District Football Is Broken

4 hours ago, AppalachianTactician said:

I’m not sure if I thought of this before or there was a post about it, but I think the best way to do this is to essentially do away with district play.

turn the classes into east and west “conferences” and require that you have to play “4” (whatever amount you want here) games in your class (potentially east or west) to qualify for the playoffs. This allows more flexibility and more evenly matched teams to play each other year in and year out.

I think there may have to be a process to help schedule these games an example would be CAL in 3A these past 5 years or so. Who would want to play them in the regular season in 3A? Everyone on the message boards have always went to “avoid CAL” until they have to.

Potential solution could be 3 closest teams to your rating on your side of the state could be your “conference schedule “ the next year. I don’t know exactly how it would shake out I just think it would make for better football and less 60-0 blowouts.

CAL could get out of state opponents like Trinity. Also, if you get rid of RPI and adopt HSratings.com then some bigger good schools might play them. RPI penalizes 6A schools when play a 3A school even though that school could be very good. Ohio doesn't have districts but have conferences and their playoffs are based on regions.