To the South Dakota High School Activities Association and their high school football playoff system: KISS. It is a good rule to follow. The system now is getting more complicated it seems. The official pairings are supposedly out at noon today. Why do coaches, schools, parents, fans and players have to wait that long to find out where they are playing on Tuesday? The Class 11AA playoffs are laughable at best. Why Douglas is allowed to play an entire 11A schedule and then play in the 11AA playoffs is absurd at best. Why would they want to. Why would they want to go to Sioux Falls, play Roosevelt, get beat by 50 and then drive home? Roosevelt would be better served just having a practice. They would probably get a better game from the reserves than they will against a power out of the BLACK HILLS CONFERENCE. If Douglas is going to play in the 11AA playoffs then Douglas needs to get told to pull up their big boy pants and play an 11AA schedule! Or more appropriatly, given an 11AA schedule like everybody else gets. And why are the 11AA playoffs set up to make sure that Sioux Falls schools don't have to travel? And what about The High School Activities Association says and their concern about travel on school nights? Tell that to Rapid City Stevens who has to go to Yankton on Tuesday. Or Mobridge that goes to Bennett County or Stanley County who might have to go to Wagner! Of course that is no different than having Watertown or Brookings to come to Pierre on a Thursday night to play a regular season volleyball match. Shorten the playoffs up to 3 weeks like they are now but play quarterfinals on Friday or Saturday, Semi's the following Friday or Saturday and then go to your 3 days of finals and forget about making sure that everybody has a chance to make the playoffs for that "experience". They have that experience now. It is called 8 or 9 games called the regular season. And at 11AA, go back to the regions. If the Sioux Falls schools feel it is unfair, let em go to Iowa or Minnesota.
And the best game of the NFL weekend will not be Minnesota at Pittsburgh. Bears at Bengals baby. That's the game of the weekend.
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3 games set up for Howard Wood Field on Tuesday:
ReplyDelete2:00 - Brookings at Roosevelt
5:00 - Douglas at Washington
8:00 - Stevens at Lincoln
Why, OH WHY!, would they make the western teams play the two later games?!!?
perhaps Stu and the boys have a manicure scheduled and cannot cover the "big" games unless they are held later. Maybe KELO's truck is in the shop, maybe it has been all season? Maybe Brookings has a curfew? Someone was definitely paying attention here eh?
ReplyDeletewant to recant your statement on the Bears v. Bengals game as being the "game of the day"?
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