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I don't discount the point you are making and agree with it. My point is right now there is no incentive for the power house programs to schedule these guys. Unless there literally is not a better option to schedule, for an elite team to schedule a 1A team that they will crush for 3-4 straight years it gives them very little. I have no doubt that it will grow that team on the losing end, but if I am a HC or an AD I am worrying about myself and not trying be a charity case to simply build someone else's program.

If Johnson Central played Hazard for example this year the Eagles would have a running clock and see their starters maybe only see 2 Quarters of action. The best case scenario is they play bad and Hazard exposes a few things that they work on before they assert their will and revert back to simply physically manhandling them. Which brings us back to the point... Would you rather have that or schedule a bigger school who actually creates physical mismatches? Then you also have the worst case where what happens if by some chance you lose? It could be bad for a coach's health.

What you do see though is these larger powerhouses "tossing them a bone". Belfry scrimmages Hazard every year and does 7 on 7. The Pirates sub liberally throughout the scrimmage and specifically work on very definitive things. Hazard is able to run their varsity most of the scrimmage and get valuable reps. In this case it is usually a very advantageous scrimmage that mutually benefits both teams.