[Harry Rex Vonner]

Checking Ashland's schedule back through the years, it is clear that they play a goodly number of schools of a lower class (1A, 2A, 3A) but they never play a school of a higher class (5A, 6A). You don't impress anyone playing smaller schools and your players don't improve playing lesser schools. On the other hand, it does allow your coach to run up a lot of cheap victories which make him and his program look good to the casual observer.