[BigVMan23]

Everything is realitive. Depending on the talent a team has, a strong schedule to them might be a very weak schedule to someone else, even within their own classification. I also believe it depends on your district. If you play in a four or five team brutally hard district, you might want to stay away from scheduling a lot of hard out of district games. But, considering all that, this is how I would schedule were I a football coach, and I try to do this as a basketball coach, same idea anyway.

2 games against teams that if you don't bring your A+ game, they will beat you.

2 games against teams that will possibly beat you if you don't play "above average". Up this number by at least 1 game if you play in a weak district.

2 games you should win rather handily, perferably against teams in your same class (or up) but no more than 1 class down.

Mandated district games round out the schedule, and you just have no control over them.

In a perfect world, this is how I would schedule. There is a team in my area that I have noticed seems to schedule rather weak and likes to try and put up a bunch of wins during the regular season. Thats fine for a rebuilding team that is trying to establish a winning attitude. But I believe scheduling weak for an established team hurts you during the playoffs, and if the first time you are really tested is in the playoffs, then the coach hasn't done his team any favors. Of course, sometimes you might be scheduling someone who you think might be good and it doesn't turn out that way, so that can happen from time to time. I'd rather be 6-4, 5-5 and have a battle tested team that is a threat to win the state than a 9-1, 10-0 team come playoffs who really hasn't been tested and only played a bunch of teams they should beat to begin with. Of course, I would also love to have a team that was 10-0 come playoff time with wins over Trinity, Highlands, St. X, BG, Boyle County and John Hardin. That would be a team to recon with.:1: