Seriously CA?

[Left Seater]

This is exponentially worse than a 3 loss college team making the playoffs.

A high school football team that went 1-9 is playing a team that went 0-10 for a regional title? WTF?

St. Pius X-St. Matthias Academy vs St. Augustine

Does everyone make the playoffs? Is this 5 year old soccer where everyone gets a trophy? Please tell me this isn’t real. PLEASE!

[Biggie]

Why don’t you just calm down and tell us what’s going on.

[mvscal]

Sounds like retard football. Two Downs academies colliding in an explosion of spastic fury. Sorta like those vibrating electric football games from the 70s except with real mongoloids.

[Left Seater]

Why don’t you just calm down and tell us what’s going on.

That’s just it. What the hell is going on? I am hoping I have incorrect info.

[L45B]

Sounds like retard football. Two Downs

This sounds like a new format to speed up the game (like no-ad scoring in tennis). Very cool! If you don’t get the first down on first down, you probably will have to punt on second down. There is no third down! Two strikes and you’re out! California is always leading edge and progressive, this is why I love Gavin Newsome and clean energy and democracy and trans rights!

[HighPlainsGrifter]

Two downs

I don't care how true it is, I won't have you jerks disparaging Mikey and Fiatlux this way.

[Mikey]

Who cares?

Fat Seater needs to get a life. Maybe throw in a workout or two. And curls with a turkey leg doesn’t count.

I bet Sam will be absolutely outraged as well.

[Mikey]

Why don’t you just calm down and tell us what’s going on.

That’s just it. What the hell is going on? I am hoping I have incorrect info.

You brought it up. Why don’t you provide a link?

[Sudden Sam]

I bet Sam will be absolutely outraged as well.

Not at all. In fact, I love it.

Turns out it’s girls football. Half of each team is trans and the coaches are pedophiles.

Drag queen choir is set to sing national anthem.

[Left Seater]

So your google is broken?

https://www.si.com/high-school/californ ... 3%20crown.

What a fucked up system. You absolutely suck and can’t beat your peers, but don’t worry, we will put you in the playoffs in a lower division.

[Roux]

Competitive equity? Wtf?

[Mikey]

So your google is broken?

https://www.si.com/high-school/californ ... 3%20crown.

What a fucked up system. You absolutely suck and can’t beat your peers, but don’t worry, we will put you in the playoffs in a lower division.

You’re the one who was asking if it was true, and then tell me I should look it up?

Ponderous.

I’m not going to defend their system because I don’t know how they got there, and don’t really care. I have better things to do with my time than worry about how some small obscure private parochial high schools handle their regular season schedules and playoff qualifying. Is this what occupies your brain when you wake up in the morning? Pathetic.

And BTW, they’re not a combined 1-19. They’ve both won four rounds of single elimination playoff games.

So now they’re a combined 9-19.

[Mikey]

Competitive equity? Wtf?

Oh my. What’s America coming to?

[Roux]

I bet Sam will be absolutely outraged as well.

Not at all. In fact, I love it.

Well I guess so, considering this is about the same logic that is used to put bama in the playoffs.

[Sudden Sam]

I bet Sam will be absolutely outraged as well.

Not at all. In fact, I love it.

Well I guess so, considering this is about the same logic that is used to put bama in the playoffs.

Nice. Well played, sir.

[Roux]

Bama will go in as a 12 seed and win the damn thing

[Sudden Sam]

Bama will go in as a 12 seed and win the damn thing

I don’t think this team is very solid, but…

They could do exactly that!

I see nobody in the field that would be an overwhelming favorite. No dominant team. They’ve all got weaknesses. If SMU beats Clemson and we get in, it’s anybody’s playoff.

This morning it hit me that UNLV could throw a wrench in for the Tide by beating Boise State. They’d likely take both and Bama would be gone.

[Left Seater]

I’m not going to defend their system

That was all you needed to say. I can't defend it, but I am going to just hurl insults cause that is all I have. That is what is truely Pathetic.

[Mikey]

I’m not going to defend their system

That was all you needed to say. I can't defend it, but I am going to just hurl insults cause that is all I have. That is what is truely Pathetic.

No, that's really not all I needed to say, and I'm not saying that this is 100% accurate, but consider the following scenario.

A small Catholic parish high school (Roux, "parish" has a different meaning around here than in Louisiana), enrollment of maybe 500 to 700 students. Serves the community, has a 100% or nearly 100% college acceptance rate, encourages all their students to compete in sports and has maybe a 75% participation in at least one sport. Their varsity football team is small enough (they probably don't even field a JV team) that a lot of the players end up playing both ways.

There aren't enough, or even any, similar sized schools in the area to form a separate league, so they compete in the "regular" season against mostly public schools (local and not so local) with 1,500 to 3,000 students, many with impressive athletic legacies, and larger Catholic schools that may even recruit for their athletic teams. In fact they could be going up against a school that has produced numerous professional athletes like Bill Walton, Alex Smith, Reggie Bush, Levine Toilolo, etc. They know they're not competitive at this level but they still want to play.

Consider a bunch of similar schools around the state in the same type of situation. Maybe enough (64) to field a six round single elimination tournament at the end of the season. They don't actually care about how many losses they have to schools with four or five times the enrollment, but use those games each year to prepare for the playoff. They're not shitty teams, but just overmatched against larger schools. So they go 1-9 in the regular season and 6-0 in the playoff, and they end up 7-9 with a "state championship." And they certainly don't give a fuck about what some clown in Bumfuck Texas thinks. But I guess they don't actually deserve to be in that tournament. Maybe that's what they mean by "competitive equity?"

Looks pretty bad on the surface to some brain dead MAGA fucks, when you only consider the "regular" season, and of course they spend half their time looking for a reason to rant against wokeness and DEI, don't really give a fuck about what's actually happening, and don't bother looking beyond the outrageous 1-9 regular season record. It's un-American! It's woke! This stuff is ruining our kids and should be banned!!!

Yes, America is going down the shitter, but not for the reasons you seem to believe.

The thing that's truly Pathetic, is that you came in here with nothing but a headline and opened your Pathetic pie hole without knowing what you were talking about.

[Left Seater]

Thanks Tom Clancy.

Lots of words when instead you could have said, everyone gets a trophy.

And MAGA and Trump and everything else not liberal Dems must be living rent free in your dome. Way to show us how badly those things are getting over on you.

[FiatLux]

This morning it hit me that UNLV could throw a wrench in for the Tide by beating Boise State. They’d likely take both and Bama would be gone.

I know you and left seater don't know anything about football west of the Rockies, but

UNLV is a good well coached team. I could see Vegas winning this game if they can keep the best running back in the country under 150 yards rushing in a few hours today.

They won't take both teams if this happens. The loser of the game will play Cal in a bowl game.

[Mikey]

Lots of words when instead you could have said, everyone gets a trophy.

What’s the problem? Short attention span?

Apparently you’re not just stupid beyond comprehension, you’re a liar. Where did I say anything about Trump? Everyone’s getting trophies?
Why does this not surprise me? Maybe you act dumb on purpose.

[Left Seater]

You brought up MAGA which implies Trump.

And yes when winless regular season teams are making the postseason everyone gets a trophy applies.

[Sudden Sam]

I didn’t realize Boise St was #10. If UNLV were to beat the Broncos, they’d have to be moved down, so that game won’t affect Alabama.

[Python]

an explosion of spastic fury with real mongoloids.

I miss bbq jones.

[mvscal]

an explosion of spastic fury with real mongoloids.

I miss bbq jones.

Is he dead or just distracted?

[Rootbeer]

an explosion of spastic fury with real mongoloids.

I miss bbq jones.

Did the Good N Plenty hanging out of his butt finally kill him?

[Biggie]

an explosion of spastic fury with real mongoloids.

I miss bbq jones.

RACK Python

[Diego in Seattle]

Left Behinder needs to do a Google search for 8-man football, as that's what he's talking about (w/or any knowledge about it).

[Left Seater]

6, 8, or 11 man football makes no difference.

But what should we expect from the guy who told us Abbott’s bussing of illegals wouldn’t work out.

[StrawMan]

But what should we expect from the guy who told us Abbott’s bussing of illegals wouldn’t work out.

I doubt that Abbott kissed many illegals as they left, though I'm confident he believed they should kiss his ass.

It was the chomo 'welcoming parties' in NYC and DC kissing the children as they got off the buses.

[Laxplayer]

The way it works for playoffs in So Cal is different. They've experimented with a few things over the years. What they've gone to the last 2 years is an end of the year ranking. Nobody knows what division they're in during the season. You find out after when playoff pairings are announced. They use the Cal Preps rankings so once they figure out how many teams they want in Div 1 then they basically take the next 16 teams according to their rankings and put them in D-2 and so on and so forth. A team can have a terrible record but SOS be really good. It's not a prefect system as we see by having two teams with a combined record of 0-150. We also have 14 divisions for playoffs. There is talk about requiring at least a .500 record but when those teams run out and you've still got divisions to fill you take what's there. It's also about the money as we all know.

[Left Seater]

A minimum number of wins would be a great start.

[Laxplayer]

Lefty...a lot of people out here agree with you, however with you've exhausted your number of teams for 14 divisions you have to find teams to fill out brackets.

[Mikey]

Ideally, they would realign the local leagues so that you don't have small parochial schools with 500 students competing in the same league as huge public schools with 2,000 to 3,000 students. Yes, San Diego St Augustine was 0-10 in the regular season but beat teams in the playoff that were 5-6, 8-4, 10-1, and 7-6. They were competing against teams that have produced Marcus Allen, Rashaan Salaam, and Reggie Bush among others.

[Laxplayer]

Mikey, we had a school Rio Hondo Prep with 71 boys in it beat Warren, a school with 3000+ kids for a CIF championship a couple of weeks ago. Bottom line is there is no perfect system. I give our section credit for constantly trying to make it better each year.
We also have several areas with a lot of schools that re league every two years or so where the top two teams move up a league and the bottom two move down to make it more equitable.