Counts you are forgetting though, if you take the 97 teams, you have someone much better than Robbins at QB of that team. Travis would have been the QB, who was recruited by VT, started at UVA-Wise and EKU during his career. You have a D1 RB in Julius, a UVA Wise contributor in Travis Clark. A D1 TE in Josh Warren. Did Ricky Sturgill and Jamie Jessee start at UVA-Wise at one point also as lineman and LB? Was Keith Davis a LB at PV on that team who played at ETSU? Sure there were spots to fill, but you have higher talent levels on those two teams combined than what UVA-Wise put on the field in 97. E&H would have probably been tougher, but you take that 1997 combined team and I could see them going 8-2 or so against UVA-Wise head to head and maybe 4-6 or 5-5 againt E&H. E&H had much better lineman on both sides of the ball than UVA-Wise at that point in time is why I think they would have been tougher.


I know on the undefeated UVA-Wise team in 96 a buddy of mine was in the 3 or 4 man rotation at DT and started a few games as a freshman in that rotation, and he wasn't anything special to be honest.