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Well, apples to oranges.  You can play a basketball game every day without the physical abuse that a varsity football game has on a kid’s body.  But you assume, maybe, that my opinion is to let everybody play in every sport but football.  I’m fine with making all districts seed and the top two go to region.  I do think upsets are a little more likely in basketball than football, but this thread is about football.

And for me, removing the last game from a team that is 1-9….. is a gift to them.  Kids are faking injuries, seniors have long sense packed it in, and these KIDS really don’t want to practice another week and drive three hours to go take a beating.  You might have wanted to, but I’ve seen it play out; most KIDS don’t.

And it does end up costing the four seed money in a lot of instances.  The gate is small at these slaughters.  By the time you pay fuel costs, drivers, feed kids two meals…..it’s a negative get financially.

It’s America- there are rewards for winning and consequences for losing.

Just my opinion, Riddler.

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Well, apples to oranges.  You can play a basketball game every day without the physical abuse that a varsity football game has on a kid’s body.  But you assume, maybe, that my opinion is to let everybody play in every sport but football.  I’m fine with making all districts seed and the top two go to region.  I do think upsets are a little more likely in basketball than football, but this thread is about football.

And for me, removing the last game from a team that is 1-9….. is a gift to them.  Kids are faking injuries, seniors have long sense packed it in, and these KIDS really don’t want to practice another week and drive three hours to go take a beating.  You might have wanted to, but I’ve seen it play out; most KIDS don’t.

And it does end up costing the four seed money in a lot of instances.  The gate is small at these slaughters.  By the time you pay fuel costs, drivers, feed kids two meals…..it’s a negative get financially.

It’s America- there are rewards for winning and consequences for losing.

Just my opinion, Riddler.

oh yeah- I almost forgot… I loathe American Legion Baseball and AAU Basketball.  Loathe, loathe loathe

I played on a 5-5 team that made the playoffs because of an upset in a district game in the last game of the season.  We had to play the #2 team in the state in the first round and I promise you no one wanted to play in that game.  You could hear everyone groan in the locker room after we were told we had one more game after accepting that we were done after the last regular season game.

I was arguing exactly what you stated here at playoff time last year when Lynn Camp had to travel to Pikeville. I said that most of the kids, players, kids parents, and coaches had no desire to play those kind of games. Yet some people on here said I was wrong. They said kids wanted to play those last games, even knowing they were gonna get their brains beaten in . It is ludicrous. There is little reason for a Lynn Camp-Pikeville type game. No one on either side wants to play in a game like that.

I just realized something; myself and old school pup actually agree on something; here’s to ya redbone!!!