I love how everyone thinks that Team A is afraid to schedule someone or that Team B's coach is an idiot. Pretty sure Hansel is not an idiot and pretty sure FH was not afraid to play Lackey. Maybe Hansel scheduled the game to get a good measuring point of where his team needs to go. Nothing wrong if they loose that first game. Maybe FH didn't play said team because in wasn't in the cards when the schedule was made. I am sure both schools have teams they won't play. As someone said FH must be doing something right. Let the schedules go, the teams will play who they seen fit for their team. Pretty sure neither team cares what people on a message board in Western Maryland think.
Nice post. I do think that Hansel schedules tougher earlier to motivate his team into shape, notwithstanding the fact that each year he must go through a team across town that gets the voluminous talent and depth. I would think that he is smart enough to know that his chances of a championship are nil under the circumstances and - if anything - he is looking at the situation as a high school sport.
Would Hansel like to go deep into the playoffs? I am sure he would if it worked out that way. But he seems like a coach who handles things well as exemplified by his lack of a media meltdown over having players - two years in a row - booted from Homecoming.
Furthermore, Hansel wouldn't send out an assistant to impersonate him at a championship halftime interview - as apparently happened this year.