Although individual achievement should be commended, when you look at the point leaders from Nassau County schools like Island Trees, Wheatly, Plainede, Hicksville, Lynbrook, Division, Clarke and Macarthur none of these teams are expected to do anything in the playoffs. These towns need to do a better job of developing more players and bigger benches. Why can't these other towns grow their programs?
You have to go all the way down to around 15 to start finding players from Manhasset and Wantagh
In the opening round of the class B playoffs - the top seeded teams outscored their opponents 64 -12. One of the lower seeded teams scored 8 goals in their game but sill lost by 9. Just goes to show how stats can be misleading.
The MSG varsity guys put Island Trees into the Top 20 last week for the NY Metro. They are not top 20 on LI. I have friends on that team. Last year they won 4 games, and were moved to a lower division as better team were moved up. Now they are undefeated at 14-0. They have 9 wins against teams with less than .500 record (combined 29 wins and 64 losses for their opponents). Yet the guys on MSG who put the poll together and call themselves experts rank this team in the top 20. If they played just the Conf 1 Teams where the majority are not even ranked, they would lose 90% of their games.
Just trying to keep things in perspective. In suffolk you have similar situation if not worse. Good teams will play 3-4 "tough" games and then have 10-12 blowouts because they don't use the "power conference" like Nassau does.
