Thanks for the advice.  Suppose it depends on how you put the emphasis on what I wrote.  To me it was intended as a simple fact...I really don't know what Devine was thinking.  He didn't reveal his criteria in the article...and he certainly didn't tell me how he arived at his selections.

I admitted that my top 10 was purely based on the calpreps model.  As for how I would rank the top 10 teams since 2000 without using someone else's computer model, I have no basis to do that.  While I have lived in the area since before 2000 I really didn't follow local high school football until the middle of the decade.  Sure I went to some Carmel football games in the early 2000's, but just as a fan.  And while I got more into it around 2005, I'm reluctant to rank teams since I didn't actually see many of them.  As a Carmel fan I was more focused on the MTAL...and while I thought the PG teams under Roggeman were very good, I'm not sure they should be in the top 10.  I never saw PG's 2001 (pre-Roggeman) CCS Championship team...I was very impressed with their 2006 team but it got beat by 2006 Seaside...and I didn't think 2007 PG was as good as their 2006 team (plus they lost to another "local team" in the CCS Finals.)  As for Carmel, I am obviously biased toward the 2009 team which I think was the best of the Devin era.  And as a Carmel fan, I'd rank Carmel 09 better than other small school local teams.  However if I say Carmel 09 is better than Seaside 06 or PG 06 or SLV 02 it would not be because I have any good reason other than the fact that I am a Carmel fan.  So 2009 Carmel would make my top 10, but I don't know where.

My gut tells me that there should be at least several Palma teams on the list.  Hard to imagine that Palma teams could go like a million years without losing to a Monterey County team and that Palma teams should not "dominate" a top 10 list. I remember that I saw the 2007 Gilroy team a couple of times and thought they were very good.  I heard that SLV was good back in 2002 and its hard to overlook an undefeated record.  The fact that 2006 Seaside beat 06 PG (and so many people around here talk reverently about the 06 Spartans) makes me figure that 2006 Seaside should be in the top 10.  As for Salinas teams and Hollister teams I know a little about the post-2005 teams and even less about the teams before then.  So no way to tell you which of them I think would be on a top 10 list.

So if pressed to come up with a list I would put five or six Palma teams on it (figuring that a program that has dominated Monterey County teams deserves to place at least half of the decade's top teams on the list...and I would ask Palma followers to tell me which Palma teams they thought were the best), and finish my list with the 2007 Gilroy team, the 2002 SLV team, the 2006 Seaside team and the 2009 Carmel team.    And in a list limited to 10 teams I would surely leave off many "as deserving" or "more deserving" teams.

What order I would put them in, I do not know.  Probably put 2009 Carmel as number 1.  JK, JK, JK

The bottom line is I have no opinion how to rank local teams when it is purely subjective.  I just don't know enough about all the teams of the past decade to feel expert enough to offer my thoughts.  So instead I came up with a methodology that uses the calpreps "project a game" model to create a top 10 ranking.  The calpreps model is by no means perfect.  But then again none of our memories are perfect either.