Who are your "winner" and "loser" teams of the 2022 season?
Example:
Winner: Burley Bobcats- Cam Anderson has stepped up to the 4A plate and has not looked back across the freeway to Gooding since. With what appears to be a high octane offense, his team has boasted an incredible 6-3 record and playoff appearance in year 1.
Loser: Parma Panthers-Parma has lost ANOTHER head coach. He left three weeks into the season. They are on their 5th head coach in I believe 5 years. They have won a total of TWO games in that times (I think). As the smallest 3A school in the state, they don't seem equipped to compete in the BRUTAL SRV conference with the likes of Homedale, Weiser and Fruitland.
Who else would you add to this list?
Winners in 1AD1 right off the bat you have to be impressed with Carey and how the stepped up a classification and are legit contenders for a title. I also think notus has quietly had an impressive season and their match up with Carey this weekend may be the most intriguing of the week. Lastly I would say Grace has been a winner this season. They have spent most of the last decade living in Butte Co. shadow but this year they won the district title outright and secured the overall #2 seed.
Losers in 1AD1 I'll probably catch heck for this but I would say the white pine league. Some (not me) like to claim they have the best 1A teams in the state but with only 3 teams getting post season games and 2 of them already eliminated in dominant fashion it's hard to back that claim up. Infact if you go look at the brackets going back to 2009 on idahosports.com the 4th district is by far more successful and percentage wise the 5/6th even beat the white pine. Lastly I would say idahosports.com with their refusal to broadcast a single Grace game. Last week they went to Carey vs RR so Paul could get his burger and mountain dew to show a blowout and missed one of the best 1A games of the year in Arco.