2022 Iowa High School Football Playoffs
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They do, to some extent. It helps if the best 4 teams are spread out enough to have other opponents available.
Which imo is more fun. Lots of fans from different small towns gathering for some old fashioned rivalries.
Except when the 2 best teams meet in the quarter finals and should be been in the dome for a semi or final game..... Been there. We lost by a point to the eventual state champ that didn't have a close game the rest of the way.
I get it but that's not some new thing.
Does district/regional basketball do the same thing?
What if one of the two best gets beat in the current format? Change it again?
How is it set up currently? They should just have Western side vs Eastern side brackets and use 35 as the dividing line.
KidSilverhair
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That’s basically how they used to do it. That’s not perfect either, as you often have 3 or 4 of the best teams (in the largest class anyway) on the West side and that system guaranteed an East side team a spot in the championship. So two dominant West teams play each other in the semis, knocking out one of them, and a weaker East team got a pass to the finals where they get blown out.
The setup now is the 16 qualifiers are set up in 4 somewhat regional pods of four, generally each pod has one of the top 4 seeds by RPI. The four pod winners advance to the semifinals in the Dome, where they will be reseeded by RPI, then 1 plays 4 and 2 plays 3.
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KidSilverhair
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It is real, that converted a 4th and 7, and the offense scored to take the lead after that. The other team (that was leading at the time of this video) ended up scoring later to win the game, so this didn’t change the outcome, but still … what a terrible look.
Some of the comments I see online are 1) the chains were set inaccurately/moved between plays and the ref was trying to correct for that and 2) high school refs typically start each 1st and 10 right on a hash mark to help make measurements easier.
These arguments have a few problems - I don’t think I’ve noticed officials making the effort to place the ball directly on a hash on each and every 1st down, and I’ve watched a lot of high school football over the past 17 years. I also worked on a chain gang one year; the very system of chains is weird anyway, based on a subjective decision of where the ball should be spotted on every play, and there’s a little marker on the chains that gets set on the link right on the front edge of a hash mark on every 1st down. That’s how the chains get set accurately, not the sticks, it’s where that little marker is.
Regardless, there’s no valid explanation of chain mechanics/hash marks/correcting an error that would include the ref picking up the ball and moving it forward to touch the stick and grant the first down. That is inexcusable and outrageous right there.
(He also is rocking a pretty bitchin’ beard for a high school ref.)
Also, check out the official holding the stick after the ref signals first down and picks up the ball. He stands there frozen for a second just staring at the spot, like he can’t believe what he just saw.
Same guy who reffed Iowa State game against Texas and today vs Oklahoma
I was doing the gladbrook reinbeck game and we were hoping for a rematch of their game about a month in a half ago.
always set the ball on a hash after a first down when spotting the ball. no one in the stands would ever know. makes it 100% easier.
what sucks is when you get those small school games and they don't put hash marks out on the field.
Officials (ones who are seasoned at least) in HS, college, pro will try to have one point touching the yard line, either front or back on first down at least.
I had to laugh one time because my son caught a swing pass on a 3rd and 9, they marked him a half yard short but when they moved the ball in they spotted it on the yard line. There was a little break during it so this loud father yelled, you gotta measure that. Refs double looked on it and brought the chains out, first down. The ref was not paying attention and should have spotted where the actual spot was but added a half yard to touch the yard line when he moved it in.
Eight-player quarterfinals are tonight:
Fremont-Mills (8-2) at Lenox (10-0)
Gladbrook-Reinbeck (9-1) at Newell-Fonda (9-1)
Montezuma (9-2) at WACO, Wayland (11-0)
Only one regular-season rematch -- Lenox beat F-M, 28-2, three weeks ago.
EIGHT-PLAYER (Thursday, Nov. 3)
Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire (9-1) at St. Mary’s, Remsen (10-0)Fremont-Mills (8-2) at Lenox (10-0)
Gladbrook-Reinbeck (9-1) at Newell-Fonda (9-1)
Montezuma (9-2) at WACO, Wayland (11-0)
Only one regular-season rematch -- Lenox beat F-M, 28-2, three weeks ago.
I can’t find it now because it’s been buried in my Twitter feed but last week a Nebraska prep sport beat writer showed the longest distance in each of the 6 classes in Nebraska.
The longest distance/traveling opening round playoff game was Plattesmouth (south of Omaha on Missouri River) had to travel to Scottsbluff (23 miles from Wyoming border). Google maps says it is 441 miles and 6hr 51min drive one way! If Plattesmouth would have traveled east that same distance it would be in the Chicago suburbs….
In the 6 classes the shortest long distance travel time was, I believe, just short of 5 hours one way, which was like class D1. Be glad we aren’t as big as Nebraska!
The longest distance/traveling opening round playoff game was Plattesmouth (south of Omaha on Missouri River) had to travel to Scottsbluff (23 miles from Wyoming border). Google maps says it is 441 miles and 6hr 51min drive one way! If Plattesmouth would have traveled east that same distance it would be in the Chicago suburbs….
In the 6 classes the shortest long distance travel time was, I believe, just short of 5 hours one way, which was like class D1. Be glad we aren’t as big as Nebraska!
