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With all due respect to both ColumbiaHF and Miami Central, if you can't finish better than 3rd in your district, you probably don't deserve to make it into the playoffs.    CHF, to use your logic, it's unlikely that a team that doesn't make it to the SEC championship game is going to secure one of the four spots in the national champtionship playoffs  - although it's possible.  My point is simple:  MC had two chances to at least be the district runner-up and didn't make it happen.  However good they may have been in the past or the future, for that season, they weren't good enough to finish first or second in their district, so I'm OK with them being left out. 
If an occasional team with a losing record does make it in, they likely won't make it past the first round, so it basically gives the top seeded team(s) a relatively easy opening playoff game where they can rest some starters and play some second-teamers. 
Last, the biggest problem I have with the "rewards tough scheduling"  concept is that some schools have very little control over the vast majority of their scheduling (i.e., if they're in a big district or in a county, like Hillsborough, where the County handles almost all of a team's scheduling).   In addition, while the pundits and coaches may think they know which teams are likely to be good again when they're making up their schedules, when it comes to high school teams, it can be a roll of the dice. 
I'll give you this example just to make my point.  Say you were a high school coach in South Florida and you were trying to beef up your schedule for 2021 because, you know, you want to increase your chances of having a higher RPI and getting home playoff games.  So, last spring you reached out to Hallandale and scheduled them.   How'd that turn out? 
I'm not necessarily opposed the RPI concept; but I don't like teams getting a huge advantage in the playoffs based on an RPI formula that has some serious issues. 

I agree with the concept. But in practice, losing teams still get in. How is this fair: 2 teams are on the bubble of making the playoffs. One has a 5-5 record the other has a 5-4 record due to a cancellation. The team with a 5-4 record has a .55 WP and a .01 higher RPI than the team with a 5-5 record. If they make up the cancelled game and lose, both teams now will be 5-5 but their RPI drops and no playoffs. So the system encourages no make up games. 

In 2018 Tampa Robinson beat Jefferson in a district game. Both had the same w/l record. Under the old system Robinson would have made the playoffs as district runner-up. But Jefferson got in with a higher RPI. 

I can't see how RPI, or the point system used in 2018 are that much of an improvement over district champ & district runner-up format previously used.  This was supposed to keep teams with losing records from making the playoffs while ones with winning seasons are kept out. Has either system really accomplished that goal? Not always.

YOU NAILED IT!!   I have been consistent with the RPI being used to determine home field using our example last year of being on the road for 3 of the 4 playoffs prior to the championship.  This in knowing full well that two Tampa area teams we beat handily got home field with better RPI, not better teams.  That's why our mindset is win district and just get in.  Seems like even when the FHSAA had a alternating formula (top and bottom bracket) getting rotated each year for home field they would tweak it every 3 or 4 years and somehow each time they did it didn't work in our favor.  Thus, just get in as the gods are doing us no favors.

It's possible to manipulate an RPI. Going 10-0 against weak teams counts 35%.  If a couple of your opponents go 5-5 or 6-4, your RPI actually looks pretty good.

Dan, the timing may be good right now . . . after losing to Lake Gibson Friday night, the folks in Polk's big city might be looking for a new way to solve their problems.   But, I dread not. 

Lake Gibson was up big then nearly blew it.  Sounds like Lakeland didn't take Lake Gibson too serious until too late. 

I went from first to last quick. Thanks Lakeland!

Lake Gibson was up big then nearly blew it.  Sounds like Lakeland didn't take Lake Gibson too serious until too late. 

I went from first to last quick. Thanks Lakeland!

Hey, just wanted everyone on here to know, that my brother Coach George Zaleuke who coaches at Vero Beach and posts on here as @Ric Flairpassed away Friday night due to complications from covid. He coached in this area for over 35 years at all levels and at all three Indian River county high schools. He was super proud to be a part of the Vero Beach program, and he enjoyed the football discussions on here as well.
 
Hopefully I can confirm for him that despite him not being out there, Vero Beach did in fact line up correctly Friday night…

I visit it occasionally. Not much fun on there anymore.

LAZ. He posts here sometimes. 

Sadly no not much fun there at all anymore. I still lurk there myself once in a while, used to an awesome board back in the 2000’s

OSL & Broward Handicapper - miss both

I was told this game was scheduled last minute due to a cancellation. Should be good one and a chance to see just how good Fort Meade is.

I was told this game was scheduled last minute due to a cancellation. Should be good one and a chance to see just how good Fort Meade is.

I heard that too

This Dillard High Football team has manage to do something NO! Dillard high football squad has done in over 20 years , which is become nationally ranked.
as many of you all know I have been Dillards biggest & most avid supporter and fan on this board & we’ve had a lot of bad seasons & disappointments ; so to see how far we’ve come it brings tears to my eyes. 
 
it’s still a LOOONG season but to be ranked #95 in the ENTIRE nation says a lot about our program, sure it’s NOT Top 10-50 or 100 but dammit DILLARD FOOTBALL is here & we’re BACK. @ColumbiaHighFan2017class @Jullian @VeniceIndiansFootball @muckboy561 @561_Fan @nolebull813 @DarterBlue2

I got to see Sarasota in person this summer at camp.  They're start doesnt surprise me at all given the players I saw at camp.  

Fort Meade has a great team this year.

Form what I was told by those at the Webber University camp, Lake Wales was every bit the equal to Jesuit.  I know, that was camp and this is the season, Lake Wales hasn't been challenged, etc. I will give Lakeland a nod but I really expect a close one that can go either way and a LW win won't hit me as a shocker.

Form what I was told by those at the Webber University camp, Lake Wales was every bit the equal to Jesuit.  I know, that was camp and this is the season, Lake Wales hasn't been challenged, etc. I will give Lakeland a nod but I really expect a close one that can go either way and a LW win won't hit me as a shocker.

Form what I was told by those at the Webber University camp, Lake Wales was every bit the equal to Jesuit.  I know, that was camp and this is the season, Lake Wales hasn't been challenged, etc. I will give Lakeland a nod but I really expect a close one that can go either way and a LW win won't hit me as a shocker.