Quote: Why not just have the 1A bracket as "open seeding"? Let the top four seeds (regardless of Upper State/Lower State) have byes and let the rest play out until the Quarterfinals. That way if it comes down to Christ Church vs St. Joseph's then so be it. At least the Final would be worth watching. Right now it's just lambs to the slaughter!
Or how about just combine AA-A again and have it as Upper vs Lower State? I know there were 25 or so schools fielding teams this year but, really, how many have made a commitment for improving their product? Seems more like offering just another recreational outlet which is fine until it comes down to the State Championships.
You seem to be missing the point.
Imagine you are a parent who lives in Blackville a town with 3000 people and you send your child to the local school with all of 248 students. When it comes to sports you would want your child to compete with similar sized school out of fairness, right?
The reason these schools have poor programs is because there are only 120 people at the school to pick from. With that number of students what exactly do you expect them to do?? What kind of commitment do you expect them to make?? They are probably lucky to get enough students to field a team!
And is it fair to kids in this school to have to play a state championship against an elite private school?? Wouldn't it better for the kids if they only had to compete with schools of similar size for a state championship?
How would you feel if it was your child playing for a team with 12-15 players with no JV team in an anyone who shows up make the team situation and you show up for the state championship and find you have to play a team made up college bound elite level players??? Sound fair to you?
