[Hoot Gibson]

Better example... Trinity vs GRC. What if, God forbid, one of Trinity's D-I prospect linemen (Heile, English or Warburg) breaks a leg or ruptures an ACL in this throw-away game? Then would it be worth it? By reading the posts on this thread, most of you would say, "Sure, it's worth ruining a kid's football career so another group of kids can play just one more game and get beaten by 50 points."

Play the games that mean something and do away with the 1 vs 4 matchups. It would give this year's #4 teams some incentive to try harder next year.

Someone mentioned Indiana's playoff system that allows all teams to enter the playoffs. Ridiculous! Contrast that with the Texas system. They have 5 classes with 1A being the smallest schools and 5A being the largest. Each class has two divisions, each division has 4 regions and each region has 32 districts. Each district has 6 or 8 teams. In class 4A and 5A, only the top 4 teams from each district make the playoffs. In 1A, 2A and 3A, only the top 3 teams make the playoffs.

Indiana says all teams make the playoffs. Texas says only about half the teams make it. Which state has better football? I don't know, but I DO know that "Friday Night Lights" and "Varsity Blues" weren't about teams from Fort Wayne or Muncie.:problem:

The question is not whether Texas or Indiana has better football - Texas is one of the largest states in the country - the question is whether the Indiana system or Kentucky's system produces better players and teams. Granted Indiana is about 50 percent larger in population than Kentucky but it is clear that in any given year, there are far more competitive teams in each of Indiana's five classes than there are in Kentucky's six classes. In Indiana's Class 5A, for example, 9 different teams have won at least one state title over the past 20 years and 4 different teams have won the four most recent titles.

You are not going to convince me that the quality of Kentucky's high school football teams or players would be better by allowing them to play less football because the notion defies logic.