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Slight advantage to Belfry IMO and part of the depth I was eluding to earlier. Pirates used to play 7-8 guys both ways in the past, this year's edition I can only think of Messer (TE/DE), Robinson (HB/DB) and Dotson (SE/DT). The Pirates are legitimately 2 deep at every single position and their big,powerful OL are only the field when the Pirates offense is.

Players like Josh Dixon, Tyler Williams, and Gary Runyon could very easily start on both sides of the ball for Belfry but Haywood seems to enjoy having those guys be fresh throughout the game. You will see these guys spell others are on the opposite side of the ball, but by and large their roles are relegated to a specific position.

Belfry not only has the young players who can step in, several of the upper classmen who now play specific roles used to be starters at other positions earlier in their careers (Williams at DB, Runyon at FB, etc).

This may be the deepest Pirate team I can remember.

I remember 85 and 86 Belfry teams that was carried to the State Championship because of that luxury. It is a big advantage, even more when you have so many interchangable parts.