421 - 129

It was a few years ago when the SCC decided to realign to a Division 1 and a Division 2. Each division has an East and West side...The powers to be wanted to make the league competitive and fair. So they decided to base it on the factor of school size (among other things)..So Division 1 is the big and Division 2 is the smaller. There are a couple of things that had to be changed to appease some of the cry baby head coaches...

1. Hand which is "smaller" was moved up to Division 1 since the schools in Division 2 did not want them there.
2. Hillhouse was team that was asked to go to Division 1 since they were good as well. They had a coach at the time that begged not to go up and play. So they sent Cross up who was winless for years to play in Div 1. It was really an easy decision since the HC of Hillhouse had a dad that gave the head of New Haven athletics his job, so the decision was easy.regardless....
3. Hillhouse did not want to ever play West Haven so the SCC places a rule that the Div1 west can only crossover with the Div2 west unless it is Thanksgiving(The same thing holds true for East as well...
4. Certain teams were placed in certain divisions since they knew they could not compete ala East Haven

If you look at the league in this order D1 West, D1 East, D2 West, D2East they can really be in the order from good to worse..So you can say Div 1,2,3,4 instead of what we have.

The big problem with this setup that some other leagues also have is the fact that there are many instances a particular teams needs a specific team to win to gain playoff points.
Example..WH plays Wilbur Cross and does not Hillhouse(because Div1 East can not play Div2 west). On T-Giving WH needs WC to win vs Hillhouse. In other conferences those points are garunteed since everyone plays each other.
Another frustrating thing is that the teams in Div 2 are just not that good and they play other teams that are not that good while the teams in Div 1 play each other and beat each other.....
So a div 2 team can end up making the state tourney while a better Div 1 team sits home......

You ask why all that...simple..it was cross over week meaning Div 1 played Div 2.......

1-3 WH beat 4-1 Foran 57-13
2-3 Amity beat 2-3 Lyman Hall 41-6
Other than Hillhouse saving face and beating Prep the Div1 teams won every other match-up with the scores totaling 421-129.........