JQWL

So whats your prediction on the score?

Wasn't Zionsville. I can't remember who it was. Around early 2000s I believe. Maybe someone from that area can correct me.

It has probably been longer than I realize but I remember when Zionsville finished 4-5 and won the state finals. I believe it was pre-6A. I'll have to check John Harrell.

I may be in the wrong here and I know that 1 person thinks I am but when I look around at NCAA basketball, it seems to be expanding post-season participation. Same with college football adding to their playoff. NFL added post season teams with a 7th seed recently. MLB recently expanded also. NO ONE is cutting back on post-season play. They are all expanding. Motivated by money, sure but no one is going the way of contracting post season play.

I would say it's more likely seperate public/private tournaments follow a qualifier.

I feel like you the vast majority of people on this thread disagree with what you're putting out there but I do appreciate your confidence in continually believing you're right. Keep up the good fight. I personally would like to see the sectionals seeded, no rematch games in the first round, and private schools in their own tournament but I'll probably never see it. I feel like I'm ok with things not being the way I want all the time.

What does Pike Central have to do with anything? In your format, the Mount Vernon, Ben Davis, Brownsburg, South Putnam and Oak Hills lose to good teams in the first round anyway. Only good teams would be allowed to play in the tournament so only good teams lose in the first round of the tournament. Your issue really is, you don't like that Pike Central won a game in the tournament. Not that those other teams lost.

No one in 6A from what I've seen.

Sounds like the qualifier created a game that held no meaning.

To be fair, I don't follow wrestling at all. I just know what I hear from wrestling coaches and they would say, No. They don't feel they're fair. I personally have no idea. I know when I look at the sectionals that are in our area, if I were to seed them using the Sagarin ratings, it seems pretty fair to me. Maybe not perfect but it looks pretty good and I feel the best two teams would be there at the end.

I've never heard anything positive when wrestling coaches talk about how their tournament is seeded. That was actually what popped in my mind when it was mentioned here.

I would agree with everything that was said so far and also the speed in which the match-ups would be set. If we have the IHSAA set up a committee of coaches to seed the tournament, we wouldn't have the results until March.

Would 6A and 5A be subject to qualifying also or are they absolved since they already eliminated the 1st round for those classes?

Proctologist.

85%??? If that's the case, just go the BCS route and pick two teams from each class to play at Lucas Oil and be done with it. 1 vs 8, probably a running clock. 2 vs 7, we could see a running clock. 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5 wouldn't. Those would be competitive. And again, those 7 and 8 seeds have probably see a running clock before. The seniors on that team probably aren't going to ever play again. Let them play. We play in sectional 40. If we seeded this sectional with sagarin ratings, Mater Dei and Crawford County would be a running clock for sure. North Posey and Mitchell might get to a running clock late. Perry Central and Forest Park I don't think would. Forest Park played North Posey really well during the regular season and I think that would be competitive for awhile. Paoli would play Tell City. I think that would also be competitive.

I was explaining why someone would have an issue. As mentioned, if the purpose is to give more importance to the regular season, a 0-9 team making the cut goes against that. Probably wouldn't happen, I get that. I can't for the life of me understand why anyone has a problem with high school kids playing games. Let them play. Absolutely zero reason for the state to limit who gets in post-season play in only football. I do feel like many on here have a private school attached to their name. Maybe it's because they live in a world where exclusion is more common. Public schools take them all. Maybe that's where the mind set stems from. Either way, I'd love to see the sectionals seeded after week 9 is complete using Sagarin ratings. Seems easy enough.

I think the issue is, as an earlier post mentioned, the reason would be to give some more value to regular season games. Well if a team can go 0-9, then what was the value?

I agree. Not sure why there needs to be a qualifier. No other IHSAA sport has a qualifier for post-season play. I feel like we forget these games are for the kids and not necessarily for the fans that think every game should be a contest of epic proportions. Seed them so the best teams get the most games. I have no problem with that. I do wish they would have a rule where there are no rematches in Round 1. We play so few games, just play someone else.

You're not alone homie.

Mitchell at Paoli Tell City at Crawford County Perry Central at Mater Dei Springs Valley at Providence West Washington at Eastern Greene Silver Creek at Jennings County Scottsburg at Corydon North Harrison at Southridge Charlestown at Salem Brownstown at Brown County Clarksville at Eastern Pekin

Week 10 Match-Ups: Mitchell at Paoli Tell City at Crawford County Perry Central at Mater Dei Springs Valley at Providence West Washington at Eastern Greene Silver Creek at Jennings County Scottsburg at Corydon North Harrison at Southridge Charlestown at Salem Brownstown at Brown County Clarksville at Eastern Pekin

Standings Through Week 9: cloudofdust, JQWL, Bluejacket1-58 salemalumpres, SenatorFan-57 WWFan, IUFan-56 boolerfan87-55 PCFan1996-54 Sparks-48 PirateForLife-46

Clarksville at Crawford County North Daviess at Springs Valley Paoli at North Knox Perry Central at Mitchell Salem at West Washington Eastern Pekin at Charlestown Providence at North Harrison Scottsburg at Brownstown Silver Creek at Corydon

Week 9 Match-Up Clarksville at Crawford County North Daviess at Springs Valley Paoli at North Knox Perry Central at Mitchell Salem at West Washington Eastern Pekin at Charlestown Providence at North Harrison Scottsburg at Brownstown Silver Creek at Corydon

Standings Through Week 8: cloudofdust-54 JQWL, Bluejacket1-53 salemalumpres-52 SenatorFan-51 WWFan-50 boilerfan87, IUFan-49 cameojoe-48 PCFan1996-47 Sparks, PirateForLife-42 oldramDL, Billybob-33