Rectifier --
You are, of course, right. Aiken Fire has won the state championship for four (not three) years in a row. What interests me here is how such a small club can produce such a powerful, dominating team, and do it with talent that doesn't have to come in from all over the state. I follow the girls' side of SC soccer much more than the boys, and did not buy into the "GFC and Saint Giles are clearly better than the rest of the state" until Mark set out the last four years' stats in this topic. On the girls' side there is room for debate if you go on a club by club basis, but on the guys' side the trend is undeniable.... except for the Aiken Anomaly. I'm interested in how Aiken has been able to pull this off in the face of undeniable club superiority by the upstate clubs (as described by most of the posters here) and an overwhelming demographic disadvantage.
How does a small club win big? Can other smaller clubs compete effectively or do we have to move to two superclubs in each of the three major metropolitan markets -- Greenville, Columbia and Charleston?
Thanks for input from any source.
lpaf
