[charlie22]

The excitement of the upset, and pulling for the underdog, are always
part of what makes sports interesting. And yes you can get blowouts
in championship games. But what is STUPID, is leaving in place a
system that by design makes a huge portion of the games TOTALLY
NON-COMPETITIVE, and refuses to acknowledge the negatives
such as the costs of playing basically predetermined games.

The only thing selfish in this debate, is the mentality your side keeps
demoinstrating, because you PERSONALLY like this system, and can't
take an objective look at it.

Evidently the schools, coaches and fans aren't too worried about the costs involved in the blowouts: we used to have a system where the first two rounds were intra district, with the district champion advancing to the third round to take on another district's champion. The first two rounds involved much less travel and hence costs because the game were played within the district. But the masses spoke (or at least the schools did) and the KHSAA agreed that the first two rounds would be inter district. Travel distances and travel costs of the first two rounds went up dramatically. I voted against it because of cost issues. Heck if intra district was fine for the early rounds of the basketball, baseball, soccer, volleyball etc playoffs, it made no sense to do something different for football. Alas, a majority of the BOC disagreed with me because the schools wanted inter district play. As a taxpayer, I thought and think it's a waste of money. If there are going to be blowouts in the first two rounds, let's keep them close to home to save travel costs. It might even bump up the gate slightly. A fan of a team expected to be blown out might travel an hour or less to hopefully see the upset. Much longer than that and they probably stay at home.

If anyone is overly concerned about the costs of the first two rounds, it can be easily fixed without needing to reduce the number of schools making the playoffs: talk to your principal and tell him/her to get his peers at the other schools to ask the KHSAA to go back to intra district competition in the first two rounds.