Please KHSAA DO NOT let this happen

[Larry Linville]

According to Jason Frakes on Twitter, Julian Tackett is floating this adea about the football playoffs:

 

Twitter

 

I'll paste it below in case the link doesn't work

 

 

Julian Tackett floating idea for football playoffs. Two brackets in each class: 1 & 2 seeds in "upper" and 3 & 4 seeds in "lower." Would that mean 12 state champs? "Depends on how you term it," Tackett says. Would shorten season one week.

[JudasPriest]

He's slowing turning into Oprah.....points to the left "You get a state championship!", points to the middle, "You get a state championship!", points to the right, "You get a state championship!"

[Wireman]

What in the world? This is surely a joke or taken out of context isn't it?

[Auburn]

Isn’t this gown Texas does things? Two state champs per class. Class 1A-A, Class 1A-AA so on and so forth.

 

Doesn’t need to happen here, though. I’m for the season being shortened, but it needs to be backed up a week at the start; not at the end.

 

Finals weekend has been the first weekend of December for almost 30 years. Moving state finals to Thanksgiving weekend would absolutely kill the crowds for the casual fan looking to come up for the weekend. I don’t think that would happen anyway because of scheduling issues with our host universities.

[gchs_uk9]

Similar to Texas but their four district qualifiers are then split to large and small.

 

Under this plan don't you want to finish 3rd?

[DragonFire]

I get what they’re trying to do. Trying to appease the “top two in each district” crowd while still keeping all of these teams in the playoffs. But this is not the way and honestly, just adds to his image as a buffoon.

[Bac2369]

Similar to Texas but their four district qualifiers are then split to large and small.

 

Under this plan don't you want to finish 3rd?

 

Let's hope not!!!

[gchs_uk9]

I get what they’re trying to do. Trying to appease the “top two in each district” crowd while still keeping all of these teams in the playoffs. But this is not the way and honestly, just adds to his image as a buffoon.

 

I'm not going to make any bold comments until I see the written plan (wonder if it will be put forward?), but first blush says this is a really bad idea.

[CoachBuckett]

So basically he is creating just two different tournaments. So instead of calling them State Champions, they could call them Tournament Winners.

[Rebel]

I agree this is a bad idea and having a hard time thinking why would you do this?

[Quiet_Storm11]

This is a joke. 6 state championships too much as it is. Please don’t let this happen it will water down an already average HS football state.

[JudasPriest]

I agree. Congratulations to your 1-9 regular season team that has now become the new 5-9 State Champions!

[Gridiron fan]

Why not have top 2 seeds of each district play for “state championship” and the bottom 2 seeds play in a bowl but not called state champs just AA bowl champs or whatever. The games would be more competitive and interesting instead of team 1 seed beating team 4 seed by 60 points. Just a thought.

[ThrillVille Cardinal51]

I’d be fine with it as long as it isn’t called a state championship.

 

Call it the KHSAA Invitational tournament or something.

[Eazym1979]

Its cheapens the victory for kids who work hard all year. Top 16 in the class like Wv should make the playoff or the top 2 seeds by each district get in but please anything but this