Cant Eliminate 8man, but could certainly bump of the 8 largest enrollments into 11 man. Why is Newell Fonda continually allowed to play 8 man anyway? then you have 64 in class A 8 districts of 8.
Jeopardy music playing . . . . . . The one thing we all know for sure is the IHSAA will find a way to screw it up and make things worse.. That is what they excel at and the more time they take to make decisions the crazier the solutions seem to be. Let the circus begin!
with just 2 regular season games left , anyone have a clearer picture of how they are doing matchups for playoffs , other than original statement back in August? It is wierd they are not even posting district standings on IHSAA wesbsite.
The problem for players missing games isnt Positive Covid cases, it is the stupid contact tracing and mandatory 14 day quarantine! in many cases the positive person is back before the contacts. In our area we have lost 20 players or more due to contact tracing and very few if any have...
the only "help" is the opponents are chosen based on how teams faired in recent history I believe. So a tier 3 team would play a couple teir 1s, but more tier 2/3 teams not much different than districts really. but maybe give a few more competitive games instead of so many blowouts, but I...
the latest 2 proposals are between 42 teams and 40 teams for 4A using the pods previously mentioned the 5A conversation has been killed from what I have heard
I dont think you can treat football the same as other sports. Football requires more players and more contributors than a sport such as Basketball where if you have a couple stars that can take you a long way.
The argument for going to 8 games is so they keep playoffs 6 days apart and be done by Thanksgiving while allowing 32 teams in playoffs. I perosnally think that is dumb. guarantee the kids 9 games, too much work put in for only 8 games, while other sports play 25-40 games or wrestle 50...
If not expanding the playoffs, Do not take away a guaranteed game! Football is short enough for most teams. 9 games compared to 40 in baseball and 22, in basketball, and wrestling 50 matches.