[plantmanky]

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Ive always thought the semi finals round should be neutral fields, or at least pre determined fields before the season starts, (and if one of those sites teams makes it to semis, good for them.) 

Problem is using RPI makes that a challenge because with a re shuffle of the bracket a host site may not be home team.  (example, lets say Trinity Louisville is selected as a semi finals site, but Trinity ends up as a road team in the re shuffle, how will hosting at Trinity but playing away work?)

It could be done, you only need 6 sites (there are 12 games to play, can play one game Friday night, one game Saturday, actually you could only need 4 sites and play 2 games at some sites Saturday.)

RAMDAD50 is right though, to hold those type of crowds, there are a small handful of sites, that logistically make sense.

Small college fields like they do in Texas? You have Thomas more, Gtown, Lindsey Wilson, cumberlands, campbellsville, pikeville, Murray, morehead, Eku, etc all of which have turf fields and capacity to hold fans. I just enjoy discussing hypotheticals. Not meaning this to ruffle feathers. Not like the khsaa takes any of our opinions into account anyways, otherwise they’d never done away with cross districts.

The small college fields sound great, until you get into the logistics, and the cost to rent the facility and other stuff.  Staying at a High School site would be best in most cases.

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I don't know for sure how the gate from ticket sales is split during the playoffs, but wouldn't the gate be one of the biggest issues with neutral site playoff games?

It would, you would end up having to split the gate 3 ways instead of 2, but that could also be more money for some teams if the travel cost is reduced for the away team.

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Nothing beats a State Semifinal atmosphere on Thanksgiving weekend at your own field or on the road. I like it the way it is.

Absolutely. I wouldn't mind if they went back to alternating odd/even years instead of RPI but neutral sites would be a huge downgrade.

I kinda agree with you on this, at least with the odd/even, you knew at the start of the season where you might end up playing........however you cant have odd/even with the RPI as it gets rid of True regions.