[Fly Like a Duck]

E-town's, nor anybody schedule for that matter helps determine what you do in November. I get its a fun thing to talk about, but playing people better than you doesn't make you bigger, faster, stronger. It doesn't make your players better. All it does is give you a barometer to measure yourself and how "good" you really are.

I take that back....there are one or two ways it might "make you better" and that's from a mental aspect. If you beat and/or play a 'big boy' close, it can give your team a sense of "we've seen what we can do when we play the best" (which, just as what comes from winning, gives amother sense of confidence).

Secondly, E-town had:
-North Oldham (15 state semifinalist)
-North Hardin (talent and speed, a team that Caldwell County only beat by a TD as did E-town)
-Bardstown
-Glasgow

...as four of their non district games. Those are all 4, very household names year in year out.

Here is a little stat on North Hardin, they played a schedule that had EIGHT District Champions on it. To take it a step further, EVERY team that North Hardin played in the regular season WON in the 1st round of the playoffs.

Sometimes your opponents records are inflated, too. So, what if so and so beat an 8-3 team...much of the time, go and look as to who they have beaten.

Want to look at what playing an out of their minds schedule does? Look at UK football over the years compared to U of L.

UL took all kinds of heat and still does for their schedule back in the days of the old C-USA, and it takes heat now for the ACC, but what's the better football program the last 10-15 years (outside of a couple of Brooks years)? Granted up until last year they always played at the 1st of the year, but it wouldn't have mattered.

Schedule talk is fun, but way overblown.