Tournaments are too hard to tell who has the "Best Team". That would require a one on one dual(el). Lansing does have a good kids club program, but just because they have 8 or 9 kids placers join the team doesn't equal success, how many of them will be bunched up behind each other?

Also I believe that this supports the claim that 5A is the weakest class. Lansing goes from middle of the bottom of the pack (where Russell is too) in 4A to the top 10 in 5A where another team does just the opposite. That in itself should be enough to justify the statement.

Andrew Gossett of Buhler (but lives in HUTCH) has even told me after being on both sides of the coin, that 5A is considerably weaker than 4A, where he was a qualifier for state in 5A in the middle weights usually dominated by upperclassmen. Perhaps Andrew can elaborate on this a bit more but for now I am done.

Alex