Yeah, I'd like to know which years he is referring to where the WCAL had only two teams that weren't merely "better than average".
Look at this year.
Valley Christian is playing in the Norcal Finals? Last in their league? Presentation is the ONLY good win on their entire regular season schedule. No disrespect to post season opponents but if we're talking competitive, are you saying they had a hard road to the finals this year? It was a friggen cake walk.
Last year, lost first round NOrcals, played two very good teams, the rest were average.
St. Ignatius
Beat a struggling O'dowd team in december
beat pleasant valley
lost to foothill (have NO clue how this happened)
had a harder road in post season play, but just better than average preseason schedule. Not barn burners.
Last year: Semi-finals Norcal. played a better than average preseason schedule.
St. Francis
Who did they beat this year? nobody in the preseason..just a bunch of average teams. No, they did beat Aptos. Aptos was pretty good.
Last year: Harrigan's last year, made it to second round of Norcals. Played only one legit team in Pinewood in preseason. the rest average.
SHP
Beast of a schedule
Beat: Sacramento, highland prep but lost to a ton of great teams. So for this, I"ll say that they're better than average.
Last year, lost in first round of Norcals. Probably shouldn't have been in that division but we all know CIF is a joke. but also looking at their schedule...no big wins..just average/better to average games. Correction: they beat McClatchy
Presentation
had a wonderful year! nothing but props to Wade and staff.
Lost last year in the first round of Norcals-do you think they would have gotten in on merit alone with a 15-15 record? They got in because of that garbage open division CCS rule that automatically gets in.
Mitty-another universe
I admit that WCAL is probably the best league in the state the last few years. But I just think they get great press because of Mitty and SHC's body of work the last 15 years. SCH was best in the league for a while (russel and co) and Mitty was (crag) and now more recent. The other teams, while good, show good on paper because they are just better than average. I'd like to see the bottom half of the teams in the WCAL play the schedule that SHC did and see where they landed. They're good, but you're acting like they've been the best forever. On any given year, I'd put up DFAL, EBAL, and ACCAL's team up against them and it'd probably be pretty even. Mitty would go undefeated but the rest would be a dogfight.