[Blau Vogel]

And I would argue that it is not because this year's Highlands team played a much weaker schedule than last year's team. However, fortunately for the Birds, this Johnson Central team is very young compared to last year's team, so it probably won't matter whether Highlands is as good as last year or not.

I have heard many reasons for a team being better or worse than a prior year, but never have I heard a team is not as good because they played a weak schedule.