[Hoot Gibson]

I have never seen anybody explain how Kentucky high school football would be made stronger by shortening the season for nearly half of the teams. At the high school level, the regular season should be used to develop individual skills and prepare teams for the playoffs. The number of classes and length of the season should be set so that every team can participate in the playoffs.

This is the Indiana system and it encourages teams to play challenging schedules during the regular season and it also rewards teams for putting a premium on developing depth by not making every loss one that could end the team's playoff hopes. Teams like Indy Cathedral often finish the first half of their seasons with losing records and then play deep into the playoffs. Indian typically has much more parity among its football teams than Kentucky does and I think that its playoff system deserves part of the credit.

If cutting a football games from the schedule would not benefit players and would not result in championship teams being better at the end of the day, then what is the argument in favor of less football?