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10-0 Mitchell (6A) and 8-2 (5A) Lemon Bay are a problem. Those teams are not able to compete with playoff caliber teams in even the weakest part of the state. It is pathetic that those teams are winning and going undefeated in districts - earning the right every year to face superior teams at HOME in the fist round. Mitchell is UNDEFEATED going into the playoffs, coming off a 56-0 blasting of Gulf High and allows 42 pts on their own field to Gainesville (losing 21-42) in the first round??? How pathetic is Mitchell's District? This is supposed to be a 6A undefeated team heading into the postseason? - Pathetic!
How bad is 5A Gulf High??? Speaking of 5A , Lemon Bay goes into the the playoffs at 8-2 are HOME hosting a 5-6 Imokalee and scores 8 pts , losing 8-15?!
Yet, people still find a way to blame a 2 win team like 7A Blanche Ely team that actually can compete and loses 14-16 @ Dwyer in the playoffs .
Perhaps their should be a Division 1 and Division 2 in the state or perhaps some of these districts should be forced to go independent and/or drop a class until they can compete.
There are pros and cons to the points-based systems in my opinion. There needs to be changes to make better quality post season play. If certain districts are going 10-0 and are flat out garbage, perhaps they should be forced to have to go through a 3rd place 5-5 team in an elite part of the state.
In the end don't we all want the best teams competing?
10-0 Mitchell (6A) and 8-2 (5A) Lemon Bay are a problem. Those teams are not able to compete with playoff caliber teams in even the weakest part of the state. It is pathetic that those teams are winning and going undefeated in districts - earning the right every year to face superior teams at HOME in the fist round. Mitchell is UNDEFEATED going into the playoffs, coming off a 56-0 blasting of Gulf High and allows 42 pts on their own field to Gainesville (losing 21-42) in the first round??? How pathetic is Mitchell's District? This is supposed to be a 6A undefeated team heading into the postseason? - Pathetic!
How bad is 5A Gulf High??? Speaking of 5A , Lemon Bay goes into the the playoffs at 8-2 are HOME hosting a 5-6 Imokalee and scores 8 pts , losing 8-15?!
Yet, people still find a way to blame a 2 win team like 7A Blanche Ely team that actually can compete and loses 14-16 @ Dwyer in the playoffs .
Perhaps their should be a Division 1 and Division 2 in the state or perhaps some of these districts should be forced to go independent and/or drop a class until they can compete.
There are pros and cons to the points-based systems in my opinion. There needs to be changes to make better quality post season play. If certain districts are going 10-0 and are flat out garbage, perhaps they should be forced to have to go through a 3rd place 5-5 team in an elite part of the state.
In the end don't we all want the best teams competing?
At the end of the day it's not about fairness and making sure the 3rd best team in an area gets to feel good about playing a playoff game. The best KIDS from their areas of the state get to compete in the playoffs. If you are the 3rd best team you are not going to win state either. Nobody but a sad Ely fan cares if Some random team somewhere else made the playoffs and they didn't. I agree a bad 2nd place should not make the playoffs but a 3rd place team should never make the playoffs. Make the brackets smaller and make the second place teams the wild cards. Use the point system to seed all the rest and go from there. A winner from a crappy area with crappy wins could be seeded to play another district champ. First round would still be blowouts but not second round