First, I thought that AAAA was the only division that used this goofy point system. Next, let me say that this is one of the biggest travesties I have ever witnessed in South Carolina soccer! I mean no disresepct to the Union players, coaches or school but looking at their record and competition, they barely deserve to be in the playoffs and have no right to be seeded above RHS, EHS, Daniel, Greenville or Wren. Union is 13-3 (81%) with two scored not reported. Two of their losses came to Indian Land and Clover. Most of their victories came against teams with losing records or no wins at all. Riverside is 21-2 (91%) with wins over Wando, Summerville, Daniel, Dreher, Greenville (twice) and Eastside (twice). Their two losses were to Mauldin (in PKs) and Stratford Academy (Ga). My tallies show Union 39.5 and RHS 60. This excluded tournament games. Even if Union beat all AAAA teams with winning records, they would only have 58.5 points. This still falls short of Riverside at 60, and let me reiterate that this total does not include Riverside's victories over Wando and Summerville or their loss to MAuldin since those were tournament games. If tournament games were included, then Riverside would be very close to 100 points. If this is not a clear example of why to do away with the point system, I don't know what is!
To Region 1 Coach- with all due respect sir, do you honestly agree with your statement of "the teams that play the hard teams get rewarded for it"? Riverside beat several top ranked AAA schools (including number 2 Dreher, Greenville, Eastside and Daniel) while Union didn't even play a ranked team, let alone beat one. Also, many of Union's victories were over teams with no wins. Some of these were out of conference games so Union did not have to play these teams while Riverside's nonconference schedule had Daniel and Dreher, just to name a few.
