Originally posted by DinwiddieProud:
The best coached, most talented, most athletic, west team this year, (Salem), never stood a chance against Lake Taylor, and probably could not have beaten any of the top four east teams. This isn't being conceited, this is just simply facts. You can not prepare for a team like Lake Taylor was this year, and what Dinwiddie was last year, by not facing that type of team speed, and that style of play during the year. The west just does not have many teams that come at you in the style that is typical "down east". In most parts of the east, half your schedule is against teams like LT. Most don't do it nearly as well as the Lake Taylor's of the world, but it's still similar in style and speed. And most of the 5a and 6a teams that are faced by the east teams, (because of old district schedules), are brutal. THIS, is what prepares you to beat championship level teams.