[KentuckyHillBilly5321]

This is where it becomes hard to compare teams from different classes.

I think that Ashland would fair a little better against a team like NCC because they are more balanced. And that is where NCC had trouble. With a team like Russell, play some type of 8 man front and you could get away with playing zone.

In order to beat a team like Ashland, you need to be a little more prepared. You can't center your game plan around the fact that a team runs the ball 95% of the time.

And, the really impressive point is this--most people would get the feeling that NCC is a passing team (with so much talk about Sammy), but in actuality--when we played them, they were 64 percent RUN/36% pass. That helped us immensely when it came time to beat NCC. (I would also say that by the end of the year, they were more like 75/25 run/pass).

But my point is--they make you believe that they are a passing team--and give you the impression that it is such an important part of their game that you have to spend way too much time to prepare for it. Teams have a hard time with that.