Does the state even recognize conferences? Each team is already free to schedule whoever they want. Some just choose to have a conference affiliation.
Also schools join conferences to save the overworked AD's time and hassle in scheduling. Those people have it tough enough without having to schedule games.
Not if they are all in the same district. I could see Lutheran North, St. Mary's and Cardinal Ritter all being in the same district if that were the case.
Dude.... That Gold Bracket did suck besides those 3 teams.. They are just like any other conference.
Talk about suck. Many districts suck way worse than conferences. You would force teams to have to play smaller schools than they usually do in their conference, in some cases.
Not quite accurate. There have been instances where MSHSAA tries to step in and strong arm conferences into taking schools that the conference may not necessarily want. Maybe to make it easier on AD's? I don't know for sure, but make no mistake the association definitely puts their nose where it doesn't belong at times when it comes to conference alignments.
Just like how you put your nose where it doesnt belong! In Doc Guy business!
Sadly, no one can help that buffoon!Somebody please help CALVIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
More importantly, it would require a vote of the member schools to do it, which would be highly unlikely.
Like the Sikeston/Charleston rivalry, the oldest one west of the Mississippi.
Okay, so you have 8-team districts in that scenario, just like we have now. Problem with it is that halfway through district play teams start to realize they have no chance of qualifying for post season. How do you think those kids feel about playing their final 3 games, huh? At least now the teams in the lower half have hope in post season play.
This is rare, but it does happen, so why not keep it as it is:
is there another state where "everyone" qualifies for the post season. MO didn't used to be like this. This model works well in OK and AR.. not sure the folks that fail to make the playoffs, quit playing when they dont have a chance.
I would guess that most of those type of teams are fully aware that they are playing for the love of the game vs winning a championship.
Great point. I think the district points/seeding formula is uncannily good also. Yes, there are teams that get a 1 seed because they go out of their way to schedule bad teams who are bigger in class. But they don't win the district. And there are teams that are the 2 or the 3 that should be lower. But they usually don't win the district anyway. And in the vast majority of districts, in all classes, and for a decade, the top seeded team is the best team- and the eventual district winner.
The only time I can remember weirdness in the districts I've paid attention to was the few years Carthage was in a district with Belton, Ruskin, Willard, SC Sedalia, etc. Smith Cotton almost always nabbed the top seed because they won most all of their games generally against weaker competition. Carthage would generally lose to Webb City and occasionally someone else in the COC. Funny thing was they would still end up hosting the district champ game as #2 because Smith Cotton would get eliminated first or second round. So the end result was not affected.
So how would that work? Teams wouldnt know their schedule with the way districts are released and your schedule would possibly be different every year. Sounds like a nightmare to me
They should do it like basketball and all the coaches meet up and vote on the seeds in person after the districts are assigned. You could do away with the point system all together, Coaches know who you play and who is good.
Well, MSHSAA didnt start releasing class and district lineups, this late until recent years, after we had gone to this current format. Heck, we used to be on 2 year cycles and the numbers were released in the spring for the following two years.
That is for another discussion there Kaching!
