X, Elder, & Moeller have played way more nationally ranked teams than La Salle has and very few gave y'all a chance against them. In fact, in 2007, a 7-4 Elder squad knocked off Charlotte Indendence 41-34, which ended their 109-game winning streak, the longest in the entire country at the time. Kyle Rudolph played on that Elder squad and we all know where he's at now. Yes, many have gave La Salle props for scheduling the game, but I've also seen some "They should have played them in such & such year" type posts. The kids within La Salle's program have spent the last seven years watching the Lancers win 4 state titles and, as mentioned by others in this post, includes years when they dominated the GCL and even beated the eventual D1 champion in the process. The 14-17 year old kids there now can only hear stories about their "doormat" years because ever since they were 7-10 years old, they've been watching La Salle compete at the highest of levels.
Again, it's a new day and from where most of us stand, IMG seems far more advanced than most (if not all) of the national powerhouses that we're used to seeing. However, I'm 100% against the mentality that Ohio's top programs have to be inferior to anybody. Heck, they literally had to develop the IMG-type schools to overshadow the programs that spent decades paying their dues. Just because certain guys are highly ranked don't mean they can't get punched in the mouth by a team full players who are just as hungry. The guys that I went to school with at Warren G. Harding wanted to play Concord De La Salle (CA) while they were on their legendary win streak, which eventually reached 151 games. Talking to people around here now, most wouldn't even entertain the thought of doing something like that today. Harding wasn't winning state championships 20 years ago (last state title was in 1990), but back then, Ohio was filled with kids that were bred to seek out the highest competition possible. I'm glad that culture still exists in Cincinnati.