Quote Originally Posted by UnIoNfAn View Post
its not so much "choked" issue as it is the teams JIB faced were better, hints the reason that playing better OOD teams would do nothing but help JIB be prepared for playing better teams. I dont mean DB Knox and teams like that, but i DO mean George Wythe, Radford, Gatecity, and not Rye Cove, Twin Springs, Castlewood and so on. Their are alot of better opponents then those weak schools that would love a shot at JIB. I guarentee that George Wythe wouldnt turn down that game, nor would Radford or Gatecity. Those arent Huge schools with "10 times the students" than JIB. Gate city is the only non D1 team. a one loss burton with a schedule with those teams on the board would be better than a 10 and 0 burton playing who they play now IMO
Every year they lost at state they played GC. Clintwood has played a very good schedule over the past 10 years or so with lots of AA and AAA schools as well as Richlands and GC and still lost. The schools that beat them had a lot weaker schedules than Clintwood had. Sometimes a team is just better, it wouldn't matter if you played Ervinton 13 games before you got to state or played St Thomas Aquinas. The Clintwood, PV, Appy, and JIB teams that have made it to state the last 10 years just weren't good enough to win. The talent level here has dropped so much since the 90's it's scary. Not to mention the fact that Burton had an enrollment of less than 300 playing a school like Riverheads with 700. It can make a huge difference when that happens especially when you have good not great athletes.