Everyone has different views on this. Some think that playing the toughest possible schedule and finishing .500 somehow makes you more prepared for the playoffs. Whether or not Boone plays an easy or hard schedule we still have an early playoff exit every year, the regular season schedule has absolutely zero to do with how we do in the playoffs. So with that being a given, I have come to the point where I would rather have an easy schedule where we have the opportunity to go 10-0. If you are going to get bounced early in the playoffs either way then what does it matter? Sevier County may be a different culture, perhaps adding Powell & West might get SC playoff ready.