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You obviously HAVE NEVER coached football. I know for a fact that kids on these rye
Of teams DO NOT want to play in these games. I have coached some good teams and some pretty bad ones, and I have talked to lots of coaches about the format.

You rent your tux, buy flowers, put on cologne, and go to the prom- because you wanted to go. You get there and have fun, but all the really pretty girls have a date and leave with their boyfriends. So, at 11:30 you drive to another school’s prom four hours away only to find out when you get there; the lights are out and the party’s over!!!

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Talk to coaches whose kids have gotten RED FEVER breakouts the week of the Belfry first round playoff game; Log Mountain Flu before going to Bell in Dudley’s heyday; the CORBIN COLD; BREATHITT BLUE TONGUE; and other team outbreaks. Let’s all face it- first round games are unnecessary with 1 v 4.

Only one team has won it all since this format change was implemented. Bourbon with Dudley; and there is a whole list of legendary circumstances that made that improbable run possible.

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Football is a tough American CAPITALIST game. The strong and rough and hard working and disciplined SUCCEED. It isn’t socialist soccer with rules designed to make scoring hard and equitable. Everyone doesn’t deserve a trophy. Everyone isn’t worthy of continuing to compete. High school isn’t little league where the annoying self appointed team mom brings cookies and kool aide to every game and really believes that’s the most important aspect of the game day experience!????

But everyone is entitled to their opinion in this wonderful country we live in.