3A East Bracket
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There is no 300 kid school going to put a team with enough depth on the field to beat a 3000 enrollment school. fact.
The ratings are getting closer in 26/28 Pod
James Monroe - 21.4
Brentsville District - 21.2
Hopewell - 20.6
Less than a point seperate the top 3 here. Even though Brentsville won, their rating went down to their opponents.
Keeping an eye on James Monroe and Hopewell. They are both 1-1 against common opponents (Dinwiddie and Petersburg). 4 of Hopewell's last 5 games are against Division 5 and 6 opponents including Matoaca and Thomas Dale.
James Monroe - 21.4
Brentsville District - 21.2
Hopewell - 20.6
Less than a point seperate the top 3 here. Even though Brentsville won, their rating went down to their opponents.
Keeping an eye on James Monroe and Hopewell. They are both 1-1 against common opponents (Dinwiddie and Petersburg). 4 of Hopewell's last 5 games are against Division 5 and 6 opponents including Matoaca and Thomas Dale.
22 teams currently in Virginia better than Tuscarora?
Altavista last year would not have beaten LT, and you could have added the best of the seminole. It is absurd to think the Colonels would beat Bird. I have seen football from all over, not a guru but understand football and appreciate it at all levels. This is like saying college's D3 champ could beat FCS or FBS champ, not going to happen!
I personally don't think there is... I currently have them sitting at #2 in the state... but it is all computer rankings...
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1. Don't know where Altavista beating Lake Taylor was ever referenced...
2. BEAT either was also never referenced (play with... and 28 point spread)
3. Add the Seminoles best? Really? That's funny!!!
Why not just write, "Hey guys, smaller enrollment schools win almost 30% of the time when they play larger enrollments schools, so sometimes it can happen"?
Do you think that your anecdotal evidence is having an impact?
Or, are you just in full-scale troll mode at this point?
Well, since Bird is a higher classification and L.T. beat them last year and you made the comparison between Altavista and Bird, I took a different step. Btw, 28 point spread is not hanging with someone...imo. "Stand for something or else you will fall for anything"
Kuddos to you 5star for sticking to your guns, even though I whole heartedly disagree!
Kuddos to you 5star for sticking to your guns, even though I whole heartedly disagree!
Its not about smaller schools winning against bigger schools... That happens all the time... It's more about the critics that seem to know everything about all the teams in the state, when they have only seen a fraction of them play. That doesn't stop them when they make comparison about one particular team beating up on another...Lake Taylor this...LC Bird that... a 1A team could never beat a 6A team... That's exactly what I expect from a person that has never seen anything other than their own backyard. Simply put, that is unheard of to think that you cannot be the best unless you enroll a higher number. I could find 10 teams in Texas with 500 kids that would punish LC Bird. It only goes to show you that talent is not limited to high population areas. And for that reason, it isn't unreal to think that the best of the best, in fact, could be a 1A, 2A, or 3A team.
I don't think 28 points is sticking with either.. That was just a remark made....
No offense to Franklin County with their huge enrollment but I could find 10 schools between 1a and 2a that would take them to the woodshed, the number of schools that would take it to Ocean Lakes or Oscar Smith would be zero..imo. I have seen from east to west, north and south football all over the state.
Do you not find your attitude regarding Virginia knowledge ironic given that, by your own admission, you have seen five games in Virginia in the last ten years?
Yes, I would find that ironic... but that's not what I said... I have been assigned to 5 Virginia games in the last 10 years. I have been to many, many more...I've seen 5 games in the last 10 days...In fact, of the 300 or so public schools in VA, I have been to 250 of them...
No one & I mean no one said a smaller school could beat a larger school. Many of us pointed out that the small school champion couldn't beat the big school champion and that the small school i.e. Altavista was not the number 1 team in the state regardless of classification (even if they had those other 2 players).
get used to it the 3A East and 5A South are ahead of the curb - the rest of VHSL Football will be headed in the regional - pod direction in the very
near future
You still got a shot for 2 out of 3 and Meatloaf says, "That ain't bad"
