With Jackson County withdrawing and Beechwood now having no first round opponent, let's look at what would happen if "fill ins" were the order of business.

Gallatin County would be in line.  Ok so same district and travel is not too far.  Would Gallatin really want to make that trip for that game?

Would Beechwood really want to play that game or get a really good week of practice now that the team they were supposed to play is opting out?

Just curious.

Again my opinion is a withdrawal means a bye and let the non playoff teams finish the season this week.

3 hours ago, cincyswords said:

With Jackson County withdrawing and Beechwood now having no first round opponent, let's look at what would happen if "fill ins" were the order of business.

Gallatin County would be in line.  Ok so same district and travel is not too far.  Would Gallatin really want to make that trip for that game?

Would Beechwood really want to play that game or get a really good week of practice now that the team they were supposed to play is opting out?

Just curious.

Again my opinion is a withdrawal means a bye and let the non playoff teams finish the season this week.

I'm thinking this is a pass for Gallatin County. Basketball is king in Warsaw, and they've got some good players, doing both. Why risk injuries for another eight score loss? 

Is Beechwood best served by rest/recovery and better competition from intrasquad work?

As we can tell all of us have different opinions on this subject and nothing is going to make all of us happy. 

This is a byproduct of allowing 192 of 219 eligible teams into the playoffs.  Change the playoff formula to something like Ohio and reduce the amount of rounds to 4 or teams per class to 24.

1 minute ago, JUGGSPORTS said:

This is a byproduct of allowing 192 of 219 eligible teams into the playoffs.  Change the playoff formula to something like Ohio and reduce the amount of rounds to 4 or teams per class to 24.

I like that too.

So nearly 88% of Kentucky high schools get in the football playoffs.  What is that percentage for Ohio schools?  Off the top of my head I am thinking something in the neighborhood of 25%.

Anyone?

3 hours ago, Runcible Owl said:

I'm thinking this is a pass for Gallatin County. Basketball is king in Warsaw, and they've got some good players, doing both. Why risk injuries for another eight score loss? 

Is Beechwood best served by rest/recovery and better competition from intrasquad work?

I vote for rest and recovery. It's the best job in the state because you are not tested until round four, possibly five with RPI.

My wife says I'm a dinosaur, but she agrees with this one: 4 classes, top 2 in each district makes playoffs. Football coaches would go nuts if this happened.

1 minute ago, 9068 said:

My wife says I'm a dinosaur, but she agrees with this one: 4 classes, top 2 in each district makes playoffs. Football coaches would go nuts if this happened.

Smart wife!

1 hour ago, theguru said:

I like that too.

So nearly 88% of Kentucky high schools get in the football playoffs.  What is that percentage for Ohio schools?  Off the top of my head I am thinking something in the neighborhood of 25%.

Anyone?

Ohio 708 teams and 336 playoff teams in 7 divisions (47.5%).  12 teams per regions, top four seeds have bye weeks.  Ohio doesn't re-bracket until State Semi-Finals.  

Kentucky could do 12 teams per West/East.  That would be 65.7% of the teams in playoffs vs the current 87.6% now.  That could help the quality of opponents in some classes.  A new ranking system that doesn't penalize out of state play would allow a true ranking of Regional West/East team and not re-seed at Regional Finals.  It's 2025, time to use technology to your advance and adapt to a better system to prepare teams for later opponents vs the current first round blow out model.  

14 minutes ago, JUGGSPORTS said:

Ohio 708 teams and 336 playoff teams in 7 divisions (47.5%).  12 teams per regions, top four seeds have bye weeks.  Ohio doesn't re-bracket until State Semi-Finals.  

Kentucky could do 12 teams per West/East.  That would be 65.7% of the teams in playoffs vs the current 87.6% now.  That could help the quality of opponents in some classes.  A new ranking system that doesn't penalize out of state play would allow a true ranking of Regional West/East team and not re-seed at Regional Finals.  It's 2025, time to use technology to your advance and adapt to a better system to prepare teams for later opponents vs the current first round blow out model.  

So Ohio has more 140 more teams in their playoffs than Kentucky.

1 hour ago, 9068 said:

My wife says I'm a dinosaur, but she agrees with this one: 4 classes, top 2 in each district makes playoffs. Football coaches would go nuts if this happened.

I think you’d be surprised.  There is a silent majority out there that don’t disagree with that at all, especially if there was an 11 game regular season to get that “extra” week.

However, IMO, it doesn’t need to just be an automatic Top 2 seeds for the mere fact that one district might be stacked vs another full of can’t play dead.

I'm Team HSRatings.com (formerly CalPreps) all the way & there is really no arguing there, while not 100% perfect? Nothing else compares & anybody that argues differently is just trying to be difficult for the sake of being difficult ?.

I've got a couple different drafts/approaches about shaking things up (16 teams per class) so that things don’t continue to be the absolute snooze fest that it’s largely become & it starts way before the playoffs (Team No Districts here, too- play who you want).

I’ll release Sunday sometime. I think there is some merit to them or if nothing else…fun to argue about ?

19 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

So Ohio has more 140 more teams in their playoffs than Kentucky.

With 489 more teams than Kentucky. 

1 hour ago, Voice of Reason said:

So Ohio has more 140 more teams in their playoffs than Kentucky.

But they have about 3 1/2 times more teams total, correct? I think they have 7 classes now 

43 minutes ago, 9068 said:

But they have about 3 1/2 times more teams total, correct? I think they have 7 classes now 

Correct.   They've had 7 classes for over a decade now. 

4 hours ago, JUGGSPORTS said:

With 489 more teams than Kentucky. 

 

2 hours ago, 9068 said:

But they have about 3 1/2 times more teams total, correct? I think they have 7 classes now 

 

1 hour ago, New Colonel said:

Correct.   They've had 7 classes for over a decade now. 

Yes, just messing around. I find this whole discussion pointless so it's hard for me to not take a shot at it. 

If Ohio had 219 teams, they would all be in the playoffs.