[Hoot Gibson]

If you shorten the season for weak teams by shortening their season, then you make it more difficult for those teams to become more competitive. Teams that play more games and hold more practices have a built-in advantage over other teams.

Indiana does not exclude any teams from the playoffs and the quality of football played there is stronger than in Kentucky, even if you consider Indiana's larger population. For example, Trinity begins almost every season as the solid favorite to win the state's largest class title. In Indiana, Carmel, Center Grove, Ben Davis, and Warren Central are competitive with each other in most years in that state's largest class and all of them have won state titles in the past 10-15 years. In some years, Penn, Fishers, Decatur Central, Lawrence Central, and Pike are also competitive, having recently won a title or finished runner-up.

IMO, Kentucky should be allowing every team into the playoffs because the more games and practices teams participate in, the better the quality of football played in the state will be.