, and start a new retirement they won't let you double dip. If he where offered a job in Tennessee then he could start drawing retirement, and start another since its a different state. I've heard it said that he will probably never coach another team in kentucky, but if a Tennessee team called people think he would.

The more I think about what these 2 return the more confident I am that Union City will win comfortably. Union city returns the farm, outside of Mayfield returning some lineman, and receivers they lose the rest. I don't see a team breaking in a brand new qb,rb, and linebackers posing much threat. Then the next year Mayfield loses their line, so I think Union City wins the next 2 years. Check out bluegrass preps even on there people think Mayfield will be ranked around 5th in 2a this year, which has not been the case over the last 5 or more years when they was always pretty much ranked #1.

Why am I not suprised, I've seen a few games at Caldwell county that the refs where not very good.

Must be common these days. I feel the officiating in kentucky is not very good.

Why? Are you expecting Tennessee refs to give you some extra help. If so thats sad.

I'd say Union City definitely has the athletes to matchup. Mayfield is undersized a lot of times, but we'll coached, and fundamentally sound. I've seen them in person a bunch over the years, and the 1 thing that sticks out is they never quit even when another team has them down they seem to find a way to come back and win.

I agree this is a good game for both schools. Almost identical enrollment, and only 30 minutes apart. Mayfield runs the spread offense, they switched to it around 10 years ago. Interesting fact Mayfield has the 4th most wins all time in the nation currently at about 860.

The last 4 years Mayfield has won 3 titles. They won 4 in a row from 2012-2015.

They won't be quite as good in 2017 IMO. They return most of their line, and recievers, but lose their qb, rb, and some good linebackers. They have been in the semis 36 times winning 12 titles, and 9 runner up. From 09 till 15 they went to 7 straight title games winning 5 of the last 6, with the last 4 in a row. Since 09 they are 111-8. The 2016 team was the team people where the most excited about, but lost in the semis, and finished 13-1. Yes people in Mayfield where not happy about how the 2016 season ended especially with their best Defensive player not getting to play in the loss due to being ejected for a helmet to helmet hit the prior week. The team that beat them had an awesome line, and it was a close game till late, but I think Union City is getting them at the right time with what they lost from that team.