[Wideleft01]

Good programs that suffer blowout losses in the playoffs build upon the experience to improve in the future. Bad programs just look forward to the season coming to an end. Johnson Central was on the receiving end of a 67-20 thrashing at the hands of Highlands but I guarantee they would not have even considered forfeiting, even if they had known the outcome of the game in advance.

Playoff is experience is important for returning players. Without it, you just end up with even more of a rich getting richer system where good programs get to play 13 or 14 games (if the 3rd and 4th seeds were excluded) and bad ones get to play 10 games. Those extra games of experience and the four practices that precede the games add up over a four year period and give teams like Highlands a huge advantage.

Your best post ever Hoot. You get better with experience. I don't like the 6 Class system, but the extra weeks of football benefits the also rans.