[EKUAlum05]

Im not playing any cards ... All im saying is that if u thought Bourbon still hasnt played a soul, so why are they now ur pick to go to bg?

I think everyone and their brother predicted Bourbon to reach the Semi-Finals in 3A this year.. so in essence you are asking me why I feel that I have changed my mindset from why Bourbon will be one of the Final 4 teams left in 3A to one of the Final 2.

To that I will say that you can see from all my posts early on that I expected Bourbon to be right in the thick of things and have more than a puncher's chance to potentially knock off Belfry. What has made the difference in moving them ahead is the fact that Bourbon has legitimized themselves by absolutely obliterating everything in their path... even when Pope went down... and never even breaking a sweat. Moreso than that, Belfry hasn't really played to the expected level that I expected them to be right now. Until proven otherwise, Belfry's defense is not really Championship caliber and a far cry from the past couple years. The offense is Championship caliber...but even they have struggled with bouts of mental mistakes and self-inflicted wounds.

Bourbon has proven to be the team everyone expected...possibly even a little better (there was no random head scratcher game like Bath County last season)... Belfry has proven themselves a legit championship contending team, but still haven't proven themselves to be anywhere near the quality of team they were last season on defense.