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I disagree. Unless you are talking about a team that doesn't have to play their best players both ways your statement about going up against a good team each day in practice just isn't true. Most schools go up against their JVs in practice. When you only go up against your own backups and inferior teams on Friday nights you just aren't going to be ready for the speed of the game when you go up against a really good team. Knowing your assignments and playbook and perfecting you execution in practice is great...but doing it in practice when you have all day is one thing, doing it when you face a team good enough to disrupt your plan and having to adjust under pressure is much different.

And for Avery Bullock--Somerset would run the clock on the Jackets. The Jumpers defensive front would destroy Williamsburg's offensive line and Sizemore would be lucky to finish the game.

So you are saying that you have never seen a team beat another team with a tougher schedule. I can point to about 100 examples of it just this season. I think we can all agree that Highlands is just flat out better then Ashland. Now what if Highlands were to play Ashland when all the teams they had before Ashland were youth league teams. Do you think Highlands would still beat Ashland? I think they would and probably just as bad.