Look, I'm the last person in the world to argue transitive property on football HS football games because I know how ill informed that is, but if you want to argue that a really good D4 team is on the level with better D2 and avg D1 schools in COH then there needs to be SOME kind of piece of data to form this opinion with.
None exists. Several points exist to the contrary.
It's easy to get overconfident watching your team beat up on tomato cans. The problem with a team like Bloom Carroll is, they never play anyone even remotely good in D2, nor do any of the teams they play. The very few D2 games any of them play are not the D1 toughened D2 schools in the big COH leagues.
Bloom Carroll made the final 4, great, nice season. The team they lost to (Lake Catholic) got beat by D2 Walsh, who in turn lost their 2nd round playoff game to a 3-5 Benedictine team. Laughable to make any kind of argument that any of those teams could take the field against any of the "traditional media" top 10 lists that include teams from lower divisions like DeSales, Hartley, Wville South etc.
People can cry media bias all they want. The results are on the field and the media are doing the logical and correct thing by analyzing what data is out there. And it's never going to change until these perennial 9-1 small schools start scheduling bigger games.
BTW, in addition to Powers younger brothers at Marysville, who are of similar size, they also have 6'4 310 Gavin Rohrs who has signed to play at Miami. With 2 players in the top 60 in Ohio list, Marysville has tons more on paper than Bloom Carroll does. Marysville would 100% FLATTEN a smaller school (both physically and count wise) like BC.
No one is going out of their way to slight kids who play at these small school programs. Again, nice program, very successful, and I'm sure a great friday night community tradition. But stop acting like they belong with bigger schools, because they dont.
Here's Olentangy's schedule this year. Other than this weird game against NDCL and perennial doormat YOTW (with apologies to Harry), there is very little chance Bloom Carroll could win more games on it and a 100% chance they could not finish above .500.