Steve Dembowski stated it’s time to place the horse in entrance of the cart.
At Thursday’s MIAA Football Committee, the Milton soccer coach put out a proposal for a revamped playoff format. Under his plan, the common season would increase from eight video games to 10 video games and slice the variety of postseason groups 16 groups per division to eight.
The key element right here is that colleges would have 12 weeks to play 10 video games with the common season ending on Thanksgiving. Some individuals have pointed to the truth that the current playoff system has rendered Turkey Day meaningless therefore the rationale to push the season again a number of weeks to be able to finish the common season on the vacation.
Teams must take two byes, the primary one coming in weeks 4-7. The second bye must be taken on week 11 (the week earlier than Thanksgiving) or week 12 (the week of Thanksgiving).
Once the eight playoff groups are decided by the MIAA energy score formulation, quarterfinal contests would happen the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, the semifinals on the Sunday thereafter and the Super Bowls on the following Saturday.
One factor this formulation does is get rid of the non-playoff/comfort contests. Last yr, 198 or 277 soccer groups performed no less than one comfort recreation and 30 opted to take a bye relatively than play what some have termed a meaningless recreation. Dembowski pointed to Connecticut, which has used an identical formulation and acknowledged it has labored so effectively there they not too long ago expanded from 4 divisions to 6.
The main fly within the ointment is that reality this plan would prolong into the winter season. While Dembowski stated a choose few colleges could be impacted, there is no such thing as a query that many winter coaches could be up in arms. In reality, committee member Scott Fry of Plymouth South alluded to that.
Boston English coach Ryan Conway tossed out an concept that many, together with the Boston Herald, have touted for years. He urged shifting the winter and spring seasons again per week and ending their seasons per week later. This method, not one of the winter and spring sports activities would lose time and the added week within the spring could be a blessing for these coaches who’ve tried to conduct out of doors tryouts in lower than supreme climate circumstances.
The plan can be revisited on the subsequent soccer committee assembly.
In different soccer committee information, Shrewsbury athletic director Jay Costa was re-elected because the committee chairman, Northeast athletic director/soccer coach Donald Heres because the vice chair and Stoneham AD David Pignone stays within the very important function of committee secretary.
O’Bryant was profitable in its enchantment to be thought of for postseason eligibility regardless of not having a MIAA mandated minimal of seven video games on its schedule. In an e-mail crafted by Boston City League assistant athletic director Billy Sittig, O’Bryant’s enchantment was predicated on the very fact they initially scheduled seven video games, however misplaced a recreation when Charlestown couldn’t subject a group for the upcoming season.
Football alignments are anticipated to be made public later this month. Schools planning to enchantment their placement have till the top of October. Appeals are anticipated to be determined upon in November, with the sport plan to have all the pieces finalized and publicized by the top of that month.
Source: www.bostonherald.com