Norton is that good but there are others like Turner and Carroll and if Clay Center, who lost to Carroll, has beaten Norton this year, so are they and if Manhattan, who lost to Norton, beat Turner, so are they. I know there are others like Goddard, Ark City, Saint Francis, Scott City, Columbus, Abilene, Aquinas etc. If you say that the team that wins Newton is the best in the state, then I guess that that is Norton. But surely that is not the determining factor because if it was, then every team that won Newton in the past was the best team in the state. Norton did not win Newton last year but they knocked off the "immortal" Hoxie at state. Norton was fantastic at Newton and just may be the best. But they did not earn my respect by winning Newton, they earned it a long time ago.