Pretty smart move by Williamsburg to move Wetjen to running back. He gashed Clear Lake Friday night with three rushing TDS and took a punt return to the house.
Statistically, if you win the regular season match up, you have a better than even chance of winning the playoff rematch. “It’s hard to beat a good team twice” is an excuse favored teams throw out when they fail to win the rematch.
not a fan of strictly geographical pairs for the semis. On a neutral field, I’m glad they reseed by RPI for the semis, so the two best remaining teams get the opportunity to meet in the finals.
You are not going to see Perry or anyone else dropping football due to lack of success. The only reason teams cancel for even one year or forfeit is lack of numbers making it unsafe to play a varsity game. You could say the same thing about long time sad-sacks DM North, Saydel or Clarke, but...
The number for each team in the playoffs pairing is their seed (in order of their RPI finish) so that district champ with a 20 or 30 RPI rank is the 16th seed.
You gotta play and beat who the Stste puts across the field from you. Indee ran the table against a weak schedule and gets the opportunity to prove themselves at Pella. Better to be 9-0 playing the first round on the road than 8-1 (Sigourney-Keota) because you failed your only real test of the...
you realize there are quarter and game limitations for football players, right? JV or Freshman have already played four quarters that night, so you couldn’t bring them in until the fourth quarter. If a varsity team can’t stop the other team’s second string, boo hoo.