I am going to guess that many of you on here are too young to remember a time when this state did not have a playoff system at all. Play 10 games and maybe a bowl if you had a good enough season. When the playoffs started in the 70's, I asked our coach how he felt about it. He hated it!!! I asked him why and he said," it'll just end up getting a bunch of coaches fired'. He didn't want someone else telling him who he could play. He felt more games led to more injuries. And he thought that after 7 or 8 games, the kids were getting tired, bored, uninterested in the game. I asked him why the Association was installing a playoff system, his answer was," Huh, same reason for just about everything, MONEY." He explained that the association was looking to establish an income to supplement the basketball money AND that the football powerhouses were griping about not being able to put a schedule together. If they put the schools into classes and districts those powerhouses would have most of their schedule filled. He bemoaned the idea of several of the old natural rivalries dying. A great number of the things he told eating lunch together in his office have come to be. More later.