[cj2561]

This is a simple reason why the 4 team playoff format is unnecessary.  Perry will just be trying to survive and it will be hunting season Boyle.  I don’t like this matchup at all.  Champs and Runners up are all that should be playing.  I could see the 3rd and 4th place teams maybe playing a Bowl type game at the end of the year.  The 4 from Perry’s district playing the 4 from Boyles and vice Versa with the 3 seeds.  Just makes football season last an unnecessary week.

Other than 6A and 1A, all but 4 teams from every class makes playoffs. When you do the math, right at 90 percent of teams in KHSAA makes the football playoff. In contrast, Texas allows 40 percent of their programs to make the playoff. Now populations are drastically different, i understand. But we have no incentive to win, you will make the playoffs. And there’s this pointless week where there will be 30 plus running clocks. Everyone screams 4 classes, i say 5. 

Out of the 218 teams currently enrolled for KHSAA football playoffs and district play, 32 teams are in 6A and 1A and the other classes have random numbers. If we followed the same format, BUT MADE IT WHERE YOU HAD TO WIN ONE DISTRICT GAME TO MAKE THE PLAYOFFS. It would be 5 classes

40 in 6A and 1A 
anywhere from 44-48 in the other classes
32 team playoff so the KHSAA still gets paid 
at least 1 district win to make the playoffs!! Sometimes two in the other classes.
Promotes competition, and the classes would be DEEP without drastic differences in school populations. 

But guess what, we don’t get to make decisions. Every single decision in this state is made on the idea of how much money the KHSAA can bring in. “Pockets full and clocks running“

How many district that the 1 seed, 2 seed, and 3 seed will win the first round. There even might be 1 or 2 that all 4 seeds will win the round.