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Kyle --

Please adjust the current rankings for 4A and move Fortmill to the top and adjust accordingly based on the Taco Bell tourney beyond that. We in the lowcountry have had enough monkeys on our back for the last few years. Let the upstate work with this one. Thanks.

lpaf

lap,

Thanks for the endorsement. We'll gladly take the top spot. Don't know how long FM can stay there. Three more tough tasks this week as we have scrimmages with Charlotte powers South Mecklenburg, Meyers Park and Charlotte Latin.

Hopefully we'll have something left for the regular season.

Oh, well, hopefully Sunday will give us a new line up of statewide rankings.

lpaf

I vote Ji #1 and WA #2.
Wando no better thn 8th right now.

S! --

I thought JI had the best play of the dozen or so teams I watched play at Taco Bell. I wonder, though, how much better they can play. Both Wando and WA have good talent and a long season to bring it into focus.

lpaf

Tough not to rank FM #1 after they proved it on the field.

Kyle,

I see the new boys rankings are out....when are we going to see an update on the girls?

H66 --

By all means. Please take the #1 4A ranking to Fort Mill. I've always felt the teams I followed did better in the underdog position. So: Wando won state last year crushing Mauldin who finished second, James Island beat WA twice last season in regular play, Fort Mill finished first in the Taco Bell, Summerville (to quote their coach in the Post and Courier the day after their playoff loss to WA last year) "deserved to win" the match his team lost 1-0... I figure West Ashley should be about 10th in the state right now. Maybe 12th.


lpaf

ps: What does it mean, exactly, when a "team deserves" to win? I've pondered that for almost a year now.

My daughter did see Summerville play Dorman in the Friday night Taco match and she thought Summerville looked real good.

I'm sure your "Charleston 3" will be there at the end.

Where's the poll?

LPAF: Re, ranking. New England Patriots were 1-3 in the 2004 preseason. Philadelphia Eagles were 1-3 in the 2004 preseason. Not sure why this fact springs to mind in reading this thread and thinking about WA; I'll meditate some more attempting to find my "Buddhist center" and see if I can figure it out.

Polls are out....Fort Mill is #1.

Let's see if they can go wire-to-wire!

H66 --

I just looked over FM's schedule. Basically it takes being beaten to move down in the rankings. You may be stuck at number one for quite a while...

lpaf

There are a couple of potential non-region land mines there.

Also, Myers Park, Providence and Weddington are three of the toughest teams in the state of North Carolina. Do we get credit for a win or penalized for a loss when we take on these goliaths?

Just curious, why the nonregion, North Carolina schedule? Was it to beef up a few noncompetitive region matches? It will be fun to see what Fort Mill brings at the end of the season! Good Luck!

Absolutely. All three of those NC matches are 20 minutes away. It's a lot easier than the 3+ hour drive down to Charleston. We got to see two of the Big 3 in Taco Cup anyway, so that was good.

As far as Region games, Northwestern away still scares me. They always play FM tough at their place.

H66 --

I would not think losing to a top ranked NC team would lead to a lower place in the standings. Beating a regionally ranked team might help you move up, but there's really no place up to go when you are number one.

lpaf

Mark --

I actually applied a high level of problem solving integration to come up with my ranking of WA at 10th. I rejected out of hand drill down dynamics, field force analysis and and PEST analysis and chose rather to go with the trash can model of problem solving. I threw every available fact regarding relative strength into one big can and then rooted around in the muck until I found the ones I liked that supported the desired premise. Not pretty but it was the best I could do. If it's good enough for W and his team it's good enough for me.

lpaf

ps: Good luck to you and yours in the highschool season.

I actually had to go look up what PEST means -- at first, I figured it was a perjorative aimed directly between my eyes.

I'm honestly not trying to jinx WA, and I'm not trying to insult any other teams, but I believe that WA has by far the strongest individual talent pool in the state.

Best of luck to you and yours as well.

Chico... I like that.

lpaf