GV was 4-2 in 2020 Covid regular season following Buttermore losing to two teams that went to at least regional-finals on last second plays, hardly called “Pains” .. UA was 2-4 under Buttermore during that same Covid regular season those would be “pains.”
yeah I’m not interested in a “weLl AckShuaLLy” over Granville 2020 — not because your points are pedantic (56-35 ‘L’ to DeSales? More like the “Blue Mares” that night) but because Granville and Alder serve as useful points of comparison to BC in D3.
And, to get this out of the way: Buttermore, Schroeder? Brett Glass? Wade Bartholomew? All
great coaches. I don’t know enough about Alder’s current coach to say one way or the other; BC’s coach was a solid longtime assistant. The latter two will likely do well, but it may take a couple years for their squads to win the region. R11 is a beast with or without SFD & Hartley in it.
Granville & Alder? Two programs that have been ‘in the ring’ regionally for a good long time. Super-storied programs? No. More experienced and accomplished in any size-classification than Bloom-Carroll?
Yeah. BC’s a newcomer to D3 to start. And before Wade got there, it was a
mess. He hands off the keys to a car in decent shape. It’s not without some obstacles — 11 is way deeper and stiffer than Region 15. BC graduated what might be their best senior class in program history. 5/7ths of their league schedule isn’t going to be comparable to a week 11 opponent for them in R11. Their first three games of the season
do prepare them for R11 (which is good.)
Could BC win this region?
Perhaps. It is a wide open region. If they don’t, it wouldn’t be a direct fault of coaching or personnel. It’s just a more commanding postseason (last year’s team possibly could’ve made regional finals in 11 and won, but that’s with the dudes they
had and a coach who already the better half of a decade under his belt as the head man at his program.) Hence, the point of invoking Alder & GV…