Ashburn Dominance Wrote:
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> Here are some facts - Stone Bridge, who is
> stronger than any other Northern Virginia team
> this year, regardless of size, would rather
> continue to beat up on Langley, McLean, TJ,
> Fairfax, etc, rather than play in a much tougher
> Loudoun district.
>
> They do not want to be in a district with Briar
> Wood, Broad Run, Woodgrove and Tuscarora. Yes,
> they have defeated Broad Run the past two years,
> but those games were tough. The Broad Run line
> pushed around Stone Bridge even this year, and
> Alabama bound John Allen had one tackle all game.
> Briar continues to get better ( they have a nice
> recruiting pipeline), so Mickey Thompson decided
> that he would get healthy down the stretch every
> year as opposed to playing Loudoun Division 5
> schools.
>
> So, Stone Bridge plays the Fairfax County patsies
> every year, but then will come back and play
> Loudoun schools in the playoffs. Makes no sense.
>
> All of the Division 5 schools in Fairfax should be
> thankful that they don't have to play SB (after
> this year), Briar, or Broad Run for the right to
> advance.
>
> Ashburn Youth Football League is the best feeder
> system around. How do I know this? By all of the
> talent that comes from Herndon, Lorton, Fairfax,
> etc just to play youth football. Those people are
> moving into Loudoun folks.
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Ashburn dominance:
1) You're living in the past with Broad Run. This year, Stone Bridge waxed them 37-14, at Broad Run. So that's 0-2 the past 2 years. Broad Run won D4 titles in 2008 and 2009 -- but they didn't play Stone Bridge either year and instead beat teams like Wakefield and Ballou. In both title games, they beat Amherst County, a team with 20% fewer enrollments. Had they been in D5, Stone Bridge or Phoebus would have spanked them.
2) Last year, Briar Woods (1764 enrollments) beat Christianburg (1092 enrollments) 28-26 in the D4 title game. Had the classifications been updated, Briar Woods would have had to play one of the smaller schools from the Eastern Region, maybe Phoebus the 4-time defending D5 champ.
Once your county's teams are playing comparably-size schools at states, you won't see any dominance. For that, see Phoebus in D5 (5 of the last 6 titles) or Fairfax's Concorde in D6.
Enrollments:
http://www.vhsl.org/doc/upload/rr-adm-march-2012-six-classes.pdf