RE: 3-AA Bracket
I think Triton better not take Conley too lightly. On paper they are better and probably played a tougher schedule. They are ranked higher, score more points and give up fewer. Could be interesting.
RE: 3-AA Bracket
I don't think Triton will take Conley to lightly at least I hope not. I believe the coaching staff will have them focused on the task at hand of getting to the 2nd round.
RE: 3-AA Bracket
Triton won't take Conley lightly at all. They realize that Conley is actually a 9-2 team but had to forfit 2 games because of an ineligible player. So they are easily a good team.
RE: 3-AA Bracket
Hunt vs. Southern Nash shouldn't be a first round game, they are in the same conference!!! You see them play in the second round! But how were these seedlings done???
RE: 3-AA Bracket
For Gibbons,Triton, Hunt and Northern Guilford the seeds were determined from drwaing from a hat. Even though they are all unbeaten their has to be a better way this this.
RE: 3-AA Bracket
Three years of this pod system nonsense...enough already! First, as was stated, D.H. Conley was a 9-2 team on the field, but dropping a non-conference game (8-2), plus having to forfeit 2 wins leaves them at 6-4. Still, in reality 7 of the 8 teams in this pod (if you include Conley's on-field record) won 8 games or more and 3 were undefeated. Even with Conley's adjusted mark at 6-4, the combined record of the 8 teams in this pod is 66-14...toughest of the 32 pods in the state.
Cleveland just posted a 10-1 mark (9-1) with their only loss coming by 3 points to Triton...and you mean to tell me that they don't even get a 1st round home playoff game? This is completely absurd! Hunt vs. Southern Nash in the 1st round? Give me a break. They just played each other on Oct. 12. It's a shame that some of these teams have to battle each other so early in the playoffs.
Also, the flipping of coins/drawing straws or whatever it is they do behind closed doors to determine seeding order needs to be gotten rid of also. Not that it matters, but how is Northern Guilford not the overall #1 seed? 7 of their 10 wins came against teams with winning records and 3 were against 4-A schools. I'm a big proponent of a team's strength of schedule as the determining factor in the seeding process. NG's was by far the strongest in 3-AA. In reality, the odds of the brackets actually working out as predicted are pretty slim. Still, it's just the principle of the matter, IMO. This is about as silly as Reidsville drawing a #3 seed in 2009 even with a 42-game winning streak entering the playoffs that year. They had to go on the road in the 3rd round.
The 3-AA East pod offers so many different scenarios that it'll make you dizzy trying to guess what may happen.
RE: 3-AA Bracket
"Cleveland just posted a 10-1 mark (9-1) with their only loss coming by 3 points to Triton...and you mean to tell me that they don't even get a 1st round home playoff game? This is completely absurd!"
And what makes it even more absurd is that a 5-5 team was seeded ahead of them!!!!
RE: 3-AA Bracket
I'm looking for Conley to take Triton and Cleveland to take W.B. Then Cleveland can get the home game they deserve.
RE: 3-AA Bracket
Nobody has more respect for Conley than I do. I don't see it, Triton may very well be the best team in the east. Round 2 rematch of Triton/Cleveland is gonna be great.
RE: 3-AA Bracket
All in all, its not really the seeds that have me concerned it what seed is playing what seed. In a normal conventially tournement (not this silly pod)the matchups should be as follows
1 vs 16
2 vs 15
4 vs 14
3 vs 13..... and so on.
If all high seeds win, 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3 in the semifinals. Not 3 vs 4 in the second round. The pod system is unfair.
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