2024 MN High School Football thread

[disco]

Very interesting and sad:

WVSSAC postpones football playoffs in West Virginia

PARKERSBURG — High school football in West Virginia continues to exist in the unknown. Tuesday afternoon, WVSSAC Executive Director David Price confirmed the West Virginia High School State Football Playoffs have been postponed due to ongoing litigation. The playoffs will begin after the...

www.mariettatimes.com

I don't get it. Do they do what Wisconsin does and reclassify before the playoffs?

 

[Ranger692]

They can't make any money.
But, you can stream the semi's on NSPN tv. You will have to pay for it.

league

nspn.tv

Again, I don't understand how football viewership would be less than girls basketball or hockey... If they are making money there, or taking the loss than I don't see how football couldn't be broadcast.
45 has on at 7pm Friday an episode of FRIENDS, a show that went off the air 20 years ago... Saturday is a marathon of Shoppers Showcase. I don't think 45 has a large profile of appointment TV going on they would be dropping for a couple hours of football

I will also be coaching in the semi finals and will be attending several games. I know we can pay to watch through NSPN... I wasn't questioning why people cant watch but why fall sports are not broadcast like winter sports. I have also wondered for a long time why championship games for baseball and softball are not broadcast either

 

[Ranger692]

I don't get it. Do they do what Wisconsin does and reclassify before the playoffs?

That article defiantly doesn't explain what's really going on INHO. Its like picking up a book and trying to figure out what happened halfway through.

I do know WV has a power point system where a loss to a school 1 class above is worth more or the same as win in the same class as you are. I don't know all the ins and outs of it but there are benefits in there system for both winning and loosing a game for a smaller school playing a game against a bigger classification. I think its similar to our QRF but the QRF doesn't give enough for playing in higher classification games to the lower school.

 

[MaxyJR1]

Very surprised the football tournament isn't broadcast like basketball and hockey tournaments are. Football rules the country as far as TV ratings go and it’s not close. Granted the Quarterfinals are all over the pace, but the semis are all at the bank making logistics easy to broadcast on 45

They do full production with semi finals and have replay. It’s just not on TV.

 

[short ornery norwegian]

That article defiantly doesn't explain what's really going on INHO. Its like picking up a book and trying to figure out what happened halfway through.

I do know WV has a power point system where a loss to a school 1 class above is worth more or the same as win in the same class as you are. I don't know all the ins and outs of it but there are benefits in there system for both winning and loosing a game for a smaller school playing a game against a bigger classification. I think its similar to our QRF but the QRF doesn't give enough for playing in higher classification games to the lower school.

part of the issue, as I read the article, is that WV went from a 3-class system last year to a 4-class system this year, and it sounds as if the process has not gone smoothly.

The Wood County Board of Education filed the appeal on behalf of Parkersburg High School, Parkersburg South High School and Williamstown High School. At issue was reclassification and the dates used to determine playoff points.

so as I read it, the beef is that teams were re-classified, but schedules were already set, so Team A could not adjust its schedule to try and earn more points in the playoff system. that allegedly put teams at a disadvantage, leading to the court cases. the analogy would be if MN moved a team from class 1A to AA, but that team had already set a 1A schedule, making it harder to accumulate playoff points.

 

[Maverick_52]

They stream the others because they are on Live TV also. Anything that is not on LiveTV is paid for through streaming. $10 to watch all football state tournament games of your choice.

$10 for each game, correct?