[plantmanky]

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.

Playing and beating three 6A schools only means something if you can beat the schools in your own class when it counts.