OK Louisville fans. We get the point from the other thread.

 

Now a question that fans of ALL classes can chew on.

 

The new playoff system means teams will see teams in the first and second rounds for a second time. Some of these games may come just one or two weeks after the first game was played. Does this favor the district champ or does it favor the runner-up or third seed who now know what adjustments have to be made. Some possibilities from your district would be appreciated :thumb:

I just don't like it period. I think the interaction between districts is good for football.

 

One example ... the undefeated Bowling Green clubs in 2003 and 2004 that fell to Hopkinsville and Madisonville in the second round of the Class 3A playoffs. I think the two losses were eye-openers for the Purples, who subsequently beefed up their schedule to compensate for the softness of their district schedule.

 

Let's face it ... if the new format was in effect then, Bowling Green would have simply rolled through two rounds of the playoffs, blasting district opponents in non-competitive games. Instead, the interaction of the districts produced more exciting games.

A team I thought of immediately was Mayfield. Yeah, they usually win their region anyway, but now they've been given a two round pass considering it's been so many years since they've lost to any of those teams in their district. Now, perhaps it could help these teams that are playing them again, perhaps not. Probably not.

I don't know if it really helps or hurts. In Highlands case, it will make it a little tougher I guess. We will, under the revised format, in most years definitely have to play CovCath a second time in the second round (although S. Oldham I'm sure will have a lot to say about that and S. Oldham has had some very good teams in the past). Assuming we advance, this year we'd then face most likely Lex Cath or Franklin Co (which should be very tough with Ammons returning) and if we advance would then play most likely Bell or Rockcastle in the 4th round. So we would have to beat 3 very good AAA teams in order to just make it to the state game, as opposed to years past when we generally played two weaker teams and then two stronger teams in order to make it to state. But at the end of the day, if you truly consider yourself the state champ, you should be willing to take on all comers, so I have no problem with it being tougher. I actually relish the tougher competition.

Actually this shouldn’t be much of a difference for the NKY 3A district. In the past, the 4 teams from this district has swept the 1st round games and then had to play teams within their district in the 2nd and 3rd round. The only difference is that they play them in the 1st and 2nd now. It will make for more interesting games. It seems lately that the first round games at HHS, the crowd is mostly family and friends and it usually clears out by the beginning of the 4th quarter, sometimes at half. I’m all for better competition!

Let's take our district for example....

 

1 - Trinity

2 - Fern Creek

3 - Ballard

4 - Shelby County

 

* - It actually would probably not effect ours as much, on normal years, but in 2003 it would've been a doozy....

 

We (Trinity), would beat Shelby County again, while I think that Ballard would've beaten Fern Creek...then we beat Ballard....same ole scenario...on to X or Male.

A team I thought of immediately was Mayfield. Yeah, they usually win their region anyway, but now they've been given a two round pass considering it's been so many years since they've lost to any of those teams in their district. Now, perhaps it could help these teams that are playing them again, perhaps not. Probably not.

I am not sure if using Mayfield is a good example. Losing only twice the past 10 seasons to any team from region 1 (one from their district and one from the other) means very little. If anything, for teams in Mayfield's district (same scenario plays out for many across the state), it is not necessarily a bad thing. Let us say, Fulton Co. for example finishes 4th in the district and first round has to travel to Metcalfe Co. I do not think some realize how far some of these teams have to travel. Metcalfe, from Fulton, I would guess is 3 and a half, 4 hours away; and we are talking about a school with limited resources and will have 10 parents, tops, able to make the trip. This is the side of the scenario a lot are not taking into consideration.

This is exactly what I mentioned when people started complaining about lackluster 'repeat" games.

I questioned if it wouldn't instead create a spark for those lower seeded teams to push for the playoffs and try to get revenge (so to speak) and result in lots of obvious rivalry games where anything can happen.

Those are usually fun to watch - except for the top dog who isnt ready to play;)

 

 

Woody jr