[Cactus Jack]

You mean to tell me they didn’t play teams just as bad anyways?

and if teams are choosing to forfeit then they need to remove themselves from competition. Just do a schedule with no postseason. 
how many of those bad teams slide into region anyways because their entire district is bad?
I just see no reason for districts anymore.

That's exactly what I mean to say. Replace the weakest games on Harlan County's schedule (you can even include the 2nd district games that they were forced to play) with the round robin format and I assure you that you'll end up with a much weaker schedule, and that's even before you'd have to deal with some very real logistical factors.

Saying districts are outdated and should be eliminated is an entirely different discussion.