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It seems absurd

stocktiger82

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That Bowling Green goes to Lamar, Fair Grove Plays South Shelby. Now correct me if I'm wrong, Lamar and FG 60 miles or so apart. BG and SS in same neighborhood. Parents travel 100s of miles, when they could travel 60. MSHSAA has made much geographical nonsense in 30 yrs I spent coaching, but is inexplicable. How about seed after quarters? At least there could be a basis for pairings.
 
That Bowling Green goes to Lamar, Fair Grove Plays South Shelby. Now correct me if I'm wrong, Lamar and FG 60 miles or so apart. BG and SS in same neighborhood. Parents travel 100s of miles, when they could travel 60. MSHSAA has made much geographical nonsense in 30 yrs I spent coaching, but is inexplicable. How about seed after quarters? At least there could be a basis for pairings.
It's all about avoiding the same teams knocking each other out each year
 
Then they need to separate Carthage and Webb.
That would be hard in a 7 to 8 team district setting unless you broke Springfield up into 3 different districts 2 with kc teams and 1 with south central to central teams but then we have the travel complaint again. No perfect answer for all
 
I prefer close games first then spread out. Teams strengths change year to year. Can't predict how good a team is before the start.
 
Some of the best football in the state is played within a 25 mile radius of Kansas City and we make it work, probably works against some teams until they decide to get better. One thing it has done is the coaching up here has parlayed several guys into good college jobs and that probably happens again this year. Good coaches change culture and makes good young men, some towns have not figured that out yet there are places that better athletes walking the halls then they have on the field.
 
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That would be hard in a 7 to 8 team district setting unless you broke Springfield up into 3 different districts 2 with kc teams and 1 with south central to central teams but then we have the travel complaint again. No perfect answer for all
It is certainly possible to do because CJ and Webb are in different districts this year for girls basketball.
 
It is certainly possible to do because CJ and Webb are in different districts this year for girls basketball.
yea CJ in a KC district by themselves. anything is possible im just stating the reason why they rotate which districts play each other in the playoffs. How many times (maybe never idk) did Webb knock off a really good team in quarters or semis that was most likely a better game than the championship. There are programs that are consistently good and they just wanna move them around on who they play in state playoffs. Im not saying I agree just giving the reason
 
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