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It is really embarrassing to talk to people from other states about our playoff system. I live 5 minutes away from Ohio and I actually work in Ohio. I was talking to some of my coworkers who are from Ohio about it today and they were shocked that it is like that here because the playoff structure in Ohio is so much more competitive and a lot of teams miss the playoffs there. I have no problem with kids playing more games but from a competitive standpoint it lessens the importance of winning during district play. Granted home field advantage is some incentive to win those games but imo teams would have much more on the line if there were 6 teams in each district and only 4 made the playoffs. It was like that when I played football and you best believe we played hard in every one of those games because we wanted to keep playing in November. This many just be me but I feel like making the playoffs should be a reward for having a successful regular season and letting everyone in cheapens it a bit.

I played college ball with guys from Ohio and they said it was extremely tough to make the playoffs. Sometimes even a one loss team didn't make it in. They also said a lot of politics went into it because they went by a Cantrell's rating type system. I guess things could be worse, but I would prefer better.