re: Evangel Christian academy LA

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i am not defending Curtis in any way

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I didn’t mean to imply you were.

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but like it or not, that was JT’s justification.

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I know it was. And 1) we all know it’s bullshite, but 2) it’s even bigger bullshite to blame it on the girls’ softball team. It’s insulting to the literal girls’ softball players/teams, but more insulting that he thought anybody was stupid enough to buy it.

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That being said, Curtis played the 5A schools that would play them.

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I don’t doubt that. I watched West Monroe handle them in a “classic” game (J. Haudi or something?) in the Dome one year, but it was a regular season game and didn’t prevent Curtis from winning the 4A Championship. Just playing that game probably helped them
secure the #1 seed in 4A.

I don’t know how power rankings work—I know it’s changed a bunch—but would it behoove a 5A team to play a 4A Curtis? I don’t really follow high school football these days, but when I was in the 90s-early aughts, there were maybe 4-5 5A teams (?) in a given year that would/could beat Curtis. Even if they beat Curtis in a regular season game and that wound up being the only regular season game Curtis lost, would that help/hurt their power ranking?

So yeah, I’m sure a lot of 5A teams did dodge Curtis. 1, most would lose. 2, the ones that could actually compete could potentially be hurt with a win, and would almost certainly lose twice in a loss (loss on the field and power points by losing to a team in a lower class). So, I’m sure there were some teams that dodged them because they were scared of getting embarrassed. And others who avoided them because there was nothing in it for them.