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  1. I don’t remember seeing a suggestion of promotion/relegation. Which doesn’t really make sense when you wouldn’t have to play every team in the conference? Is the promotion/relegation determined by the one or two games within your bracket of the conference? And again, high school soccer isn’t about winning and losing or even that only the “best” team advance (see state tournament) it’s about participation. If a weaker team wants to play a stronger one it shouldn’t be the stronger team that gets to make the determination. It should be the weaker.
  2. Continuing to just play won’t work in soccer. The game is too long and tiring. It will cause more injury either through exhaustion or making poor challenges.
  3. The problem with that is that it really only considers the upper teams. The lower skills may want to play better teams for experience. They deserve that right. High school sports is about participating, not winning. Under the current system they can choose to take a loss in the conference if they don’t want to play. If they want to though, the “better” team shouldn’t be allowed to refuse.
  4. Here we go again. “PKs are terrible” cricket sounds when you ask for a logistically workable alternative.
  5. Cov Caths district traditionally did a “random” draw. Not sure that is still the case. Their district is stronger than it used to be. While playing Ohio teams is good experience it shouldn’t make up the bulk of the schedule for a KY team.
  6. The conference I can’t speak to because it is a nebulous and confusing thing. The districts is easier. In order to develop the district seeding the teams have to play in order to find the ranking. Does this mean some lopsided matches, sure. We’ve had the discussion before but a game that seems like a waste to a good team may be a needed experience for a weaker team to see how they play. Districts probably have the option to just blind draw (I think I remember reading one of them does that) but that isn’t perfect either. We hear about how the blind draw ruins the state tournament every year because people complain the weaker rural areas get a team when strong teams from Louisville have to battle it out for a place.
  7. Are you being snarky? Do you really not think that was a handball?
  8. What he said. If they had played advantage the red card would be nullified. If you listen I think the whistle blows after the rebound goes in. While this should be done correctly this is a high stress situation and understandable to get flustered. Learn from mistakes.
  9. Based on just the video, really doubtful. Looks like the NDA coach is screaming to get the card and with how short a time it took to do the PK I doubt the SK coach really got to say anything.
  10. The government is nothing compared to high school when it comes to conspiracies and back door dealings. Lol.
  11. Ah. Well let me clarify because they weren’t really correct either. Handling in and of itself is ONLY a violation when deliberate. If it’s not deliberate it’s nothing, not even a PK. Note that deliberate is a more complicated term than just did they mean to handle the ball. Go to any ref course and you’ll see that. This particular card issue comes from when they handled the ball deliberately. Which in this case was a successful attempt to block a goal. At that point we’ve already established it was deliberate because we have called it. So, because of that it’s a red card. Too many people get into whether the player “meant” to do something. That’s really not the point. It’s did they do it or not.
  12. Having watched the video it was pretty clearly a deliberate handling to deny a goal.
  13. That’s not really true either. If the ref thought it wasn’t deliberate then it shouldn’t have been a PK either. That’s part of the requirement for handling. If you call this it should be red. That said who knows why they didn’t give it.
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