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Taking into account MDDad's sarcasm (which does also make a good point), there may be something to what Bick says here. I think it's also partly the reason why Mater Dei basketball, despite being the most successful HS program over the past 35 years, has had very few players who went on to star in college and no one who has had an impact in the NBA.

When every single individual player matchup is a win for your team, does this have the effect of making everyone on the more dominant team look that much better? That is, the great player is almost never double-teamed because there is someone else (or two or three) nearly as talented who the opposing team cannot afford to ignore. When a QB is virtually untouched because his entire O-line is composed of D-1 talent and he has four D-1 receivers, do we get a realistic sense of his abilities? Same goes for every other player on the field. This is not to say these guys aren't incredibly talented, because they clearly are. It's simply to observe that the sheer amount of talent on both sides of the ball has a kind of exponential multiplier effect.

About the only time the players on Bosco or Mater Dei get to compete against a realistic opposition is when they play each other. The guys who really shined on Friday were Bryce Young and Kody Epps; Logan Loya had his moments, as did Jodie McDuffie--who benefited from drawing the 4th best cover guy on MD since the best three had their hands full with Loya, Collins, and Hutson. Even D.J., in the last two games against Mater Dei, has looked pretty human. Against an overmatched Servite, he still got pressured and couldn't just sit back and throw darts 40 yards down the field.