[EKUAlum05]

I sense a little sarcasm in your tone of voice.

It should be noted, that each and every school's title hopes in the West go through Central. Once the king is dethroned its anyone's game, but until then everyone else is playing for second in the region.

Yup...and I still think people aren't quite respecting Central's team...specifically their defense.

There is no doubt this isn't the same Central team of the past few years offensively... but this is still a defense with 3 D1 prospects anchoring it. They only have 3 losses and two of those are to a pair of the Top 7 6A teams in the State in games where they were firmly in the mix until the very end.