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I don't think NCC was the best team in 2A this year. HC wasnt just better one night. That game was dominated by HC. NCC will be back and just as good as they always are next year. They may even win state next year. However, HC was no fluke and deserves to be called the best in 2A this year. Eviston will schedule Highlands at some point, but why should he be in a hurry to do so. He is a very smart guy, a competitive guy, and will always accept a challenge. He is doing a good job by getting alot of the big boys on his schedule in NKY every year. Highlands, you do you and continue to be great, and Eddie at NCC will do NCC and make them great as well. HC will continue to build on what they did this season and try to make HC and NCC a great rivalry. Every district needs a rivalry to be competitive down state. Just ask Beechwood

I'll bite for arguments sake.

I'm not sure that I can agree with your assessment of NCC and HC. You say that HC was not just the better team on one night, but the best team in 2A altogether.

I disagree with that. On that one night, HC beat NCC by three points. That's not enough of a margin to say that HC was dominately better than NCC and could easily be viewed as HC was better that night.

One month earlier, NCC beat HC by 17 points. That was a convincing victory by NCC on that night.

Against arguably one of the best football teams in the state, HC was beaten by Beechwood by a margin of 43 points. NCC lost to Beechwood, but in a closely contested game that saw NCC lose by 9 points.

NCC played three 6A schools and beat them all. If I put the body of work done by each team, I'll say what I said all year long, NCC was the best 2A team in the state. They did lose on one night, which was the wrong night. But had NCC won the HC playoff game, then NCC would have won the state championship as well. I said in that game, the winner of the HC/NCC match-up would win the title.

But I do put into question your reasoning that HC was not just better that one night? I'm not saying you are wrong, but I think the NCC faithful have a good case to say they lost on the wrong night. I use the analogy of the Patriots in their undefeated season. They lost the Super Bowl to the Giants, but there is no one that will intelligently argue that the Giants were not just the best team that night, not for the season and had those teams played 10 times, the Patriots would have won the bulk of those games.