5A Football Playoffs?????

[Rebel-Fan-74]

Sorry but I don’t buy it. If you want to be a big time program then you’ll travel plus people still have to travel to you.

Big 16 has nothing to do with "big time program" it's based on the school enrollment. Wando was for a long time the largest school in the state and was never a big time program, unless we are talking about Marching Band.

The old let’s screw everybody for the sake of the one argument.

Two comments on this:
(1) SCHSL is an equal opportunity organization, they screw everybody.
(2) Realignments are not just about football.... it also includes sports that could never exist using that kind of realignment. Now if you want to handle football totally different than all other sports, having two realignments, a lot of folks would like that idea.

Personally, I like the way they did it where you had one classification with two brackets come playoff time.

Maybe you could have one bracket that is not set up by school size, sort of an OPEN BRACKET for big time programs only. I'll leave it to you to work that one out, I'm not smart enough to work out all those issues..... Who is a BIG TIME program and where do they play during the regular season, etc.

[Rebel-Fan-74]

let them play in 4A region

I have the same preference, but I say go to A, AA and AAA for the Regular Season to help with scheduling, travel, non-football schedules, issues like that. Currently the list showed:
5A 36
4A 41
3A 43
2A 44
1A 55
TOT: 219

I would go to:
AAA 72
AA 72
A 75

Six brackets come playoff time, the 16 larger schools in AAA Division I and 16 smaller schools in AAA Division II and the same for AA and A.

calculate the playoff seedings by points

I like that as well. But points based solely on the team's record and classification. If you beat a 7-4 team it counts more than beating a 4-7 team no matter if they are BIG 16 or just AAA Division II. In the previous point system, you got bonus points for beating a Big 16 school like a 6-5 Mauldin, but not for beating a 9-2 non-Big 16 school.

[Onion Rings]

we've just about solved this

[SF Band dad]

we've just about solved this

I've only been following SC HS sports for about 14 years, and the debate hasn't changed.

[Rebel-Fan-74]

we've just about solved this

I've only been following SC HS sports for about 14 years, and the debate hasn't changed.

And probably never will...

[Rebel-Fan-74]

we've just about solved this

OK, here we go...based on the comments, here is where we stand now. (Along with some previous comments in other threads)

Three Classifications 72 in AAA, 72 in AA, and the rest are A (Since there are some that don't play football)

8 Regions with the goal of 9 teams per Region. If you don't have 9 teams, you swap off with another Region and each AAA school will play 8 games that count as "Region Games".

You get three games of your own selection that do not count toward your Region Games that can be A, AA or AAA or out of state games.

A points system that will help determine seeding (and I think you have to give some consideration to Region Standings, but let's hear comments on that, maybe automatic home game or bonus seeding points) that DO NOT consider bonus points based on the 16 largest schools, but is based on the team's record and Classification only.

16 largest AAA Schools that qualify for the playoffs will be AAA Division I and the 16 smaller will be AAA Division II. Same situation in AA and A.

No "Upper State" and "Lower State" - due to the split for Divisions, it may not be balanced Upper and Lower.

What else? Did I forget something?

[mikey]

Anyone have any enrollment figures,estimates,? Gaffney is probably getting close to the borderline depending on the qualifiers..

[Onion Rings]

Gaffney in 4A would be scary

[SF Band dad]

Anyone have any enrollment figures,estimates,? Gaffney is probably getting close to the borderline depending on the qualifiers..

I never did see the final (HSL adjusted) enrollment numbers they used this year.

[bringthewood]

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