[Hoot Gibson]

Are we all liberals on here?? Level the playing field ....make the privates play in their own class....it’s not fair blah blah blah!! My team has never won a state championship and has only been in one title game so let’s some ow make it so the poor old Rams can win it every year! Come on!!! Play too competition get better develop your program! All this level the playing field talk is crap!

I agree for the most part, Ram, but it is sad that players have to suffer from so much bad coaching. I get tired of seeing so many people wanting to target private schools that are successful. Schools should invest a little more time to figure out what makes football programs successful and take steps to improve their own programs instead of penalizing other teams for being successful.

Lopsided scores in playoff games is not a problem, it's a symptom of poor coaching. Any solution that does nothing to improve the quality of coaching around the state is not going to do anything to address the root cause of lopsided scores. Reducing the number of teams making the playoffs or moving more successful teams into their own classes is nothing but a transparent attempt to hide the real problem.

I like Indiana's playoff system because it seems to result in a larger number of competitive teams without imposing some kind of affirmative action program for poorly coached teams. Teams like Indy Cathedral welcome challenges and forcing them to play up a class periodically based on success does not seem to hurt the quality of their teams. That is much better than segregating private schools so that weaker public school teams can win more state titles.