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DEL.ICIO.USExtra Point: Does seeding sow parity?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Looking at the playoff brackets these past few days, it has been easy to pick out some of the early-round inequities. Some portions of the bracket are much easier than others.
So the thought came to mind: What if Georgia had an NCAA basketball tournament-style seeding system? The regions would determine who to send to the playoffs, but the GHSA would form committees to seed the teams and place them in the brackets.
Starting the season one week earlier and giving teams a bye week heading into the playoffs would provide plenty of time to formulate the brackets. It would allow for the opportunity to place the top four seeds in opposite quadrants and perhaps even attempt to cut down on travel by grouping geographically close teams together when possible.
GHSA director of media relations Steve Figueroa pointed out that Arkansas does something similar, even drawing impressive ratings numbers to its televised selection show that unveils the brackets.
But he was skeptical that this system could work in Georgia, where tradition often dies hard.
“I don’t think it would ever fly here,” Figueroa said. “People in South Georgia would say they don’t get enough publicity. People in North Georgia would say people are just favoring the big programs in South Georgia.”
Not only does Figueroa say it would be tough to not draw the ire of much of the state, but he says the result of it might not be any better than what we have now.
“Part of me would like to see that, but you see what happens to these 10-0 teams in the first round sometimes,” Figueroa said. “Like most playoff situations, it’s a case of who hits the playoffs hot. One thing that’s certain is the four teams that get to the semifinals are pretty good.”
Other issues would include who to place on the selection committees, which could be difficult to assemble with enough knowledge and lack of bias toward particular schools. GHSA and varying media representatives would probably have to be included to give it a chance at working.
You make the call: What do you think? Could a system like this work in Georgia? If so, how would you set it up? If not, do you have a different solution for some of the inequities we see each year in the brackets? Or are you content to keep things how they are? Give us your thoughts.
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By GwinnettFan
November 13, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this
This is not basketball. First, there are only 10 games. How would GHSA evaluate the teams for seeding? Look at game films? How many games can they watch in a month?
Second, the brackets are set on a semi-geographic basis to minimize travel costs.
Is the system broken? I say no. It is not broken, don’t try to fix it.
The fact is that 32 teams per division have the opportunity to become state champs. I don’t see how anything could be more fair than this.
By Alex
November 13, 2007 12:26 PM | Link to this
Every time they try something in this state to make the playoffs “fair” it backfires. First the obvious, that ridiculous tie nonsense for the championship, fortunately, no longer an issue. Then look at Region 7 AAAAA. They had to draw names out of a hat to break a potential three way tie. In the event that Norcross lost the game to North Gwinnett they could have gotten a number four seed, even though they had better AAAAA records then both Peachtree Ridge and Mill Creek, including wins over two common opponents; Grayson, who beat Peachtree Ridge and Northview, who beat Mill Creek. Additionally you are now asking people, who shouldn’t be given any more power then they already have, to use there best judgement to decide which teams are better then others. Don’t change the system we currently have it would only cause more problems.
By RJ
November 13, 2007 12:40 PM | Link to this
To win a State Championship, you have to defeat every opponent you face whether it’s in the first round or the finals. Some teams’ fans whine because they want to advance to the next round even though they know they are not the best team in the state.
The system works - send the whiners some diapers, send the winners to the Dome.
By Atlanta Blue
November 13, 2007 1:00 PM | Link to this
There are plenty of other inequities in the system to be addressed long before seeding for the playoffs becomes an issue.
If you are going to seed, why limit it to the top 4 teams from each region? After all, there are regions with only 4 football playing schools, so all go to the playoffs. In AAA, region 1 has 6 teams and 4 go to the playoffs. Region 5 has 15 teams, and 4 go to the playoffs.
Region 8 is sending Oconee County as it’s #4 seed (out of 7 teams in the region). Oconee County did not win one game against a team with a winning record, and they finished 4-6. In the mean time, Dunwoody finishes with the 4th best record in it’s region (8-2), yet they stay home because they were number 3 in their eight team SUB-region!
How do we fix it? Got to 16 regions per class, with no less than 4 or no more than 6 teams per region. Two teams from each region make the playoffs. It sends the same number of teams to the playoffs (which I personally think is still too many!), it keeps regular season travel costs down by keeping regions small and compact, and it reduces the inequities of unequal size regions.
Let’s fix who is IN the playoffs before we worry about how they should be seeded.
By scribe
November 13, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this
Let’s deal with ‘fake’transfers to schools (ie the Derrick Pruitt rule) before we worry about seeding. We can’t even agree on how end games that end in a tie
By GwinnettFan
November 13, 2007 1:43 PM | Link to this
Let’s deal with ‘fake’transfers to schools (ie the Derrick Pruitt rule) before we worry about seeding. We can’t even agree on how end games that end in a tie.
Transfers in general are my pet peeve. Here’s my idea:
If you transfer, you sit out one season.
Many other states have similar rules.
The exception (if necessary):
You move from a school in one county to a school in a second county; and the second county is not adjacent to the original county.
For example, you move from DeKalb to Fulton, you sit out a season. If you move from DeKalb to Douglas, you can play. Most of us commute to work from at least one county away. The travel to work should not be a reason to move to a “better” school.
By GW
November 13, 2007 1:59 PM | Link to this
Start by making regions equitable in the number of schools. With 5 classes and a state this large you will never beat geographical issues so stop worrying about it. Even in metro Atlanta it takes 2 hours to travel one way. With 81 schools per class no region should be more than 11 schools. Four school regions and even six school regions are absurd. If you have a 4 school region give them only one playoff slot. They can play each other twice during the regular season to get the best team. That still leaves 4 nonregion games.
By Parity Helper
November 13, 2007 3:03 PM | Link to this
Parity begins when Georgia high school playoffs STOP playing on one of the team’s home field. That is an uneven playing field (pardon the pun) to begin with. PLAY NEUTRAL FIELD EACH ROUND OF THE PLAYOFFS. Other (larger) states do it and it’s not that hard to accomplish. The two teams determine on Saturday or Sunday where the game will be played. Come on Georgia quit slanting the field to one team.
By GW
November 13, 2007 3:12 PM | Link to this
Except for the Super Bowl the NFL plays on home fields. That privilege is earned through a strong regular season. Keep the playoffs in hometowns.
By BwoodFan
November 13, 2007 3:13 PM | Link to this
I dont understand how you people complain so much about students who change to schools where the have a better chance of being successful. Whats more important to you a*****, being “honorable and staying at your school even though they give you no chance of getting collegiate notice”, or having the student transfer to a better school with a better system that can maybe get them in the door with a college.
Its like when Cameron Smith transferred here to brookwood, had he stayed at Meadowcreek, he would not have been nearly as successful his senior year, and consequently he wouldnt have gotten as much college attention. As it is, he didnt go to college anyway, but thats not because he didnt have the oppurtunity.
Students transfer because they have a better oppurtunity to succeed, which means they have a better chance of getting noticed by a college, which means they have a better chance of going to college. So for all you nay-sayers about student transfers, whats more important their futures? or your dumbass schools pride?
By BwoodFan
November 13, 2007 3:18 PM | Link to this
To Parity Helper:
The whole point to having home field advantage…. is it is an advantage… The point being that the one team worked harder and played better in the regular season to earn that homefield advantage. But good call.
Instead of complaining, if your team had played better in the regular season and if they were good enough anyways, it wouldnt matter who got homefield advantage.
By Will
November 13, 2007 3:47 PM | Link to this
GwinnettFan have you lost your freakin mind? Your pet peeve reguarding transfers cannot be investigated by the powers that be. Not enough staff and investigators to watch all the schools. Question, what do you do about private schools that are not restricted by district lines and students pay tuition to attend. Any kid, anywhere can attend those schools.
By GwinnettFan
November 13, 2007 4:01 PM | Link to this
GwinnettFan have you lost your freakin mind?
Other states do it. Check it out. It would be up to the coaching staff to validate. The player would be ineliglble.
When have we had a transfer in recent years where EVERY BODY did not know about it? This is not a secret, and it is not rocket science.
My mind is usually lost, but somehow I manage.
By Andy
November 13, 2007 4:42 PM | Link to this
its ridiculous that some regions have only 4 teams, which means that every team automatically makes the playoffs even if they go 0-10 !!!!
By Gwinnett Dad
November 13, 2007 5:08 PM | Link to this
The Region 1 bracket is unbelievable. Lowndes, North Cobb, and Roswell are three dome teams and only one can get there. Norcross has to collide with Camden County prior to the dome as well. While North Gwinnett has beaten Brookwood the last two meetings and will they probably will meet again in the 2nd round, their bracket isn’t anything close to the others. Is that fair? I don’t know, but as a son of a Brookwood Senior, I’m sure not complaining. Good luck and may the best team win.
By hoochgirl9
November 13, 2007 5:50 PM | Link to this
How about chattahoochee… they got gary grace and elton ford who are transfers. both guys have been two players nominated for player of the week and elton won it. yea has Brookwood done that and who has brookwood beat that is ranked in the top 10??
By hoochgirl9
November 13, 2007 5:50 PM | Link to this
How about chattahoochee… they got gary grace and elton ford who are transfers. both guys have been two players nominated for player of the week and elton won it. yea has Brookwood done that and who has brookwood beat that is ranked in the top 10??
By Todd Holcomb
November 13, 2007 5:51 PM | Link to this
Some of the problems would be solved if each region took more seriously the responsibility of seeding its teams correctly.
What happened in 2-A this season was unethical.
Dooly County, the No. 3 seed, beat the No. 2 seed, Johnson County, 51-6.
But, due to politics in that region, not only does Dooly get a tougher opponent in the first round, but so so does the team that Dooly must face — Pacelli.
Pacelli went 9-1 and earned the right to play the third-best team in another region, but instead must play another region’s second-best team (one that also is 9-1 and is state-ranked) because of 2-A’s nonsense.
Bottom line: Teams are supposed to be seeded based on their performance on the field in order to ensure the integrity of the seedings. Some schools in 2-A thought subregion races were more important than that integrity.
By Jeff Haws
November 13, 2007 6:12 PM | Link to this
Good point, Todd.
And this is one problem this re-seeding system would solve. I think the regions are given too much leeway in regards to how to determine which seeds their teams receive and, as Todd correctly points out, it not only ends up hurting their teams but teams from other regions as well.
Obviously, there’s more than one problem that could use some looking at, and this certainly wouldn’t be a catch-all solution. But, while it would be imperfect, I think it would create some excitement and be a more equitable way to determine playoff seeding.
By Andy
November 13, 2007 6:36 PM | Link to this
Another thing that is broken is the fact that some regions only have 4-6 teams in them, and 4 of them, no matter how sorry, go to the playoffs. I teach at Dunwoody HS in DeKalb County. We are in the 15 team 5-AAA in which only the top two teams in each subregion advance to the playoffs. Dunwoody finished the season 8-2 this year, and we will not go to the playoffs. Last year, we were fortunate, we were 7-3 and made it, but two other teams that deserved to go last year, Chamblee and Westminster didn’t. I guess it’s somewhat fair that those two got to go this year, and the two that went last year, Dunwoody and Grady didn’t make it. GHSA favors schools around the state over those in Metro-Atlanta. I think there should be a proportionate system of allocating playoff berths in each classification based on how many teams there are in each region.
By warhawk
November 13, 2007 6:43 PM | Link to this
The thing that I do not like is that that GSHA does not rotate the regions. They always have the North teams play the North teams, and the South teams play the South teams in the first two rounds. The GSHA should rotate all 8 regions, a region should see a region every 7 years. This year you will see Gwinnett teams playing each other in the 2nd round…which is crazy.
By To BwoodFan From Parity Helper
November 13, 2007 8:22 PM | Link to this
Your team IS my team. Go Broncos. Neutral field throughout the playoffs is one fair way to determine the best team. So the #2 seed in Region 3 ‘earned’ the right to have a home game against Region 1 #3 seed; the weaker team gets the home field…sounds fair to me.
By fayco forever
November 13, 2007 9:49 PM | Link to this
Fayette county is the team that got screwed playing Baldwin in the first round becuase of the idiots that organized region 4 AAAA.
By SGT CHRIS
November 13, 2007 10:56 PM | Link to this
PLAYING ON A NEUTRAL FIELD DOES NOT INCREASE ONES CHANCES OF WINNING ANY GAME LET ALONE A PLAYOFF GAME. IF YOURE GOING TO PUT ALL THE PLAYOFF GAMES ON NEUTRAL SITES, THEN WHY NOT PUT ALL THE REGULAR SEASON GAMES ON NEUTRAL SITES AS WELL? GET MY POINT? IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE!!! THEY HAVE ALREADY TAKEN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES AWAY FROM THE TEAMS THAT OBVIOUSLY EARNED THE RIGHT TO HOST THEM (WHICH WAS THE BEAUTY OF GA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL, NOW THEY WANT THE REST OF THE PLAYOFFS TOO?? HOW BOUT THIS, ALL THE SCHOOLS IN GEORGIA SPEND FRIDAY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY PLAYING THEIR ENTIRE SEASON AT THE DOME??? SOUNDS GOOD TO ME LOL!!!!
By SGT CHRIS
November 13, 2007 11:01 PM | Link to this
fayco forever—-NOW YOU SEE HOW WE LAGRANGE FELT LAST YEAR RUNNING INTO PEACH COUNTY LAST YEAR!! NO ONE COMPLAINS UNTIL IT HAPPENS TO THEIR TEAM HUH??
By hssportsfan
November 13, 2007 11:06 PM | Link to this
warhawk: The GHSA does rotate the regions somewhat. Regions 1 - 4 typically rotate in round one year-to-year as do regions 5 - 8. It is done this way to keep travel distance and time somewhat equitable. If reg 1 were to play reg 8 in round one you may get a Rabun Co playing Charlton Co. As is, you sometimes get a Lovejoy playing Camdem Co. The GHSA does try to minimize travel and time out of school for its members.
By Steve
November 14, 2007 12:30 AM | Link to this
I think that neutral sites for all rounds is ridiculous. It would be a logistical nightmare trying to get sites set each week in 5 or 6 days. Just ridiculous. Neutral sites should be reserved for the championship games. I also believe it is time for 6AAAAAA. There are enough teams out there to do this.
By Steve
November 14, 2007 12:30 AM | Link to this
I think that neutral sites for all rounds is ridiculous. It would be a logistical nightmare trying to get sites set each week in 5 or 6 days. Just ridiculous. Neutral sites should be reserved for the championship games. I also believe it is time for 6AAAAAA. There are enough teams out there to do this.
By Gwinnett Dad
November 14, 2007 4:31 AM | Link to this
The comments that prefer neutral sites obviously come from folks that have no clue of what it takes to put on a game. So many volunteers are required. Who paints the field? Who flips the burgers? How does the TD club feed the membership? Who runs the concessions? Who pays for the school buses for the “home” team? Only the semi-finals involve the dome this year, and prices skyrocket from the high school fields. Next year ot will be just the finals. Neutral fields? Forget it.
By BullDawg Rick
November 14, 2007 7:58 AM | Link to this
Buford & Charleton playing in the quarter-finals is totally STUPID!!!
They ought to play in the FINALS, or atleast bracket them that way..
The last 6 years either of them have won State..
There’s NO common sense used when setting the brackets..
It’s used soley for the template that it is..
Go Wolves!!
By To Gwinnett Dad
November 14, 2007 10:18 AM | Link to this
Gwinnett Dad. Texas puts over 4 times the number of schools in the playoffs than Georgia does and they play neutral field each round of the playoffs and its not a big deal. I was transferred to Texas for almost 20 years and while there the only time I read or heard of a problem with a neutral site was when Odessa Permian and Dallas Carter couldn’t agree on a neutral site for the championship. (remember the movie? that part was accurate). So you’re telling me another state can do it with over 500 teams but Georgia can’t do it with 160? Doesn’t say much for us does it? With home field advantage removed it makes a state championship more of a true champion.
By To Steve
November 14, 2007 10:26 AM | Link to this
Have a AAAAAA like Alabama?….wow. A whole 32 teams. Now that state championship really means something. I can hear the winner now, ‘We’re the best of 32 teams!!’. That is really impressive!! not. Adding another level is just a liberal’s idea to make everyone feel good. Let’s give everyone a trophy for participation …that’s bull hockey. The GA playoffs are watered down as they are. We have 60-70 teams in a classification and 32 make the playoffs. Looks like the NBA. Kids need to earn the right to participate in the playoffs by being the best team, not the 3rd or 4th best team.
By GwinnettFan
November 14, 2007 11:11 AM | Link to this
*who has brookwood beat that is ranked in the top 10?? *
You know, they can’t even get rankings right at the college level. How can a group of sports writers, who see very few of the games, be expected to get it right? Rankings mean nothing. All that matters is the score of the last game.
By GwinnettFan
November 14, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this
*Texas puts over 4 times the number of schools in the playoffs than Georgia does and they play neutral field *
Are you saying Texas has 20 divisions? How many teams from each division are in the tournament?
And, my favorite issue, how does Texas handle transfers from one school to another?
By JIMB
November 14, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this
DON’T WORY ABOUT BROOKWOOD, BUFORD IS THE BEST TEAM IN THE STATE IN ANY DIVISION. 6 MAYBE 7 DI’S EVERY YEAR. THE BEST TEAM NOMEY CAN BUY FOR ONLY 1500 A YEAR. JUST THINK WHAT WOULD HAPPEN THOSE KIDS ARE MILL CREEK, NORTH GWINNETT AND COLLINS HILL KIDS. TWO SCHOOLS WHO ARE IN THE PLAY-OFFS WITHOUT THOSE KIDS.THEY EVEN RED SHIRT DALLAS LEE THE NEXT DI.
By Tom
November 14, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this
Roughly 80 teams per class with 32 teams making the playoffs. That’s 40% of the teams in each sport. Base the number of playoff births on the number of teams in a region:
4-6 team regions: 2 playoff spots 7-8 team regions: 3 playoff spots 9-11 team regions: 4 playoff spots 12-13 team regions: 5 playoff spots 14+ team regions: 6 playoff spots.
Tweak as necessary if the total ends up more or less than 32.
By LK
November 14, 2007 4:46 PM | Link to this
As a fan of the team travelling TO Brookwood Friday I can honestly say I have no problem whatsoever with the team with the better record gaining a home field advantage. They earned it. When Sprayberry wins 9 games (stop laughing Todd, its gonna happen with Billy Shackleford) we’ll get a home game or two in the playoffs. AS long as the rules are followed, both teams play hard and fair, its all good. May the best team win.
By Gwinnett Dad
November 14, 2007 6:36 PM | Link to this
The fellow that thinks neutral sites are so fine evidently likes Texas and claims they use neutral sites. Fine. If this is the case, again, would he have the courtesy (as I asked) to explain how the neutral sites are staffed and funded? Not a single question was answered. Parents do most of the work during these playoffs here in Georgia just has they do most all of the work during the year. We can volunteer because the field is local, and the field can be painted, for example, on Wednesday and Thursday nights by volunteers. Mind you, we got stomped by Lowndes at Lowndes in 2005 in the AAAAA Finals. So believe me, I’d be keen on avoiding any future potential “not neutral” nightmares IF there was an economic, reasonable solution (I realize the dome is for the finals next season, but I spend three to four times more at the dome than I do at the high school, which isn’t all that neutral to my pocket book).
By To GwinnettFan
November 14, 2007 8:56 PM | Link to this
Response to GwinnettFan of ‘Texas puts over 4 times the number of schools in the playoffs than Georgia does and they play neutral field. Are you saying Texas has 20 divisions? How many teams from each division are in the tournament?
Answer: Texas has 5 classifications (A thru AAAAA; same as GA) and each classification has 32 districts (A Texas district is equal to a Georgia region). 3 teams per district make the playoffs. 32x3x5=480. Note>> this doesn’t include private schools which have their own playoffs or the schools that play 6 man football. The total schools in playoff mode is easily over 500….all playing neutral field every round.
By To Gwinnett Dad
November 14, 2007 9:19 PM | Link to this
Don’t know how they do it and really don’t care but they’ve been doing it I know for over 50 years. If you want to investigate then I suggest you go to the Texas high school website >> www.uil.utexas.edu (this stands for University Interscholastic League and is the Texas high school governing body similar to GHSA except it also includes academics). FYI. A correction to the number of schools in the playoffs in Texas. The AAAAA level takes the top four teams from each of their 32 districts instead of the top three as I indicated earlier so add 32 more to my estimate. Classifications A thru AAAA still take the top three. Georgia has a good playoff system it just needs a few adjustments to be a great playoff system.
By yo
November 14, 2007 9:37 PM | Link to this
its ridiculous that some regions have only 4 teams, which means that every team automatically makes the playoffs even if they go 0-10 !!!!
Andy..I know how we can solve this problem. Lets have your region drive all the way down to S. Ga. and play in one of these 4 team regions so they will have more teams and repair your concern.
By yo
November 14, 2007 9:42 PM | Link to this
I’ve been to Texas plenty of times and believe me the last place I care to be like is Texas. In pretty much any thing.
By yo
November 14, 2007 9:57 PM | Link to this
Too much is made of home field advantage. 9 times out of 10 the best team wins no matter where it is played. The other 1 out of 10 (best team loses) doesnt seem to matter whether it is home field or not. A 9 of 10 example: 2004 Lowndes (best team) goes to Parkview and wins.
A 1 of 10 example: 2007 Lowndes (best team) “hosts” Harrison and loses. Sorry Harrison…had to get that one in. :-)
By Hmmmmmm
November 15, 2007 12:52 AM | Link to this
It seems to me that GHSA aligned the brackets to try and keep as many of the state trophies in metro Atlanta, or at least north of Macon. The so-called “powerhouses” of Metro ATL don’t like it when the trophy goes to South Ga. I know it won’t happen, but I would LOVE to see Lowndes, Valdosta, Camden, and Coffee in the Dome. Probably the reason why Buford is moving up to 3A, they are tired of losing to Charlton in what ever round of the playoffs they meet.
I feel that is the reason why GHSA is putting all the state championships in the dome. To give the metro ATL teams a “home-field” advantage. So, they don’t have to go to Valdosta, Lowndes or Camden, they will make THOSE schools have to travel, so maybe there won’t be THAT many South Georgians in the stands raisin’ heck.
By Steve
November 15, 2007 12:57 AM | Link to this
There sure is a lot of anger in this discussion. The only way to do neutral sites is to determine the sites prior to the season for each round. But it still would be a logistical nightmare. And there is no reward for being the higher seed. And as far as painting the feild Where we play the feild is permanently painted. Beautiful feild. Just come and check out the mighty Camden County stadium. It looks better than the Dome!!
By Steve
November 15, 2007 1:30 AM | Link to this
What? Did everyone go to bed? All fizzled out? I guess Camden will see Brookwood in the Dome!!!
By NSHS FAN
November 15, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this
TO; Todd Holcomb, In your column today entitled,”Tough Road to Repeat for Defending Champs”, you made a mistake in your comment about NSWR. You said NSWR was the only defending Champ that did not have a ranked team in their quarter of the AAAA bracket. Basically in Georgia we have three polls that rank teams. Atlanta Journal Constitution(AJC), Georgia Coaches Association (GCA)and the Associated Press (AP). The AP ranks Rome 10th in NSWR part of the bracket. Also, Salem HS (9-1)besides Rome, is the #1 seed from Region 8. Habersham Central is # 2 seed yet all the polls give HC no lower than a 7th rank. I agree that the other three brackets have at least 2-ranked teams. I just wanted Rome being ranked by AP is identified.
By Jeff Haws
November 15, 2007 1:25 PM | Link to this
NSHS FAN-
FYI: We always use our own poll and only our own poll. When you see a ranking quoted in the AJC, you know which poll to which we’re referring.
Just wanted to make that clear.
By GwinnettFan
November 15, 2007 3:56 PM | Link to this
Well, there are lots of ways to hold playoffs. I happen to think that home-field advantage should be kept. MLB and the NFL both use it, as do the college divisions that play championships. Winning your region should have a reward both for the players and coaches, but also the fans.
It is also less expensive to travel one team than to travel both.
By josebenzaca
November 15, 2007 5:26 PM | Link to this
Of course seeding would work but the people here are too stupid to understand it. North Gwinnett would have to travel to Brookwood if the two teams meet, however North Gwinnett beat Brookwood earlier. So they “worked for it” but do not get the home field advantage because Brookwood won a weaker district. Seeding would probably put North Gwinnett ahead of Brookwood and give them the home field advantage they “worked for”. In the title game, if two number one seeds play, the home team is decided by the side of the bracket you happen to be on, not that they “worked for it”. At least that is solved next year by the title games being played in the dome.
By To Yo
November 15, 2007 5:36 PM | Link to this
Yo’s quote, “I’ve been to Texas plenty of times and believe me the last place I care to be like is Texas.”
We understand your view from the back of a Texas Highway Patrol car was not very good.
By Camden See BW in Dome?
November 15, 2007 5:46 PM | Link to this
Steve, Camden and Brookwood could SEE each other in the Dome, if each get that far, but they would not be playing each other>>they’re on opposite sides of the brackets.
By Steve
November 16, 2007 1:26 AM | Link to this
You are right I was thinking this was next year and the finals were in the dome. So I guess Brookwood will have to travel down to our little corner of the world to play. I hope it is ok that there is no Marriott for them to stay in!!
By Sweet Insanity
November 16, 2007 11:51 AM | Link to this
The GHSA ranking and seeding teams would never work because: a) They’d have to be knowledgeable about the ins and outs of 300+ schools and b) biases exist.
I’m biased against Cook to the extent that had they played the USSR at the height of Khruschev’s reign, I’d have pulled for the Soviets.
I don’t see why we can’t rotate neutral playoff sites. While you can control the weather in the Dome, it really puts south Georgia at a disadvantage. Why not shift it to Memorial in Columbus for a year then perhaps to Savannah State or Georgia Southern. Maybe even Sanford Stadium. Taking advantage of VSU’s shuttle bus system, I think parking around Bazemore-Hyder could be worked out. Albany State is even capable of hosting (not to mention that they sure need the money).
Why should Atlanta only get the monetary benefits? Why should south Georgia have to shell out the money each and every year to travel? Tift County had tons of fundraisers last year. If they were make it a habit every year of going to the Dome, it’d be a tremendous strain.
By Erin
November 16, 2007 5:11 PM | Link to this
Perhaps we’ve all forgotten the point of these football games somewhere in the tangle of funding, scholarships and excuses. The point is a fun time for not only the players and coaches but also the ocmmunity. The rest-money, bragging rights and more money- is just a benefit. I say bring all the games back to the fields of the teams.Remember when you’d travel two hours to the boonies or the city for a game and everyone would be painted up and having a great time? Now it’s all just a little to slick. And stop comparing it to professional or even college level sports. IT’S NOT. These are teenagers playing a game. Somehow we’ve all lost sight of this important fact. Don’t take the love of the game away from them yet! Let’s bring football back to it’s glory years!
By Erin
November 16, 2007 5:15 PM | Link to this
Steve, Amazingly enough not everyone in the Brookwood area is rich. I don’t believe I have ever stayed in a Marriott in my entire life. Time to ditch that tired stereotype. If you can’t think of anything better to say then maybe you should keep your mouth shut!
By yo
November 16, 2007 6:50 PM | Link to this
We understand your view from the back of a Texas Highway Patrol car was not very good. Yea I was trying to catch up to them from behind in my car to see if they had the right guy. How did you get out so quick?