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Don't jump to conclusions. I'm not advocating going down to district
champs only, I just use last night's numbers to show that even in
this round there are plenty of mismatches still, and that, only to
rebut those who still want to keep 4 entries per district.

And while you're right, the sport should be about the kids participating,
subjecting hundreds of kids to humiliating defeats, and leaving
the seniors on those teams with a horrible final memory of their
football careers, is NOT "about the players and teams".
And it certainly isn't about "win or go home stakes" because
the vast majority of the teams we're talking about have NO
chance to win.

As the other reply above suggests, that can only be about
the MONEY. Though I can't imagine it's a lot of money to
anyone involved when you subtract the expenses,including
the KHSAA. I still think it would be best, to go to winners and runnersup,
but even going down to 3 per district and giving the winners a
1st rd bye would be a tremendous improvement.

My senior year (many moons ago) we were undefeated and on probation. i would rather have been 6-5 and went to the playoffs. a loss in the play offs is different then a loss in the regular season. every kid out there has one goal---make the playoffs. let them play.