Would you list the top 8 superpower cheaters who would form the Open Division in Ohio? No use intimating - name them.
Hmmmm. I wonder how many of those teams would trade in the five rounds it takes to reach the championship game in their current divisions for a two game path?
Yes, there is certainly the danger of really watering down the titles in some divisions.
I left that off, actually. I would use it as an opportunity to reduce divisions from seven to five and eliminate a round.
That's great, but invader03 wrote:
Don't hold your breath. He's been asked repeatedly. He ducks and runs.
So you think fairness means making it possible for mediocre teams to win state titles?
No matter what they do, I can’t picture a mediocre team winning a title.
I'll admit to overkill on the word choice, but it is fact that under just.here's plan, the most likely D7 champion would have been Minster, who lost to the actual champion by 35 and 21. I'm not sure why people (not you) think the "solution" to the "problem" is to penalize success. MSML has no inherent advantage over the field. Perhaps the focus should be on the field getting better.
Bingo, penalizing success is a growing problem in these United States. Let’s not do it to our young folks.
Whining is just what we hear in Georgia as well. Only thing IS though, there are NO privates in 7A football in Georgia.
Benedictine was supposed to be the baddest team in Georgia 4A football this season. Having access to a population of about 600,000 in Savannah metro, plus lower state South Carolina around Hilton Head. And they were BLASTED by three scores by a PUBLIC school in round three of five. In fact, there is but ONE private school in Georgia, who is nationally ranked. And that is a team in Northwest Georgia, who plays in a N.C. private school league. And doesn't even play many GHSA schools. They beat middling Langston Hughes by three points.What does THAT even mean? Buford has every advantage known to modern man. And draws from 2,000,000 in metro Atlanta. And they lost in round three of five in GHSA 7A!
SOOOOOO, your solution would be to have metro ATL Buford in Class 5A, to remain in that classification, bludgeoning their opposition who draw their enrollments from 20-25,000 population? Conversely, Buford, with virtually the SAME enrollment went from Class SINGLE A, to Class 5A, over a period of three decades. And won essentially 80% of the state championships in their particular division during that time. But THEN, the GHSA FINALLY came to their senses, and instituted a 3X multiplier to force Buford into the highest classification(7A) because they drew 30% of their enrollment from transfers from out of zone. They had been talking crap for decades about BUFORD UNIVERSITY. And how they won just because they did EVERYTHING better than their opponents. WELL sir, long story short. B.U. hasn't made the 7A semifinals, in their brief two year stay in GHSA 7A, the BADEST league on the planet. (eight GHSA 7A schools, have finished the season, ranked in the Top 100) And Buford is essentially a private school playing in a public school league. They finished this season with two losses, and 25 players ranked in the top 300 of the country, in grades 9-12. Including three in the top twenty five.
Actually what Buford GA does doesn’t really interest me. No disrespect intended but I don’t follow GA, hs football
WHAT is the meaning of this competitive advantage? My high school is twenty five miles from ANYWHERE in rural Southwest Georgia. And until we were BLASTED 39-37 by a Milton team who is playing Tuesday, in the 7A State Championship, against #16 Walton. We were ranked #12 in the NATION with LOCAL talent. But the Northern bias REALLY sticks it to the Georgia teams. We had five 7A teams in the top twenty five, two weeks ago. And NOW, four of those have fallen FORTY SPOTS because we cannibalize each other in the 7A playoffs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm still trying to rap my head around the thought that a DII team could EVER be ranked in the top sixteen of the country, after having beaten a nobody by a 7-2 score. And MIGHTY St. Eds beat a FIVE loss team in the BIG SCHOOL finals?
The ones who play in an NFL DOMED STADIUM! One of the reasons why that l am an Eagles, and not a FALCON fan. HELL, we were relegated to playing weekday games in a crappy lil 25,000 seat Georgia State Stadium until THIS season. I guess SOMEBODY shamed Arthur Blank into coming off that $600,000 rental fee.
WELL, perhaps you SHOULD. Since you lads proclaim that Ohio is the creme de la creme of NATIONAL high school football. Only thing IS though, Ohio has five nationally ranked teams, while Georgia has TWELVE. And Cali, Texas, and Florida, each have more than FIFTEEN!
And Georgia has by far, the smallest population of those three.
Lol. Ok, I'd rather play in a gravel parking lot with broken glass on a weekend than play in an NFL stadium on a Tuesday.
I've never been such a claim made on this board, but keep knocking down those strawmen.
Just for sheeeaaats and giggles. Schools in the GHSA, especially in South Georgia, have remedied that issue. They have created career academies, to weed out those who don't fit the academic and/or athletic criteria of a given school. Thus leaving the creme, and creating another entity to alleviate those issues. And reducing the total enrollment of the mother school. It has worked WONDERFULLY with two previous members of Region 1-7A, Ware Co., (hometown of Burt Reynolds) and Coffee Co., alma mater of Tyreek Hill) The career academies reduce enrollment in those schools, to where Ware Co. won the 6A State Championship LAST season. While Coffee High will be playing Woodward Academy in the 5A State Championship next week.
And I'd rather play three national top twenty five ranked teams in a row, on the road. Like we did when we won the 2015 National Championship. Than play in that snow covered crap you boys encounter in Ohio.
WELL, while it may NOT have been YOU, per se'. There was a poll conducted on this heah forum, proclaiming Ohio the CREME de la CREME of the UNIVERSE! I apologize for singling YOU personally out on this topic.