The reason Alcoa wouldn't beat all those top 5a and 4a teams is because we don't have the 1000+ students to help stack our football team. With the talent we do have with only 400+ students to think if we did have 1000+ we would be amazing, but we don't and won't unless Alcoa starts growing... Yes Alcoa would beat anyone through 3a quite convincingly with their athletes, but since Alcoa is small most of our players play both ways unlike the bigger schools who have athletes to fill all positions and keep their players fresh. The fact that we can routinely beat 4a and 5a schools with the amount of athletes show coaches and media that we have some bigtime athletes and legitimate D1 players on our team. Alcoa has to take what they can get for football players because we're so small, but it is amazing that we have had such great athletes come from our school, there is a amazing pool of talent in Alcoa. I think most Maryville fans realize this and respect Alcoa except for one game in the year. There the few fans that hate Alcoa for whatever the reasons, but you have to respect us for how well we do with what we got b/c we should be in 1a b/c most 2a schools have between 500 to 600 students. Maryville has some good athletes, but their O-line and D-line is awesome, but again that comes with having 1000+ students.
Congrats to Alcoa on a dominating 55-13 win and hope Maryville and Oakridge brings one back too.