[Avery Bullock]

What kind of experience are you talking about? I don't think a winless or a one win team can get any kind of positive experience getting beat fifty points with a running clock. If anything it destroys whatever confidence/momentum you may have going into the next year. There are some instances where a four seed can be competitive against a one seed but it doesn't happen very often. I don't think it weakens Kentucky high school football but it does water it down. If you are an elite team (#1 seed) playing a horrible team (#4 seed) what positives can your team gain with such a lopsided victory. What if your star player gets hurt in the first quarter of a game that will be a running clock after halftime. Basically it isn't a positive experience for either team. Why not allow the #1 seed to have a bye week if you are concerned about rest. A perfect example is Knott Co. vs Belfry. What in the world is either team going to gain out of this game? Nothing!!!

Better example... Trinity vs GRC. What if, God forbid, one of Trinity's D-I prospect linemen (Heile, English or Warburg) breaks a leg or ruptures an ACL in this throw-away game? Then would it be worth it? By reading the posts on this thread, most of you would say, "Sure, it's worth ruining a kid's football career so another group of kids can play just one more game and get beaten by 50 points."

Play the games that mean something and do away with the 1 vs 4 matchups. It would give this year's #4 teams some incentive to try harder next year.

Someone mentioned Indiana's playoff system that allows all teams to enter the playoffs. Ridiculous! Contrast that with the Texas system. They have 5 classes with 1A being the smallest schools and 5A being the largest. Each class has two divisions, each division has 4 regions and each region has 32 districts. Each district has 6 or 8 teams. In class 4A and 5A, only the top 4 teams from each district make the playoffs. In 1A, 2A and 3A, only the top 3 teams make the playoffs.

Indiana says all teams make the playoffs. Texas says only about half the teams make it. Which state has better football? I don't know, but I DO know that "Friday Night Lights" and "Varsity Blues" weren't about teams from Fort Wayne or Muncie.:problem: