Originally posted by HaydenHawk8:
Originally posted by BigDan21:
Originally posted by CP84:
Originally posted by BigDan21:
1) You can't take high school games that happen the first game of the season and compare them to games mid season or at the end of the season. Some teams make significant adjustments throughout the course of the season, even on a week by week basis. Regina is one of those teams. Even at the college level, remember the year Iowa almost lost to UNI, and then went on to win the Orange Bowl. This is even more true at the high school level than the college level.
2) You avoided my original challenge. If you're going to automatically write Regina off against a team like Bettendorf, show me a single spot on the field where they wouldn't match up. There isn't one.
There is more than enough anectdotal evidence to draw a reasonable conclusion. I don't care if Heelan played SC East in game one. They got handled fairly easily and East is a mediocre 4A team. Xavier's loss to Epworth was not a first game of the season. That game made a lot of people question if Xavier was really that good.
To say they would hang with a team like Dowling is laughable. Look what Dowling is doing to a rock solid Waukee right now.
Regina has some good players especially for a 1A team. Cook, Brinkman, Adams, Hunter and Phillips could all play for a lot of 4A teams but they don't have the depth at every position to come close to the big 5 in 4A. I think the two top 3A teams would beat Regina. You can excuse Xavier's performance to a couple key injuries but those injuries wouldn't even come close to making a difference. Xavier had less than 60 total yards of offense. If Pella and Regina played, I think the Dutch line would be making pancakes instead of letters.
There's no point in walking through an exercise in comparing every position. The 4A teams are playing significantly better competition every week and you would just overvalue each Regina player based on their stats playing a fairly weak schedule this season outside of the two 3A teams.
Ok I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one. Until one of these schools has the guts to accept Regina's offer to play we'll never know what the outcome would be.
Might as well call IC Regina the Boise State of Iowa high school football. Seems Boise couldn't catch a break for years, they always were undefeated but no one wanted them to play for the national title because of their conference.
IC Regina plays in 1A which is where they are slotted because of enrollment. I have no problem with it, its what the state says. if it was a problem the state would take care of it, because judging by the last count, there are a HELL of a lot more public schools than Private schools.
If next weekend the Private schools win
3 out 5 classes, then maybe the state needs to think of a multiplier or something else to even the playing field. I don't know the answer, but there are a lot of people upset by how much success the private schools are having and I don't get it. If you don't like it, beat them. Get better and beat them. Plain and simple.