Re: High School Football 2015
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Conference 6 fan
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Date: October 21, 2015 04:12PM
Really? W-L and Yorktown? Wrote:
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> How can you in good conscience tout this game?
>
> Yorktown got beat by a D5 school 51-3 just two
> weeks ago, and W-L lost to Wakefield, who is also
> terrible.
>
> Face it - the Arlington schools are simply
> horrible... poor coaching and not enough big kids
> to block for the few good athletes behind them.
>
> I mean, I have seen all three play and they are
> garbage.
>
> Not quite as bad as Fairfax's trip of Jefferson,
> Stuart, and Lee, but you get the picture.
I have to partially disagree with this. On paper, these schools shouldn't be good, and they do have the depth problems that you mention. However, if they were total "garbage", then that would have been exposed by the conference realignment that was effective for this year. Yorktown and WL dropped a steady diet of Wakefield, Lee, Stuart, Mt. Vernon, Edison, and Falls Church, for the likes of Madison, McLean, Langley, Fairfax, and South Lakes. I thought that their records last year (7-3 for Yorktown; 6-4 for WL) were inflated based on the competition that they played last year, and that they would struggle this year with newer and tougher competition. So far, their records aren't as good, as last year, and aren't likely to be as good, but they aren't the bottom of their new conference, either.
As far as coaching goes, I've seen both play, more than once, and I think their coaching is fine. In fact, I'd say that both of them have at least one victory this year that is attributable to their coaching staffs outcoaching their opponent's coaching staff. Also, regarding having big kids for the line positions, WL's O-Line is plenty big, though all of those guys are seniors, and it's not clear what replaces them next year.
Even though I don't completely agree with you, I do think that depth is going to be a problem for both of these schools, in comparison to their new competition, and I can see them struggling in the next few years.