This argument fails when one considers this: If Gibsonburg were cut and pasted off of the map, and a city with a population of 20,000 or so took its place, with a school in Division III; plays the exact same schedule with the same results, D3 beating up on a lot of losing-record D6 and D7s ... that school displaces Glenville in R10. This, even though all of those other schools are getting probably another 2~2½ points per game won, first and second level. Heck, Gibsonburg's schedule that many of you want to blame the AD for, would've earned a spot in the half of the state in the vaunted D1 category (I don't lead with that because figuring out where divisional boundaries in D1 and D2 is a different animal, so I don't know where they would physically, geographically be.)
But, yes, a hypothetical D1 school could have taken Gibsonburg's schedule, getting 3½ and 4 points at a time, competing with schools getting at least 6 points for a win, with the same ratios expanded out, even though there were so few wins by the teams defeated, in level 2, and made the playoffs in two out of four conferences. That isn't complaining--that is a testament to the R23 juggernaut.