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Going to three teams does not shorten the season. Just gives the district champ a bye first round. Would still have 6 rounds of playoffs. Would still have the same amount of weeks in the season (17, 11 regular, 6 playoff) Again, there are outliers (Joaquin as an example) but the numbers are much more in the favor of bad games from 4 seeds. I can assure you it's in the 90% that #1 beats #4. Like I said, 4 teams as a whole is not needed.

It also shortens the season by 1 game… never seen so many people complain about more football in Texas. But then again plenty of 4 seeds would make the playoffs and even win in other districts. But due to location they might be stuck in the same district year after year. Why not give that team a chance to make a run like the rams of Joaquin.

Final Pearland Dawson 69 CE King 65

Correct might as well with the injury

Well said.

1. Atascocita 2. Summer Creek 3. Houston Madison 4. Montgomery 5. Huntsville 6. PNG 7. Texas City 8. Stafford 9. Fort Bend Willowridge 10. Vidor 11. Hamshire-Fannett 12. Canton 13. Silsbee 14. West Orange-Stark 15. Diboll 16. East Chambers 17. Orangefield 18. Hardin 19. New Waverly 20. Mildred 21. Garrison 22. Joaquin 23. Waskom 24. Cushing 25. Tenaha

Nederland can not kick to Huntsville deep or he will house it… he was very close several times against Montgomery…. If Nederland can force Huntsville to pass Nederland chances are greatly improve to win I will leave it at that… Nederland has to have long touchdown drives that eat up clock…. No bonehead penalities.. Huntsville tends to have a lot of unsportsmanlike penalites they did last year and trend continues this year as well… take advantage of those

I appreciate your input. I really do, but you put everything on Nederland to be perfect. How about Huntsville? They better play perfect also. Just because Huntsville has a better record does not mean Nederland has to step up their game. Had Nederland beat PNG, your assessment would change drastically. One play here, one play there does not put all the pressure on Nederland. Huntsville should come into this game with their head in a cloud. That’s what I want. Someone who thinks they have it in the bag.

No disagreement with any of that, but I think Huntsville is bigger than Nederland. Huntsville’s o-line matches up well with Ned’s d-line

As far as some threads go off on a tangent, mentioning a shooting in a murder forum seems trivial at best. 😎

Certainly there are some ridiculous games in the first round. In some districts the 4th place team might be almost as good as the first place team or certain competitive. In others, usually because of a limited number of teams, the 4th place team is an embarrassment as far as any real shot at moving on. Should the playoff rules reflect the majority of situations or the anomaly? Let’s take the 3 team suggestion. I assume that the first place team gets a bye and the second and third place team play each other in bi-district. That however doesn’t reduce the number of weeks of the playoffs. It is the exact same weeks to the championship but with number one team getting the bye week. There is certainly some merit to that but it doesn’t shorten the playoffs. In the current situation, with number one playing number four, if the fourth place team is unworthy of the playoffs, they will quickly be dispatched as we found out last night. So instead of a bye and sitting at home, the number one team gets a patsy and they get to play it at home. That after all, is all we are talking about. So between a 3 or 4 team playoff system, at week 2 of the playoffs, the exact same number of teams will be left. In effect, nothing changes as far as the number of weeks until the championship game. For 2/3 of the teams, it will be the same number of games regardless. It seems like a tempest in a teacup. LET’S KEEP THAT FOURTH PLACE TEAM OUT!! So the only real significant change in the playoffs would be to reduce the number of playoff teams to two and be done with it. If the goal is a reward for being number one, it makes sense to change the current system. Merely eliminating a fourth place team for the sake of eliminating the fourth place team however, changes almost nothing except for a bye week perk for the number one team.

Is this thread just for murders? I posted it anyway.

Looking forward to it. You never what happens on a Friday night. Depends if you bring the “A” game or the “C” game. Both teams.

The 0-57 team. But they got playoff shirts.

The deaths are always tragic for the family.

I was reading that earlier. That was a funny deal.

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1. Atascocita 2. Summer Creek 3. United 4. Montgomery 5. Huntsville 6. PNG 7. Texas City 8. Stafford 9. Huffman 10. Vidor 11. Hamshire-Fannett 12. Canton 13. Silsbee 14. West Orange-Stark 15. Diboll 16. Fairfield 17. Orangefield 18. Hardin 19. New Waverly 20. Mildred 21. Garrison 22. Paul Pewitt 23. Shelbyville 24. Colmesneil 25. West Sabine

Per the usual 1st round.

Participation in playing the game is very different than qualifying for a playoff system.

I was told the game will be on the Tube........

Wanna limit the number of sorry teams qualifying for the playoffs? Introduced relegation which will kill football programs during re-alignment. We all know there are hundreds of programs scattered in each region that shouldn't be playing football but no one is ready to have that conversation...... Side note: I'm surprised diesel prices haven't cancelled a season or 2......

I think the amount of money the UIL makes off a bi-district football game is vastly overrated especially with attendance at games VASTLY dropping...a lot of schools lose money on playoff games now because there's not enough gate to even cover stadium rental....4 teams in the playoffs was about evening the size of the brackets out so eventually the UIL could move to the single site state championship model... Coaches also dont want the bye week in the playoffs for the most part...

Keep an eye on 2AD1-12 #4 seed Joaquin

Yes and now that i think about it more. Might have been closer to 50+ game losing streak