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let’s just hope it comes out correctly in the wash. I’ve looked at some of the teams and they are being rewarded for record despite playing schedules that are soft as cotton. While others have a bunch of losses and are fairly highly ranked. There has to be a better balance between the two. You shouldn’t be rewarded for over scheduling and you shouldn’t be rewarded for beating up on cotton balls. I know you folks are tired of hearing this, but this is why we need large districts. It eliminates 90% of these issues. Yes you may have one or two teams annually that may be left out they were probably better than some team in another district or region, but at the end of the day it’s the most fair way instead of some arbitrary formula.

Very true. Used to be a relief playing Orlando teams in the mid rounds back in the Plant heyday because they didn’t have too many problems with Orlando teams back then. But times have certainly changed.

https://news.scorebooklive.com/florida/2022/10/19/plant-panthers-gunning-for-first-district-championship-since-2018 i’m not expecting a deep playoff run, but getting a win would be a good start. pretty good schemed defense and a productive offense. They do lack size on both lines but they tend to make up for it with smart play and not being too far out of position at any one time. This won’t hold up against the better teams if they get into round 3, but it’s worked for them pretty well so far this year.

I’d like to know the last time they was an eight or nine team district in Tampa? seems like you have a whimsical and uninformed opinion on this. And how would you know who was ranked and where the last time there was an 8 or 9 team district in Tampa, which was probably before you were born.

Excellent post. Plant has 2 losses. One score to Tech, state finalist. 2 scores to another state finalist. You’d hope these losses don’t come back to haunt them. they beat alonso and they’re out right district champs so no big deal. If they don’t be Allonzo, that will be three losses on the year so their playoff qualifications would come into doubt or if they do qualify they probably qualify as one of the last seeds. Can’t help tech on the schedule, that’s a team they play often so it is what it is. I don’t know why they would’ve played Berkeley. They would’ve been much better off playing another 4M team in their region as this gives a truer test and should help in determining the best teams in the respective class and region. Course all this nonsense is moot if we were just to have larger districts; seven teams? And the top two in district qualify and there are no questions. at least in the larger classifications and especially in metro.

As a lifelong FSU fan, I’m talking about 1979, that is a losers excuse. They have sh&t the bed in every important game they’ve been in in the last 6 years. There are no moral victories. Abd NC State is a terrible football team. FSU should’ve won that game by 30. I understand the losses to a very well coached and experienced Wake Forest team, and to Clemson that has Dabo and a decade straight of top five recruiting classes. But NC State was a joke, especially without their quarterback.

Armwood posting 3 losses in the regular season, likely 4 after Tech.. Juggernaut Jesuit w 3 losses

Tampa Buccaneers Florida Gators FSU Seminoles Miami Hurricanes

Terrible news and horrible tragedy for his family. God bless:

Is Laz OK? Index not updated since last year?

dumb idea. big districts the answer

The simple answer is for teams to win their district games. It’s that easy. If you are number three in your district but might be number two or number one in another, I don’t feel bad If they are left out of the playoffs. Because they were two better teams in their own district. Often times the rankings simply are not accurate. I remember my sons senior year his team finished second in his district but got left out of the playoffs for Jefferson who they had just beaten, had the same record, but had a slightly less RPI. Jefferson went on to win two or three playoff games against teams who had good records but were garbage. So to forgo a head to head win and a better placing in the district, simply due to an arbitrary RPI ranking was silly. Robinson’s last game they had to play Bloomingdale who was a large 7Ateam that went far in the playoffs. For much smaller Robinson to have to win that game to qualify for the 5A playoffs was ridiculous.

also with large districts, you don’t have to worry about over scheduling because you’ll have enough district games to play. You could sprinkle in a state power and maybe a traditional rival who is in a different district due to their size, but everybody would have fairly balanced schedules. Now I’m not saying that an 8 team district in Pasco/Hernando would have the same level of competition as an 8 team district in Miami, but at the end of the day it all comes out in the wash in the playoffs and teams from their own regions deserve to be represented.

i’m not gonna pretend that I know all the ins and outs of the rural and suburban issues. But from what I see with my own eyes, larger metropolitan areas like Orlando Tampa Jacksonville South Florida etc., should have no problem making 7 or 8 team districts with like size teams. Tampa could have at least four of those districts and the teams wouldn’t have to travel more than seven or 8 miles ever to play their district games. You don’t have to worry about quality of competition when you have 8 teams. At eight you’ll likely have two worthy teams. Yes occasionally you’d have three really strong teams in a district and somebody would get left out, but that’s the breaks.

it shouldn’t be an issue in metro areas. Tampa/Saint Pete has 70 teams if you count public and private. I’m sure Dade and Broward have twice that. Also, if you look at the classifications, there doesn’t seem to be too much of a difference between suburban and metro. I’ll give you that rural teams have a very tough time with a large district. They should just stay in the region format and have the top X amount of teams make the playoffs based on inter-play and rankings.

it’s such a stupid process. Just have large enough districts, at least 7 or 8 teams in each district, and the top two make the playoffs. It’s that easy. Tiny districts with rankings doesn’t add anything to the mix.

May want to add Wharton into this mix. Think the loss to Jesuit was an anomaly.

trickeration not against da rulz…

Cocoa. But if the don’t hold CG under 21, then CG.

does bulldog 1987 still post on these forums? I bet he’s excited

No the clock would keep running. You don’t think teams have lined up with nine seconds left and spiked the ball? Of course they have. But when the other team is running the ball back 25 yards the other way you can’t lineup.

MNW getting blown out 37-12 8 min left

No I’m saying that the referee had the judgment call to give them an untimed down

NCAA Rule 12-3-7 expressly states that “the replay official may correct obvious errors that may have a significant impact on the outcome of the game, including those involving the game clock, whether or not a play is reviewable.” The Florida player appeared to intercept the ball and ran it back the other way. But the play was dead when Travis’s knee was down. This prevented FSU from having any shot of lining up to run one more play. The referees did review the play. They should’ve come up with the correct resolution, which was one untimed down.

reading this I think I’m right. Could have been an untimed down at end… https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2021/11/princeton-harvard-football-game-bonfire-ivy-league