#1 In 3-2-1A , when you talk about eastern schools who have won state you are talking about the exceptions, not the norm.

#2 We in the west get tired of being bad mouthed and looked down on because we are mostly from small towns--the prevailing attitude seems to be that small town athletes are inherently inferior to big town athletes becaause of the size of town? Puh-leez!

#3 Augusta was in the "western regional" because of the dearth of schools that size west of the Kansas mason-dixon line (hwy 81).

#4 College recruiters also subscribe to the notion that bigger schools automatically produce better athletes--don't get me started with that! I can list a LARGE number of D-I caliber athletes from small Kansas communities that were passed over due to the size of their community.

I too competed and then taught and coached in a 6A high school community. The superiority in athletes is a function of statistical probability, (think of the bell curve) NOT some sort of genetic anomoly that evidences itself only in big town athletes. The superiority rests in the numbers, not in the quality.