Hey SECEAST Wrote:
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> Never said Loudoun County was the best, however,
> it is time that Fairfax folks acknowledge that
> their neighbors to the north have more quality
> programs, and are extremely competitive despite
> being smaller schools.
>
> Tuscarora is the 4th best team in Ashburn/Leesburg
> area, so yes, expected them to lose to North
> Stafford. Think I might have even said that on
> here.
>
> Stone Bridge was down a bit this year, but gave
> Braddock all it could handle and then some. Anyone
> who saw the Westfield-Stone Bridge game knows the
> score was an aberration due to unforced turnovers.
>
>
> Broad Run mauls Liberty, who then go on a tear.
>
> Woodgrove just destroyed Eastern View.
>
> We in Ashburn know why Mickey Thompson desperately
> wants to keep playing Fairfax schools. He knows
> that week in and week out, playing in Fairfax is
> easier than playing in Loudoun, despite playing
> schools with much larger enrollments.
>
> Oh, and Briar Woods is going to avenge their loss
> to North Stafford or beat Massaponex before
> running into a superior Byrd team in the finals.
>
> And no, we won't have D6 teams in the future
> because it is no good to pack 2600 - 300 kids in a
> high school! We'll keep ours at 1600- 2000 and be
> much happier, thank you.
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Back to you, HEY SECEAST: You post that LC has “more quality programs” than FC? You must be new or something.
Only 3 LC schools have titled in D4-D5 and all 5 were vs. smaller schools See enrollments in the year the game was played in parenthesis and then ask yourself about BW's 3 titles:
2012 BW (1594) beat Heritage ( 1111)
2011BW (1594) beat Christiansburg, (1062)
2010 BW (1405) beat Harrisonburg (1276).
2009 BR (1603) beat Amherst County (1474)
2008 BR (1479) beat Amherst County (1460)
2007 SB (1709) beat Potomac (1637)
And don't crown that 2007 SB team as NOVA's best; its 1 loss was to Robinson 41-14.
Had BW/BR been in D5 as they should have been, here is who they would have faced:
2012: Lake Taylor, which beat SB at UVA.
2011: Phoebus
2010: Phoebus
2009: Phoebus
2008: Phoebus.
How many titles would you have playing those teams?
http://www.vhsl-reference.com/team_enrollments_by_year.cfm
In contrast with LC, SIX different FC teams have won D6 VA titles in the past 20 years:
Annandale,
Chantilly
Centreville
Westfield
Robinson
Chantilly.
Who has "more quality programs" this year? SB lost to Westfield/LB and squeaked by Fairfax. The losses weren’t aberrations or because of school size. SB had poor ball control just like at UVA last year. BW is finally gets in the right class and immediately gets spanked at home by N. Stafford, 19-7. Tuscarora got crushed last night, 39-20. Does anybody think that BW, BR or SB would beat C'Ville, LB and Westfield?
NOVA football is great, including what's played in both FC and LC. Yet to claim that LC has “more quality programs” than FC is paternalistic at best. You claim foul when LC schools lose to bigger FC schools, yet that is how you won every title. Come back when LC has 6 different schools that win VA titles in the right class. In the meantime, enjoy your “smaller” schools while you can. You see the track housing being built in LC. It won’t be long before those small schools you tout become big schools. Again, you must be new here because the same thing happened to FC after Tysons was built years ago.