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Searn wrote:

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By the way ... a legit reason why it wouldn't work to let a teams decide to play up at the end of the regular season ....

It would screw up the playoff points.

I don't know. That shouldn't be that big of a problem. Those points are calculated via computer based on the school being designated as a classB school (base of 64 points). All they would have to do is change the base to 80 points and recalculate. I believe that even then, it would only affect the schools that happened to defeat that "opting up" team (which couldn't be that many). Irregardless, even if it affected 200 schools, the computer could recalculate those in 1 second. As long as the decision is made prior to the final tabulation of playoff points, it really shouldn't matter. My thought on forcing teams to decide once they "qualified" was to avoid a team waiting for two more weeks to see how other games played out and then opting for the easiest playoff route. I don't think you would have to worry about a team that qualified in week 9 with a 6-3 record, opting up. Usually this would be a 6-0 team with a state championship or two in their hip pocket, choosing to go for a bigger prize.

Again, my thought is with the kids. If the team is 6-0, and incredibly strong, and the kids say, "Let's go for it!"...........that would be cool. If they are 6-0 by the skin of their teeth and know they would get killed in the larger division, why send them out that way? I can only imagine being on a team good enough to opt for that and taking a locker room vote to do so. That would be a galvanizing thing for those kids. That same fate being dictated to you by some administrator even before the season starts sounds less inspiring to me.