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I don't think it does. The risk of injury in a scrimmage is already present. So the risk is essentially the same. (Maybe the increased risk would be in a scrimmage, you can play in fewer snaps than an actual game.) The only difference is, you could get injured in a glorified practice game or an actual game.

I don't think that's true. I haven't spoken to a coach that feels the official scrimmage is as important as it used to be with the current summer guidelines.

Persecution is a more fitting word.

Correct, Forest Park should be 1A.

Orleans doesn't have football.

I think their attendance rate is pretty low.

It's posted. I can't attach it for some reason.

I do. I also thought about cross class rankings. Such as coaches from sectional 48 ranking 40 and vice versa. The rankings wouldn't directly impact the voters but the teams are in a similar region and should be somewhat familiar with the schools. Nothing will be perfect. Just improve upon what we now have.

Because we need to meet in person for hours upon hours to decide who is the best team in your sectional?

Let's say Saturday morning after week 9, the coaches of the 8 sectionals rank the teams, excluding your own team. Do it via Google Forms. The Forms get sent to the host school that's in charge of the money for the year. Then shared to each AD. Ballots have to be submitted by noon. If you do not submit a ballot, you automatically get seeded last.

I guess I don't know why there has to be a next step. Just seed it. Play it. Stop.

We have that now and if seeded properly we wouldn't have it after week 1 of the post-season.

I feel like this number is high. In an 8 team seeded sectional, I think you'll get a running clock in around 50% of first round games.

I do not know the answer to this question. I know a friend of mine who is currently a high school principal and was formerly an athletic director has tried multiple times to get on this committee and has never even heard back from anyone after he has sent an email.

In the PLAC, I believe Mitchell is the only one that does.

Region 10 Meeting is Monday.

I thought the biggest 32 were 6A. The bottom 64 were 1A. Next 64 were 2A and so on for 3A and 4A. Then the overflow went into 5A. That's why we get weird numbers in 5A sometimes like 37.

That was the Martin County Raiders. If I remember right, they had some different age groups. Pretty sure a HS age team was offered.

Like I said before, I know it's a football forum but other sports would benefit from this. I really think you could host a really profitable conference volleyball/boys and girls basketball tournaments with a bigger conference. In a world of streaming games, could an app for a conference be a way to make money? Maybe? When schools have to factor in increasing travel costs, does this help keep teams closer to home?

You always say that and your football schedule could actually be better. Makes no sense. You already play your 6 divisional opponents. You can still play Seymour. You can find two better opponents than Salem and Pekin if you want.

The Sagarin Ratings idea is neat. Would create a competitive schedule for everyone in theory. Wouldn't be hard to figure out. I know this is a football forum but I think having a good basketball or volleyball tournament at the end of the season prior to sectional play would be great. Hopefully a big money maker.

Overall, there wouldn't be a ton of changes. I'd like to involve Clarksville somehow but I left them out. WW, Paoli, Mitchell do for sure have wrestling. Crawford County did have wrestling. Not sure if they still do or not.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1bYMTnbetTf6n1WlRqudBX6WJ6X8YGQE&ll=38.581727596860034%2C-87.00908379867599&z=8 I propose something similar to this every year. Going to keep at it until it happens. I'm a really big fan of what the PAC has done with their Big/Small Divisions. We should steal this idea. Unfortunately, Perry Central I'm sending you to the Small PAC but I think it would be a great fit. Almost everyone would be on Central Time. Almost everyone is right off 64. MSC Big Division (Charlestown, Corydon, North Harrison, Brownstown, Scottsburg, Madison, Silver Creek) MSC Small Division (Eastern, Crawford County, Mitchell, Paoli, Springs Valley, West Washington, Salem) Everyone would have 6 conference games and 3 non-conference teams. I haven't figured it up but I bet the travel expenses would be less with this as well. Also, this would create a really fun 16 team conference for other sports with Austin and Orleans being non-football schools. I don't know much about wrestling but this might help the PLAC wrestling schools as well.

I believe they are collecting applications until December 11th.

I'm pretty sure they do.