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Seriously..

Region is out of their hands. So..that leaves THREE matches that are questionable. Darlington, Clover, and Boiling Springs.

They're in the LMC AND Palmetto Cup this year! One of the top pre-season tourneys..and THE top season tourney.

Maybe they should play some schools in Charlotte..but I'd like for some of you guys to be in the room when the soccer coach asks the AD if they can drive to Columbia to play friendlies.

Get real man!

Lastly.. if you've seen Northwestern..you KNOW they're stacked AND for real. They don't have to prove a thing to any of you guys. They'll do it in the post season..they've done it before.

Charlotte boys play in the fall. That's asking too much of Northwestern.

Time for me to chime in here.

Yes, NW is loaded and good. And yes, the region schedule is what it is so I have no problem with that. That's how some schedules are and there is nothing wrong with that. With that being said, please don't tell me that no one wants to play NW. Spring Valley has played Dorman and has gone up to Mauldin, along with playing in the toughest region in the state and everyone knew when the schedules were made that SV has a really good team this year.

Greenville is not that far away and there are many quality 3A and 4A teams that are out of region play that would make great games.


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Hurst: didn't know that.. disregard.

CF: Who cares? They still get it done in the playoffs (unlike SV)..how much more do you want to push a team?

Does anyone question Irmo taking Spring Break off?

Why does a team need to beat the crap out of themselves during the regular season?

They still have the LMC and Palmetto Cup..doesn't get much tougher than that.

I say it again... NW has a good squad.

I also say it again.... there are many reasons WHY they have to do what they do ($$$, logistics, etc.).

Therefore if you have no other option then it will always be questioned why they deserve to be #1. It is a fact of life.

If DF or RV where in that region with the schedule that NW has would they deserve to be #1 or 2 or 3?

If you replace NW with RV in that region and give them a split with Ft. Mill instead of looking at a potential 10 W - 11 L season you are looking at 15 and 6...Huge difference!!!

If you replace NW with DF in that region, instead of looking at a potential 13-5 season you have a 16 - 2 season (running the table on the region and not counting the Italian trip games)

RV is not ranked and DF is #10 and the only difference in the examples above would be region record.
DF plays Chapin twice, BC and Lexington in the non-tournament outside the region portion of the schedule.

RV plays Lexington, Chapin, Dorman, Hillcrest, Aiken and West Florence in the same portion.

And As I said before, when they win the state cup, then they can say I told you so. Until then it will be questioned.

I'm I the only one that sees a possible conflict between G-ville and NW?

This topic should probably just be put on hold till the Palmetto Cup is underway..

If NW drops a game to S-ville, Socastee, or Daniel..then talk away.. but for right now they lost in PKs to Dreher..and that is that. No matter who is "ranked" #1 in 4A this year..you can poke holes in the logic. No?

LE just for your info... I believe you would agree that every game should be 50/50 when you start. However some games are more than 50/50.

Lets look at the non-tournament non-region schedule of the current top 15 teams and see how many games against top 15 4A teams they have scheduled

#1 NW - 1 Dorman
#2 Wando - 3
#3 James Island - 3
#4 SA- 1 + 4 Ga schools which only Benp knows how good they are
#5 SV - 3
#6 Irmo - 1 + 2 Ga schools
#7 FM - 0
#8 HH - 3
#9 Lexington - 3
#10 DF - 1 + italian trip which took place of other games
#11 Dorman - 3
#12 Mauldin 1
#13 West Ashley - 3
#14 Summerville - 3
#15 Beaufort - 3

NR - RV - 3
NR Aiken - 1 + 2 Ga schools

And some of the other games are against top 3A schools Chapin, Dreher, BC,. etc.

The opportunity to lose is more relevant to the programs playing tougher games than it is to NW. That is all I am saying.

I also must admitt that I missed you connection with Gville... The same argument may happen there as well. I see BC, Dreher and Chapin playing Top 15 4A schools. With Chapin playing Irmo and DF twice each.

Nick Finotti/G-ville Coach was at NW for last few years no? ..just poking holes in the hole poker's theories.

My point is though.. we're all just making speculation.. whether it's that they schedule weak competition, the NW AD won't let them travel much..or that people won't travel/play them..we can't say.

And so I'm saying.. let's look at results. A ring and a loss to eventual champs. Pretty solid postseason play in my opinion.

i think that i recall early on that the nw coach asked for games at this web site and did not get any response from any ranked teams at any classification, a few weak sisters responded. nw needed games hence the request. made the same request for the nw spring break tournament and got zero response. what's a mother to do?

What is the NW spring break tournament?

They are playing in the palmetto cup in Cola.

Also, what is early on??? Many schools have their schedule set by the end of the calendar year.

There may be many reasons why it did not happen. As an example, if I am Ridge View and I can play good caliber teams in my loccal area without major transportation issues, then why go to NW...