There's a big arms race south of the james with Man, Mon, Bird, Meadowbrook, Dale etc all trying to get to the next level.
Down for Bird? probably... but will still be pretty good I would think.
I think they will be down based on typical Bird standards but I don't expect them to be 5-5 or anything like that. I haven't seen their schedule yet but I can't imagine they would lose more than 3 reg season games at the most no matter what. They may get a few transfers in too who knows. Definitely some open competition for positions on next years team.
Manchester, Mon & Dale are probably the only schools that they play every year that could give them trouble. Man has gotten the best of them lately. Dale and Mon have gotten crushed the last few years but it still isn't undo-able. Mon hasn't beaten Bird since 1998 but will have Syour Fludd in his SR year against what probably will be a lighter Bird team. I'm not ready to say JR and Cosby can challenge Bird and the rest of Dom district will still get dominated.
There is a major arms race right now in south richmond between Man, Mon, Meadowbrook, Bird. All of these schools are very close proximity to each other. A few miles down the rd and Dale & Dinwiddie are gonna be good for a while as well.
Bird had a pretty good JV team. Its hard to judge off JV sometimes bc for example Monacan has 16 Sophmores on Varsity.. so our JV team isn't that good.
I will agree that a team like Highland Springs that has an awesome varsity team already and still has enough left over to field an excellent JV and Fresh team says something special. I think HS probably does have the most talented pool to pull from. It was nice to see them get over that hurdle last year bc I feel like they should have gotten over that hurdle a couple of times before.
